Petersen Price for the Best Master Thesis for Christian Kanaraski
On Friday, May 26th, the Dr. Werner Petersen Prize was awarded in the Audimax to Christian Kanarski. This prize is considered the most highly endowed prize in the field of computer science, technology, and engineering in northern Germany. It honors theses that are particularly innovative and were written at a university in northern Germany, and is intended to promote the next generation of scientists. In the Master's category, Christian Kanarski received 1st prize and thus 3,000 Euros for his thesis entitled "Extension, Evaluation and Implementation of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Environment for SONAR Applications".
Congratulations to Christian from the whole DSS team.
In March 2026, the DSS Chair attended the annual DAGA conference in Dresden. Thanks to the support of the GaS-Club, the student Aylin Kösker was given the opportunity to accompany the chair and participate in the conference from March 23rd to March 26th. As part of the daily poster sessions, she presented the results of her bachelor’s thesis “Machine Learning for the Analysis of Hydrographic Data to Assess the Waterside Accessibility of Port Waters” in the field of Underwater Acoustics. The thesis forms an important basis for an ongoing university research project on the acoustic analysis of sediment properties in harbor areas. The poster session enabled valuable discussions with researchers and conference participants from related research fields.