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Ren, dr. Z.

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Courses
YearCourseBSc/MScStaffProgrammesECTSLevelPeriod
2026‑2027Embodied Conversational Agents (4032ECAGX)BScBroekens, dr.ir. D.J., Ren, dr. Z.DSAI6200
2026‑2027Recommender Systems (4343RECSX)MScRen, dr. Z.CS6500
2025‑2026Fundamentals of Programming (4031FUNPRY)BScAthanasiadis, dr. C., Ren, dr. Z.I&E, DSAI6100
2025‑2026Recommender Systems (4343RECSX)MScRen, dr. Z.CS6500
2024‑2025Introduction to Programming (BSc) (4031IPRG6)BScEdixhoven, dr. L.J., Ren, dr. Z.I&E, DSAI, mDSAI6100
2024‑2025Recommender Systems (4343RECSY)MScRen, dr. Z.CS6500
2023‑2024Introduction to Programming (BSc) (4031IPRG6)BScEdixhoven, dr. L.J., Ren, dr. Z.I&E, DSAI, mDSAI6100
Supervised theses

Information below is sourced from the LIACS Thesis Repository.

Year Student Thesis Supervisors Programme
2025‑2026Nathie, R. (Rajeev)The Capabilities of LLMs in Assisting in a Language Production Taskdr. X. Zheng, Ren, dr. Z.DSAI
2025‑2026Isik, B. (Barbaros)ECR-RR: Empathetic Conversational Recommender with Critic-based Rerank...Ren, dr. Z., Wang, dr. H.CS
2025‑2026Ning, C. (Cong)A Multi-Stage Framework for Strict Item Cold-Start Recommendation with...Ren, dr. Z., Chen, dr. Q.CS
2025‑2026Sin, C. Y. (Chuck Yin)A Comparison Between Traditional and LLM Recommendation System Perform...Ren, dr. Z., J. ZhaoInf
2024‑2025Bagan, N. (Nataliia)Optimizing Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation using Reinforcement ...Ren, dr. Z., J. ZhaoDSAI
2024‑2025Mohamed, B. (Bilal)Integrating Subgroup Discovery with Conversational AI for Enhanced Bus...Knobbe, dr. A.J., Ren, dr. Z.DSAI
2024‑2025Oomen, G. (Guus)Enhancing Medical Dialogue Systems: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models ...Ren, dr. Z., J. ZhaoDSAI
2024‑2025Eveleens, S. (Stan)A Personalized Job Ranking System for the Recruitment IndustryRen, dr. Z., Ramackers, dr. G.J.CS
2024‑2025Guo, Z. (Ziming)Enhancing Engineering Document Analysis through Structured Data Mappin...Ren, dr. Z., Chen, dr. Q.CS
2024‑2025He, X. (Xiang)Unlearning for Sequential Recommender SystemsRen, dr. Z., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Hu, Z. (Ziyou)Towards Unified Evaluation in Open QA: A Multi-Level LLM-as-a-Judge Ap...Ren, dr. Z., Chen, dr. Q.CS
2024‑2025Li, S. (Shupei)Rethinking Conversational Recommender Systems: A Reproducibility Inves...Ren, dr. Z., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Rong, X. (Xiaoran)Exploring Influencing Factors and Application Scenarios in Recommendat...Ren, dr. Z., Verberne, prof.dr. S.CS
2024‑2025Sreejith, A. (Athul)Anomaly Detection in Weather Forecast Data that leads to Wildfire Even...Wang, dr. H., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Strijker, J. (Jonathan)Legal Question-Answering in the Age of Large Language ModelsVerberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Tu, S. (Siwen)Explore the Impact of Context in News Image Captioning - CONFIDENTIALWijnholds, dr. G., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Wheeler, M. (Michael)Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Answering IT Helpdesk QuestionsVerberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2024‑2025Yuan, H. (Haoxiang)Enterprise Question Answering System on Technical Documents with a Lar...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2023‑2024Burg, K. van der (Koen)NAARA: Leveraging Large Language Models to Mitigate Digital Distractio...Ren, dr. Z., Chen, dr. Q.CS
2023‑2024Kluiver, S. (Sem)Zero-shot Strategies and Cosine Similarity in Selectical: a Technology...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2023‑2024Sai, N. (Nan)Optimizing the Linear Interpolation of Sparse and Dense Retrieval Mode...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2023‑2024Wu, J. (Jie)Improving QA for low-resource languages with language alignmentVerberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.CS
2023‑2024Zhao, C. (Chao)Enhancing Personalized Academic Search with Query Expansion: A Real-Wo...Ren, dr. Z., S.A. Tabatabaei MScCS
2023‑2024Mutijima, A.S. (Ange)Using LLMs for Data-Driven Business DecisionsRen, dr. Z., WangI&E
2023‑2024Owee, B.J. (Bryan Joseph)Open-source Large Language Models for Named Entity RecognitionRen, dr. Z., ZhaoI&E
2022‑2023Yang, ZihuiImprove Answer Retrieval in the Legal Domain with Structured Inputs fo...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z., Arian AskariCS
2022‑2023Liu, J. (Jingwen)Evaluating the Zero-shot Performance of Three Transformer Models in Re...Verberne, prof.dr. S., Ren, dr. Z.Inf

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