On 24 October, 2023, UKP doctoral candidate Prasetya Ajie Utama successfully defended his thesis “Robustness of Pre-trained Language Models for Natural Language Understanding". We offer our sincere congratulations to Dr. Utama and wish him the best in his future career.

The referees of the dissertation were Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt), Dr. Nafise Sadat Moosavi (University of Sheffield), and Prof. Dr. Roy Schwartz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem). The committee was composed of Prof. Dr. Oskar von Stryk, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Faust, and Prof. Dr. Anna Rohrbach.