We are delighted to announce that on July 9, 2024, our colleague Kexin Wang successfully defended his PhD thesis »Improving Dense Retrieval on Domain Adaptation and Decontextualization«! Congratulations to Kexin and best wishes for his future career!

The referees of the dissertation were Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt) and Prof. Dan Roth (University of Pennsylvania). The committee was composed of Prof. Dr. Carsten Binnig and Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting (both TU Darmstadt).