<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>PhD Defense on Software Engineering Group</title><link>https://seg.inf.unibe.ch/news/tags/phd-defense/</link><description>Recent content in PhD Defense on Software Engineering Group</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><copyright>Software Engineering Group (SEG), [Institute of Computer Science](https://www.inf.unibe.ch/), [University of Bern](https://www.unibe.ch/). All rights reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://seg.inf.unibe.ch/news/tags/phd-defense/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Successfully defended PhD theses by Christian Birchler, Anh Duc Vu, and Alexander Boll</title><link>https://seg.inf.unibe.ch/news/2026/07/27/successfully-defended-phd-theses-by-christian-birchler-anh-duc-vu-and-alexander-boll/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://seg.inf.unibe.ch/news/2026/07/27/successfully-defended-phd-theses-by-christian-birchler-anh-duc-vu-and-alexander-boll/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Time is running, but still worth to mention that we recently had a quite some successful PhD defenses. Congratulations to &lt;a href="https://seg.inf.unibe.ch/team/christian-birchler/" title="Christian"&gt;&lt;span class="text-with-icon"&gt;&lt;svg width="800" height="800" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="feather feather-user"&gt;&lt;path d="M20 21v-2a4 4 0 00-4-4H8a4 4 0 00-4 4v2"/&gt;&lt;circle cx="12" cy="7" r="4"/&gt;&lt;/svg&gt;&lt;span&gt;Christian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://seg.inf.unibe.ch/team/former-members/" title="Duc"&gt;&lt;span class="text-with-icon"&gt;&lt;svg width="800" height="800" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="feather feather-user"&gt;&lt;path d="M20 21v-2a4 4 0 00-4-4H8a4 4 0 00-4 4v2"/&gt;&lt;circle cx="12" cy="7" r="4"/&gt;&lt;/svg&gt;&lt;span&gt;Duc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="https://seg.inf.unibe.ch/team/alexander-boll/" title="Alex"&gt;&lt;span class="text-with-icon"&gt;&lt;svg width="800" height="800" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="feather feather-user"&gt;&lt;path d="M20 21v-2a4 4 0 00-4-4H8a4 4 0 00-4 4v2"/&gt;&lt;circle cx="12" cy="7" r="4"/&gt;&lt;/svg&gt;&lt;span&gt;Alex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>