For Students

I co-supervise special courses, synthesis projects, and BSc/MSc theses at DTU, in collaboration with BrainCapture. This page describes how a project with me gets started and what you can expect along the way — rather than a fixed catalogue of topics.

What we work on

Projects sit somewhere in the space between machine learning research and clinical EEG. Broad directions include:

• Foundation models for EEG — self-supervised pretraining, architectures, scaling, evaluation.
• Interpretability & XAI — understanding what these models actually represent, and making that usable for clinicians.
• Clinical translation — robustness, deployment on low-cost hardware, and use in resource-limited settings.
• Signal processing & data quality — preprocessing, artefact handling, montage and electrode issues at scale.

The concrete question is something we shape together. Bring your own idea if you have one — the best projects usually start from something the student genuinely wants to know.

How we get started

1. Get in touch early

   Reach out well before the project period starts — ideally 1–2 months ahead. Popular periods fill up, and good scoping takes a few conversations.

2. Send a short introduction

   A few paragraphs is enough. See the checklist below for what helps me answer quickly.

3. An informal first meeting

   We talk through your interests, your background, and which of the directions above could fit. No preparation needed beyond having skimmed a paper or two.

4. Scope the project together

   You write a one-page proposal: research question, data, method, rough milestones, and what "done" looks like. We iterate on it until it is realistic for the number of ECTS you have.

5. Formalities

   We register the project at DTU with the appropriate main supervisor, sort out any agreements needed for data or company collaboration, and get you access to data and compute.

6. Run the project

   Weekly or biweekly one-on-ones, plus the option to join the group's research meetings. You are welcome to sit with the team rather than work alone.

7. Write up — and, where it fits, publish

   Reports are written in the templates below. Strong projects have led to workshop and conference papers, and I am happy to push in that direction when the results support it.

What to include in your first email

Report templates

Start from one of these rather than a blank document. They carry the structure I expect in a report, along with sensible defaults for figures, references, and formatting.

Expectations, both ways

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