Our former colleague Shuo Liu successfully defended his doctoral thesis ‘Deep learning approaches for adaptive audio processing and binary classification in digital health’ on the 16th of August 2023. The examiners were Shuo's supervisor Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bj?rn Schuller, Prof. Dr. Matthias Schlesner (University of Augsburg), and Prof. Dr. Frank Kramer (University of Augsburg). Congratulations!