Bakhtiyor Esanov, Master of Science in Technology, will defend his doctoral dissertation in the field of Industrial Engineering and Management at LUT on 24th of May at noon in Auditorium 1316. His dissertation is titled "Adaptive User-Controlled Personalization for Virtual Journey Applications".

Professor, emeritus Bernhard Thalheim from Institute for Information Technology Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, will act as opponent. Professor Ajantha Dahanayake of LUT University will act as custos. 

The dissertation has been published in the Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis research series number 1075 of the university. ISBN 978-952-335-935-2, ISBN 978-952-335-936-9 (PDF), ISSN 1456-4491 (Print), ISSN 2814-5518 (Online).