• Investigation on performance enhancement of micro-sized IR photodetectors 

  Anabestani, Hossein (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-16)

  As an Infrared detector with high responsivity, high transmission speed, and low dark current, InP/InGaAs p-i-n photodetectors (PD) have been used as a promising technology for many applications, including optical communication ...

• Reviving an ancient urban district of Tehran with a contemporary landscape design derived from Persian garden carpet and miniature painting traditions. 

  Miri, Sarah (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-16)

  This comprehensive urban landscape design proposes to revive one of the oldest neighborhoods of Tehran, called Borazjan, located in the historical district of Oudlajan. In recent decades, the ancient urban fabric of Tehran ...

• A Vicious Cycle: An Examination of How the Feedback Loop Between Coup-proofing and Regime Insecurity Helped Facilitate the Rise of Pro-Government Militias in the Syrian Conflict 

  Mohamad, Nizar (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-16)

  This thesis explores the emergence of pro-government militias (PGMs) within the context of the post-2011 intrastate conflict in Syria. It investigates the factors that contributed to the breakdown of Syria’s armed forces ...

• Adaptive Responses of Small-Scale Fisheries to the Vulnerabilities Resulting from Crude Oil Extraction in Western Ghana 

  Sekyi, Joyce (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-16)

  Offshore crude oil exploration activities affect marine-based occupations, including fishing. These activities lead to the loss of biodiversity, natural resources, and income. In many areas, fishing entrepreneurs/ ...

• Efficiency and Linearity Improvement of Sub-6GHz Digital Beam-forming Transmitters 

  Yu, Hang (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-16)

  The fifth generation (5G) cellular network promises to bring higher data capacity, faster transmission speed, and lower latency. 5G employs massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) architecture which enables many ...

• A Novel Solar Cell Ionotronic Energy Pathway Inspired by an Electric Eel 

  Soudi, Najiba (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-16)

  Solar cell technology can be one of the best choices for sustainable future energy. Solar energy conversion strategies inspired by nature can play a vital role in solving the significant challenges in solar cell products ...

• Coupled models of structured contagion processes in human-environment systems 

  Jentsch, Peter Carl (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)

  Models of infectious processes are a common feature in the landscape of applied mathematics. It is rare that these processes are isolated from other significant dynamics in nature, and therefore we can incorporate some of ...

• Smart Exercise Adaptive Control of a Three Degree of Freedom Upper-limb Manipulator Robot 

  Sen, Aastav Sasha (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)

  An adaptive velocity field controller for robotic manipulators is proposed in this thesis. The control objective is to cause the user to exercise in a manner that optimizes a criterion related to the user’s mechanical ...

• Struck-at Fault Tolerance with Emerging Technology RAM in the NeuroSim MLP Neural Network System 

  Zhang, An Qi (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)

  After decades of technology advancements, benefits from conventional dimensional scaling and effective scaling such as strain and high-k gate dielectrics are diminishing. In the post-Moore era, interests gathers around ...

• Home Reconfigured: Adaptability as a solution in Mumbai to help people stay in place 

  Garg, Nupur (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)

  With the continuously rising employment, businesses, investments, and consequently migration, the housing prices of Mumbai have skyrocketed over the past few decades. The house bought on a mortgage, or rented at cheap rates ...

• Designing Persuasively using Playful Elements 

  Wehbe, Rina Renee (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-14)

  Alongside productivity and communication, computers are a valuable tool for diversion and amusement. Game Designers leverage the multifaceted world of computing to create applications that can be developed persuasively; ...

• Engineering Social Learning Mechanisms for Multi-Agent Interaction 

  Mateen Abdul Hamid, Owais (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-14)

  This thesis is strongly inspired by literature on animal social learning, applying it to multi-robot as well as human-robot interaction scenarios, Social learning, which can include complex or simple social mechanisms, ...

• Characterization and Analysis of the Microbiota of Bangia atropurpurea and other Freshwater and Marine Algae in North America 

  Novik, Elaine (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-14)

  Algae are a diverse polyphyletic group of photosynthetic organisms that contribute to forming rich ecosystems within marine and freshwater habitats. Many factors contribute to algal function and growth, such as the chemistry ...

• Model Based Design Framework Development of a Hybrid Supervisory Controller for a P4 Parallel Hybrid Vehicle 

  Bhatti, Asad (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-14)

  The expected rise in the number of ECUs in an automotive based development environment, poses additional efficiency risk on developer time and code complexity. This thesis examines the design and validation of a Hybrid ...

• Influence of As-cast Microstructure on Forging Behaviour of Magnesium Alloy AZ80 

  Uramowski, Jared (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-14)

  Concerns over the environment and greenhouse gas emissions have incentivized the increased use of lightweight metals, such as magnesium alloys, to improve vehicle efficiency through a reduction in mass. While there are ...

• Bounded Model Checking of Industrial Code 

  Priya, Siddharth (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-14)

  Abstract: Bounded Model Checking(BMC) is an effective and precise static analysis technique that reduces program verification to satisfiability (SAT) solving. However, with a few exceptions, BMC is not actively used in ...

• Integrating Affective Expressions into Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue to Improve Human-Robot Communication 

  Akgun, Sami Alperen (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)

  Unexplained or ambiguous behaviours of rescue robots can lead to inefficient collaborations between humans and robots in robot-assisted SAR teams. To date, rescue robots do not have the ability to interact with humans on ...

• Single photon measurements: from spin-orbit lattices to ultrafast pulses 

  Cheng, Sandra (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)

  Single photons are naturally suited to quantum information processes as they can carry entanglement in multiple degrees of freedom and maintain coherence easily. In order to fully harness single photons for this use, it ...

• Set Representation Learning: A Framework for Learning Gigapixel Images 

  Adnan, Mohammed (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)

  In Machine Learning, we often encounter data as a set of instances such Point Clouds (set of x,y, and z coordinates), patches from gigapixel images (Digital Pathology, Satellite Imagery, Astronomical Images, etc.), Weakly ...

• Reconstructing Cosmic Velocities with the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect 

  Giri, Utkarsh (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)

  Over the last few decades, Physical Cosmology has come a long way from a primitive and data-deprived field of research with several speculative theories of origin, evolution, and composition of the Universe to a mature, ...

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