• Polymer Gels as Functional Soft Solids 

  Yang, Fut (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-21)

  Polymer gels are polymer networks suspended in a liquid where chemical or physical crosslinks of the network maintain the physical form of the gels. They are a hybrid material that is between a liquid and a solid, making ...

• Managing Children with Asthma at Home Daycares: The Views of Providers 

  Alyamani, Najwa (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-20)

  Background: Over 180,000 deaths annually are caused by asthma. It is expected that more than 80% of these deaths could be avoided with proper educational and chronic disease management programs. For example, Rayne Stanley, ...

• Application of GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry for Lake Ice Studies 

  Ghiasi, Seyed Yusof (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-20)

  This thesis examines the use of Global Navigation Satellite System Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-IR) for the study of lake ice with a particular focus on the estimation of ice thickness. Experiments were conducted ...

• Domain Adaptation for Autonomous Driving 

  Chen, Xingxin (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-20)

  Metric based method is a promising approach to domain adaptation, which aims to align the marginal distribution of different domains with a similar conditional distribution. The thesis explores applying domain adaptation ...

• Type Checking and Whole-program Inference for Value Range Analysis 

  Xiang, Tongtong (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-19)

  Value range analysis is important in many software domains for ensuring the safety and reliability of a program and is a crucial facet in software development. The resulting information can be used in optimizations such ...

• Neural-guidance for symbolic reasoning 

  Nham, Le (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-19)

  Symbolic reasoning begot Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the recent advances in Deep Learning, many traditional AI areas such as Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing have moved to probabilistic-based approaches. ...

• Multi-Physics Modeling of Lithium-Ion Battery Electrodes 

  Fathiannasab, Hamed (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-19)

  Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) dominated the market due to their relatively high energy/power density, and long cycle life. However, a multitude of factors need to be addressed which have hindered further development of LIBs ...

• Quadrupole Electric Field for Erasing the Fine Structure Splitting of a Nanowire Quantum Dot Entangled Photon Source 

  Zeeshan, Mohd (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-19)

  Entanglement is an essential tool in quantum information processing (QIP), for example, to achieve a secure quantum communication network and quantum computing. Semiconductor quantum dots can generate on-demand entangled ...

• The Implementation Continuous Improvement Program: a Case Study for a Canadian Job Shop Manufacturer 

  Shaker, Mohammad Nour (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-19)

  The purpose of this thesis is to study and to understand the impact of implementing a Continuous Improvement (CI) program with employees. The study has covered ideas generated by employees, and their impact on the ideas’ ...

• Factors Determining Cyber Strategy: the Differences Between Active and Passive Cyber Attacks 

  Engli, Francis William (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-16)

  China and Russia have increased their pursuit of using cyber attacks as an offensive tool in overall state strategy. China pursues passive cyber attacks while Russia pursues active cyber attacks. This study intends to ...

• Computational Mechanisms of Language Understanding and Use in the Brain and Behaviour 

  Kajic, Ivana (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-15)

  Linguistic communication is a unique characteristic of intelligent behaviour that distinguishes humans from non-human animals. Natural language is a structured, complex communication system supported by a variety of ...

• Intent Classification during Human-Robot Contact 

  Fisher, Wesley (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-15)

  Robots are used in many areas of industry and automation. Currently, human safety is ensured through physical separation and safeguards. However, there is increasing interest in allowing robots and humans to work in close ...

• A Comparison of Post-Disaster Experiences in Two Canadian Riverine Communities: Evaluating Managed Retreat as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy 

  Cottar, Shaieree (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-09)

  Natural hazards pose a significant risk to local economies, critical infrastructure and public health and safety. Climate change compounds this risk by introducing a new existential threat to Canadian riverine communities, ...

• Simultaneous Local Motion Planning and Control, Adjustable Driving Behavior, and Obstacle Representation for Autonomous Driving 

  Daoud, Mohamed Ashraf Gameleldin (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-08)

  The evolving autonomous driving technology has been attracting significant research efforts in both academia and industry because of its promising potentials. Eliminating the human intervention in driving will drastically ...

• Investigation of Efficient Synthetic Routes to Conjugated Thiophene-S,S-Dioxide-Based Materials 

  Mathers, Sarah (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-08)

  Due to their low cost and desirable properties, many recent efforts in the field of semiconductor research have been devoted to the discovery and investigation of organic materials. Within this field, thiophene-based ...

• Asymptotic Distribution of the Optimal Value in Random Linear Programs: Application to Maximum Expected Shortfall 

  Hall, Jesse (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-08)

  The properties of risk measures are of fundamental concern in quantitative finance, particularly in times of uncertainty. We study the behaviour of the asymptotic distribution of the maximum expected shortfall of a portfolio ...

• Experimental and theoretical investigations of radio-frequency and optical trapping potentials for atomic ions 

  Sajjan, Manas (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-08)

  Over the years, trapped ion have emerged as one of the premier candidates for universal quantum simulation due to its long coherence time, low initialization and detection errors, robust high-fidelity gate sets and fully ...

• Human-Aware Motion Planning for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration 

  Rajendran, Vidyasagar (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-08)

  With the rapid adoption of robotic systems in our daily lives, robots must operate in the presence of humans in ways that improve safety and productivity. Currently, in industrial settings, human safety is ensured through ...

• Coherent delocalization in the light-matter interaction 

  Stritzelberger, Nadine (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-08)

  In this thesis, we study coherent delocalization in the light-matter interaction: we investigate how the coherent center of mass delocalization of a first quantized system affects its interaction with a second quantized ...

• Biologically Inspired Spatial Representation 

  Komer, Brent (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-08)

  In this thesis I explore a biologically inspired method of encoding continuous space within a population of neurons. This method provides an extension to the Semantic Pointer Architecture (SPA) to encompass Semantic Pointers ...

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