• CMOS Electrochemical Camera for Biological Cell Impedance Imaging 

  Schmidt, Jesse (University of Waterloo, 2019-07-19)

  Many biomedical applications require observing the response of biological cells to various stimuli and conditions. Typical optical imaging systems for observing cells require labelling cells with fluorescent molecules. ...

• Phase Retrieval Methods for Polychromatic Propagation-Based Phase-Contrast X-ray Imaging 

  Lohr, Rhiannon (University of Waterloo, 2019-07-18)

  X-ray imaging, based on conventional attenuation methods, is employed in various industrial, medical and scientific imaging application. Phase-contrast X-ray imaging is an emerging modality that has shown promise to image ...

• Generalized Rate-Distortion Functions of Videos 

  Liu, Wentao (University of Waterloo, 2019-07-15)

  Customers are consuming enormous digital videos every day via various kinds of video services through terrestrial, cable, and satellite communication systems or over-the-top Internet connections. To offer the best possible ...

• Application-Based Measures for Developing Cyber-Resilient Control and Protection Schemes in Power Networks 

  Ameli, Amir (University of Waterloo, 2019-07-04)

  Electric power systems are a part of the most-crucial infrastructure on which societies depend. In order to operate efficiently and reliably, the physical layer in large electric power networks is coupled with a cyber ...

• Resource Management in Next Generation Cellular Networks 

  Ozcan, Yigit (University of Waterloo, 2019-07-03)

  Fifth generation of cellular networks brings new challenges to the network operators as new applications create new demands. In this thesis, we will study different topics on cellular networks, explain the challenges of ...

• Design and Implementation of a Modular Test Bed Platform for Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulation of Electric Vehicles 

  Kardasz, Martin (University of Waterloo, 2019-06-20)

  Over the course of the last decade, electric vehicles have seen explosive growth and interest with public adoption and shifting research and development priorities by original equipment manufacturers towards these new ...

• Dynamic Balance and Gait Metrics for Robotic Bipeds 

  DeHart, Brandon (University of Waterloo, 2019-06-19)

  For legged robots to be useful in the real world, they must be able to balance and walk reliably. Both of these abilities improve when a system is more effective at moving itself around relative to its contacts (i.e., ...

• Service-Level-Driven Load Scheduling and Balancing in Multi-Tier Cloud Computing 

  Suleiman, Husam (University of Waterloo, 2019-06-06)

  Cloud computing environments often deal with random-arrival computational workloads that vary in resource requirements and demand high Quality of Service (QoS) obligations. A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is employed to ...

• Behind-the-Meter Compressed Air Energy Storage Feasibility and Applications 

  Anierobi, Chioma Christiana (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-30)

  In many jurisdictions, commercial and industrial (C&I) customers are charged for their energy consumption as well as the power drawn from the grid at peak load hours. In Ontario, the demand-based charge component of the ...

• Efficient Hardware Realization of Convolutional Neural Networks using Intra-Kernel Regular Pruning 

  Yang, Maurice (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)

  Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven their success in a wide range of applications. While CNNs boast remarkable performance, they require significant computational and memory resources for operation. As research ...

• Autonomous Driving: A Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach 

  Li, Changjian (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)

  Autonomous driving is a challenging domain that entails multiple aspects: a vehicle should be able to drive to its destination as fast as possible while avoiding collision, obeying traffic rules and ensuring the comfort ...

• Motor Control For Human Jumping To A Target 

  Westermann, Kevin (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)

  Investigating how humans perform dynamic movements is important for applications such as movement rehabilitation, sports training, humanoid robot design and control, and human-robot interaction. There are several hypotheses ...

• Channel Based Relay Attack Detection Protocol 

  Abubaker, Radi (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)

  A relay attack is a potentially devastating form of a man-in-the-middle attack, that can circumvent any challenge-response authentication protocol. A relay attack also has no known cryptographic solution. This thesis ...

• SOI RF-MEMS Based Variable Attenuator for Millimeter-Wave Applications 

  Khaira, Navjot Kaur (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-22)

  The most-attractive feature of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology is that it enables the integration of a whole system on a single chip, leading to positive effects on the performance, reliability and cost. ...

• End-to-End Multiview Gesture Recognition for Autonomous Car Parking System 

  Ben Amara, Hassene (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)

  The use of hand gestures can be the most intuitive human-machine interaction medium. The early approaches for hand gesture recognition used device-based methods. These methods use mechanical or optical sensors attached ...

• A Framework for Human Motion Strategy Identification and Analysis 

  Choudry, Muhammad (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)

  The human body has many biomechanical degrees of freedom and thus multiple movement strategies can be employed to execute any given task. Automated identification and classification of these movement strategies have ...

• An Implementation of a Predictable Cache-coherent Multi-core System 

  Tegegn, Paulos (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)

  Multi-core platforms have entered the realm of the embedded systems to meet the ever growing performance requirements of the real-time embedded applications. Real-time applications leverage the hardware parallelism from ...

• Deep Representation Learning and Prediction for Forest Wildfires 

  Zohouri Haghian, Pardis (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-17)

  An average of 8000 forest wildfires occurs each year in Canada burning an average of 2.5M ha/year as reported by the Government of Canada. Given the current rate of climate change, this number is expected to increase each ...

• The Impacts of Solvents, Heat Treatments and Hole Injection Layers on the Electroluminescent Lifetime of Organic Light-Emitting Devices 

  Salsberg, Elizabeth (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-15)

  Since their invention over three decades ago, organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have attracted tremendous interest for display and solid-state lighting applications and have already been commercialized in smartphones, ...

• Characterization and Theoretical Study of Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers 

  He, Xiaoliang (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-07)

  The technology and performance of quantum cascade lasers has rapidly developed since it was firstly unveiled in 1994. This type of laser has a feasible design, micro meter size and potential for emission of long wavelength ...

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