• Coding for Data Analytics: New Information Distances 

  Sajedi, Ahmad (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-03)

  Distance plays a vital role in many applications of data analytics. For instance, in image retrieval, organization, and management, one needs a proper similarity distance to measure the perceptual similarity between any ...

• Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth Optimization for Next Generation Optoelectronic Devices Based on III-V Semiconductors 

  Tam, Man Chun Alan (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-01)

  Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) has been serving as the best tool for group III-V compound growths due to its capability of depositing epilayers with high single-crystalline quality, high purity and Angstrom-scale thickness ...

• A Comparative Analysis for Low-voltage, Low-power, and Low-energy Flip-flops 

  Maheshwari, Yugal Kishore (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-01)

  Recently, several flip-flops have been proposed to increase their speed while reducing their power and energy consumption. Flip-flop power is dependent on data activity and in many applications data activity is between ...

• TiO2 and Biomaterials based Memristor Devices and its In-Memory Computing Applications 

  Ranjan, Shubham (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-01)

  As information technology is moving toward a big data era, the conventional Von Neumann architecture has shown limitation in performance. This is constrained by the large volume of data being continuously fetched and stored ...

• Auto-Encoder based Deep Representation Model for Image Anomaly Detection 

  Zhao, Qiang (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)

  Image anomaly detection is to distinguish a small portion of images that are different from the user-defined normal ones. In this work, we focus on auto-encoders based anomaly detection models, which assess the probability ...

• Electricity Market Participation and Investment Planning Frameworks for Energy Storage Systems 

  Alharbi, Hisham (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)

  The recent trend of increasing share of renewable energy sources (RES) in the generation mix has necessitated new operational and planning studies because of the high degree of uncertainty and variability of these sources. ...

• Microwave Quantum Optics using Giant Artificial Atoms and Parametrically Coupled Superconducting Cavities 

  Ananthapadmanabha Rao, Vadiraj Manjunath (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)

  Artificially engineered atoms, built using superconducting electrical circuits, have had a broad impact on the field of quantum information and quantum computing. Based on the Josephson effect, superconducting qubits have ...

• EA-PHT-HPR: Designing Scalable Data Structures for Persistent Memory 

  Cepeda, Diego (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)

  Volatile memory has dominated the realm of main memory on servers and computers for a long time. In 2019, Intel released to the public the Optane data center persistent memory modules (DCPMM). These devices offer the ...

• Scalable Human-Machine Interaction System for Real-Time Care in the Internet of Health Things 

  Nasr Mohamed, Mahmoud (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)

  The rise in numbers of individuals with weak immunity around the world and the aging of populations put an ever-growing pressure on healthcare and inevitably increases its cost. This phenomenon leads to larger portions of ...

• Security and Privacy Preservation in Mobile Advertising 

  Liu, Dongxiao (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)

  Mobile advertising is emerging as a promising advertising strategy, which leverages prescriptive analytics, location-based distribution, and feedback-driven marketing to engage consumers with timely and targeted advertisements. ...

• Effective Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms for Vehicle-to-Everything Services 

  Huang, Cheng (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)

  Owing to the advancement of wireless communication technologies, drivers can rely on smart connected vehicles to communicate with each other, roadside units, pedestrians, and remote service providers to enjoy a large amount ...

• Polynomial Timed Reductions to Solve Computer Security Problems in Access Control, Ethereum Smart Contract, Cloud VM Scheduling, and Logic Locking. 

  Shahen, Jonathan (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)

  This thesis addresses computer security problems in: Access Control, Ethereum Smart Contracts, Cloud VM Scheduling, and Logic Locking. These problems are solved using polynomially timed reductions to 2 complexity classes: ...

• Incorporation of 3-Dimensional ZnO Nanowire Arrays in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells 

  Davis, Kendall (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-27)

  Organic solar cells have poor charge transport, with carrier mobilities and lifetimes of 3.9×10−4 cm2/Vs and 10-4 seconds in P3HT:PCBM devices. This poor mobility leads to higher recombination and lower short circuit ...

• Fabrication of high aspect ratio (HAR) atomic force microscope (AFM) tips and nano-pillar arrays using pseudo-Bosch and wet etching 

  Pan, Aixi (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-21)

  This thesis is mainly focused on the research in the field of nanofabrication and application related to atomic force microscope (AFM) system. AFM tip is the most important part of AFM imaging to obtain the surface information ...

• Exciton-Induced Morphological Changes in Carbazole Based PhOLEDs and the Influence of the Device Fabrication Process 

  YU, HYEONGHWA (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-20)

  Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have increasingly attracted attention from both academia and industry alike in the last three decades because of their low cost, easy fabrication, light weight, and mechanical ...

• The Influence of Charge Transport Layer Interfaces on the Performance of Electroluminescent Colloidal Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Devices 

  Davidson-Hall, Tyler (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-13)

  Electroluminescent quantum dot light-emitting devices (QDLEDs) are a relatively new technology for displays that have all of the benefits of emissive displays commonly associated with organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) ...

• Design of Binocular Stereo Vision System Via CNN-based Stereo Matching Algorithm 

  Jiao, Yan (University of Waterloo, 2020-08-06)

  Stereo vision is one of the representative technologies in the 3D camera, using multiple cameras to perceive the depth information in the three-dimensional space. The binocular one has become the most widely applied method ...

• Dynamic Laser Fault Injection Aided by Quiescent Photon Emissions in Embedded Microcontrollers: Apparatus, Methodology and Attacks 

  Amin, Karim (University of Waterloo, 2020-07-27)

  Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming more integrated in our daily life with the increasing number of embedded electronic devices interacting together. These electronic devices are often controlled by a Micro-Controller ...

• Protocol for Usability Testing and Validation of the ISO Draft International Standard 19223 for Lung Ventilators 

  Minotra, Dev; Dain, Steven; Burns, Catherine M (JMIR, 2017-09)

  Background: Clinicians, such as respiratory therapists and physicians, are often required to set up pieces of medical equipment that use inconsistent terminology. Current lung ventilator terminology that is used by different ...

• Problems in Cloud Security, Access Control and Logic Locking 

  Juma, Nahid (University of Waterloo, 2020-07-22)

  In this thesis, we study problems related to security in three different contexts: cloud scheduling, access control, and logic locking to protect digital ICs. The first set of problems relates to security in cloud ...

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