• 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 ...

• Video Quality Assessment: Exploring the Impact of Frame Rate 

  Mohammadi Nasiri, Rasoul (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-01)

  Technology advancements in the past decades has led to an immense increase in data traffic over various networks. Videos constitute a major percentage of this traffic and their share is projected to increase at an accelerating ...

• Resource Allocation, User Association, and User Scheduling for OFDMA-based Cellular Networks 

  Jabeen, Shahida (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-01)

  Current advances in wireless communication are driven by an increased demand for more data and bandwidth, mainly due to the development of new mobile platforms and applications. Ever since then the network operators are ...

• Performance Test Selection Using Machine Learning and a Study of Binning Effect in Memory Allocators 

  Oliveira Sousa, Anderson (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)

  Performance testing is an essential part of the development life cycle that must be done in a timely fashion. However, checking for performance regressions in software can be time-consuming, especially for complex systems ...

• Probing Ising Superconductivity and Light-Induced Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides 

  Dekker, Tina Elayne (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)

  2H-NbSe2 is a superconducting transition metal dichalcogenide that retains its superconductivity in its two-dimensional (2D) form. Owing to strong spin orbit coupling, 2D 2H-NbSe2 demonstrates unconventional superconductivity ...

• Fabrication of Silicon In-plane and Out-ofplane Microneedle Arrays for Transdermal Biological Fluid Extraction 

  Tazrin, Fahima (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)

  This thesis presents research in the field of microelectromechanical systems and specifically in the area of microneedle-based transdermal skin fluid extraction and drug delivery. The objective of this thesis is to ...

• Overcoming synthesizer phase noise in quantum sensing 

  Long, Guofei (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)

  Synthesizers are widely used in various quantum information platforms as microwave or radio frequency signal sources. The synthesizer phase noise plays a sensitive role in detecting spin dynamics which is similar to the ...

• Real-Time Implementation of Time-Varying Surface Prediction and Projection 

  Fernandes, Keegan Aaron (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)

  Spatial augmented reality makes use of projectors to transform an object into a display surface. However, for time-varying, non-rigid surfaces this can prove to be difficult, and often leads to image distortion. In order ...

• RuSTL: Runtime Verification using Signal Temporal Logic 

  Khan, Waleed (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)

  A system is classified to be a safety-critical system if its failure and/or malfunction of these devices may result in severe injuries or in extreme cases loss of human life. Such systems are all around us, examples of ...

• Development of Concussion Evaluation Tools Using Life-Like Virtual Reality Environments 

  Sawires, Yousef (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)

  Concussions are a common type of traumatic brain injury that can have severe consequences and are often induced by sports injuries. Once concussed, patients are more likely to sustain a second concussion, as they could be ...

• HopliteBuf FPGA Network-on-Chip: Architecture and Analysis 

  Garg, Tushar (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-22)

  We can prove occupancy bounds of stall-free FIFOs used in deflection-free, low-cost, and high-speed FPGA overlay Network-on-chips (NoCs). In our work, we build on top of the HopliteRT livelock-free overlay NoC with an ...

• Development of Terahertz Quantum Well Photodetector at 3 THz 

  Zhuo, Yue (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-05)

  This thesis reports a new terahertz (𝑓=3.22 THz) quantum well photodetector (THz QWP) as well as comprehensive numerical models simulating device active region and different grating couplers including traditional diffraction ...

• Multi-level Control in Large-anharmonicity High-coherence Capacitively Shunted Flux Quantum Circuits 

  Yurtalan, Muhammet Ali (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-05)

  Superconducting devices as quantum bits (qubits) are one of the most promising candidates for implementing a practical quantum computer. Over the last decade, quantum coherence times of superconducting qubits have been ...

• The Optimal Steady-State Control Problem 

  Lawrence, Liam Shawn Pritchard (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-05)

  Many engineering systems -- including electrical power networks, chemical processing plants, and communication networks -- have a well-defined notion of an "optimal'" steady-state operating point. This optimal operating ...

• Implementation Analysis of Strassen-Like Matrix Multiplication Algorithms Based on Block Decomposition 

  Liu, Chongchong (University of Waterloo, 2019-03-11)

  Matrix multiplication is one of the most widely used operations in all computational fields of linear algebra. The complexity of the naive method for multiplying two n×n matrices requires O(n^3) arithmetic operations over ...

• Push-Pull Based High Efficiency and High Power Broadband Power Amplifiers for Wireless Base Stations 

  Jundi, Ayman (University of Waterloo, 2019-03-11)

  The monthly data throughput by 2021 is forecasted to be ten times that of December 2015. As a result of the on going dramatic increase in demand, service providers are assigned new frequency bands to accommodate more ...

• Hybrid Semiconductor Detectors for High Spatial Resolution Phase-contrast X-ray Imaging 

  Scott, Christopher (University of Waterloo, 2019-02-20)

  When conventional x-ray radiography presents inadequate absorption-contrast, higher sensitivity can be achieved using phase-contrast methods. The implementation of phase-contrast x-ray imaging using propagation-based ...

• Mining Event Traces from Real-time Systems for Anomaly Detection 

  Salem, Mahmoud (University of Waterloo, 2019-02-19)

  Real-time systems are a significant class of applications, poised to grow even further as autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things (IoT) become a reality. The computation and communication tasks of the underlying ...

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