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Electrical and Computer Engineering
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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Towards Scalable Fully Automatic Program Verification
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-25)Formal verification is a rigorous way to establish software quality. After more than 50 years of research, we are at a point where formal verification is starting to be used in industrial applications. To encourage more ... -
Cybersecurity in the Hardware Supply Chain
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-15)Globalization in the hardware supply chain has increased sophisticated hardware security breaches. Once considered safe and secure in the early phases of the manufacturing life cycle, the semiconductor supply chain has ... -
A Novel Framework of Board-Level Failure Localization in Optical Transport Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2024-06-21)Optical transport networks (OTNs) serve as a pivotal role in Internet backbones thanks to their support for multi-tenant and multi-service environments with high reliability and low cost. A failure event may affect one or ... -
Image Quality Assessment and Refocusing with Applications in Whole Slide Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2024-06-18)In the rapidly evolving field of general digital imaging and whole slide imaging, Image Quality Assessment (IQA) plays a crucial role in determining the perceptual quality of images and guiding image restoration. ... -
High-Q On-chip Passive Components and Low-Phase-Noise CMOS Bridge Oscillator Design
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-30)High-Q passives are the key design components for a proposed resonator circuit. This thesis focuses on designing and optimizing passive components (transmission lines, capacitors, and inductors) implemented in a production ... -
Compensation of Impairments in Millimeter-Wave/Sub-THz Power Amplifier and Frequency Multiplier Based Transmitters
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-27)The ever-growing demand for increased network capacity and higher data rates has instigated, in recent years, a shift towards harnessing millimeter-wave (MMW) and sub-THz frequency bands, offering abundant and untapped ... -
Optical Method for Antenna Near-Field Sensing
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-24)This thesis explores the application of Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) in advancing the fabrication of optical devices for electric field (E-field) sensing within phased-array antenna systems. The research primarily ... -
Towards Effectively Testing Sequence-to-Sequence models from White-Box Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-22)In the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), which encompasses diverse tasks such as machine translation, question answering, and others, there has been notable advancement in recent years. Despite this progress, NLP ... -
Investigating the Root Causes of the Low Electroluminescence Stability of Upright Blue Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-21)Quantum dot light-emitting devices (QLEDs) are promising candidates for use in the next-generation flat panel displays. QLEDs operate based on the electroluminescence (EL) from quantum dots (QDs) as the emissive layer. ... -
Learning While Bidding in Real Time Auctions with Multiple Item Types and Unknown Price Distribution
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-14)A Real-Time Bidding (RTB) network is a real-time auction market, primarily used for advertising space sales. Within this environment, clients participate by bidding on preferred items and subsequently purchasing them ... -
Radar-based Human Pulse Sensing
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-10)This thesis presents a novel approach where a superstrate is used to re-purpose a commercial off-the-shelf mm-wave 60 GHz radar by Infineon (BGT60TR13C) for near-field human pulse sensing. The superstrate is realized through ... -
Monolithic Amorphous-Selenium/CMOS Small-Pixel-Effect-Enhanced Single-Photon-Counting Imagers for Dedicated Breast Computed Tomography
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-02)Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death in women in the world. However, early and reliable detection of breast cancer can reduce its high fatality rate. Diagnosis hinges on medical X-ray imaging ... -
Development of a Simulation Framework for 2D-Material MOSFETs: Investigating Cryogenic Behaviors and Enhancing Performance Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-01)The relentless pursuit of miniaturization in semiconductor technology has ushered in the era of nanotransistors, which operate at the cutting edge of physical limits. This thesis presents significant advancements in ... -
Architectural Design and Test Case Analysis of a Simulator for Failure Localization
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-01)Failure localization involves identifying the suspicious locations of failures by analyzing the reported alarms recorded in the OTN control plane. To expedite the development of failure localization algorithms and reduce ... -
Resource Constrained Linear Estimation in Sensor Scheduling and Informative Path Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-30)This thesis studies problems in resource constrained linear estimation with a focus on sensor scheduling and informative path planning. Sensor scheduling concerns itself with the selection of the best subsets of sensors ... -
PACS: Private and Adaptive Computational Sprinting
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-25)Computational sprinting is a class of mechanisms that enables a chip to temporarily exceed its thermal limits to enhance performance. Previous approaches model the optimization of computational-sprinting strategies as a ... -
Salus: Stackelberg Games for Malware Detection with Microarchitectural Events
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-24)Microarchitectural events have been the subject of previous investigations for malware detection. While some studies assert the effectiveness of utilizing hardware events in detecting malware, others contend that they ... -
Hydrogel-Based Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-23)Utilizing PVA-PANI hydrogel as a quasi-solid state electrolyte in DSSC enhances device stability and efficiency. The hydrogel matrix provides mechanical robustness and facilitates ion transport, improving charge transfer ... -
LSTM Based Remaining Useful Life Prediction for Lithium-Ion EV Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-19)Lithium-ion batteries are commonly used in electric vehicles (EVs) because of their high energy density, ability to provide good efficiency, and being lightweight. Predicting the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) is critical in ... -
Impact of data quality on ML models: Improving data quality with Outlier Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-15)In the dynamic landscape of Machine Learning (ML) applications, data quality comes out to be an important factor that impacts the performance of ML models. Through this thesis, we present a study that proposes innovative ...