• Microgrid Enabling Towards the Implementation of Active Distribution Systems: Planning, Operation, and Energy Trading 

  Sallam, Ahmed Ibrahim Magdy Kamel Morsy (University of Waterloo, 2020-11-25)

  Recent years have perceived a substantial surge in interest in green technologies due to the growing awareness about the environmental concerns and the technologies’ development, which have resulted in considerable utilization ...

• Control of Voltage Source Converter Based Multi Terminal DC and Hybrid AC/DC Systems 

  Kirakosyan, Aram (University of Waterloo, 2020-11-20)

  The journey of power systems started with the development of the dc technology pioneered by Thomas Edison in the late 19th century. Meanwhile, Nicola Tesla led the investigation of ac technology, which soon surmounted the ...

• Machine Learning for Software Dependability 

  Lutellier, Thibaud (University of Waterloo, 2020-11-10)

  Dependability is an important quality of modern software but is challenging to achieve. Many software dependability techniques have been proposed to help developers improve software reliability and dependability such as ...

• High-Efficiency Millimeter-Wave Front-Ends for Large Phased-Array Transmitters 

  Rasti Boroujeni, Soroush (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-26)

  The ever-increasing demand for wireless broadband connectivity requires infrastructure capable of supporting data transfer rates at multi-Gbps. To accommodate such heavy traffic, the channel capacity for the given spectrum ...

• Safe and Secure Control of Connected and Automated Vehicles 

  Basiri, Mohammad Hossein (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-26)

  Evolution of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV), as an important class of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), plays a crucial role in providing innovative services in transport and traffic management. Vehicle platoons, as a ...

• 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. ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Cyber-Physical Security of Wide-Area Frequency-based Applications in Power Systems 

  Khalaf, Mohsen (University of Waterloo, 2020-10-02)

  Modern power systems are continuously developing into large and interconnected ones. However, at the same time, restructuring within the power industry and reduced investment in transmission system expansions mean that ...

• Integrated Waveguide Interfaces for Quantum Optics Applications 

  Al Maruf, Rubayet (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-30)

  This dissertation explores the integration and interfacing of a variety of photonic devices with optical waveguides, aiming to minimize the optical losses and physical footprint of such systems. The specific investigations ...

• Enabling Efficient Communications Over Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Channels Using Hybrid Beamforming 

  Shaban, Ahmed Wagdy Abdelwahab (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)

  The use of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) over millimeter wave (mmWave) channels is the new frontier for fulfilling the exigent requirements of next-generation wireless systems and solving the wireless network ...

• Low-Complexity Near-Optimal Detection Algorithms for MIMO Systems 

  Izadinasab, Kazem (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)

  As the number of subscribers in wireless networks and their demanding data rate are exponentially increasing, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems have been scaled up in the 5G where tens to hundreds of antennas ...

• Specifying User Preferences for Autonomous Robots through Interactive Learning 

  Wilde, Nils (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)

  This thesis studies a central problem in human-robot interaction (HRI): How can non-expert users specify complex behaviours for autonomous robots? A common technique for robot task specification that does not require ...

• Image Quality Assessment: Addressing the Data Shortage and Multi-Stage Distortion Challenges 

  Athar, Shahrukh (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-25)

  Visual content constitutes the vast majority of the ever increasing global Internet traffic, thus highlighting the central role that it plays in our daily lives. The perceived quality of such content can be degraded due ...

• Multi-robot Coverage and Redeployment Algorithms 

  Sadeghi Yengejeh, Armin (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-25)

  In this thesis, we focus on two classes of multi-robot task allocation and deployment problems motivated by applications in ride-sourcing transportation networks and service robots: 1) coverage control with multiple robots, ...

• Planning, Operation and Control of Battery Energy Storage Systems based on Repurposed Electric Vehicle Batteries 

  Alharbi, Talal (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-25)

  Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) play a pivotal role in facilitating the grid integration of renewable energy resources and mitigating the impact of high penetration of Electric Vehicles (EVs). The increasing number ...

• Multi-level Random Telegraph Noise Analysis Using Machine Learning Techniques 

  Malcolm, AJ (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-21)

  RTN is a noise process which occurs in solid-state electrical devices such as MOSFETs and Josephson Junctions. Defects in the crystal structure of these devices trap charge carriers, resulting in modulations of the devices ...

• 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 ...

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