• Vision Augmented State Estimation with Fault Tolerance 

  Chandail, Rahul (University of Waterloo, 2018-05-15)

  Obtaining accurate and reliable measurement data is really crucial for any vehicle system, especially if the system deals with maintaining safe operations of the vehicle. Conventional direct methods of obtaining such ...

• Implementation of Time Memory Trade-off attack using MPI on GPC 

  Nassar, Khaled (University of Waterloo, 2018-05-14)

  Time memory trade-off (TMTO) is a computationally intensive cryptographic attack originally introduced by Hellman in 1980. Since then many different improvements and implementations were researched and developed. In this ...

• Laser annealing irradiated silicon single-photon avalanche photodiodes for quantum satellite receiver 

  Lim, Jin Gyu (University of Waterloo, 2018-05-11)

  Single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs) are a practical option for space-based quantum communications requiring single-photon detection. However, radiation damage to SPADs significantly increases their dark count rates ...

• Wireless One-time PAD : A Practical Method to Achieve Perfect Secrecy 

  Bateni, Seyedehsan (University of Waterloo, 2018-05-11)

  In this thesis, a new practical method to realize one-time pad perfect secrecy for wireless communication is presented. Most commonly used security methods are based on cryp- tographic techniques employed at the upper ...

• A new approximation of Fermi-Dirac integrals of order 1/2 for degenerate semiconductor devices 

  AlQurashi, Ahmed; Selvakumar, C. R. (Elsevier, 2018-06-01)

  There had been tremendous growth in the field of Integrated circuits (ICs) in the past fifty years. Scaling laws mandated both lateral and vertical dimensions to be reduced and a steady increase in doping densities. Most ...

• Millimetre Wave Series Connected Doherty PA Using 45nm SOI Process 

  Almotairi, Nawaf (University of Waterloo, 2018-05-10)

  With the high demand for high data rate communication systems, it is expected that wireless networks will migrate into the unexploited millimeter-wave frequencies. This migration and the utilization of wide-band digitally ...

• Improving the Correctness of Automated Program Repair 

  Yang, Jinqiu (University of Waterloo, 2018-05-02)

  Developers spend much of their time fixing bugs in software programs. Automated program repair (APR) techniques aim to alleviate the burden of bug fixing from developers by generating patches at the source-code level. ...

• Online Learning of Gait Models 

  Waugh, Jamie L. S. (University of Waterloo, 2018-05-01)

  Gait event identification is the identification of gait events (e.g., foot impact) which occur cyclically, at the same location in each gait cycle. Gait event identification plays an important role in many applications, ...

• Navigating the lab-on-chip manufacturability roadblock: scalable, low-cost fluorescence detection for lab-on-chip instrumentation with rapid-prototyped microfluidics 

  Hall, Gordon H. (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)

  Miniaturisation and automation of laboratory testing protocols onto microfluidic chips (lab-on-chip technology) could revolutionise diagnostic testing, though the key challenge of integrating high levels of functionality ...

• RF MEMS-Based Frequency Dependent Power Limiters 

  Shojaei-Asanjan, Desireh (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-27)

  Microwave power limiters are passive devices that are widely used to protect receivers from large interfering signals. Conventional radio frequency (RF) power limiters attenuate both desired and undesired signals in the ...

• Context Sensitive Typechecking And Inference: Ownership And Immutability 

  Ta, Mier (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-26)

  Context sensitivity is one important feature of type systems that helps creating concise type rules and getting accurate types without being too conservative. In a context-sensitive type system, declared types can be ...

• Pluggable Properties for Program Understanding: Ontic Type Checking and Inference 

  Chen, Zhuo (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-26)

  Pluggable type systems is a powerful approach to add additional information on types, which can facilitate the understanding of programs. This thesis presents our work on three pluggable type systems for helping both ...

• Large-Scale Demand Management in Smart Grid 

  Elghitani, Fadi (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)

  Future energy grids are expected to rely extensively on controlling consumers' demands to achieve an efficient system operation. The demand-side of the power network is usually constituted of a large number of low power ...

• Large-Scale Traffic Flow Prediction Using Deep Learning in the Context of Smart Mobility 

  Koesdwiady, Arief (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)

  Designing and developing a new generation of cities around the world (termed as smart cities) is fast becoming one of the ultimate solutions to overcome cities' problems such as population growth, pollution, energy crisis, ...

• Reinforcement Learning for Determining Spread Dynamics of Spatially Spreading Processes with Emphasis on Forest Fires 

  Ganapathi Subramanian, Sriram (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-20)

  Machine learning algorithms have increased tremendously in power in recent years but have yet to be fully utilized in many ecology and sustainable resource management domains such as wildlife reserve design, forest fire ...

• Path Following and Output Synchronization of Homogeneous Linear Time-Invariant Systems 

  Steinfeld, Maxwell (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-20)

  This thesis examines two aspects of the path following control design problem for Linear Time-Invariant (L.T.I.) systems assigned closed curves in their output space. In the first part of the thesis we define a path ...

• A New Model for Thin Film Solar Cells Using Photon Cycling 

  Aloraynan, Abdulrahman (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-19)

  The solar energy has emerged as one of the most promising and reliable renewable energy resources attracting much attention to the study of photovoltaics. A principal aim of solar cells is to maximize the absorption of ...

• Quantum Hacking in the Age of Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Cryptography 

  Huang, Anqi (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-13)

  Cryptography is essential for secure communication in the digital era. Today, public-key cryptography is widely employed, and has provided an efficient method for encrypting content and ensuring both confidentiality and ...

• Building Scalable and Consistent Distributed Databases Under Conflicts 

  Fan, Hua (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-12)

  Distributed databases, which rely on redundant and distributed storage across multiple servers, are able to provide mission-critical data management services at large scale. Parallelism is the key to the scalability of ...

• Addressing the RRAM Reliability and Radiation Soft-Errors in the Memory Systems 

  Abdelwahed, Amr (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-11)

  With the continuous and aggressive technology scaling, the design of memory systems becomes very challenging. The desire to have high-capacity, reliable, and energy efficient memory arrays is rising rapidly. However, from ...

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