CS Theses & Dissertations 2022

For 2022 graduation dates (in alphabetical order by last name):

Bootstrapping human optical flow and pose
Arko, Aritro Roy
DOI : 10.14288/1.0417462
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82442
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Kwang Moo Yi & Dr. Jim Little

Welfare maximization for complementary and competing items and their applications: analysis and algorithm using a utility driven model for achieving better social influence
Banerjee, Prithu
DOI : 10.14288/1.0412622
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81107
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Laks Lakshmanan

An experimental study of the incomplete Cholesky factorization for the anisotropic diffusion equation Beauchamp, Austin Gregory
DOI : 10.14288/1.0418594
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82657
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Chen Greif

Efficient Computations on Uncertain Graphs by Group Testing, Streaming and Recycling 
Bevilacqua, Glenn Steven
DOI : 10.14288/1.0412921
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81252
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Laks Lakshmanan

Writers want AI collaborators to respect their personal values and writing strategies: a human-centered perspective on AI co-writing
Biermann, Oloff Carl
DOI : 10.14288/1.0420422
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82746
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Dongwook Yoon

Analysis and Preconditioning of Double Saddle-Point Systems
Bradley, Susanne Michelle
DOI : 10.14288/1.0417284
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82337
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Chen Greif

Sized dependent types via extensional type theory
Chan, Jonathan Ho-Wing
DOI : 10.14288/1.0416401
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82209
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. William Bowman

Supporting a developer's discovery of task-relevant information 
De Sousa Marques, Arthur
DOI : 10.14288/1.0421314
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82899
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Gail Murphy

myWeekInSight: visualizing personal data for chronic pain management through youth-centered design             
Desai, Unma Mayur
DOI : 10.14288/1.0419384
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82699
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Karon Maclean & Dr. Tim Oberlander (Health in Populations)

What does it take to be a haptician? : how community can empower designers and expose the many ways of being an expert 
Elbaggari, Hannah
DOI : 10.14288/1.0417559
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82538
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Karon Maclean

Duality in structured and federated optimization : theory and applications 
Fan, Zhenan
DOI : 10.14288/1.0421272
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82859
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy – PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Michael Friedlander

Transporting and evaluating predictive models in different environments 
Farahani, Melika
DOI : 10.14288/1.0418465
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82622
Degree : Master of Science - MSc 
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. David Poole & Dr. Danica Sutherland

Team harmony before, during, and after COVID-19 
Heyl, Noa Joseph McDonald
DOI : 10.14288/1.0418438
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82615
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Reid Holmes & Dr. Elisa Baniassad

Better document-level natural language understanding through data-driven applications of discourse theories 
Huber, Patrick
DOI : 10.14288/1.0421296
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82885
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Giuseppe Carenini

Diversity embeddings and the hypergraph sparsest cut 
Jozefiak, Adam Daniel
DOI : 10.14288/1.0418613
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82677
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Bruce Shepherd

Magic pen: a versatile digital manipulative for learning 
Kianzad, Soheil
DOI : 10.14288/1.0406179
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80574
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Karon Maclean

AtomicSets.jl: the calculus of support functions in Julia 
Kramer, Mia (Miles Xavian)
DOI : 10.14288/1.0417460
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82444
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Michael Friedlander

Pedestrian intent estimation through visual attention and time and memory conscious u-shaped networks for training neural radiance fields 
Kuganesan, Abiramy
DOI : 10.14288/1.0421385
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82947
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Helge Rhodin

Effective techniques of combining information visualization with natural language processing 
Li, Raymond
DOI : 10.14288/1.0406696
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80914
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Giuseppe Carenini

Reducing the cognitive and temporal costs of software history exploration 
Li, Alison
DOI : 10.14288/1.0417465
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82438
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Gail Murphy

FASTR : fast approximation of soft tissue in real time 
Liang, Ziheng
DOI : 10.14288/1.0412965
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81335
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Dinesh Pai

Techniques in learning-based approaches for character animation 
Ling, Hung Yu
DOI : 10.14288/1.0417276 
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82325
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Michiel van de Panne

Using neural language models to predict the psychosocial needs of cancer patients
Nunez, John-Jose Andres
DOI : 10.14288/1.0412909
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81233
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Raymond Ng

Directed multicommodity flows: cut-sufficiency and forbidden relevant minors
Poremba, Joseph Chester
DOI : 10.14288/1.0417583
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82556
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Bruce Shepherd

Algorithm configuration landscapes: analysis and exploitation
Pushak, Yasha Robert
DOI : 10.14288/1.0413565
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81496
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Holger Hoos & Dr. Mark Schmidt

Feeling (key)pressed : comparing the ways in which force and self-reports reveal emotion
Reis Guerra, Rubia
DOI : 10.14288/1.0421389
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82950
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Karon Maclean

Ribbon drawing in VR: brushes and applications
Rosales Ruiz, Enrique Alberto
DOI : 10.14288/1.0412645
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81128
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Alla Sheffer

Generalization bounds and size generalization for graph neural networks
Sales, Emmanuel
DOI : 10.14288/1.0417272
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82330
Degree : Master of Science - MSc 
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Nick Harvey

Beyond the bulging binder: family-centered design of an information management system for caregivers of children living with health complexity 
Sepehri, Katayoun
DOI : 10.14288/1.0418412
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82572
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Karon Maclean & Dr. Liisa Holsti (Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy; liisa.holsti@ubc.ca)

Synthesizing multivariate time series using generative adversarial networks with a central discriminator Seyfi, Ali
DOI : 10.14288/1.0416398
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82199
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Raymond Ng

Reinforcement learning in the presence of sensing costs 
Shann, Tzu-Yun
DOI : 10.14288/1.0413129
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81421
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Leonid Sigal & Dr. Michiel van de Panne

Ufit: interactive attribute driven sewing pattern adjustment 
Shastry, Megha 
DOI : 10.14288/1.0413133
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81431
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Dinesh Pai

Subspace optimization for machine learning
Shea, Betty
DOI : 10.14288/1.0404490
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80393
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Mark Schmidt & Dr. Maryam Kamgarpour (EECE)

Parallel locality sensitive hashing for network discovery from time series
Sodol, Svetlana
DOI : 10.14288/1.0406350
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80726
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Alan Wagner

Learning to get up with deep reinforcement learning
Tao, Tianxin
DOI : 10.14288/1.0412983
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81297
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Michiel van de Panne

ApproachFinder: real-time perception of potential docking locations for smart wheelchairs
Thukral, Shivam
DOI : 10.14288/1.0406508
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80782
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Ian Mitchell

Linear information theory and its application to the coded caching problem
Tootooni Mofrad, Amirhossein
DOI : 10.14288/1.0412871
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81218
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Joel Friedman

Leveraging developer discussions to improve design accessibility
Viviani, Giovanni
DOI : 10.14288/1.0421402
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82960
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Gail Murphy

Beyond learning curves: understanding stochasiticity and learned solution modes in reinforcement learning
Wilson, Matthew
DOI : 10.14288/1.0420754
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82765
Degree : Master of Science – MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Michiel van de Panne

Reinforcement Learning for Legged Robot Locomotion
Xie, Zhaoming
DOI : 10.14288/1.0404507
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80396
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Michiel van de Panne

ROS-X-Habitat: Bridging the ROS Ecosystem with Embodied AI
Yang, Haoyu
DOI : 10.14288/1.0412641
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81124
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Ian Mitchell

Detecting viewer-perceived intended vector sketch connectivity
Yin, Jerry
DOI : 10.14288/1.0412642
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81125
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-05
Supervisor : Dr. Alla Sheffer

How subtle design in video games impacts player experience: qualitative studies regarding two video game design features
Yin, Ji Tong
DOI : 10.14288/1.0417303
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82339
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Robert Xiao

Investigating data-flow reachability questions
Yoo, James 
DOI : 10.14288/1.0421073
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82822
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2022-11
Supervisor : Dr. Gail Murphy