CS Theses & Dissertations 2024

For 2024 graduation dates (in alphabetical order by last name):

Personalizing explanations of AI hints based on user characteristics in an intelligent tutoring system 
Bahel, Vedant Rajesh
DOI : 10.14288/1.0443819
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88387
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Cristina Conati

A formal framework for understanding runtime checking errors in gradually typed languages
Bañados Schwerter, Felipe Andres
DOI : 10.14288/1.0441320
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87780
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Ron Garcia

Algorithms For Geometry Partitioning and Reshaping 
Barbosa de Souza Araujo, Chrystiano
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445453
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89297
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Alla Sheffer

Exploring cultural competence in language and multimodal models 
Bhatia, Mehar
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445242      
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87780
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Vered Shwartz

Gaussian shadow casting for neural characters 
Bolanos, Luis Andoni
DOI : 10.14288/1.0441531      
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88000
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Helge Rhodin

Computational experiment comprehension using provenance summarization 
Boufford, Nichole Chelsea
DOI : 10.14288/1.0440963
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87659
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Thomas Pasquier

Tool coordination in software development workspaces 
Bradley, Nicholas
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445504      
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89344
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Reid Holmes & Dr. Thomas Fritz

Computing the attention center of a simple polygon 
Brown, Dylan Michael
DOI : 10.14288/1.0444830
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88711 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Will Evans

Compilation as normalization : a multi-language semantics approach to compiler correctness
Bryant, Lily Anna
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445241      
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89101 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. William Bowman

The computation of meaning : from embodied emotions to cognitive schemas 
Bucci, Paul
DOI : 10.14288/1.0447082      
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89487
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Ivan Beschastnikh

From devices to data and back again : a tale of computationally modelling affective touch 
Cang, Xi Laura
DOI : 10.14288/1.0442005
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88065 
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Karon Maclean

Data-driven models of human body inertia 
Chen, Guanxiong
DOI : 10.14288/1.0442032
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88062 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Dinesh Pai

Separating biological processes in single-cell data with deep generative models 
Chen, Sarah Wendy
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445562
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89411 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Jiarui Ding

Visual question answering with contextualized commonsense knowledge 
Chinchure, Aditya Aravind
DOI : 10.14288/1.0441296
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87765 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Leonid Sigal & Dr. Renjie Liao (EECE)

Machine learning for spectroscopic data analysis : challenges of limited labelled data 
Dirks, Matthew
DOI : 10.14288/1.0438638
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87209 
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. David Poole

Formal specification and verification techniques for mutable references and advanced aliasing in Rust 
Ewert, David George 
DOI : 10.14288/1.0438326
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86986 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Alexander Summers

Practical ad hoc tangible interactions in augmented reality 
Fan, Xu
DOI : 10.14288/1.0438330      
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86989 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Robert Xiao

Towards alleviating human supervision for document-level relation extraction 
Feng, Yuxi
DOI : 10.14288/1.0441405
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87864 
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Laks Lakshmanan

[no title] 
Garg, Anubhav
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Danica Sutherland

AvatARoid : using a motion-mapped AR overlay to bridge the embodiment gap between robot and teleoperator in robot-mediated telepresence 
Ghimire, Amit
DOI : 10.14288/1.0438038
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86769 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Dongwook Yoon

Streaming algorithms with differential privacy guarantee
Gong, Emily (Zehui)
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445304
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89161 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Nick Harvey

Learning temporal action chunking for motor control
Gou, Ruiyu
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445184      
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89057 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Michiel van de Panne

Semantically consistent video inpainting with conditional diffusion models 
Green, Dylan Scott
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445038
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88917 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Mark Schmidt & Dr. Frank Wood

ProtoCloud : a generative prototypical self-explanatory model for cell type annotation 
Guo, Kaiyun
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445300
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89164 
Degree : Master of Science – MSc 
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Jiarui Ding

Flexible Conditioning in Generative Models of Images and Video
Harvey, William
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445139     
10.14288/1.0441320
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89004 
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Frank Wood

Structured representation learning by controlling generative models
He, Xingzhe
DOI : 10.14288/1.0440629
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87531
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Helge Rhodin

Reconciling the model-implementation duality in PGo
Hosseini, Seyed Shayan
DOI : 10.14288/1.0437579
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86484
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Ivan Beschastnikh

Empowering student query debugging : feedback for aggregate queries via provenance summarization
Huang, Jingxuan
DOI : 10.14288/1.0444013
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88504
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Rachel Pottinger

Methods for design of efficient on-device natural language processing architectures
Jawahar, Ganesh
DOI : 10.14288/1.0441384      
10.14288/1.0441320
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87848
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed & Dr. Laks Lakshmanan

Exploring the potential of LLMs for biomedical relation extraction
Kanwal, Swati
DOI : 10.14288/1.0440989
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87686
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Laks Lakshmanan

PANORAMIA : privacy auditing of machine learning models without retraining
Kazmi, Mishaal
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445452
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89301 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Mathias Lécuyer & Dr. Ivan Beschastnikh

Improving language models with novel contrastive learning objectives
Khondaker, MD Tawkat Islam
DOI : 10.14288/1.0438339 
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87003
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed & Dr. Laks Lakshmanan

Partwise model predictive control for interactive contact-guided motion synthesis
Khoshsiyar, Niloofar
DOI : 10.14288/1.0440693
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87587
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Michiel van de Panne

Why do machine learning optimizers that work, work?
Kunstner, Frederik Dieter
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445444
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89294
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Mark Schmidt

[no title]
Li, Haley
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Mathias Lécuyer & Dr. Thomas Pasquier

Building a practical provenance-based intrusion detection and reporting system 
Liang, Jinyuan
DOI : 10.14288/1.0441425
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87873
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Thomas Pasquier

On the efficiency and privacy of foundation models 
Liu, Michael Finn
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445291 
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89134
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Nick Harvey

Computational tools for complex electronic auctions
Newman, Neil
DOI : 10.14288/1.0440947 
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87648
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown

Utilizing short-read, long-read and single-cell RNA sequencing for isoform discovery and detection 
Orabi, Baraa
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445193
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89071
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Faraz Hach & Dr. Raymond Ng

Weakly-supervised geometry-aware novel view synthesis 
Perryman, Olivia Margot
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445271
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89126
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Kwang Moo Yi & Dr. Helge Rhodin

On effective learning for multimodal data
Rahman, Tanzila
DOI : 10.14288/1.0442340
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88225 
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Leonid Sigal

Pay to (not) play : monetizing impatience in mobile games 
Raman, Narun
DOI : 10.14288/1.0438636
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87213
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown

CUTTANA : scalable graph partitioning for faster distributed graph databases and analytics
Rezaei Hajidehi, Milad
DOI : 10.14288/1.0441386
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87855
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Margo Seltzer

Enriching block-based end-user programming with visual features 
Ritschel, Nico
DOI : 10.14288/1.0437515
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86428
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Reid Holmes & Dr. Ron Garcia

Temporal hypergraph representation learning : from predicting future interactions in networks to anomaly detection in the human brain 
Sadeghian, Sadaf
DOI : 10.14288/1.0441321
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87781
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Margo Seltzer

Privacy, experts, and martingales : an investigation on the use of analytical tools 
Sanches Portella, Victor
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445228
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89084
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Nick Harvey

Exploring the influence of prototyping fidelity on feedback for an app with multi-sided interaction model 
Sanobar, Yaman Fawaz
DOI : 10.14288/1.0437959
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86690
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Ian Mitchell

Adaptive randomized smoothing : certifying multi-step defences against adversarial examples 
Shaikh, Mohammed Shadab Salauddin
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445441
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89295
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Mathias Lécuyer

Investigating ML potentials and deep generative models for efficient conformational sampling 
Shenoy, Nikhil
DOI : 10.14288/1.0444096
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88586
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Jiarui Ding & Dr. Dominique Beaini

From videos to animatable 3d neural characters 
Su, Shih-Yang
DOI : 10.14288/1.0440644
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87534
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Helge Rhodin

Understanding semantics and geometry of scenes 
Suhail, Mohammed
DOI : 10.14288/1.0441006
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87712
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Leonid Sigal

Exploring explicit models for geometric point cloud learning 
Sun, Weiwei
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445525
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89368
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Kwang Moo Yi & Dr. Andrea Tagliasacchi

CasCalib : cascaded calibration for motion capture from sparse unsynchronized cameras 
Tang, James
DOI : 10.14288/1.0437869
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86650
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Helge Rhodin & Dr. Bastian Wandt

Deblurring neural radiance fields by modeling camera imperfections and using RGB-event stereo 
Tang, Wei Zhi
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445355
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89208
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Kwang Moo Yi

Exploring equivalence and differences in software methods 
Teixeira, Tarcisio Soares
DOI : 10.14288/1.0436917
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86051
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Reid Holmes

Investigation of different social agents in reinforcement learning for autonomous driving training in simulation 
Tian, Yuan
DOI : 10.14288/1.0438656
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87226
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Ian Mitchell

Automatic verification of heap-dependent folds in Viper 
Tokaeo, Toto (Peeranat)
DOI : 10.14288/1.0438623
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87193
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Alexander Summers

Discrete optimization problems in geometric mesh processing 
Vining, Nicholas William Edward
DOI : 10.14288/1.0437353
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86347
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Alla Sheffer

QuAC : quick attribute-centric type inference for Python 
Wu, Jifeng
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445179 
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89056 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Caroline Lemieux

Generative spectra modelling for galaxy redshift estimation 
Xie, Zhuoting
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445029
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88909 
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Kwang Moo Yi & Dr. Sebastien Fabbro

Versatile neural approaches to more accurate and robust topic segmentation 
Xing, Linzi
DOI : 10.14288/1.0440128
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87475 
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Giuseppe Carenini

Differentially private neural tangent kernels for privacy-preserving data generation and distillation 
Yang, Yilin
DOI : 10.14288/1.0441283
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87742
Degree : Master of Science - MSc
Graduation Date : 2024-05
Supervisor : Dr. Mijung Park & Dr. Xiaoxiao Li 

AI-powered methods for academic assessment : overcoming scalability challenges in large university classrooms and conference review 
Zarkoob, Hedayat
DOI : 10.14288/1.0445198
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89059
Degree : Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Graduation Date : 2024-11
Supervisor : Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown