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Spring 2021

Mohammed Al-Saffar

High levels of penetration of distributed photovoltaic generators can cause serious overvoltage issues, especially during periods of high power generation and light loads. It is of vital importance to gain more understanding of the system and to prepare mitigation plans before the number of PV...

2024-01-27

Majekolagbe, Faith

SSHRC IDG awarded 2024: The proposed research project seeks to answer two questions using a two-part study to combine a legal study with a deeper policy analysis. I seek to: 1) determine whether, as a matter of current law, the unauthorized use of copyrighted works in the development of...

Fall 2023

Noriega, Roberto

An open-pit mine is a highly dynamic environment where different equipment resources are allocated to mining areas to extract metal-bearing rock and waste, for pit development, following a set flow of activities. The material mined is then transported through the mine road network to different...

2023-09-29

Glaser, Vern

SSHRC IG awarded 2024: Generative artificial intelligence technologies, particularly large language models like ChatGPT, promise to revolutionize how we work, learn, and even govern, and are being positioned as central actors in a rapidly evolving digital society. However, the deployment of such...

Fall 2014

Valenzano, Richard Anthony

Heuristic search has been shown to be an effective way to solve state-space problems. While many heuristic search techniques are guaranteed to find the best solution, these are often not feasible given practical resource requirements. In such cases, it is necessary to sacrifice solution...

Fall 2021

Sara Ebrahimi

Construction labour productivity (CLP) is considered one of the most important parameters affecting the performance of construction projects. Therefore, modeling CLP is a crucial step in construction projects. Accurate prediction of CLP helps in effective planning, cost estimating, and...

Fall 2023

Govindan, Aswin Ramaswamy

Manufacturing industry workers face significant ergonomic risks due to poorly designed work systems. Consequently, it is crucial to periodically assess work systems to identify areas for improvement. However, the assessment process is often disregarded due to the absence of userfriendly...

Fall 2012

Sidhu, Gagan

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) measures the dynamic activity of each voxel of a brain. This dissertation addresses the challenge of learning a diagnostic classifier that uses a subject’s fMRI data to distinguish subjects with neuropsychiatric disorders from healthy controls. fMRI...

2019-01-01

Vadim Bulitko, Sean Caulfield, Astrid Ensslin, Daniel Evans, Gillian Harvey, Scott Smallwood, Daniel Laforest, Brad Necyk, Marilène Oliver, Aidan Rowe, Isabelle Van Grimde, Jonathan Garfinkel, Tess Heinricks, Marilene Oliver, Blaine Campbell

DYSCORPIA: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology was a two-year interdisciplinary research project that brought together scholars from art and design, music, digital and medical humanities, radiology, computer science and contemporary dance in order to question what it means not to know...

Fall 2019

Li, Fushan

Artificial agents have been shown to learn to communicate when needed to complete a cooperative task. Some level of language structure (e.g., compositionality) has been found in the learned communication protocols. This observed structure is often the result of specific environmental pressures...