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Fall 2020
Cryptographic (crypto) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play an important role in application security; unfortunately crypto APIs are difficult to use, which may lead to security vulnerabilities. Prior work have looked at detecting and fixing crypto APIs misuses at development time and...
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Fall 2014
Randomized controlled trials for a rare disease face methodological difficulties in evaluating treatment effects due to characteristics of rare diseases such as a small patient population to recruit from, lack of knowledge about the disease itself (i.e., lack of clinically validated endpoints),...
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Fall 2012
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...
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Fall 2016
Lipidomics is a research field that attempts to achieve the comprehensive analysis of the entire lipidome in a biological system. The emergence and rapid expansion of lipidomic studies is driven by the great advances in chromatographic separation and mass spectrometry. For this dissertation, I...
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Fall 2019
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men in the world (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers). According to the statistics from the Canadian Cancer Society, it is the third leading cause of death from cancer in men in Canada. In general, prostate cancer is treatable with 5-year...