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Spring 2021

Wen, Junfeng

This dissertation demonstrates how to utilize data collected previously from different sources to facilitate learning and inference for a target task. Learning from scratch for a target task or environment can be expensive and time-consuming. To address this problem, we make three contributions...

Spring 2021

Southcott, Jordan

Mental illness is one of the most pressing medical challenges facing society. Although identifying gaps in mental-health support utilization is important for public health, this topic has not been widely explored in the literature. The latest Canadian Community Health Survey - Mental Health...

Spring 2023

Lottmann, Matthias

This thesis presents the experimental validation, testing and review of a numerical model for low temperature difference Stirling engines (LTDSEs). The research of LTDSEs is motivated by the potential use of low temperature heat as an unconventional sustainable energy source. An experimental...

Fall 2019

Jacobsen, Andrew

In this thesis, we investigate different vector step-size adaptation approaches for continual, online prediction problems. Vanilla stochastic gradient descent can be considerably improved by scaling the update with a vector of appropriately chosen step-sizes. Many methods, including AdaGrad,...

Spring 2021

Michael D. Feist

This thesis evaluated Convoultional LSTM (ConvLSTM) for frame prediction to help better understand motion in neural networks. Three different neural networks were implemented and trained. The three networks included, the original ConvLSTM paper by Shi et al. [35], the Spatio-Temporal network by...

Spring 2023

Saravanan, Akash

Many competitive online video games release new characters on a regular basis. Designing these characters requires significant effort on several aspects including art, story, music, and game balance. Thus automating the design of these aspects offers value in saving human effort. This thesis...

Fall 2023

Bennett, Liam

While beneficial to the natural environment in many cases, wildfires become hazardous when they intersect with the built environment. As such, there is an ongoing effort to understand the fire environment, the fuels it contains, and the way that wildfire interacts with the built environment. In...