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Spring 2022

Huang, Michael S.

Public wildfire management agencies are presented with a momentous responsibility: to protect life, property and infrastructure from the devastation of wildland fire, while operating at a level of expenditure justifiable to taxpayers. At a time when climate change drives more extreme fire...

Fall 2019

Pourjafari, Ebrahim

Conventional distribution systems need to undergo several updates to be able to meet modern energy requirements. While conventional grids have been able to satisfy the objectives they were designed for, lack of sensors and powerful communication systems, primitive control and management methods,...

Fall 2023

Chui, Daniel CY

Modelling agent preferences has applications in a range of fields including economics and increasingly, artificial intelligence. These preferences are not always known and thus may need to be estimated from observed behavior, in which case a model is required to map agent preferences to...

Spring 2021

Bennett, Brendan

Temporal difference (TD) methods provide a powerful means of learning to make predictions in an online, model-free, and highly scalable manner. In the reinforcement learning (RL) framework, we formalize these prediction targets in terms of a (possibly discounted) sum of rewards, called the...

Fall 2023

Ding, Xueru

Ensuring road safety and efficient traffic movement through Winter Road Maintenance (WRM) operations is a pressing concern, particularly during harsh weather conditions. The challenge of accurately monitoring road friction coefficients, which play a crucial role in WRM, often leads to impractical...

Fall 2024

De Asis, Kris

Value-based reinforcement learning is an approach to sequential decision making in which decisions are informed by learned, long-horizon predictions of future reward. This dissertation aims to understand issues that value-based methods face and develop algorithmic ideas to address these issues....

Fall 2020

Kazemian, Sepehr

Wireless channel utilization prediction is useful in a number of applications, such as the recently proposed modalities of LTE networks allowing them to use unlicensed bands (LTE-U), otherwise used by Wi-Fi devices. Wireless utilization, as we are also able to also confirm, exhibits...

Spring 2022

Badamdorj, Taivanbat

Video is the dominant medium through which we consume information. Due to the sheer volume of video content, it is of great interest in the research community to develop automated ways to make this content manageable. In video highlight detection, our goal is to automatically find interesting...

Fall 2023

Xie, Qian

Winter Road Surface Condition (RSC) monitoring currently relies on qualitative descriptors such as "bare lane," "partially snow-covered," and "fully snow-covered. These descriptors present two inherent problems—their subjective nature, which gives rise to measurement inconsistencies, and the...

Spring 2023

Koosha, Helia

Canada's prescription opioid dispensing rates have increased since the early 21st century and this has contributed to an increase in opioid-related morbidity and mortality. Adolescents are one of the most vulnerable age groups when it comes to experiencing morbidity and mortality related to...