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Fall 2019

Tamayo, Edgar

In Canada, demand for automated construction manufacturing has increased, and, consequently, there has been an increase in the demand for automated manufacturing systems. An opportunity exists in Canada to tap into the growing market for automated manufacturing systems; however, there is limited...

Fall 2018

Carlos Manuel Martínez

The demand for rehabilitation services has increased in recent years due to population aging. Due to the limitations of therapists’ time and healthcare resources, robot-assisted therapy is becoming an appealing, powerful and economical solution. In this thesis, and in order to reach a long term...

Spring 2023

Pietrasik, Marcin

Knowledge graphs are data storage structures that rely on principles from graph theory to represent information. Specifically, facts are stored as triples which bring together two entities via a predicate. In a graphical context, these entities are analogous to nodes, and the relations between...

Fall 2023

Davis, Sarah (Sacha) Maren

The rate of 30-day hospital readmission is a common measurement of hospital quality, which can affect the funding a hospital receives. Over a quarter of readmissions are estimated to be preventable with adequate interventions, but these interventions are themselves costly. For this reason, many...

Fall 2018

Wu, Keyu

Cognitive radio and energy-harvesting technologies improve the efficiency of spectrum use and energy use in communication networks. However, due to the randomness and dynamics of spectral and energy resources, wireless nodes must intelligently adjust their operating configurations (radio...

Spring 2020

Nian, Rui

Machine learning (ML) has shown great potential to create tremendous value and growth to all sectors around the world, enhancing productivity, health, and longevity of humanity. ML differentiates itself from all previous methods through its adaptive and self-learning capabilities. In recent...

Fall 2021

Subraveti, Sai Gokul

Cyclic adsorption processes are widely considered for various industrial gas separations, including CO2 capture. The flexibility to configure a variety of process cycles is an attractive process design feature of these processes. Despite such flexibility for process design, computationally...

Fall 2019

Kunegel-Lion, Mélodie

Outbreaks of insects are one of the main sources of disturbance in North American pine forests. The huge economic and ecological consequences of these outbreaks emphasize the need for effective pest management. For example, the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae, Hopkins 1902) has...

Spring 2020

Soriano Morales, Mario A

The fast development of new technologies related to sensor solutions, cyber-physical-systems, cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT) and their applications in the industry has led to a new modern era where the industry itself has faced a new industrial revolution called Industry 4.0. With...

Fall 2019

Ni, Weite

Question answering (QA) is the task of automatically finding answers to natural language questions. A QA system requires access to some form of knowledge in order to find the answers. Most QA tasks use raw text corpora or structured knowledge bases as knowledge. However, raw text corpora,...