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Towards magnetic force sensing of single molecules using suspended carbon nanotubes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-19)Measuring the magnetic moment of a single spin remains an experimental challenge. Measuring such a moment at timescales relevant to relaxation in many small spin systems, even more so. However, such a measurement would ... -
Towards many-body physics with Rydberg-dressed cavity polaritons
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-23)An exciting frontier in quantum information science is the creation and manipulation of bottom-up quantum systems that are built and controlled one by one. For the past 30 years, we have witnessed signi cant progresses ... -
Towards Measuring Coherence in Poem Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-11)Large language models (LLM) based on transformer architecture and trained on massive corpora have gained prominence as text-generative models in the past few years. Even though large language models are very adept at ... -
Towards Microfluidic Design Automation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-25)Microfluidic chips, lab-on-a-chip devices that have channels transporting liquids instead of wires carrying electrons, have attracted considerable attention recently from the bio-medical industry because of their application ... -
Towards more Effective Censorship Resistance Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)Internet censorship resistance systems (CRSs) have so far been designed in an ad-hoc manner. The fundamentals are unclear and the foundations are shaky. Censors are, more and more, able to take advantage of this situation. ... -
Towards New Perspectives in Integrated Coastal Management: Prospects for Responding to Changes Affecting Coastal Area Tourism Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-26)During the last three decades, coastal management scholarship and practice have been shaped by both social and ecological drivers of change that have served to define different epochs during which the coast has been ... -
Towards Next Generation Bug Tracking Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-19)Although bug tracking systems are fundamental to support virtually any software development process, they are currently suboptimal to support the needs and complexities of large communities. This dissertation first presents ... -
Towards Object Re-identification from Point Clouds for 3D MOT
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)This thesis studies the problem of object re-identification (ReID) in a 3D multi-object tracking (MOT) context, by learning to match pairs of objects from cropped (e.g., using their predicted 3D bounding boxes) point cloud ... -
Towards On-demand Generation of Entangled Photons with Quantum Dots
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)The biexciton-exciton cascade in quantum dots (QDs) yields entangled photon pairs, and recent developments in engineering photonic structures around the dot for efficient light extraction and proper control of the ... -
Towards Optical Excitation of Liquid-Dispersed Carbon Nanotubes inside Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-28)This thesis is a study of the excitation of liquid-suspended carbon nanotubes (CNTs) confined in an optical waveguide. Desirable optical properties such as narrow emission and excitation bandwidths, as well as wide ... -
Towards Photonic Chip Integration of an Oscillating Photonic Bell State from a Semiconductor Quantum Dot
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-18)The demand for entangled photon sources has been growing in all areas of quantum information technologies. However, many modern single-photon sources suffer from fundamental limitations which limit their ability to produce ... -
Towards Pixel-Level OOD Detection for Semantic Segmentation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-30)There exists wide research surrounding the detection of out of distribution sample for image classification. Safety critical applications, such as autonomous driving, would benefit from the ability to localise the unusual ... -
Towards Practical Hybrid Quantum / Classical Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)Quantum computing is in a critical phase where theoretical schemes and protocols are now being implemented in the real world for the first time. Experimental implementations can help us solidify ideas, and can also complicate ... -
Towards Predicting Densification and Deformation in the Sintering of Binder-Jet Additively Manufactured Parts
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-10)Binder-jet additive manufacturing (BJAM) is a three-dimensional (3D) printing process which produces parts from successive layers of a powder material (typically metal or ceramic) and selective jetting of a liquid binder ... -
Towards Private Biometric Authentication and Identification
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-05)Handwriting and speech are important parts of our everyday lives. Handwriting recognition is the task that allows the recognizing of written text, whether it be letters, words or equations, from given data. When analyzing ... -
Towards Pulsed Telecom Laser Ablation Loading for an Ytterbium Ion Trap
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-23)Trapped ion system is a promising platform for quantum computing, with long qubit coherence, high gate and measurement fidelities. To harness the full potential of the trapped ion system, it is imperative to employ an ... -
Towards Q-analysis Integration in Discrete Global Grid Systems: Methodology, Implications and Data Complexity
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-27)Spatial data is characterized by rich contextual information with multiple characteristics at each location. The interpretation of this multifaceted data is an integral part of current technological developments, data rich ... -
Towards Quantifying Groundwater Resources of the Paloluoma Buried Bedrock Valley in Western Finland with Groundwater Modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-03)Groundwater provides about 60 percent of drinking water in Finland. In western Finland, drinking water for the town of Kurikka (pop. ~21 700) comes from glaciofluvial aquifers confined underneath thick glaciomarine aquitards ... -
Towards Real-World Adoption of Quantum Key Distribution using Entangled Photons
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-21)In order for quantum key distribution (QKD) to move from the lab to widespread adoption, it will need to be compatible with existing infrastructure. To that end, I demonstrate an implementation of QKD with entangled ... -
Towards Robust Autonomous MAV Landing with a Gimbal Camera
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-30)As micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) become increasingly common as platforms for aerial inspection, monitoring and tracking, the need for robust automated landing methods increases, for both static and dynamic landing targets. ...