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Towards Better Static Analysis Security Testing Methodologies
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-24)Software vulnerabilities have been a significant attack surface used in cyberattacks, which have been escalating recently. Software vulnerabilities have caused substantial damage, and thus there are many techniques to ... -
Towards Climate Change Adaptation in Canada's Protected Natural Areas: an Ontario Parks Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-12)Climate is a major catalyst of change in the composition, structure and function of the Ecosphere. Empirical studies of species response to climate consistently reveal that the anomalous warming occurring over roughly the ... -
Towards Data-Leveraged Behavioral Policy Design for Alleviating Peak Electricity Demand
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-20)The problem of managing peak electricity demand is of significant importance to utility providers. In Ontario, electricity consumption achieves its peak during the afternoon hours in summer. Electricity generation units ... -
Towards democratizing water quality monitoring processes for the lower Grand River and nearshore Lake Erie
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)Freshwater quality issues are among the most pressing challenges of our time. Such issues are increasingly complex and tend to recur when we fail to acknowledge the interacting stressors that influence them. One example ... -
Towards Designing Composite membranes for CO2 Separation: The Inclusion of Hybrid TiO2-PEG Structures and the Study of their Interfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-26)This thesis work aims towards designing hybrid membranes for CO2 separation in the post-combustion process. The different methods of existing technologies are compared and assessed for their merit, and the decision of using ... -
Towards Domain Invariant Real-time Point Cloud Perception
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)In recent years, autonomous driving has witnessed substantial advancements, owing in part to the rapid advancement of 3D sensor technologies, particularly Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors.Despite these advancements, ... -
Towards Dual-Isotope Entangling Gates for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-14)Entangling gates are essential to the development in the capabilities of any trapped-ion quantum computer. High-fidelity entangling gates have previously been demonstrated on trapped-ion quantum hardware with single species ... -
Towards Effective Measurement of Membership Privacy Risk for Machine Learning Models
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-18)Machine learning (ML) models are trained on data which can be sensitive. Membership inference attacks (MIAs) infer whether a particular data record was used to train an ML model. This violates the membership privacy of an ... -
Towards Effective Utilization of Pretrained Language Models — Knowledge Distillation from BERT
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)In the natural language processing (NLP) literature, neural networks are becoming increasingly deeper and more complex. Recent advancements in neural NLP are large pretrained language models (e.g. BERT), which lead to ... -
Towards Effective Watershed Governance: A Case Study of the Grand River Basin
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-26)Watersheds across the country and around the world are governed by many different forms of watershed governance, all of which have their own challenges and benefits. None of them have so far been the perfect solution for ... -
Towards Effectively Testing Sequence-to-Sequence models from White-Box Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-22)In the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), which encompasses diverse tasks such as machine translation, question answering, and others, there has been notable advancement in recent years. Despite this progress, NLP ... -
Towards Efficient Hardware Implementation of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-31)Implementation of elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptographic algorithms has been the focus of a great deal of recent research directed at increasing efficiency. Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) was introduced ... -
Towards Efficient Ice Surface Localization From Hockey Broadcast Video
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-23)Using computer vision-based technology in ice hockey has recently been embraced as it allows for the automatic collection of analytics. This data would be too expensive and time-consuming to otherwise collect manually. The ... -
Towards evaluating security implementations using the Information Security Maturity Model (ISMM)
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)Information security is a common and ever-present concern for both private and public sector organizations. Information security protects information from a wide range of threats, risks, and vulnerabilities in order to ... -
Towards Explainable Generative Adversarial Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-09)As Generative Adversarial Networks become more and more popular for sample generation, the demand for human interpretable explanations have also skyrocketed. With the rising popularity of Generative Adversarial Networks ... -
Towards Feedback Controlled Droplet Microfluidic Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-21)Microfluidics, the manipulation of nanoliter to microliter volumes of fluids, can give important new capabilities to researchers in biology, chemistry, material science, and medicine. Broadly, current methods can be ... -
Towards geriatric use of exoskeletons: Improving human-device interaction with a tutorial and optimal control
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-05)With the global geriatric population expected to reach 1.5 billion by 2050, there has been growing interest to tackle age-associated movement impairments by developing assistive technologies. Rehabilitative lower-limb ... -
Towards Global Reinforcement Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-14)Sequential decision making under uncertainty is a ubiquitous problem. In everyday situations we are faced with a series of decisions that aim to maximize the probability of achieving some goal. However, decision outcomes ... -
Towards High Performance Lithium-ion Batteries using Crumpled Graphene-Protected Silicon Anodes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-28)Despite silicon being a promising candidate for next-generation lithium-ion battery anodes due to its high theoretical capacity of 3590 mAh/g (Li15Si4, at room temperature), self-pulverization and the formation of an ... -
Towards High Speed Aerial Tracking of Agile Targets
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-17)In order to provide a novel perspective for videography of high speed sporting events, a highly capable trajectory tracking control methodology is developed for a custom designed Kadet Senior Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). ...