Senior undergraduate research projects (in communications theory, information theory, machine learning, computer vision, network systems, optimization, signal processing and stochastic control) (with faculty supervisors listed in brackets). The list may be incomplete.

• Daniel David, Shalom Guslits Basil Jancso-Szabo, Hank Kohn, Thomas Mulvihill and Henry Wilson, (ɑ_D, ɑ_G)-Quant GAN: A Tunable GAN for Financial Time Series, (Alajaji), April 2024.

• Owen Borthwick, Oscar Brown, Kaleb Huneau, David Laughton, Jillian Menikefs, Deven Shidfar and Sudeepta Talukdar, MRI Data Augmentation Utilizing L_ɑ-GAN, (Alajaji), April 2024.

• Jackson Cowie, Kaito Lee, Owen Livermore, Cameron Overvelde, Adrian Rigby, Jay Shin and Shivam Sood, Signature Cleaning with CycleGAN, (Alajaji) April 2024.

• Quinn Bazuk, Scott Justason, Zackary Katsiroubas, Anusha Mane, Renner Siebens and Jennifer Wener, Systemic Risk in Banking Networks: A Polya Urn Contagion Model, (Alajaji), April 2024.

• Ana Duvnjak, Patrick Lister, Maddie Mackie, Laeticia Niu, Aidan Shimizu and Ben van Eeden, Optimizing Online Brand Awareness: A Network Polya Contagion Model, (Alajaji), April 2024.

• Jesse Agate, Will Coffell, Cameron MacKinnon, Sydney Tschritter and Aidan Yang, Exploring Alpha Values for Generative Adversarial Networks using Renyi GAN Generator and RGAN Discriminator, (Alajaji), April 2021.

• Alexandre Le Blanc, Sean Kato, Daniel Howells, Joseph Grosso and Tania Sidhom, The Differential Privacy Least kth-Order Generative Adversarial Network, (Alajaji), April 2021.

• Victoria Bolitho, Ryan Kwast, Jenna Malone, Adam Wilkinson and Sarah Wood, Modelling Coronavirus Disease 2019 via a Polya Network Contagion Scheme, (Alajaji), April 2021.

• Emily Arkell, Sabrina Barnes, Jada Buchanan, Troy Giorshev and Jonathan Morano, Investigation of Suicide Mitigation Strategies, (Alajaji), April 2021.

• Theo Bresolin, Jessica Landon, Kate Norris, Chelsea Pham and Peter Wright, Combating the Spread of Misinformation in a Social Network via a Polya Contagion Model, (Alajaji), April 2020.

• Sebastien Gravel, Chelsey Kurylo, Luke Mazzei, Natalie Ranta and Molly White, Optimization of Vaccine Distribution in a Finite Memory Network Polya Urn Scheme, (Alajaji), April 2020.

• Helena Basaric, Jacob Beallor, Max Berkowitz, Jason Kronick and Evan Snider, Generative Adversarial Networks Applied to Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation, (Alajaji), April 2020.

• Robert Moore, Mike Lynch, Cooper Midroni, Adam Gronowski and Hatem Aldawaghreh, Text Expansion via Filling in --- Blanks, (Alajaji), April 2020.

• Dempster Schnekenburger, Nick Dal Farra, Matt Bourque and Claire Phillips, Reinforcement Learning, (Yuksel), April 2020.

• Tarun Anand, Tyler Murphy, Justin Yan and Chelsea Wallace, Networked Control Systems, (Yuksel), April 2020.

• Max Amatsuji-Berry, Duncan Mays, Tyler Macintyre and Brielle Thorsen, Reinforcement Learning, (Yuksel), April 2020.

• Erin Battle, Jonah Eisen, Caelum Kamps and Jessica Kelly, Optimization and Design of Networked Control Systems and Interaction between Control and Information, (Yuksel), April 2019.

• Rebecca Bonham-Carter, Michaila Landon-Brace and Noah Rottman, Optimization and Design of Networked Control Systems and Interaction between Control and Information, (Yuksel), April 2019.

• Adam Boljkovac, Steven Lee, Patrick Chin and Jordana Sherman, Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments, (Gharesifard), April 2019.

• Joey Blumenstein, Thomas Morrish and Benjamin Simons, Initial Condition Optimization for the Network Polya Contagion Model, (Alajaji), April 2019.

• Rebecca Brace, Tegan Dietsch, Connor Kilackey and Shini Ko, Suppressing the Spread of Disinformation in Social Networks, (Alajaji), April 2019.

• Lachlan Devir, Christopher Caromicoli, Andrew Downie and Alex Taylor, Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments, (Gharesifard), April 2019.

• Max Gilham, Eric Grewal, Bryony Schoneville and Yuanakang Zhang, Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Stochastic Control, (Yuksel), April 2019.

• Jack Guebert, Wesley Routley, Brant Vanderveen and Elise Weissenberger, Text Classification via the Deterministic Information Bottleneck Technique, (Alajaji), April 2019.

• Emma Miloff, Riley Becker, Michael Mackenzie and Helen Steneker, Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Stochastic Control, (Yuksel), April 2019.

• Braeden Ng, Cole Thierrin, Jesse Jia and Matthew Whittle, Information Bottleneck Approach to Geometric Clustering, (Alajaji), April 2019.

• Lauren Babington, Liam Dupelle, Courtney Milligan, Jessie Ramsay and Taylor Sawadsky, Predicting Elections Using a Network Contagion Model, (Alajaji), April 2018.

• Griffin Baillie, Louis Burelle, Graeme Garner and Stephen MacKenzie, Optimizing Electric Grid Demand Management with Decentralized Learning, (Yuksel), April 2018.

• David Beallor, Himesh Bhatia, Adam Eisen, Connor McMillan and Daniel Tamming, Image Restoration Algorithms for Musical Style Transfer, (Mansouri), April 2018.

• Chris Bentz, Callen Hageman, Jenna Murphy and Morgan Nurmi, Managing Automated Financial Trading Risks and Returns Through Reinforcement Learning, (Yuksel), April 2018.

• Nicola Charles, Cara Engelbrecht, Alison Harrod, Jack Horn and Tyler Snook, Empirical Prediction of Wind Farm Power Output Using Historical Data, (Yuksel), April 2018.

• Alfred Chen, Simon Gladstone, Christopher Ko, Adan Moran-MacDonald and James Szoke, Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Restoration via a Polya Network Contagion Scheme, (Alajaji), April 2018.

• Stephen Chisnall, Clifford Lerebours, Sarah Paull, Jillian Reid and Hayden Waller, Region Tracking in an Image Sequence and its applications to Precise Tracking, (Mansouri), April 2018.

• Michael Darrigo, James Pelley, Yuhao Tang and Chester Wu, Facial Recognition Algorithm Optimization, (Mansouri), April 2018.

• Anthony Krause, Jeremy Kulchyk, Xiaofeng Lin, Spencer Seliga and James Weiss, (Alajaji), Effective Communication of Text Data, April 2018.

• Sam Anderson, Julie Briffa, James Gibbard-McCall and Robert Spencer, Protecting Autonomous Vehicles from Jamming Attacks: Coding strategies for Communication Channels under Intelligent Jamming, (Alajaji and Yuksel), April 2017.

• Daniel Armitage, Fredrick Leber, Nicolas Pennie and Dylan McTiernan, Design of a Communication System for Satellite Images over Noisy Wireless Channels, (Alajaji and Linder), April 2017.

• Kerem Ataman, Sarah Colquhoun, Greg Harrington and Tristan Ognibene, Analysis and Control of Contagious Phenomena in Networks, (Alajaji and Gharesifard), April 2017.

• Luca Castelli, Amy Cotton, Emma Hansen and Richard Hum, Stochastic Image Models, Stochastic Gradient Descent, and Applications to Image Restoration, (Mansouri), April 2017.

• Marwan Galal, Mark Gaskin, Ian Harbell and Daniel Kao, Approximation Methods for Stochastic Control, (Linder and Yuksel), April 2017.

• Nicolas Garcia, Alyssa Kim, Michael McCreesh, Curtis McDonald and Graeme Ness, Learning Algorithms in Decentralized Stochastic Control, (Yuksel), April 2017.

• Matthew Kowal, Raner la Bastide, Gillian Sandison and Len Yabuki Soh, Region Tracking in an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2017.

• Graeme Baker, Jacqueline Craig, Adam Noble-Marks and James Vuckovic, Audio Denoising using Stochastic Models, (Mansouri), April 2016.

• Faisal Badran, Aaron Fong, Mandy Jor, Zachary Moore and Will Mueller, Region Tracking in an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2016.

• Parker Hickey, Tanner Kotsopoulos, Riley Redpath, Justin Shimkovitz and Julian Wilson, Learning Algorithms in Team and Game Problems, (Yuksel), April 2016.

• Leverett Binks-Collier, Garrick Poole and Stephanie Reed, Learning Algorithms in Team and Game Problems, (Yuksel), April 2015.

• Lucy Santano Carrasco and Kiraseya Preusser, Channel Optimized Scalar Quantization for Images Transmitted over a Noisy Channel, (Alajaji and Linder), April 2015.

• Lok Tin Chiu, Marty Kerling and Tatum Mackey, Frequency Modulation in Space Physics Data, (Thomson), April 2015.

• Brendan Conklin, Daniel Potvin and John Ramsay, Extending a Polya Contagion Process to Modelling Contagion in Networks with Finite Memory, (Alajaji and Gharesifard), April 2015.

• Ryan Farrell, Mikhail Hayhoe, Justin Ma and Mark Mahony, Distributed Triggering Strategies for Deployment of Autonomous Mobile Networks with Outdated Information, (Gharesifard), April 2015.

• Ariel Hubert , Payton Karch, Victor Li and Ryan Shrott, Agreement Among Decentralized Decision Makers, (Yuksel), April 2015.

• Eve Laverty, Kendra MacKay, Mike Mehta and Matt Slavin, Formation Control with Noisy Information, (Gharesifard and Yuksel), April 2015.

• Brynn Vadala and Hannah Koke, Profiling Contagious Behaviour in Networks, (Alajaji and Gharesifard), April 2015.

• Mustafa Abdool, Matthew Black, Rebecca Carrington and Jessica Rodgers, Region Tracking in an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2014.

• Taylor Adams, Evangelian Collings and Ian Ross, Robustness Issues in Formation Dynamics, (Gharesifard), April 2014.

• Darcie Dillon, Katherine Kerr and Sungbok Lee, Design of Region Merging Algorithms for Segmentation of Noisy Images, (Alajaji and Mansouri), April 2014.

• Stanislav Fabricius, Stephen Kerner and Philippe Furrer, Game Theory and Information, (Linder and Yuksel), April 2014.

• Thomas Hughes, Kevin Gibson and Mitchell Wasson, Automated Face Recognition, (Mansouri), April 2014.

• Ryan Lowe and Joshua Brook, Region Tracking in an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2014.

• James MacDonald and Peter Thompson, Two-Source Channel Optimized Quantization, (Alajaji and Linder), April 2014.

• Karin Martin and Marlee Vandewouw, Distributive Algorithms for Deployment of Autonomous Mobile Networks, (Gharesifard), April 2014.

• Russell Taylor and Michael Zuber, Stochastic Image Models, Stochastic Gradient Descent and Applications to Image Restoration, (Mansouri), April 2014.

• Dan Blair, Victoria Buckingham and Adina Goldberg, Design of Region Merging Algorithms for Image Segmentation with an Extension to Splitting, (Alajaji and Mansouri), April 2013.

• Duncan Macdonald and James Spencer, Coding Strategies for Communication Networks with Feedback, (Alajaji), April 2013.

• Tristan Milne, Josh Levitan and Danny Grenzowski, Stochastic Image Models, Stochastic Gradient Descent, and Applications to Image Restoration, (Mansouri), April 2013.

• Tyson Mitchell and Mikael Schlumpf, Joint Source-Channel Coding for Deep-Space Communications, (Alajaji and Linder), April 2013.

• Jordan Rendall and Tayler Sokalski, Efficient Wireless Image Transmission over Noisy Binary Channels with Memory, (Alajaji and Linder), April 2013.

• Ryan Cannon, Andrew Lappalainen and Ramiro Zurkowski, Design of Region Merging Algorithms for Image Segmentation, (Alajaji and Mansouri), April 2012.

• Noah Daley and Richard Wood, Real-Time Coding with an Adaptive Quantizer, (Yuksel and Linder), April 2012.

• Patrick Glover, John Treilhard and George Weekes, Learning Image Priors for Image Reconstruction, (Mansouri), April 2012.

• Ryan Veenkamp and Ali Wytsma, Learning Image Priors for Image Restoration, (Mansouri), April 2012.

• Andrew Cerisano, Nevin Cimolai and Nima Poulad, Face Recognition using Principal Manifolds, (Mansouri), April 2011.

• Alex Condello and Tyler Longo, Consensus and Agreement, (Yuksel), April 2011.

• Matt Gilbert, Kyle McCormick and Cameron McCormick, Region Tracking over an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2011.

• Andrew Johnston, Alex Minnaar and Alan Richards, Stochastic Systems with Data Rate Constraints, (Yuksel), April 2011.

• Aaron Lamersa and Michael Shadid, Localized Eigenfaces for Face Recognition, (Mansouri), April 2011.

• Sean Abraham, Adrian Green and Tom Hoddes, Local Eigenface Facial Recognition, (Mansouri), April 2010.

• Robert Ballard and Jeffrey Heakes, Optimized Decoding of Binary Images over Channels with Memory, (Alajaji and Takahara), April 2010.

• Lauren Bates, Tim Knowles and Emily Shepherdson, Face Recognition, (Mansouri), April 2010.

• Andrew Brennan and Ian Scriver, Learning Image Priors Applied to Aesthetics and Art, (Mansouri), April 2010.

• Jen Elgar, Colleen Smith and Adam Sniderman, Region Tracking over an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2010.

• Abdalla El-Raghy, Ben Snively and Steven Wu, Learning Image Priors, (Mansouri), April 2010.

• Nicholas Ballard and Joseph Pape, The Magic Wand -- Design of a Direction Sensitive Universal Remote Control, (Dawes and Thomson), April 2009.

• Sarah Correll, Colin Sutherland and Emma Willemsma, Region Tracking over an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2009.

• Linda Farczadi and Stefan Ng, Face Recognition, (Mansouri), April 2009.

• Lisa Farnell, Jessica Havelock and Claudette Yungwirth, Stability of Belief Propagation in Networks, (Yuksel), April 2009.

• Dana Awamleh, Jeff Calder and Allan MacAulay, Region Tracking over an Image Sequence, (Mansouri), April 2008.

• Kevin Campbell, Phillipe DePas and Dustin Freeman, Motion Segmentation Without Motion Compensation, (Mansouri), April 2008.

• Kyle Cassidy and Ben McLeod, Classifying the Magnitude of Load Lifted, (Reid and Takahara), April 2008.

• Justin Charbonneau, Chris Morley and Omri Spirman, Motion Segmentation through Maximization of Distance between Distributions of Motion Vectors, (Mansouri), April 2008.

• Matthew Chivers and Stephan Trusevych, Optimal Constellation/Mapping Pairs for Source Adaptive Modulation of Multimedia, (Alajaji and Takahara), April 2008.

• Sean Huberman, Ryan Steele and Edward Tan, Multi-frequency Riometer, (Thomson), April 2008.

• Akira Jones, Texture Analysis of Bone CT Images, (Bryant and Thompson), April 2008.

• Nona Movahedi, 2-D Image Segmentation Using Level Set PDEs, (Mansouri), April 2008.

• Zeina Nasrallah and Sara Parhizgari: Distributed Sensing and Control, (Yuksel), April 2008.

• James Wood and Jeremy Frank, Optimal Random Deployment of Relay Nodes, (Takahara and Linder), April 2008.

• Steven Birk and Duncan Findlay, L_1 Regularized Logistic Regression and Spam Filtering, (Takahara and Linder), April 2007.

• Kevin Chan and Joseph Paes, Development of a Hand Switch Pressure Measurement Device, (Reid and Takahara), April 2007.

• Adam Clarridge, Brendan Moore and Eric Hart, Control Layer for Ant Routing, (Takahara and Linder), April 2007.

• Jacek Dudek and Paul Grouchy, Visual Tracking in a Sequence of Images, (Mansouri), April 2007.

• Dalia El-Shimy, Antonio Sanchez and Eric Simpson, Speech Analysis and Modification, (Gazor), April 2007.

• Bryn Gingrich and Wei Tseng, Reliable Communication of Text Documents Over Burst Noise Channels, (Alajaji), April 2007.

• Sarah Lyons and Jacqui Vanos, Emergency Communication Systems in Coal Mines, (Thomson), April 2007.

• Ereth McKnight-MacNeil and Yuki Yamashita, Design of an Interference Cancellation Scheme Using Multiple Solar Radio Telescopes, (Thomson), April 2007.

• Derek McColl and Travis Thomson, Load Carriage Simulator Control System, (Reid and Takahara), April 2007.

• Adam Cohen and Gavin Mitchell, Space-Time Block Codes for Multi-Antenna Fading Channels, (Alajaji), April 2006.

• Marc El Jichi and Paul Heakes, Public Key Cryptography: RSA, Discrete Logarithm, Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems, (Kani and Alajaji), April 2006.

• Brett Galloway and David Powell, Turbo Codes that Exploit the Local Redundancy in Compressed Data, (Alajaji), April 2006.

• Michael Greene, Christopher Seewald and Tomas Sollund, Investigation of Collision Avoidance System Via Beamforming, (Thomson and Lepage), April 2006.

• Monique Martin and Mike Kennedy, Sternocleidomastoid EMG During Dynamic Contractions: Experimental Data Signal Processing and Analysis, (Morin (ECE) and Takahara), April 2006.

• Adam Rytwinski and Mike Rooke, Adaptive Modulation Schemes with Channel Coding, (Alajaji and Takahara), April 2006.

• Lindsay Smith, Automation of HAW-1 Ocean Cable Analysis and Study of Sources of Interference, (Thomson, Lanzerotti, MacLennan and Burr), April 2006.

• Haider Al-Lawati, Ahmed El Assaad and Karim Khairallah, Space-time Block Codes for Multi-Antenna Fading Channels, (Alajaji), April 2005.

• Tamra Baxter, Ken Edwards and Tim Evans, Soft Decision Combined Source-Channel Coding, (Alajaji), April 2005.

• Wesley Burr, Application of Statistical Signal Processing to Spatially Separated Climate Data, (Thomson), April 2005.

• Ronald Chen, Karen Doxsee, Anthony Payoe and Jeffrey Turner, Information Transmission Near the Shannon Limit: LDPC versus Turbo Codes, (Alajaji and Kashyap), April 2005.

• Tomas Karger, Cameron McKay and Glenn Patterson, Source Adaptive Constellation Mapping for Compressed Multimedia Data, (Alajaji and Takahara), April 2005.

• Sabrina Tang and Marc Whittaker, An Analysis of Public-Key Cryptography Methods: Implementation and Runtime Performance, (Kani and Alajaji), April 2005.

• Krista Amolins, The Sun Will Rise, (Thomson), April 2004.

• Andrew MacDonald, Sean Noble and David Richardson, High Data Rate Image Compression and Communication, (Alajaji & Linder), April 2004.

• Raimund Ostrowski and Alex Hlivka, Channel Optimized Vector Quantization over Multi-Antenna Rayleigh Fading Channels, (Alajaji & Linder), April 2004.

• Todd Garrison and Chris Nicola, Multimedia Data Compression: Channel Optimized Vector Quantization over Rayleigh Fading Channels, (Alajaji), April 2003.

• Ben Gardner and Frazer McArthur, Non-Liner Filter for Radioheliographic Data, (Thomson), April 2003.

• John Hayes, Mapping Optimization of the 32-Cross Constellation for the Modulation of Non-Uniform Sources, (Alajaji & Takahara), April 2003.

• David McKenna and Shaun Filonowicz, Design of an Adaptive Modem for Heterogeneous Data, (Alajaji & Takahara), April 2003.

• Megan Owen, Soft Decision Decoding of Convolutional Codes, (Alajaji), April 2003.

• Paul Rogers, Kartik Sundar and Donald Nguyen, Helioseismology and Communications Systems, (Thomson), April 2003.

• Chris St. John, Margaret Sample and Mia Minnes, Ant-Based Control for Dynamic Network Routing, (Takahara), April 2003.

• Shane Bergsma and Nicholas Scipio, Data Compression for Multimedia Communication, (Linder & Alajaji), April 2002.

• Takahito Kanamori, Swarm Intelligence for Network Routing, (Takahara & Davis), April 2002.

• Brian Pirie, Complexity Theory and Technology Adaptation, (A. Agrawal & Linder), April 2002.

• Shant Sethian, Jay Shah and Cynthia Thomas, Channel-Optimized Vector Quantization, (Linder & Alajaji), April 2002.

• Gail Bouchette and Andrew Gibson, Channel Optimized Vector Quantization using Deterministic Annealing, (Alajaji & Linder), April 2001.

• Neill Patterson, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Transmitter/Receiver Design for Wireless Voice Communications, (Davis), April 2001.

• Adrian Taylor, Is There a Better Alternative to the Lloyd Algorithm ? (Alajaji & Linder), April 2000.

• Richard Thommes, Modeling Internet Traffic, (Takahara & Mouftah), April 2000.

• Asmir Arifovic, Blocking in Optical WDM Switches, (Takahara & Mouftah), April 2000.

• Kajen Balasundaram and Johanna Harris Sigaran, A User Friendly Simulation Program, (Davis), April 2000.

• Geoffrey Leung, Radio Frequency Bitstream Communication Link, (Davis), April 2000.

• Don Chen, Yen Kong, Ed Tang and Rumeet Tanna, Reliable Communication of Non-Uniform IID Sources via Turbo Codes: An Application of Joint Source-Channel Coding, (Alajaji & Davis), April 1999.

• Philippe Durand, Reliable Information Transmission Near the Shannon Limit: Low Density Parity Check Codes, (Alajaji, Davis & R. Kerr - CRC), April 1999.

• Kelly Ferguson and Kitty Lee, Performance of Coded Communication Systems, (Alajaji & Takahara), April 1999.

• Lauren Matheson, Infrared Bit Stream on Multiple Channels, (Davis), April 1999.

• Zahir Raza, Spread Spectrum Communications over Infrared Links, (Davis), April 1999.

• Scott Siegler and Bryan Wills, Turbo Codes: Exploiting Markovian Channels, (Alajaji & Davis), April 1999.

• Jason Silzer, Dependent Central Limit Theorem, (Beaulieu & Takahara), April 1999.

• Keith Stewart, Computation of the Rate-Distortion Function for Real-Valued Sources, (Alajaji & Linder), April 1999.

• Jeremy Sylvestre, Quadrature Amplitude Modulation on Infrared Links, (Davis), April 1999.

• Daniel Veiner, Optimal Filtering and Hidden Markov Models, (Davis), April 1999.

• Deborah Cividino, Optimal Trunk Reservation and capacity Dimensioning for Maximizing Profit in a Network, (Takahara), April 1998.

• Andrea Goldman, Stephanie Hazen, Darlene Lapointe, Performance Testing of an ATM Network, (Mouftah & Takahara), April 1998.

• Serge Mister, Transmission of Correlated Sources over Noisy Channels, (Alajaji), April 1996.

• Christina Macrae, Satellite Data Transmission Performance Using Superposed Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, (L. L. Campbell & Wittke), April 1996.

• Nicholas Whalen, Rate-Distortion Function and Capacity-Cost Function, (Alajaji), April 1996.