Summer Research Students:

• Jinghan Yu, Preferential Attachment Networks via Polya Contagio, May - August 2024.

• Adam Gronowski (NSERC USRA), Deep Variational Information Bottleneck, May - August 2019.

• Paul Wilson, Error Control Codes for Two-Way Multiplicative Channels, May - August 2019.

• Adan Moran-MacDonald (NSERC USRA), The Rényi Deterministic Information Bottleneck and Geometric Clustering, May - August 2018.

• Curtis McDonald (NSERC USRA), Intelligent Jammer with Uncorrelated Sources on a Two Way Additive Gaussian Noise Channel, May - August 2017.

• Jordan Knorz (NSERC USRA), Information Theory and Evolutionary Biology (co-supervised with T. Day), May - August 2014.

• Esmeralda Tremblay (NSERC USRA), Information Theory and Evolutionary Biology (co-supervised with T. Day), May - August 2014.

• James Vuckovic (NSERC USRA), Information Theory and Evolutionary Biology (co-supervised with T. Day), May - August 2014.

• Justin Ma (NSERC USRA), Simulations and Analysis for Channel Coding Schemes, May - August 2013.

• Brynn Vadala (NSERC USRA), Data Compression via Error Correcting Codes, May - August 2013.

• Mustafa Abdool (NSERC USRA), Full System Analysis of Data Compression Techniques, May - August 2012.

• Matthew Black, Low-Density Parity-Check Codes and Related Topics, June - August 2012.

• Thomas Hughes, Error Correcting Codes and Related Topics, May - June, 2012.

• Mitchell Wasson (NSERC USRA), Data Compression via Error Correcting Codes, May - August 2012.

Supervised Engineering Mathematics Research Projects (Fall-Winter):

• 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, April 2024.

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

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

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

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

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

• Emily Arkell, Sabrina Barnes, Jada Buchanan, Troy Giorshev and Jonathan Morano, Investigation of Suicide Mitigation Strategies, 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, 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, April 2020.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Anthony Krause, Jeremy Kulchyk, Xiaofeng Lin, Spencer Seliga and James Weiss, 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, Gregory Harrington and Tristan Ognibene, Analysis and Control of Contagious Phenomena in Networks, (Alajaji and Gharesifard), April 2017.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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