Browsing DCE Theses and Dissertations by Author "Wang, Hongming"
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AERO: A Neo-Darwinian Approach to Time-Energy Optimal Behavioral Robotics
Sullivan, Zachary (2023-04-28)Multi-rotor Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) have seen a rapid increase in availability and deployment. As such, these systems are on the cusp of demonstrating their full potential. However, despite such promise, AAV ... -
AI for Dementia Detection: Open AI Health Diagnostic (OAHD)
Liu, Diana (2023-05-02)Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) delivers a heavy burden to many patients and caregivers. This weight is widespread and its toll, carried by many, adds financial and emotional distress to the list of its effects. Diagnosis typically ... -
An Accessible Library for Machine Learning with Homomorphic Encryption
Shaub, David (2021-11-08)Homomorphic encryption allows computation on encrypted ciphertext so that decrypted plaintext produces a semantically useful computation. Since this comes at a tremendous computation cost for general-purpose computing, the ... -
An AI Robot-Analyst System for Investment Analysis
Bar-Mor, Hidai (2022-12-20)Financial analysts have long been performing stock price forecasts. These analysts, being human, are limited by heuristics and biases which impact their forecast accuracy. Recent advances in machine learning research ... -
Automated Agile User Story Quality Assessment with Natural Language Processing
Tabari, Nina Nicole (2024-01-22)In this thesis, we explored different methods for assessing the quality of Agile User Stories, by using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning to measure the User Stories' quality. The study's primary ... -
Blockchain-based Application for Insurance Claims Management
Gillis, Steven (2023-05-01)Blockchain technology is a public ledger that offers transparency and trust due to “immutable” (unchangeable) and auditable data. The industry for blockchain-based insurance only first reached scale recently. The ability ... -
Chiroptera: A Biomimicry Inspired Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Vehicles
Shopov, Alexander (2024-05-13)Biomimicry is a technique for solving complex technical challenges by applying biologically inspired processes. When considering flight through challenging conditions, bats (order chiroptera) have demonstrated a keen ability ... -
Cloud Quantum Computer Random Number Generation for Cryptography
Pham, Andrew (2022-05-12)Creating a true random number generator is a difficult problem that may be solved by leveraging quantum computing. A simple quantum random number generation program involves applying the Hadamard gate to all qubits then ... -
Cryptocurrency as a Base for a Decentralized Application to Improve Security and Cost Reduction in the Ridesharing Industry
covarrubias, alejandro (2021-05-12)The thesis introduces a ride-sharing application based on blockchain. The platform is designed to enhance the ride-sharing industry’s security and improve the driver’s profit, the cost for riders, and payment processing ... -
Developing A Board Power Algorithm and Stock Performance Correlation
Siminoff, Ellen F (2022-11-22)This Master’s Thesis analyzes the relationships among public company board members, inspecting how these relationships correlate with longer-term stock price performance. The Thesis inspects the depth and breadth of these ... -
Disease2Vec: a method of determining disease from gut microbiome using neural embeddings
CHANDRASEKHAR, VASANTH (2021-07-22)Neural networks in the use of word representation has yielded useful and efficient representations of complex natural language problems, proving to be capable of disambiguating the semantic and syntactic relationships ... -
Distributed Graph Techniques to Quantify Social Media Engagement of Covid-19 Scientific Literature through Incremental Tweet Chain Measurements
Johns, Michael L (2021-05-24)This research combined existing distributed data and graph techniques with a novel approach, refined over many experiments, to quantify social media engagement. The developed methodology scores engagement through measures ... -
Dynamical.JS: A composable framework for online exploratory visualization of arbitrarily-complex multivariate networks
Dotson, Robert Lee (2023-01-10)Multivariate networks (henceforth, graphs) represent entities (vertices or nodes), their relationships to each other (edges), and manifest or derived data about both (attributes). Graphs easily map onto real-world entities ... -
Execution Path Tracing as the Basis for Platform-Agnostic Performance Tests
Dinwoodie, Ian R (2023-10-13)Over the past several decades, the global reliance on electronics has surged due to ongoing advancements in computational hardware. This pursuit for enhanced performance, driven by its economic impact on productivity, has ... -
Exploring Graph Neural Networks for Molecular Activity Prediction
Song, Guangyu (2024-05-17)Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful class of machine learning techniques capable of processing graph-structured data, showing immense promise in molecular property prediction. This thesis compares the ... -
Extending the Tillinghast Reflector Echelle Spectrograph (TRES) Pipeline and Analysis Tools
Bieryla, Allyson (2022-05-12)This thesis further develops a suite of tools designed for calculating stellar parameters and measuring radial velocities using spectra obtained with the Tillinghast Reflector Echelle Spectrograph (TRES). The standard ... -
GPU-accelerated Perfect Hash Construction: Parallel Implementation of the BDZ Algorithm and Application to Xor Filters
Chua, Lu Sien (2023-05-01)A perfect hash function (PHF) is an injection on a set of n keys S, mapping every key in S to integers in the interval [0,m − 1] with no collisions, m ≥ n. The BDZ algorithm constructs PHFs using peeling processes on random ... -
Grammar Type for String
Xu, Licheng (2023-10-10)Strings are ubiquitous in computer programs. Both the correctness and the security of programs that use Strings often rely on them not being arbitrary Strings, but belonging to specific sets of Strings. However, this ... -
Hebrew Transformed: Machine Translation of Hebrew Using the Transformer Architecture
Crater, David T (2022-02-07)This thesis presents the first known end-to-end application to Hebrew language of Google’s state-of-the-art Transformer architecture for natural language processing (NLP). The state of the art in machine translation (MT) ... -
Huey: Intelligent Agents for Natural Human to Machine Communication
Levinson, Harry (2021-05-25)This thesis presents a novel architecture including two new programming languages, allowing software developers to create intelligent agents operating anywhere on the internet, independent of vendors' proprietary ecosystems ...