This collection includes theses and dissertations as well as some capstone projects and Master’s projects. The Digital Institutional Repository contains most RIT theses; however, not all past works have been digitized. If you are seeking a specific thesis and do not see it here, please contact the RIT Archives Collections.
All theses and dissertations from 2010 to the present are also available to Rochester Institute of Technology faculty, students and staff from ProQuest.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Pal: Building Trust in High Stakes Service Provider Relationships, Belinda Chang
You Know that Feeling You Get Right After You Vomit? Yeah, I Want to Feel That., Jin Chan
Whispering Messengers: Everyone has a bunny, Tracy Shih-Tung Cheng
Artificial Orbit, Suyu Chen
Design For Communication, Weiying Chen
Leverage social filtering to enhance viewing experience with Amazon Prime Video, Wen-Hua Chen
Audience Preference for Engagement with Online Museums, Xiang Chen
Employing optical flow on convolutional recurrent structures for deepfake detection, Akash Chintha
A Reputation Score Driven E-Mail Mitigation System, Tommy Chin
Self-Admitted Technical Debt - An Investigation from Farm to Table to Refactoring, Ben Christians
The Use of Social Media to Advance Sports Marketing: The Atlantic Hockey Conference, Erin Claybaugh
A Case Study: Can 3D printers be used to address the prosthetic needs of amputees in the Dominican Republic?, Adriana Coll De Pena
Efficient Algorithms for Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Considering Time of Use Pricing and Demand Charges, Brady Collea
Let's Go Camping: A Physical Experience on a Virtual Platform, Monica Conary
Galaxies as Probes of the Universe: From Dynamical Models to the Inference of Cosmological Parameters, Peter A. Craig
Using Advanced Technologies to Connect Communities Through Shared Experiences, Shauna Cross
Mental Illness Campaigns, Yiming Cui
Effects of heterogeneity, technological progress and interaction on carbon mitigation costs, Saptarshi Das
New Approaches for Isolation and Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles, Mehdi Dehghani
Investigation of Water Vapor Transport in Membrane Mass Exchangers for HVAC Applications, Nathan DeMario
Convex Object Detection, Abhisek Dey
Bayesian Active Learning for Personalization and Uncertainty Quantification in Cardiac Electrophysiological Model, Jwala Dhamala
High-Capacity Directional Graph Networks, Miguel Dominguez
Scalable Real-Time Rendering for Extremely Complex 3D Environments Using Multiple GPUs, Yangzi Dong
Mixed Signals in Pulsar Timing Arrays - Discerning Red Spin Noise from Gravitational Waves, Brendan Drachler
Attitude Control for Circumnavigating the Sun with Diffractive Solar Sails, Amber Dubill
Nature-Inspired Topology Optimization of Recurrent Neural Networks, AbdElRahman A. ElSaid
Mend Magazine: Creating Awareness. Shifting Habits of Consumption., Marie A. Fabozzi
Clearing the Clouds: Extracting 3D information from amongst the noise, Alexander Fafard
Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Ultrawide-Bandgap Circuits, Michael Larry Fanto
FDA Regulation Impact on Early Stage Medical Device Innovation in Academia, Keyana Fariello
Associations Between Cannabis Use Characteristics, Impulsivity, and Mindfulness, Sam Feck
Data Representation for Motor Imagery Classification, Andrew Festa
Bayesian Methods for Radiometric Calibration in Motion Picture Encoding Workflows, Ricardo R. Figueroa
The Design of a Custom 32-Bit RISC CPU and Port to GCC Compiler Backend, Danielle Megan Fischer
Exploring the Influence of Energy Constraints on Liquid State Machines, Andrew Fountain
Application of biochar as an additive to enhance biomethane potential in anaerobic digestion, Cecilia B. Frias Flores
The Infratemporal Fossa: Visual Communication & 2D Animation To Present Anatomical Forms, Gwendolyn Fuller
Speculative Fashion: A Spacesuit for Life Outside Earth, Lauren Miyoko Furushima
Effect of Laser Texturing and Varying Dimple Density on Tribological Properties of Titanium-Ceramic Contact, Akshay Gaikwad
Divide and Conquer in Neural Style Transfer for Video, Paul Galatic
Characterization of a Single Photon Sensing and Photon Number Resolving CMOS Detector for Astrophysics, Justin P. Gallagher
Context Sensitive Image Denoising and Enhancement using U-Nets, Sahaj Tushar Gandhi
Fallen Leaves, Bo Gao
Feeling Home, Yahui Gao
CSTARS: Cryogenic CMOS Optical Star Tracking, Kevin Gates
An Evaluation of Current Policy Guidelines for the Best Practices of Robotic Surgery Training, Zachary Geffert
Exploration of the Motion Graphics Educational tools based on the animations ‘Virtual Property’, Hao Ge
On Learning and Generalization to Solve Inverse Problem of Electrophysiological Imaging, Sandesh Ghimire
Design of Hardware CNN Accelerators for Audio and Image Classification, Rohini Jayachandre Gillela
Novel Bidirectional Actuator Development using Elastomeric Materials and Magnets, Moises Gomez
Immigration, Crime, and Policy, Tiara Grayson
“Natural State”: Navigating the Experiences of Black Women’s Natural Hair Identities, Leah Green
Leveraging Programmable Data Plane For Compressing Forwarding Tables, Garegin Grigoryan
Breathing Pacer Device for Stress and Anxiety Relief, Maria Grazia Guerrero Bejarano
Path Loss Model for 2.4GHZ Indoor Wireless Networks with Application to Drones, Rahul Gulia
Detecting Performance Regression Inducing Code Changes Using Static and Dynamic Metrics, Hiten Gupta
Aggregation as an efficiency driver in bulk heterojunction devices measured through mixed Squaraines in ternary blends, Soumya Gupta
Untitled, Rachel Yan Gu
Parametric Study of Infrared Imaging Based Breast Cancer Detection Program, Carlos B. Gutierrez
Finding a Wells Way: Using Sustainability Metrics to Determine Best Practices for Relocating Wells Barns, Sara P. Hall
Experimental Investigation of Pressure-Swirl Atomizer Spray Stability with Addition of a Pre-Filming Surface, Ethan Hanson
Incidental Exposure, Laural Hartman
For the Sensing of Viral DNA: An Integrated Polydimethylsiloxane Accurate CRISPR Detection (IMPACT) System, Kenneth N. Hass
Impact of Social Media on Dubai Stock Market using Sentiment Analysis, Khaled Fawzi Hawas
“Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf” A Uses & Gratifications Study of Different Music Platforms, Emily Hawk
An Analysis of the Components of Terrorism, Rhianna Hayes
Nereus: A Proposal for Implementing Anti-phishing Software Using Corporate Branding Color Matching, Benjamin Heald
Addressing Sexual Assault: How Architectural Design Can Promote Life Long Healing, Diana Heliotis
Application of Thermal and Ultraviolet Sensors in Remote Sensing of Upland Ducks, Matthew W. Helvey
Investigating Emotion-label and Emotion-laden Words in a Semantic Satiation Paradigm, Ryan Hildebrandt
Exploring Students Mental Behaviors Using Unsupervised Learning Algorithms and Graph Theory, Abdullah Hussein Mohsen
On the Effective Finite Element Simplification of Bolted Joints: Static and Modal Analyses, Abdulrahman Mohammad Ibrahim
Sub-pixel Sensitivity Variations and their Effects on Precision Aperture Photometry, Alexis M. Irwin
A Model-Free Control System Based on the Sliding Mode Control with Automatic Tuning Using as On-Line Parameter Estimation Approach, Md Sariful Islam
Video-based iris feature extraction and matching using Deep Learning, Anisia Jabin
Wearable Antennas Backed by Artificial Magnetic Conductor for Enhanced Gain and Reduced Back Radiation, Steven Jacobson
The Link between Successful Implementation of Managerial Practices and the Success of Family Owned Businesses in Kosovo, Rrezearta Jahiu
Design of a comprehensive modeling, characterization, rupture risk assessment and visualization pipeline for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms, Golnaz Jalalahmadi
Decolonization of Zimbabwean Museums: The Movement Toward Practices Informed by Indigineous Cultures, Rebecca Jarrett
The Challenges of Collecting the Immovable Property Tax: The Case of the Republic of Kosovo, Agnesa Jashari
Network Slicing for Wireless Networks Operating in a Shared Spectrum Environment, John Jenco
Corporate Social Responsibility — Introducing a New Model for Improving the Financial Performance of Large Enterprises: The Case of Kosovo, Ibrahim Jetullahu
Color The Corner, Linxin Jiang
Token, Kathleen Marie Ripton Johnson
Exhibition Labels: Language, Accessibility and Inclusion, Brienna Johnson-Morris
Antipodal Robotic Grasping using Deep Learning, Shirin Joshi
Towards Energy Transformational Policy in Kosovo: Dissecting the Inconsistencies between Energy Regulation and Implementation, Ardian Kacaniku
Advancing Multi-Modal Deep Learning: Towards Language-Grounded Visual Understanding, Kushal Kafle
Interactions of Photosensitizers with Model Membranes and their Applications in Photodynamic Therapy, Poornima Kalyanram
Point Completion Networks and Segmentation of 3D Mesh, Naga Durga Harish Kanamarlapudi
The Sense of Anxiety, Suhyeon Kang
School Violence Prevention in High Secondary Education in Kosovo and the Role of School Psychologists, Edita Karavidaj
Millennial Attitudes and Preferences of Purchasing Prescription Eyewear, Monika Karlovic
Self-Supervised Learning for Segmentation using Image Reconstruction, Srivallabha Karnam
Implementing and Testing VLANs in Meshed Tree Protocol, Ankush Kaul
Role of Leader’s Emotional Intelligence in Organizational Learning: A Quantitative Analysis, Navjot Kaur
