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.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
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
Vascular Surgery: Physician and Patient Education on Novel Procedures, Ashlyn Kelley
RITThe Contributions of Traffic Management Centers in life Enhancement, Mohammed Hamdan Khalifeh
The Use of Deep Learning Methods to Assist in the Classification of Seismically Vulnerable Dwellings, Salman Khan
Interaction Recognition in a Paired Egocentric Video, Ajeeta Rajkumar Khatri
Integrated Framework for Data Quality and Security Evaluation on Mobile Devices, Igor Khokhlov
Parental Hearing Status and Sign Language Use as Predictors of English Literacy Outcomes for Deaf Children in a Bilingual Educational Setting, Sarah E. Kimbley
Pond Scum: Partygeddon, Zachary Kirwin
Automatic Pigment Classification in Painted Works of Art from Diffuse Reflectance Image Data, Tania Kleynhans
Gait Generation for Damaged Hexapods using Genetic Algorithm, Justin Kon
Current State and Development Potential of Luxury Heritage Hospitality in Old City Center of Split, Croatia, Lucia Koprčina
Allocation of Public Expenditures in the post-war Kosovo: A critical analysis, Leonita Krasniqi
Design and Development of an Ergonomic Hybrid Forklift Seat, Pranav Madhav Kuber
Representations and representation learning for image aesthetics prediction and image enhancement, Michal Kucer
Dynamic Speed and Separation Monitoring with On-Robot Ranging Sensor Arrays for Human and Industrial Robot Collaboration, Shitij P. Kumar
An Analysis of the Scintillation Properties of Several Materials for Radiation Detection, Luke John Laffey
Polarization Properties of Broad Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei, Brian Christopher Lake
Social Isolation, Fear of Missing Out, and Social Media Use in Deaf and Hearing College Students, Conor Lake
RIFT’ing the Waves: Developing and applying an algorithm to infer properties of gravitational wave sources, Jacob Lange
Evaluation of the Premarket Tobacco Product Application for Electronic Cigarettes, Maya Lara
Critical Material Supply Risks and Mitigation Strategies in Clean Energy Technologies, Alexandra Leader
[Iteration 2491-J], Jeff Leavitt
High Conductivity Metal–Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Conductors via Chemical Vapor Deposition and Electroplating, Anthony P. Leggiero
MetaRec: Meta-Learning Meets Recommendation Systems, James Le
An AR Safety Instruction APP Designed for Kids, Shaowei Leng
Low frequency cyclical potentials for fine tuning nonlinear electrokinetic separations, Cody Justice Lentz
The Closet, Renee Levasseur
All-Passive Composite Right/Left-Handed (CRLH) Antenna Array for Sum and Difference Patterns, Vu James Le
Design and Production of 3D Animation Short film “The Blue Battery”, Xianyu Liao
Barrier-free Assistant, Jiajia Li
Bringing Batavia Armory Building Back to Life – Community Center Adaptive Reuse Design, JiangCheng Li
Exploration of the Process of Building Brand Equity as a Digital Painter, Andrew Lim
Lightsup: Modern Organization for the Modern Living Room, Fang-Yi Lin
In Praise of Shadows, Jiageng Lin
An interactive medication reminder to bond senior citizens and their family members, Bei Liu
Polarization Engineering for Deep-Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diodes, Cheng Liu
Miss, Jiahui Liu
Shared Kitchen Design for Rental Spaces and Frequent Moving Populations, Qian Liu
Human-in-the-Loop Learning From Crowdsourcing and Social Media, Tong Liu
Application of Machine Learning Models: Stock Price Forecasting of the Philippines' Top Six Conglomerates, Anthony Rey Llanos
New Technology for Old Models: Can Dioramas Resonate with a Modern Audience?, Carmen Ibis Lopez
The Influence of HR on Desired Company Culture, Dino Lučan
Environmental Sustainability: Kosovo’s Waste Management and its Road to Circular Economy, Diella Lulaj
Studying the AGN-Merger Connection through Visual Classifications of CANDELS Galaxies, Christina T. Magagnoli
Query-Driven Global Graph Attention Model for Visual Parsing: Recognizing Handwritten and Typeset Math Formulas, Mahshad Mahdavi
The Economic Impacts of Nuclear Power Plant Closures on Rural Communities, Christina Maher
Connecting Meaningful Moments: Exploring Empathy Through Storytelling, Samantha Maida
Graph Networks for Multi-Label Image Recognition, Sidharth Makhija
The Role of Activation in the Relationship between Power Posing and Task Performance, Jeremy Walter Marshall
A Study on DNA Memory Encoding Architecture, Robert W. Mason
Optimization and Characterization of Low-Cost Substrates for III-V Photovoltaics, Elisabeth L. McClure
Young Patient Education on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Margaret Jane Atieno McFarland
Effects of Prior Land Use, Carbon Availability, and Hydrology on Nitrogen Cycling in Created Freshwater Wetlands, Michael McGowan
Identifying Performance Regression From The Commit Phase Utilizing Machine Learning Techniques, Max Mendelson
Low Cost Radiometer Design for Landsat Surface Temperature Validation, Jonathan Miller
Plan 2014: A Case Study on Shared Water Governance, Bobby Moakley
An Integrated Camera and Radar on-Robot System for Human Robot Collaboration, Anmol S. Modur
Customer Complaints Auto-assignment using Machine Learning Algorithms, Muammar Nasser Saleh Mohammed
Model-Free Control of an Unmanned Aircraft Quadcopter Type System, Christian Monti
Tree-Based Hardware Recursion for Divide-and-Conquer Algorithms, Braeden Morrison
Crafting Adversarial Examples using Particle Swarm Optimization, Rayan Mosli
Toward Data-Driven Discovery of Software Vulnerabilities, Nuthan Munaiah
A Recent (2020) Comparative Analysis of Genome Aligners Shows HISAT2 and BWA are Among the Best Tools, Ryan J. Musich
Towards Effectiveness Of Detecting IoT Botnet Attacks Using Supervised Machine Learning, Khizer Naeem
Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning by Recurrent Networks and Frame Order Prediction, Sai Shashidhar Nagabandi
RIT-Eyes: Realistic Eye Image and Video Generation for Eye Tracking Applications, Nitinraj Nair
Millimeter-wave interconnects for intra- and inter-chip transmission and beam steering in NoC-based multi-chip systems, Rounak Singh Narde
Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Combinatorial Problems, David E. Narvaez
Visual Structure Editing of Math Formulas, Gavin Nishizawa
Suicide by Cop: A Secondary Analysis using Open-Source News Data, McKayla Nolan
Deepmind’s Protein Folding Quality Process Analysis, Amro Oussama Noueihed
Future Bound: Your Future, Your Way, Marisa Nowodworski
Investigating the Effects of Blood Flow on Muscle Fatigue and Recovery in the First Dorsal Interosseous Muscle, Nicole Nugent
Effective Activation Functions for Homomorphic Evaluation of Deep Neural Networks, Srinath Obla
Taxi Trips Prediction and Bus Capacity Coverage analysis, Mohammad Odeh
Reducing Global Demand On Conflict Minerals In Consumer Electronics And Lithium-Ion Batteries, Mosunmola Odulate
Impact of Celebrity Endorsement in Advertising of High-Risk Products, Victoria Olaosebikan
Freedom of the Light, Kyle R. Padden
Fine-Tuning Sign Language Translation Systems Through Deep Reinforcement Learning, Joseph Panaro
Flow- Digital Gestural Expression, Senjal Pandharpatte
LED Selection for Spectral (Multispectral) Imaging, Jenibel N. Paray
Gaze Estimation Based on Multi-view Geometric Neural Networks, Devarth Parikh
Expectations of Generation Z When Entering the Job Market in Croatia, Goran Pekica
Impact of Stoplight Policies on Urban Traffic System Emissions, Jessica Pimentel Almonte
Social Media Factors that Influence e-Commerce Buyer Behavior of Millennials and Post-Millennials, Michele Pomponio
CLAM: Compiler Lease of Cache Memory, Ian Prechtl
Comparison of Statistical Models for Imputation of Missing Data in Clinical Trials, Vaishnavi Purandare
Deep Convolutional Networks without Learning the Classifier Layer, Zhongchao Qian
Digital Communication Tools Used by Those 65 and Older: The Benefits and Barriers of Use, Susan Quatro
We Eat, Maliheh Rahrovan
Conversion of Ready-mix Concrete Energy to Solar PV, Zulfa A. Rasheed
Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Kosovo – Analyzing Behavioral Patterns, Vesa Recica
Improving Omnidirectional Camera-Based Robot Localization Through Self-Supervised Learning, Robert Relyea
Applying Systems Pharmacology to the Treatment of Chronic Illness Using Novel Scoring and Translational Methods, Spencer Richman
