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 2025
Towards Secure Runtime Auditing of Remote Embedded System Software, Adam Ilyas Caulfield
Calibration of Detectors for the Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment, Tessalie A. Caze-Cortes
Rise of Social Media Hacking: AI-Based IP Tracking for UAE Law Enforcement, Mounikha Naarrayen Chakravarthula
Beyond Barcodes, Ritul Chaudhary
An Investigation of Water-Based Cutting Fluids: Choline Amino Acid Protic Ionic Liquids as a Potential Sustainable Additive, Moni I. Chavez-Padilla
SoundHapticsVR: Head-Based Spatial Haptic Feedback for Accessible Sounds in Virtual Reality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users, Pratheep Kumar Chelladurai
Galaxy Tales: A Data-Driven Approach to Emotional Self-Expression, Bing Chen
Femtosecond Laser Figuring and Polishing for Freeform Optics Fabrication, Gong Chen
Practice?, Pei Chen
Exploring Human Perception and Cognition in Expressing and Understanding Mechanical Designs, Yan-Ting Chen
Improving Reciprocating Compressor Valve Condition Monitoring via an Accelerated Lifetime Tester and Deep Learning, Jacob Chesnes
Insights into COVID-19 Dynamics via the Integration of Subpopulations, Vaccinations, and Bayesian Calibration in a Semi-Enclosed Community Model Framework, Meghan Rowan Childs
Enhancing Influence Estimation in Gradient Boosted Decision Trees Through Hierarchical Analysis, Anurag Choubey
Democratizing Community Discourse Analysis in Computational Social Science, Md Towhidul Absar Chowdhury
Pd Chlorin-Based MolecμLar Imaging Probes for Breast Cancer, Yoonjung Cho
Catherine, Reagan Christie
Analytical Studies of Black Hole Systems, Alessandro Ciarfella
Exploring Kosovo's Need for a Technology-Driven Offset Strategy, Alba Cikaqi
Enhancing the Immunogenicity of Extracellular Vesicle-based Vaccines Against Pathogenic NTHi Bacteria, Christina Ciko
Application of Science and Technology Studies to Global Medical Device Donation Policy, Jolie Crunelle
A PROTOTYPE HIGH POWER DC-DC CONVERTER FOR REGULATING GENERATOR OUTPUT VOLTAGE IN A SERIES HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE, Alex Currie
Lovejoy: Imagination and Community, Julia D'Amico
Classification of Linear Systems of Equations for Quantum Computing Implementation, Mark Danza
Advanced Photonic Integration and Packaging: Efficient Phase Shifters, Micro-Transfer Printed Modulators, and Photonic Wire-Bonded On-Chip Lasers, Venkatesh Deenadayalan
Impacts of permafrost thaw and methane cycling in a Northern Peatland, Hannah DeFelice
Three-dimensional CFD analyses of natural circulation in a pressurized water reactor during a loss of coolant accident, Arad Dehestany
Bodies Unseen: Hysteria’s Stain on Women’s Healthcare, Layla Dehrab
Improving the Accessibility of Speech for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals Through Affective Captions, Caluã de Lacerda Pataca
The World is Beautiful, Chelsea DeMott Wildey
Narrow Band Random Vibration Reliability of a Doped Near Eutectic Tin-Bismuth-Based Alloy with a Large Fine-Pitch Ball Grid Array Device, Gregory Derr-Haverlach
Stochastic Variational Autoencoder, Shounak Desai
Evaluating AI-Powered Predictive Analytics for Public Transport Demand in Dubai, Sara Ismail Dhalam
From Sim to 6DOF: Deep Learning for Real-Time Satellite Pose Estimation from Resolved Ground-Based Imagery, Thomas W.N. Dickinson
Resonating Patterns: Adaptive Resonance Theory and Self-Organizing Maps, Meeti Dixit
Macroscopic Roughness Modeling of Satellite Multi-Layer Insulation Reflectance, Kevin P. Donnelly
Consumer Behavior of Gen Z in Kosovo: Purchasing Preferences and Brand Engagement, Sara Dumani
The Transition of the ICT Sector in Kosovo from Service-Based Companies to Product-Based Companies, Erinda Elezaj
Relativistic Gas Accretion onto Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from Inspiral Through Merger, Lorenzo Ennoggi
Realmweaver: Designing a Sandbox Simulation Game with AI-Driven Storytelling, Tianzhe Fan
Animating the Mechanism of Action of the Novel Glioblastoma Vaccine Survaxm, Sheila Figel
Robust Multimodal Fusion for Oncology, Dominic Flack
Capturing Community Memory: A Juxtaposition of Oral History and Historic Building Preservation, Eliot Gavin
Exploring Rural vs. Urban Variations in EMT Scope of Practice: Advanced Airway and IV Access Policies, Michaela Geffert
An Integrated Decision Support System (DSS) for Sustainable Supplier Selection, Evaluation, and Benchmarking Using a FIS and MOLP Approach, Saleem Ghannam
Network and Tree-based Approaches to Data-Driven Modeling of Complex Climate Systems, Adam M. Giammarese
Steering through change: How aging eyes and stroke-induced vision loss affect driver control, Arianna P. Giguere
Analytics of Capstone Projects: Understanding Outcomes Through People, Products, And Processes, Hrushikesh C. Godbole
A BERT-ResNet Cross-Attention Fusion Network and Modality Utilization Assessment for Multimodal Sentiment Classification, Ronen G. Gold
Understanding Vaccines: A 3D Animation and Print Materials for Clinical Trial Patients, Shannon Gregory
Under the Mask: Labeling and Self-Perception in Augmented Reality, Ruiyuan Guo
Innovating Criminal Justice: Predictive Analytics for Effective Recidivism Management, Dina Ali Haidar
NEST: Portable Seating and Positioning Device, Angeline Hamele
Dubai’s Future Mobility: Systems Thinking & Scenarios, Mohammed Mazloum Hanafy
Characterizing TCAP Set-ups for Effective Separation on Hydrogen Isotope Species, James R. Hanby
Turning Vulnerabilities into Strengths: Using Moisture Pathways and Cracks as Passive Cooling Features for Energy Efficiency in Heritage Buildings, Harinitha Harish Bangalore
Predicting Hollywood Movie success using Predictive Machine Learning Algorithms, Saeed Alghabshi Hathboor
Zoo Visitors Learn by Observing Olive Baboons (Papio anubis) Participate in Cognitive Research or Engage in Natural Behaviors, Anna Sofia Hege
Advancing Institutional Sustainability Through Green Roofs: Performance-Based Policy for RIT, Theoren Heilman
First-Order and Second-Order Adjoint Method and Stochastic Approximation for Inverse Problems, Adrian Heldt
Facial Color Matching in Optical See-Through Augmented Reality, Yanmei He
Cosmic Legends, Neha Ravindra Hiremath
Dynamic Defenses to Systematically Secure Exposed Attack Surfaces in Wireless Systems, Naureen Hoque
Infinite Screen-A Spatial Interface for Multi-Device Collaboration, Yichen Hou
Embracing Unpredictability, Stella Huang
Investigating the Performance Variation for Graphene-Based Field-Effect Transistor, Tzu-Jung William Huang
An Investigation of Active Inference for Reinforcement Learning Control, Xinyu Hu
YOU! ME! DANCING!, Aaron Ickler
Development of a Miniaturized Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Device on a Microfluidic Platform, Nayeem Imtiaz
Back to the Basics: Extracellular Protein Interaction Networks of the Human Infant Immune System, Mavis Amity Irwin
Design of a 32-Bit 4-Phase Asynchronous RISC-V Processor, Sean Jacobs
Investigating Human Expertise in Manufacturing to Enhance Knowledge Preservation and Transfer Practices, Krzysztof Kamil Jarosz
Neuro-Evolution for Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection, Aryan Jha
Network-on-Chip Packet Obfuscation and Encoding for Hardware Trojan Mitigation, Sydale John Ayi
Performance Comparison of Learning with Errors Cryptosystems, Gabriel Johnson
Engineering Tunable Collagen Fiber Alignment Gradients to Quantify Contact Guidance Effects on Cell Migration, Indranil Mandar Joshi
It Hurts to Become, Ana Maria Joyce
Fostering Human Rights Awareness in Kosovo: A Case Study on the Sustainability of NGO Trainings, Hana Kaja
Criminal Activity Monitoring System: Targeting Africans and East Asian Communities in Dubai, Hamdan Kalantar
Systematic Evaluation of Regression Models for the Prediction of Influenza Cases, Mukul Kandwal
Accelerating the degradation of biodegradable mulch films in soil and compost environments, Harshal Jayesh Kansara
Design That Builds Communitites: An Evaluation Method for Analyzing, Assessing, and Improving the Way We Plan and Design the Places Around Us, Devine Karas-Gonzalez
Haunted Echoes, Stuti Kasat
Determining Sustainable Urban Renewal: A case of quantifying sustainability for Adaptive Reuse within Mumbai’s Textile Mill Sector, Arundhati Rajesh Kawlekar
Predicting Customer Churn in E-commerce, Hind Tawfiq Kazim
Using Generative AI for Tutoring Data Science, Yusra Khalid
Towards Robust Deep Learning for Medical Imaging with Limited and Noisy Labeled Data, Bidur Khanal
Modeling Femtosecond Laser Interaction with Glass for Optical Fabrication, Nathan Klein
Using Probabilistic Component Separation to Measure the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in Herschel-SPIRE Galaxy Cluster Observations, Daniel Jeremy Klyde
Utilizing Natural Language Processing to Optimize Business Processes, Olt Kondirolli
IntelliMAD: a Framework for Secure Machine Learning Models Evaluation and Fine-tuning in Federated Setting, Dmitrii Korobeinikov
Identifying Underspecifications in Security Requirements Using a Formal Reasoning Approach, Viktoria Koscinski
Towards Characterizing and Quantifying Interpretability of Knowledge Graph Embedding Models, Narayanan Asuri Krishnan
Crafting Human-AI Collaborative Analysis for Usability Evaluations, Emily Kuang
A Decision Support System for Global Vaccine Funding: Data-Driven Proposal Scoring, Epidemiological Risk Modeling, and Portfolio Optimization, Ashutosh Kumar
Using Generative Models for Data Augmentation in Medical Imaging, Nilesh Kumar
