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.
To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Colleges and Departments page.
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Under the Mask: Labeling and Self-Perception in Augmented Reality, Ruiyuan Guo
Innovating Criminal Justice: Predictive Analytics for Effective Recidivism Management, Dina Ali Haidar
Procedurally Textured Gaussians, Benson Haley
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
Surveillance Report: Che-Wei Hsu, Che-Wei Hsu
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
Beyond Static Models - A Framework for Evaluating Dynamic ML Approaches in Heart Failure Risk Prediction, Mohammad Arif Ul Islam
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
Biodegradation of Common Post-Consumer Plastic, Laura Krebs
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
Enhancing in-car interaction: Analyzing Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Drivers’ Usage, and Interaction with Voice-controlled In-car Infotainment System, Sanskriti Kumar
DIA-MS as a means to examine bacteriophage infection proteomics, Lane Lasley
Peach Street, Anastasia Lawrence
NestView-Transforming house hunting with AR, Chia-An Lee
Investigating the Relationship Between Cellular Senescence and Pulmonary Fibrosis, Crystal Lee
Examining the Influence of Sports Nutrition Counseling on Collegiate Athletes, Jenelle Leon Saravia
Planning for Power: The Role of Architecture & Urban Form in Local Energy Generation in Dense Built-Up Areas, Chris Shing Wai Leung
Transforming Rural Schools: Adaptive Reuse for Sustained Community and Sustainability, Christine Limbert
Symbiotic Furniture Design: A Single Chair Integrating Epiphytes with Taiwanese Window Grille Structures, Kuan-Wen Lin
Model Explainability: From Post-hoc to Self-explainable, Xin Miao Lin
AI Emotional Companion App, Ruyi Liu
Timeless Poetry, Xuning Li
Defining transcriptional signatures of susceptibility for ceftriaxone and tetracycline in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Sanjana Logu
DOT-LINE — Furniture for Inspired Living, Jannet Loumi
Stable Open-Loop Modelling of McKibben Muscle with Tunable Slider, Bryan Lukehart-Yun
Urban Heat Island Mitigation: A GIS Based Analysis of Cool Roofing, Canopy Cover, and Imperviousness in Rochester, New York, Benjamin Lyon
Persuasive Pathways in Digital Apologies: The Role of Persuasion Routes in Engagement with YouTuber Apology Videos, Darrin Majocha
Silicon Photonics for Quantum Information, Evan Manfreda-Schulz
Engineering Microphysiological Systems to Investigate Cellular Responses to Biophysical Cues in Human Tissue Microenvironments, Mehran Mansouri
How Dust Impacts Galaxy Evolution in the Early Universe with CHAMPS: Data Reduction and Source Detection, Felix Martinez
CRISPR-dCAS9 genomic engineering for boosting the therapeutic potential of Extracellular Vesicles, Iker Martinez Zalbidea
Stories in Style: Interactive Fashion Exhibits as Tools for Activating Special Collections, Riley Mason
Impact of Precursor Solvent Chemistry on Electrical Properties of Indium Oxide Films for Thin-Film Transistors, Joshua Masri
ProtPen: A pipeline that combines sequence- and structure-based approaches to predict protein functions, Diya Mathai
Advancing Applications of Deep Learning on Network Traffic Analysis and Fingerprinting, Nate Mathews
Home, Shania Rachel Mathews
EVALUATING LEATHERBACK TURTLE CONSERVATION USING THE IUCN RED LIST, Hannah McGuiness-Piasecki
Waveform Systematics in Moderate Mass Ratio Binary Black Hole Systems, Rachel E. Mechum
Structure/Property/Processing of a 3D Printed Self-healing Polymer Blend based on a Thermoplastic Healing Agent, Vincent Mei
Eviction Optimizations and Dynamic Lease Adjustments in a Single-Level Lease Cache, Vincent Michelini
A Place to Pause: Designing Ritual Space in the Domestic Realm, Elise Miller
Police, Prisons, Communities, and Courts: An Examination of Criminal Legal System Responses to Neurodivergence, Rhys Miller Evans
something’s gonna give, Jonathan Dean Mills
Factors Influencing Community Assembly of The Amphibian Microbiome in Rochester, NY, Thomas R. Minahan
Global Trail: Interactive Travel Memory System for Unesco Sites, Anne Sophie Beatrice Min Fa
exploreRIT: An Interactive Timeline of the History of RIT, Melson Miranda
On the Adaptation of Latent Dynamics Models, Ryan Missel
Investigating the Effect of Build Direction on Mechanical Properties in Pellet-Based 3d Printing, Yahya Mohammed
A Fish & A Bird, Deanna Moorehead
Bioinformatics Pipeline for Gene Regulatory Network Discovery: A Case Study with Exercise Response, Nadia Moore
Study of an Evolutionary Sequence of Nearby, High-excitation Bipolar Planetary Nebulae with ALMA and HST, Paula M. Moraga Baez
Mechanisms for oxygen vacancy defect migration in SrTiO3/NiO heterostructures, Anish Rajesh More
This Night, Roshni Jayakrishnan Nair
Sustainable Retrofits: The balance between energy efficiency and embodied energy, Alexander Narvaez
AI-Driven Prediction of Flight Cancellations: A Machine Learning Approach in Minimizing Airline Disruption, Hind Nasser
Predicting Residential Real Estate Prices in Dubai Using Integrated Data Analytics: A Machine Learning Approach, Mohammad Nasser
