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
Enhancing in-car interaction: Analyzing Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Drivers’ Usage, and Interaction with Voice-controlled In-car Infotainment System, Sanskriti Kumar
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
Massive Stars Behaving Badly: Exceptional Interactions And Their Remnants, Kaila Nathaniel
On-The-Go Handbag: Sustainable & Biodegradable Handbag Design, Sydney Neff
UVM BASED VERIFICATION OF EE621 RISC PROCESSOR MODULE, Collin Neidel
Enhancement of Firefighter Mental Performance: A Review, Nicole A. Ness
Adaptive Reuse of Underutilized Strip Malls: Creating Mixed-Use Continuum Care Campuses for Seniors, Julie Le Nguyen
These Yellow Stars of Ours, Vinh Hong Nguyen
Exploring the Perception of Dynamic Electrotactile Patterns on the Fingertips, Vedika Nimbalkar
Colloidal Control via Micellar Solutions, Timothy F. Niper
Observational Predictions for Convective Common Envelopes, Nikki Noughani
Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistors in Analog Applications: Demonstrated in Time-Domain Neuromorphic Computing Cells, Jacob O'Donnell
Predicting the Probability of Crime Related Danger in Los Angeles, Joshua Oghenetega Okpako
Aqualoop (The Four Stages of Earth's Water Cycle), Precious Onwubuche
Into the Arms of Earth, Alex Paat
Analyzing Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Tapered Microgaps and Film Boiling With Computational Modeling Incorporating Nucleation Sites and Subcooled Fluids, Divyprakash Pal
Uncertainty-Aware Meta-Learning for Learning from Limited Data, Deep Shankar Pandey
Urban Pollinator Vertical Garden: Design Strategies for Sustainable Human - Pollinator Interaction in Urban Environments, Chungmin Park
Product, Process, and Behavior Influences on Value Retention Processes: Toward a Circular Economy in Consumer Electronics, Kyle Parnell
Whisper Wall: Transforming Global Superstitions into a Unified, Sound-Reactive Immersive Experience, Hardika Nitin Patil
Desiccation Tolerance in Tetradesmus Green Algae, Kristen Patten
Visualizing the Dynamics of Neuroevolution with Genetic Distance Projections, Evan Patterson
Spectroscopy Pre-trained Transformer (SpecPT): A Universal Spectroscopic Analysis and Redshift Measurement Framework, Rohan Pattnaik
Hugs in Hues, Shivani Pednekar
Ambient Environment Effect on Color Perception, Eddie Pei
Unique Architecture: In Praise of Paradox Persistence, Odaly Plancarte
Protein Language Models-Based Representation for Post-translational Modification Prediction, Suresh Pokharel
Effects of Emerald Ash Borer on Temperate Wetland CH₄ Emissions, Ethan T. Potter
An Educational Approach to Mitigating Stormwater Debris Pollution in the Great Lakes Basin, Autumn Potts
Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor Materials and Devices for Monolithic and Heterogeneous Integration, Eli P. Powell
Inclusive Design Archive, roblyn Powley
Transforming through Art: Trauma & Domestic Violence, Bridget Provan
Advancements in ML via Efficient Generative Modeling, Robust Domain Adaptation, and Explainable Multimodal Retrieval, Prasanna Reddy Pulakurthi
InstraPix – an Image-Based Digital Audio Workstation Design, Dan Qiao
A Robust Learning Framework for Resource-Constrained Domain Adaptation, Xiaofan Que
Through Legitimate Dissent, the Supreme Court Repairs Itself, Afnaan A. Qureshi
A Remote Sensing-Based Evaluation of Road and Electricity Infrastructure Expansion Effects on Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Tunmise Ibukun Raji
An Ultra-Low-Power, Area-Efficient All-Analog Trojan with Temporal Power Supply Triggering, Roberto Ramos-Brito
Reducing CO2 Levels in a Classroom Through the Use of Biofilters, Jenna Rosser
An Investigation of Electrical Surface Impact as a Three-Dimensional Low-Energy Defibrillation Method, Rhiannan Ruef
Advancing the Utility of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)-Based Imaging Techniques in Broadacre Agriculture: A Multimodal Case Study on Table Beets, Mohammad Shahriar Saif
Unmasking Corruption And Bribery Using Predictive Analytics, Maha Salem
Fake News Detection: Leveraging Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for Reliable Information Verification, Roshni Rajendra Salve
Achilles, Sreelekha Samala
Shopping Quest: Transforming the shopping experience by creating a more immersive and enjoyable experience, Nagasai Vardhan Rao Sarvepalli
Structure/Property/Processing of Covalent Adaptable Networks Bearing Hindered Urea Bonds, Kory Schimmelpfennig
basil_dock: Development of Accessible and Customizable Molecular Docking Procedures, Lee Schoneman
A Search for Serotyping Candidates in the Streptococcus sobrinus Genome, Ryan Schwendel
Hiding in Plain Sight, Evan Seeling
Parsing of Math Formulas and Chemical Diagrams using Graph-Based Representation and Attention Models, Ayush Kumar Shah
Investigating spectral rendering techniques to improve colour matching in virtual production, Vlad Simion
Out To Pasture, Amandeep Singh
Human-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Human-Robot Teaming, Saurav Singh
Comprehensive Investigation of the Torsional behavior of Triply Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) inspired Structures, Mikhail Skibar
Scenes of Self: Redressing Patriarchy II, C. Rose Smith
The Drifter: Creating a Family Archive to Rediscover Lost History, Gabriella Smith
