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 2023
Think of Rivers, Nell Pittman
Analysis of the Aerosol Composition, Its Deposition and Uptake in Electronic Cigarette Users, Chamodhi Ravihansi Polgampola Ralalage
Electromagnetic Signatures of an Analytical Mini-Disk Model of Supermassive Binary Black Hole Systems, Kaitlyn Porter
An Analysis of the Homicide Response Team in Rochester, New York, Nicole Pratt
A Comparative Analysis of Malware Written in the C and Rust Programming Languages, Meghna Koorikkattil Praveen
A study on the design of public speaking preparation and social anxiety in young people, Jacqueline Qiu
Healthy Grocery Shopping Experience via Augmented Reality, Mengjia Isabelle Qiu
Electricity Theft and Energy Fraud Detection, Ali Jassim Rajab
The Interstellar Scintillation of PSR J1614-2230, Lekshmi Rajagopal
Analyzing the Atomic and Electronic Structures of Oxide Heterostructures for Electrolyte Applications in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Jason D. Rakowsky
The Geometry and Topology of Landslides, Kamal Rana
Prediction of Unplanned 30-Day Readmission of Heart Failure Patients Using LSTM, Jesdin Raphael
Physiological Signals and the Effects on Prediction of Future Blood Glucose Values in a Deep Learning Model, Andrew Rearson
The Akastral Voyager, Christian Rego
Additive Manufacturing of 4008 Aluminum Via Magnetohydrodynamic Droplet Jetting, Usama Abdullah Rifat
A Morphological Analysis of High Redshift Galaxy Mergers Using Machine Learning, Caitlin Rose
Understanding Drivers of Local Opposition to Renewable Energy Projects to Improve Adoption of Clean Energy, Bryson Russell
Deep Reinforcement Learning and Hybrid Approaches to Solve Multi-Vehicle Combinatorial Optimization Problems, Prashant Sankaran
Robust Weakly Supervised Learning for Real-World Anomaly Detection, Hitesh Sapkota
Biomimetic Aerosol Exposure System for in vitro Human Airway Exposure Studies, Samantha Emma Sarles
A Search of M31 for Giant Radio Pulses from Radio Pulsars and Magnetars, David Saroff
Purli: A Better Way to Brush, Aldyn Savage
Workforce Management for Salik Call Center, Alaa Seder and Rawan Alnasser
Optimization of Alternative Mask Absorber Materials for EUV Lithography, Rajiv Naresh Sejpal
Dust Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei: Effects of Survey Duration and Sampling, Shaelyn Shadwell
Investigating the Impact of Baselines on Integrated Gradients for Explainable AI, Ajay Shewale
A Novel Analytic Linear Interface Calculation and Its Use in Computational Fluid Dynamics for Enhanced Multiphase Modeling, Simon P. Shipkowski
Inter-procedural Program Synthesis for Automatic Architectural Tactic Implementation, Ali Shokri
Efficient Synchronous Byzantine Consensus, Nibesh Shrestha
Towards Bias-Resilient Deep Neural Networks, Robik Shrestha
Supporting Long Lifespan Products with Modularity, Zaheer M. Shujayee
Application of ICP RIE Techniques to Produce CNT Arrays, Mujtaba Yar Khan Siddiqui
Evaluating the Impact of Biosimilars in the Drug Market, Olivia Sitter
Antibiotics and Secondary Metabolites Analysis SHell (antiSMASH) as a tool to detect putative novel antibiotics, Rajiv Snape
A Familiar Unknown, Samantha Sonnenfeld
Lifelong Learning in Spiking Neural Networks Through Neural Plasticity, Nicholas Soures
Diffractive Light and Solar Sails, Prateek Ranjan Srivastava
Text restoration in palimpsested historical manuscripts using deep learning methods, Anna Starynska
Smart HVAC System for a Residential House in Kerala, India and Study of Green Building Regulations in Thrissur, Kerala, India and Dubai, UAE, Sariga Sunilkumar
Amulet: Addressing Emotional Abuse, Wentao Sun
One Man’s Trash, Jordan Tavan
Single-Mode Distributed-Feedback Lasing In Coupled Dissimilar Photonic Waveguides, Bryce A. Tennant
Generating Adversarial Malware Examples Using Particle Swarm Optimization, Sirapat Thianphan
Continual Domain Adaptation through Knowledge Distillation, Georgi Thomas
Software-Based Property Enforcement for Detecting Hardware Anomalies, Jacob Thomas
An Examination of the Effects of the Cost Volume on Vision Transformer-Based Optical Flow Models, Andrew Thompson
Frequency Control of Microgrid Network using Intelligent Techniques – ANN, PSO and ANFIS, Ann Mary Toms
Ensemble methods for the anomaly detection in enterprise systems, Basem Torky
A Deep Learning-based Pipeline to Generate Patient-specific Anatomical Models of the Heart Using Cardiac MRI, Roshan Reddy Upendra
A Multiwavelength Analysis of Star-Forming Galaxies at z > 1.5 Both On and Off the Galaxy Main Sequence, Brittany N. Vanderhoof
Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Simulations Relevant to Combining Polarized Neutron Scattering with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Stella Van Ness
Design and Optimization of Devices and Architectures for Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics, Matthew van Niekerk
The Nine Dot Problem: an Immersive Experience Blending the Digital and Physical Worlds, Alances Vargas
Commissioning the Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment, Benjamin James Vaughan
Hardware Accelerators and Their Use in Computer Vision, Cameron Villone
A Privacy Safeguarding Framework for the Smart Grid, Gaurav Shivaji Wagh
Visualizing A Thought-Actuated 3D Printed Prosthesis, Brett Walter
Demonstration of a Virtual Reality Driving Simulation Platform, Mingming Wang
Fabrication of Diffraction Grating Prototype Solar Sails for In-space Propulsion, Qing Xian Wang
mmmworld: Health modern food, Xindi Wang
An Examination of the Associations Between Eating Competence, Physical Activity, Mealtime Activities and School Behavior in Adolescents, Nicole Watson
An Overview of Human Trafficking in the United States, Lin Welsh
Perceived Speed in Transitions between Neutral and Chromatic Illumination, Abby Weymouth
Ensuring Food Security, Converting Urban Industrial Buildings for Indoor Agriculture: The Call for Urban Indoor Agriculture, Christopher Quinn Whittaker
Assessing the Contribution to OPV Efficiency of Energy Transfer in Charge Transfer Coupled H-aggregates., Tyler James Wiegand
Measurements of the Sunyaev- Zel'dovich effect in a Herschel- SPIRE Survey of Galaxy Clusters, Ryan Wills
A Cross-Correlation Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 in Advanced LIGO O3 data, Jared K. Wofford
Improved Grover’s Implementation of Quantum Binary Neural Networks, Brody A. Wrighter
Type- and Control-flow Analysis for System Fw, Dongyu Wu
Urban Waterfront Revitalization: A Case Study of Downtown Waterfront in Rochester, New York, Yaoyu Lorrain Xiao
Representing Color as Multiple Independent Scales, Hao Xie
Generative Artificial Intelligence Program and Service: ImagineX, Mengheng Xu
Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration Through Intuitive Augmented Reality Interface and Precise Visualization, Wenhao Yang
Digital Fitness Support - Proplus, Weinan You
3-D Printed Microstructures with ZnO Nanoflower for Antimicrobial Applications, Henry Yuqing
Population Inference of Non-Spinning Eccentric Binary Black Holes, Muhammad Zeeshan
Synthesis of Sustainable Polyethylene Mimics through Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization, Brandon Zhang
The Future of Bubble Tea Shops: Bridging 3D Visualization and Technology for Immersive Experiences, Xiaohe Zhang
Hua Shang, Yanjie Zhang
LWIR Spectral Variability Integration and Improvements to an Earth Observing Statistical Performance Model, Runchen Zhao
‘The Table’, exploration and discussion on the future form of board games, Boyuan Zheng
Knowledge Integration for Human-In-The-Loop Machine Learning, Ervine Zheng
Design and Development of a Movable Multi-functional Display, Junjie Zhou
Colorful Chef: A New Kitchen-Experience for Colorblind People, Anqi Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Intelligent Navigation Service Robot Working in a Flexible and Dynamic Environment, Said Abdallah
Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Governments Challenges, Laila Abdin
Towards A Carbon-Neutral City by 2035: Innovative Transformation of Domestic Solid Waste Collection and Recovery Services in Sharjah, Basem Abu Sneineh
Effective Academic Advising Strategy in Higher Education using Machine Learning, Reem Abuzayeda
Towards Multimodal Open-World Learning in Deep Neural Networks, Manoj Acharya
The Role of Experts in Policymaking: An Assessment of Witness Educational Backgrounds in Congressional Testimony, Benedicte Adair
Design of an 8-bit Configurable CNN Hardware Accelerator for Audio and Image Classification, Christie Agbalessi
Notifications, Ashraf Agili
House Price Classification using Clustering Algorithms, Hamad Ahli
Opinion mining of Phone Sitting Feature, Atiq Yousuf Ahmad
Microengineering Aligned Collagen Substrates In Microfluidic Systems, Adeel Ahmed
Skills Gap in the Information Technology Sector in Kosovo, Erze Ahmeti
NLP and ML Methods for Pre-processing, Clustering and Classification of Technical Logbook Datasets, Farhad Akhbardeh
Identifying Psychological Mental Disorders through Machine Learning, Mohammad Al Abdooli
