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Senior Research Projects (Students in Years 4/5)
Jun 19/13
The department has a series of directed research project courses PC491/PC492 and CP493/CP494 as well as an interdisciplinary design project course CP/PC496 and CP/PC497.
Students doing a directed research project, need to find a supervisor and research topic. Typically, the projects are done individually.
A list of potential projects follows:
Anonymity Network Data Analysis
Tor is a real world implementation of an anonymity network over the internet. Tor uses over 2500 relays to allow users to connect to webpages virtually anonymously, and it has shown cases of massive
use in periods of political tension in less democratic countries.
However, because it uses relays, it suffers from a number of latency and bandwidth issues. This project involves determining the performance and stability of nodes in Tor
over time and will look at how the bandwidth offered evolves over time, how bandwidth offered is distributed by country or region, and how closely related bandwidth and latency are. The data is publicly available, although some measurements may be performed.
Contact: Dr. A. Hamel
Graph Algorithms
A project to conduct original research into a problem in graph algorithms (prerequisites: CP312, MA238). This involves the challenge of solving an interesting and relevant problem, along with
the thrill of knowing something no one else has yet figured out. The
explicit goal would be to write a research paper to be submitted to a journal or
conference.
Contact: Dr. C. Hoàng and Dr. A. Hamel
Projects in cryptography, security, privacy, algorithms, human computer
interaction
Students interested in doing a project in any of the above topic areas
Contact: Dr. A. Hamel
Projects in meta-heuristic algorithms, SAT algorithms, combinatorial matrices, high-performance computing algorithms
Students interested in doing a project in any of the above topic areas
Contact: Dr. I. Kotsireas
Application/Investigation of 3D Printing
Various projects are possible but only serious applications or a systematic investigation of 3D printing characteristics would qualify.
Contact: Dr. N. Znotinas
LED Lighting System for Plant Growth Chamber
This project was started last year as an Interdisciplinary Design Project (See Interdisciplinary Design Project for more details.) The LED lighting control portion of the project is not complete. Need skills in, or willingness to learn about, microcontrollers and LED lighting.
Contact: Dr. N. Znotinas
UCOSP - Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects
UCOSP brings together students from universities across Canada to work
together on joint open source development projects. Each development team has
students from two or three universities, and uses a mix of agile and open source
processes under the supervision of a faculty or industry lead (mentor)
assisted by a graduate student (tutor).
More details.
Contact: Dr. N. Znotinas
Interdisciplinary Design Project
The course brings students from various disciplines together to work on a real life design project. I don't have a topic selected yet.
Contact: Dr. N. Znotinas
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