In black-box security, the software is assumed to run in a trusted environment. In the context of white-box attacks, the environment is assumed to be distrusted and the users of the software, which are installed in a device, have unlimited time and resources to break into the software and has access to binary code […]

  The intern is to improve the image recognition software of Semacode Corporation that is intended to automatically detect barcodes in images taken using the camera of a mobile phone, such as the iPhone or Blackberry. The improvements will include: : (1) improve the speed of the “λ-Enhancement” contrast algorithm, (2) solve rotational and skew […]

Recommender systems are in wide use today by major companies (e.g. Amazon, Netflix and Google) to automatically direct their users to content that they would be interested without the tedium of sifting through the large selection of content available today.  This project is interested in performing an analysis and implementation of a recommender system for […]

The lack of central control in distributed systems makes the analysis and design of such systems a challenging task.  In fact many faults are introduced into the system at this stage of the software development life cycle.  Therefore discovering and removing design validation of distributed software systems prior to the implementation phase is greatly desirable […]

  Creating work schedules for employees in an organization is a difficult problem since there are many different factors to consider in order for the schedule to be effective. Some examples of these factors are employee flexibility, work hour preferences, organization size and type, etc. Furthermore, available products may not be suitable for the specific […]

This project aims to explore the feasibility of and the tradeoffs involved with accelerating multi-camera synchronization algorithms on multicore processors. Specifically, this project plans to explore acceleration using ‘traditional’ multicore CPUs and massively-parallel Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). PluralEyes, a product for synchronizing audio and video recordings released by Singular Software, a Vancouver-area company, is the […]

  To improve the search quality of a search engine so that it can better understand and return the information to meet user’s needs, a “micro-domain ontology” based personalized search strategy will be studied in this project. This ontology aims to model the user’s context into such a hierarchical structure so that with whose help […]

  Shotgun mass spectrometry-based proteomics has emerged as the most powerful approach to comprehensively analyze proteins in a biological sample over the last few years. This technology will play a key role in the predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory medicine design. Correct peptide identification from a tandem mass spectrum is the crucial step to determine the target protein sequence and […]

  Shotgun mass spectrometry (MS) has emerged as a powerful technology for large-scale proteomic analysis recently. By measuring thousands of peptides in a prepared sample, health researchers can gain insight into the complex disease pathways, which can be used for diagnosis and treatment. A crucial problem in the current MS experiments is that not every peptide can be effectively […]

  The Semantic Web offers a tantalizing new opportunity to share knowledge that is formally represented. While general visualization strategies for linked data are the subject of many current investigations, certain relations have a well understood meaning which could lead to custom visualization strategies. Our research proposal consists of three parts: (1) surveying the kinds […]

  This project will focus on very high‐speed communication along electrical links. Key to these links are the integrated circuits required to serialize and deserialize many parallel data streams into a single data stream at rates exceeding 1 Gb/s (i.e. SerDes). We will collaboratively explore the signal processing and circuits required to perform these implement SerDes robustly in […]

  The project will involve research and development of new technology for distributed computation, with a focus on applications in computational biology and bioinformatics as routinely encountered in our own lab. This research will be conducted using Copper, GridCentric’s grid computing platform, which is based on a previous research system developed at the University of […]