Graduate Theses

“The Effect of Logic Block Architecture on the Speed of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays,” M.A.Sc. Thesis, Satwant Singh, 1991.
"Routing Algorithms and Architectures for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays," Stephen Brown, PhD. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1992 PDF. Co-supervised by Professor Z.G. Vranesic
"Technology Mapping for Lookup-Table Based Field-Programmable Gate Arrays," Robert Francis, PhD. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1993 PDF. Co-supervised by Professor Z.G. Vranesic
"Technology Mapping and Architecture of Heterogenous Field-Programmable Gate Arrays," Jianshe He, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1993 PDF.
"A Field-Programmable Systems with Reconfigurable Memory," David Karchmer, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1994 PDF.
"Architecture and Synthesis of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays with Hard-wired Connections" Kevin Chung, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1994 PDF.
"Architecture and Algorithms for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays with Embedded Memory," Steven J.E. Wilton, PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 1997 PDF. Co-supervised by Professor Z.G. Vranesic
"Characterization and Automatic Generation of Benchmark Circuits," Michael Hutton. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto. June, 1997. PDF Co-supervised by Professor D.G. Corneil
"Architecture and CAD for Speed and Area Optimization of FPGAs", Vaughn Betz, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1998. PDF
"A High-Speed Timing-Aware Router for FPGAs", Jordan Swartz, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1998. PDF
"Ultra-Fast Placement for FPGAs", Yaska Sankar, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1999. PDF
"Routing Architecture and Layout Synthesis for Multi-FPGA Systems", Mohammed Khalid, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1999. PDF
"Cluster-Based Architecture, Timing-Driven Packing and Timing-Driven Placement for FPGAs", Alexander Marquardt, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1999. PDF
"Real-Time Face Detection on a Configurable Hardware Platform", Robert Mccready, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2000. PDF
"The Effect of Logic Block Granularity on Deep-Submicron FPGA Performance and Density", Elias Ahmed, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2001. PDF
"Nearest Neighbour Interconnect Architecture in Deep-Submicron FPGAs", Ajay RoopchanSingh, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2002. PDF
"EVE: A CAD Tool Providing Placement and Pipelining Assistance for High-Speed FPGA Circuit Designs," William Chow, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2001. PDF Presentation in HTML Presentation in Power Point
"Synthetic Circuit Generation Using Clustering and Iteration," Paul Kundarewich, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2002. PDF
"Video-Rate Stereo Vision on Reconfigurable Hardware," Ahmad Darabiha, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2003. PDF Co-supervised by Professor W.J. Maclean
"Hardware Accelerated Protein Identification", Anish Alex, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2003. PDF
"A Synthesis-Oriented Omniscient Manual Editor for FPGA Circuit Design," Tomasz Czajkowski, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2003. PDF
"Automated FPGA Design, Verification and Layout," Ian Kuon, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2004. PDF
"Field-Programmable Gate Array Architectures and Algorithms Optimized for Implementing Datapath Circuits," Andy Ye, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2004. PDF
"Enhancing and Using an Automatic Design System for Creating FPGAs," Aaron Egier, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2004. PDF
"An FPGA-Based Hardware Development System with Multi-Gigabyte Memory Capacity And High Bandwidth," Joshua Fender, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2005. PDF
"The Microarchitecture of FPGA-Based Soft Processors," Peter Yiannacouras, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2005. PDF Co-supervised by Professor J.G. Steffan
"Improving the Area Efficiency of Heterogeneous FPGAs with Shadow Clusters," Peter Jamieson Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2007. PDF
"Modeling Routing Demand for Early-Stage FPGA Architecture Development," Wei Mark Fang, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2007. PDF
"Portable and Scalable FPGA-Based Acceleration of a Direct Linear System Solver," Wei Zhang, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2008. PDF . Co-supervised by Dr. V. Betz
"Hardware Acceleration of a Monte Carlo Simulation for Photodynamic Therapy Treatment Planning," William Lo, M.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2009. PDF . Co-supervised by Professor Lothar Lilge
"FPGA-Based Soft Vector Processors," Peter Yiannacouras Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2009. PDF Co-supervised by Professor J.G. Steffan
"A Hierarchical Description Language and Packing Algorithm for Heterogenous FPGAs," Jason Luu, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2010. PDF Co-supervised by Professor J. H. Anderson
"Acceleration of Coevolution Detection for Predicting Protein Interactions," Alex Rodionov, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2011. PDF
"An Energy Efficient FPGA Hardware Architecture for the Acceleration of OpenCV Object Detection," Braiden Brousseau, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2012. PDF
"On Pin-to-Wire Routing in FPGAs" Niyati Shah, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2012. PDF
"Direct Synthesis of Netlists Into Pre-Routed FPGAs" Daniel DiMatteo M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2013. PDF
"Architecture-Aware Packing and CAD Infrastructure for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays," Jason Luu, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2014. PDF Co-supervised by Professor J. H. Anderson
"Mobile Perimeter" Ilona wong, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2016, PDF . Co-supervised by Professor M. Eizenman
"A Superscalar Out-of-Order x86 Soft Processor for FPGA" Henry Wong, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2017, PDF Co-supervised by Professor V. Betz
"Motivating Smokers to Quit Through a Computer-Based Conversational System" Fahad Almusharraf, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2018, PDF . Co-supervised by Dr. Peter Selby
"Automated Interconnect Synthesis and Optimization for FPGAs" Alex Rodionov, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2019, PDF .
"Acceleration and Energy Reduction of Object Detection on Mobile Graphics Processing Unit," Fitsum Andargie, Ph.D. Thesis, Addis Ababa University, 2019, PDF . Co-supervised by Dr-Ing. Dereje Hailemariam.
"Infrared Model-Based Eye-Tracking for Smartphones" Braiden Brousseau, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2020, PDF . Co-supervised by Professor M. Eizenman
"An Eye Tracking System for a Virtual Reality Headset" Soumil Chugh, M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2020, PDF . Co-supervised by Professor M. Eizenman
“Inference of Anxiety and Depression from Smartphone-Collected Data,” Daniel Di Matteo, Ph.D. Thesis, 2021.
“Automatic Generation and Detection of Motivational- Interviewing-Style Reflections for Smoking Cessation Therapeutic Conversations Using Transformer-based Language Models,” Imtihan Ahmed, M.A.Sc. Thesis, 2021.
“Correlates and Prediction of Generalized Anxiety Disorder from Acoustic and Linguistic Features of Impromptu Speech,” Bazen Gashaw Teferra, Ph.D. Thesis, 2023.
“Deployment and Evaluation of a Motivational-Interviewing Chatbot for Moving Smokers Towards the Decision to Quit and Distillation of Large Foundational Language Models for Generating MI Reflections,” Andrew Brown, M.A.Sc. Thesis, 2023.