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Evaluation and Deployment of Resource-Constrained Machine Learning on Embedded Devices
(2020)Deep neural networks (DNNs) are a vital tool in pattern recognition and Machine Learning (ML) – solving a wide variety of problems in domains such as image classification, object detection, and speech processing. With the surge in the availability of cheap computation and memory resources, DNNs have grown both in architectural and computational complexity. Porting DNNs to resource-constrained devices – such as commercial home appliances ...Master Thesis -
Quantifying the effect of recurrent Rossby wave patterns on extremely hot summers in present-day and end-of-the-century climate
(2021)Extremely hot summers have devastating impacts on society and ecology. Recurrent Rossby wave patterns (RRWPs) are among the atmospheric features that have been linked to extreme weather events involving persistent surface weather. In this thesis, the link between RRWPs and the occurrence of extremely hot summers in the Northern Hemisphere is investigated and quantified. To this aim the synoptic evolution of RRWP events is studied in three ...Master Thesis -
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Functional Encryption for Higher Degree Polynomials assuming Multilinear Maps
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How does informing laypersons about the “status quo” affect preferences regarding the objectives?
(2021)Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has been a powerful tool to support people in making complex decisions, especially in making environmental decisions. These decision problems often involve unfamiliar objectives, tradeoffs between objectives and translation from feelings to values, which means that preferences are most likely constructed. To familiarize decision-makers with the decision problem and assist them in constructing ...Master Thesis -
Modelling Viral Reassortment in Structured Populations
(2019)Migration dynamics of viral sub-populations are usually analysed by applying the structured coalescent theory to genetic sequence data. This is, however, not trivial for reassorting viruses that have segmented genomes. Recently, a coalescent with reassortment approach was developed, allowing to use the full segmented genome for phylodynamic analysis. We combine the two techniques into the structured coalescent with reassortment model ...Master Thesis -
Enhancing the Prediction of Early Readmissions Utilizing Translation Approaches
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Boosting Performance Engineering with Visual Interactive Optimization and Analysis
(2021)The increasingly heterogeneous computer architecture landscape makes writing fast and energy efficient scientific high performance computing applications an increasingly complex yet important task. This has given rise to separate performance engineers, designated to optimizing domain scientists’ software to run optimally on different hardware architectures, but interaction between the two roles is complex and inefficient, and tool integration ...Master Thesis -
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Seismicity of the Austral Andes, Southernmost Patagonia
(2020)Since December 2018, the first seismic network deployed around the Austral Andes and its Southern Patagonian Ice Field is recording passive seismicity at the western margin of Southern Patagonia, Southernmost South America. Here, active tectonics is dominated by the interplay between the Antarctic plate's subduction at the trench and the sinistral transform movement of the Scotia plate to the south. This research shows the first catalogue ...Master Thesis -
Moving Towards a Sustainable Swiss Food System: An Estimation of the True Cost of Food in Switzerland and Implications for Stakeholders
(2020)Whilst the benefits of food production and consumption are unarguably large, scientific consensus on the need for food system transformation is increasing. The global food system is one of the main contributors to climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem service loss, human health and animal welfare issues, as well as to insufficient livelihood conditions along the entire food supply chain. Creating a common, transparent standard for ...Master Thesis