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-====== Proposed Projects for Fall 2013 ======
+====== Proposed Projects for Fall 2014 ======
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+===Dynamic Interface Detection and Control Project===
+**Supervisor: Michael Jenkin**
+Contrary to most industries, fine chemical manufacturing is dominated by batch production methods. Increasing economic, environmental and safety pressures are motivating a turn towards continuous synthesis. Rather than making products in one big flask, continuous synthesis involves performing chemical reactions by flowing reagents through a tube. Working in this way provides more control over the reaction parameters leading to increases in product quality, and process efficiency and safety. The flow chemistry industry for fine chemical production is a relatively new but burgeoning field with a projected market capacity of billions of dollars by 2018.
+Extraction of the reaction mixture for purification and/or further processing is an important step in chemical manufacturing. This is a relatively straightforward operation in batch production, but offers several challenges for flowing processes. In order to facilitate continuous liquid extraction we require a sophisticated control system. This project involves designing, constructing and evaluating a pertinent practical problem in the field.
+A key step in the process takes place in a clear tube that is mounted vertically. The tube contains two fluids with a boundary between them. During the process material flows into and out of the tube from the top and the bottom. Chemical reactions take place within this tube and It is essential that the position of the boundary be monitored as its position in the tube is used to control the flow of materials into the tube.
+One way of solving this problem is to float a marker at the boundary between the two liquids and to monitor this boundary using a video camera. Although this approach solves the problem, it requires the introduction of a specific float within the tube. Can we build a system that monitors the boundary without resorting to the use of an artificial float?
+Specific goals of the project include:
+- Develop a computer vision system that can detect and monitor the interface between two miscible fluids of different density.
+- Evaluate the performance of the system over a range of different (and typical) fluids
+- Explore the use of different illuminant/filter choices to simplify the task for specific fluid combinations.
+The successful candidate(s) will have the experience of working with a diverse group of scientists and engineers toward the design and implementation of an automated liquid extraction device with applications across many industries. Upon successful prototyping, you will be able to interact with professionals in high-throughput manufacturing and system integration. Based on project success, you may be invited to join the MACOS(TM) team for implementation and process validation, which may involve opportunities in graduate school. You will have the opportunity to interact with the broad audience of MACOS(TM) technology including governmental regulatory agencies and industrial partners. This project will give you a great opportunity to apply your engineering expertise and gain experience in process implementation and technology transfer.
+For further information please contact,
+Michael Jenkin (jenkin@cse.yorku.ca) or Michal Organ (organ@yorku.ca)
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+====== DDoS Attack using Google-bots ======
+**Supervisor**: Ntalija Vlajic
+**Recommended Background**: CSE 3213 or CSE 3214, CSE 3482
+Not long ago, botnets - networks of compromised computers - were seen as
+the most effective (if not the only) means of conducting Distributed Denial
+of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, with the growing popularity and prevalence
+of application-layer over other types of DDoS attacks, the DDoS execution
+landscape is becoming increasingly more diverse. An especially interesting
+new trend is the execution of application-layer DDoS attacks by means of
+skillfully manipulated Web-crawlers, such as Google-bots.
+The goal of this project is to design, implement and test a real-world
+framework consisting of the following: a) the attacker's web-accessible
+domain specially designed to attract Google-bots and then manipulate them
+into generating attack traffic towards the target/victim site; b) the
+victim's Web site set up in Amazon S3 cloud. In addition to the hands-on
+component, the project will also look into the statistical/numerical
+estimation of the framework's anticipated 'attack potential' relative
+to an actual (real-world) target/victim site.
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-====== Leveraging binary instrumentation to support monitoring and debugging of large scale software system in the field======
-**Supervisor:**Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang (zmjiang at cse dot yorku dot ca)
-**Required Background:** Good programming skills (especially in Java); Good analytical and communication skills; Interested in large complex software systems and automated software analysis.
-**Short Description:** Many large scale software systems ranging from e-commerce websites (e.g., eBay) to telecommunication infrastructures (e.g., AT&T) are required to be available and ready to service by millions of users all the time. It is essential to monitor the behavior of these systems in the field and troubleshoot problems whenever they arise. On one hand, many existing monitoring tools (e.g., PerfMon and pidstat) mainly focus on the high level resource usage data (e.g., CPU and memory). On other hand, although profilers (e.g., JProfiler and DTrace) can provide detailed information on the internal system behavior, it is not feasible to run them with the field systems due to their high overhead. Binary instrumentation is a program analysis technique, which can add additional monitoring points without modifying or restarting the system. This project aims to explore the feasibility of leveraging binary instrumentation to automatically monitor and debug the behavior of these field systems. The student(s) will first evaluate the pros and cons on various binary instrumentation libraries (e.g., ASM and PIN). Then he/she will implement a monitoring/debugging framework using the selected instrumentation library.
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 **Description:** The Intel Perceptual Computing SDK includes support for head tracking and facial analysis. The project will use the Creative Interactive Gesture Camera, a depth camera designed to work with the SDK. Based on these technologies, the project implements an eye tracking system that detects the horizontal eye position and consequently, if the user is looking at the left, center, or right portion of the screen. Based on this, the project will implement a simple media browsing browsing system, e.g., for TV channels, music, or videos.
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+======Model-based Design and Development of Embedded Systems with Code Generation Tools======
+**Supervisor:** Jia Xu
+**Required Background:** At least a B+ in Embedded Systems (CSE3215), MATLAB, C programming skills, solid experience in using a microcontroller
+such as Arduino.
+**Project Description:**
+Model-based design with code generation tools can be used for simulation, rapid prototyping, and hardware-in-the-loop testing of embedded systems. This project explores model-based design and development of embedded systems on various hardware platforms with code generation tools. The selected student will develop and test embedded systems using model-based design and code generation tools such as MathWorks MATLAB /Simulink Coder.
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+======C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers======
+**Supervisor:** Jia Xu
+**Required Background:** At least a B+ in Embedded Systems (CSE3215),
+strong C programming skills, solid knowledge of microcontrollers
+**Description:** The C2000 Concerto family of microcontrollers combines
+two cores on a single-chip with on-chip low latency interprocessor communication between the two cores: a C28x 32-bit control core for
+real-time control with faster/more loops and small sampling window;
+and an ARM 32-bit Cortex-M3 host core for communications and general purpose. The selected student will evaluate the capabilities of the
+C2000 Concerto family of microcontrollers through testing and investigating open source software for real-time control applications
+that runs on C2000 Concerto Microcontrollers.
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+======Real-Time Bidding Platform======
+**Supervisor:** Jia Xu
+**Required Background:** At least a B+ in Operating System Fundamentals
+(CSE3221), strong Ubuntu/Linux, C++ programming, GCC, TCP/IP skills
+**Description:** Real-time bidding (RTB) is a new method of selling and buying online display advertising in real-time one ad impression at a time. Once a bid request has been sent out, all bids must be received within a strict deadline - generally under 100 milliseconds, including network latency. This project explores RTBkit, an open source SDK allowing developers to create customized real time ad bidding systems (for Media Buyers/Bidders).
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+======Circuit and Board Design for a Pulsed Ground Penetrating Radar======
+**Supervisor:**Sebastian Magierowski
+**Description:** The project requires the construction of components for a ground penetrating radar.  The students would have to design microwave boards for the high-frequency components of this unit, on both the transmitter and the receiver.  On the transmitter side the board would take a 5-MHz input clock, run it through a series of off-the-shelf amplifiers and then through a shaping circuit that would convert the input into an outgoing series of pulses (still at 5-MHz repetition rate) less than 400-ps in duration each.  The bandwidth of the signal is roughly 2-8 GHz and hence requires very careful board layout.  The receiver would be a time-shifted sampler, used to sample the returning pulses in progressive periods.  This radar circuit is ultimately intended to be positioned on a rover doing ground analysis.
+**Required Background** A background in undergraduate-level electronics is very important.  Experience with board level implementations and knowledge of microstrip lines would be helpful, otherwise the basics would have to be picked up during the project.
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-More project proposals may be added here in the first week of fall term.
+More project proposals may be added here in the first week of the winter term.
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