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 Below is a list of 4080/4088/4480 projects proposed by faculty members. More projects may be added once they come in (normally in August). Please contact the supervisor directly you are in interested in a project. You can also contact faculty members individually to discuss possible projects. Click [[https://lassonde.yorku.ca/eecs/faculty/|here]] to see a list of faculty members, their research areas and their contact information. Below is a list of 4080/4088/4480 projects proposed by faculty members. More projects may be added once they come in (normally in August). Please contact the supervisor directly you are in interested in a project. You can also contact faculty members individually to discuss possible projects. Click [[https://lassonde.yorku.ca/eecs/faculty/|here]] to see a list of faculty members, their research areas and their contact information.
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 +====== Automation of Copyright Takedowns ======
 +**Course:** EECS4070/80/88/90/4480
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 +**Supervisor:** Prof. James Andrew Smith 
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 +**Contact:** drsmith@yorku.ca
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 +COVID has accelerated the trend for delivering university courses online. This has been a boon to providing accessible learning modes to students.  However, it has also made it more likely for course content to be uploaded to and distributed on commercial, for-profit file sharing sites like Chegg and Course Hero, without permission of the content creator.
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 +A copyright takedown process (e.g. DMCA) is in place on these commercial sites but it is cumbersome to use. The objective of this project is to semi-automate the take-down process in one of two ways:
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 +1. Allow a copyright holder to identify a category of course material (e.g. a course name and number) a priori and engage a scheduled process which regularly scans a commercial site (e.g. Course Hero) and automatically submits takedowns on behalf of the copyright holder
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 +2. Submit reports to the copyright holder when an identified category of course material is found on a commercial site (e.g. Course Hero) and asks the copyright holder whether a takedown request should be made on the holder's behalf.
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 +**Required skills:** General programming skills
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 +**Recommended skills:** Experience in Python (and perhaps Beautiful Soup) and/or Java and/or equivalent
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 +====== Visualization of Course Maps at YorkU ======
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 +**Course:** EECS4070/80/88/90/4480
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 +**Supervisor:** Prof. James Andrew Smith 
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 +**Contact:** drsmith@yorku.ca
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 +Students at York have long been missing the ability to visualize the connections between courses when planning or reviewing their progress through their program.  We would like to make a web-centric visualization tool available to students that scrapes data from the official online course calendar so that students can better inform the decisions they make while studying at York.
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 +This is a continuation of an existing open-source project written in Python.  Interested students will be asked to improve the existing code base so that:
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 +1. A visualization can be produced and displayed on the web
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 +2. Corrections to the existing data set (the University's calendar website) can be submitted to an online repository and reused
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 +Students involved in the project will be required to maintain public-facing documentation. The result of this project will remain open source for further development by students, staff and faculty.
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 +**Required skills:** General programming skills
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 +**Recommended skills:** Experience in Python (and perhaps Beautiful Soup) and web-centric tools
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 +====== Privacy assessment of online services and platforms ======
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 +**Course:** EECS4480/4080
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 +**Supervisor:** Yan Shvartzshnaider
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 +**Contact:** Please complete this form: https://forms.gle/oVVg6hEConSNf9p28  
 +       For any question email: yansh@yorku.ca 
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 +This project involves performing privacy assessment of online services and platforms. The student will help design usable-privacy tools that analyze information handling practices of online services.
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 +For prior project, see work https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2021-22/F/4080_4088_4090_4480_4070/4088_presentation_schedule
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 +**Required skills:** Ability to work indepently. Experience in full-stack development and using Jupyter and R notebooks for data analysis.
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 +**Recommended skills:** Experience with Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing techniques, HCI design. Interest in usable privacy, critical analysis of privacy policies and privacy related regulation.
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