Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Logistics Strategies for Emergency Medical Services
Published 2025This thesis advances Emergency Medical Services (EMS) logistics by developing innovative delivery strategies, optimizing facility locations, and designing adaptive dispatching policies to enhance response efficiency ...Open AccessThesis -
Generalizing Grasping via Shape Matching and Learning
Published 2026This thesis introduces a hybrid framework for robust robotic grasp synthesis from partial point clouds. We first formulate grasping as rigid shape matching, using the gripper's Signed Distance Field (SDF) for collision ...Open AccessThesis -
Probabilistic Contamination Risk Assessment with Application to PFOS in Aquifers under Single-lined Landfills
Published 2026Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are contaminants of concern due to their persistence, mobility, and toxicity, with perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) being a prominent PFAS compound detected in landfill leachates ...Open AccessThesis -
The Computational Neurobiology of Perceptual Awareness
Published 2026Understanding the neurobiological basis of consciousness presents a critical obstacle: the explanatory gap between human and animal model-based neuroscience. Human participants can perform a rich array of behavioural tasks ...Open AccessThesis -
Synthesis and Self-assembly of Asymmetric Block Copolymers Towards Nanodiscs
Published 2026Polymers have emerged as exciting candidates for self-assembly into nanomaterials. Advancements in polymer science have seen an increase in the design of complex, but well-defined systems unlocked by the evolvement of ...Open AccessThesis