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Puy Contreras, Andreu (Date of defense: 2025-01-21)
(English) Moving animal groups, such as flocks of birds, schools of fish, insect swarms, herds of mammals, and human crowds, exhibit intricate and highly coordinated behaviors. This thesis explores the underlying mechanisms ...
Hägele, Sebastian (Date of defense: 2024-07-23)
(English) As the world moves towards increasingly miniaturized and complex technologies and devices, the need for imaging and metrology tools for precise material characterization and fabrication process control is rising ...
Pachón García, Cristian (Date of defense: 2025-05-08)
(English) This thesis is divided into two parts. The first one is devoted to dimensionality reduction for large data sets, while the second one focuses on the field of Interpretable Machine Learning. Part of the material ...
Beattie Eizaguirre, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2025-03-26)
(English) Despite decades of research, practical quantum computing and long-distance quantum communication remain elusive, hindered by significant challenges in current platforms. Single rare earth ions (SREI) in the solid ...
Colautti, Viviana Elizabeth (Date of defense: 2025-05-19)
(English) This research was born with the firm conviction that the growth and transformation of the city of Córdoba (Argentina) result from a unique dialogue and a complementary relationship between the physical support ...
Tian, Yi (Date of defense: 2025-05-19)
(English) Motion estimation problems can range from low degrees of freedom (DOF) ego-motion estimation to complex, high-DOF motion, which includes dense pixel displacement or optical flow. This information is essential for ...
Rodríguez Sánchez, Julio (Date of defense: 2025-05-08)
(English) In earthquake engineering, generally only surface records are available; therefore, the motion of the lower soil layers must be estimated by depropagation analysis. Underground accelerograms are relevant in ...
Molina Ordóñez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2024-09-19)
(English) This PhD thesis is intended to study ionospheric scintillation and its relationship with some of its sources, in particular the observed correlation between the ionospheric perturbation and the lithosphere. ...
Vásquez Castillo, Flor de María (Date of defense: 2024-10-01)
(English) One of the food industry's pressing global challenges is ensuring food security for a rapidly growing population. The enormous problems of water scarcity, climate change and high energy costs are barriers to ...
Pérez Portero, Adrián (Date of defense: 2025-05-09)
(English) Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) poses significant challenges to remote sensing systems, particularly affecting Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) and microwave radiometry. This thesis ...
Pujol Torramorell, Roger (Date of defense: 2025-05-09)
(English) The dissertation, research on enhancing timing predictability and performance for Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTES), focusing on Multi-Processor Systems on Chip (MPSoCs). CRTES are essential in critical ...
Olazábal, Ramiro de (Date of defense: 2025-05-12)
(English) This thesis presents the Global Linelet Preconditioner (GLP), a preconditioning strategy designed to overcome these limitations and improve scalability in extreme-scale Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications. ...
Pascual García, Carlos (Date of defense: 2025-04-07)
(English) With this Thesis, we will focus on diverse technologies as well as techniques relevant for the development of secure communication systems based on Quantum Mechanics. This theoretical analysis involves the ...
Taherzadeh Fard, Alireza (Date of defense: 2025-04-29)
(English) Composite materials, particularly fiber-reinforced polymers and fiber metal laminates have gained significant attention in industries such as aerospace, automotive, and marine engineering due to their high ...
Ortiz Bernal, Galo Fabian (Date of defense: 2025-04-29)
(English) The effect of corrosion on reinforcement and its impact on the service life reduction of existing reinforced and prestressed concrete infrastructures has led to the search for alternatives to conventional steel ...
Zhang, Shuang (Date of defense: 2025-04-25)
(English) Considering that Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) technique has been demonstrated as an effective way to represent nonlinear systems, results concerning the design of observers and controllers in LPV framework have ...
Eldigair, Yousif (Date of defense: 2022-12-19)
(English) This industrial thesis work tackles primarily the challenges associated with the development of the cathode module and auxiliary cooling module for fuel cell electric vehicle applications. The development process ...
India Massana, Miquel Àngel (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)
(English) The first part of this thesis is based on the use of attention models for speaker verification. SOTA systems for this task are based on speaker embedding extractors. These architectures are comprised by combinations ...
Castillo Escario, Yolanda (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)
(English) Spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. SCI causes motor and sensory impairment but is also associated with many other health problems. Two of these problems are trunk muscle ...
Valenti, Sofia (Date of defense: 2022-07-11)
(English) Polymers can have a wide range of application, thanks to the capacity of designing them to meet specific requirements (e.g. mechanical, thermal, optical or electrical). In particular, polymeric materials with ...