Course Schedule
Lectures are Wednesdays; office hours are held in the lecture room during normal lecture time on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Projects are released on Tuesdays or Thursdays and due 2-3 weeks after (deadlines change on a per-project basis).
Final projects consist of a proposal, a progress update, a presentation, and a write-up.
| Date | Topic | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Thurs, 1/4 | Lecture 1: Welcome to CSCI 8360 | pdf | pptx |
| Tues, 1/9 | Lecture 2: Introduction to Spark | pdf | pptx |
| Tues, 1/9 | Project 0 (P0) Released | |
| Wed, 1/10 | Lecture 3: Natural Language Processing | pdf | pptx |
| Thurs, 1/11 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 1/16 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 1/16 | P0 Due ; P1 Released | |
| Wed, 1/17 | Lecture 4: Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems | pdf | pptx |
| Thurs, 1/18 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 1/23 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 1/24 | Canceled | |
| Thurs, 1/25 | Lecture 5: Gradient Boosted Decision Trees with XGBoost | pdf | pptx |
| Tues, 1/30 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 1/31 | Lecture 6: Deep Learning in Spark with BigDL | pdf | pptx |
| Thurs, 2/1 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 2/1 | P2 Released | |
| Fri, 2/2 | P1 Due | |
| Tues, 2/6 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 2/7 | P1 Lightning Talks | slides |
| Thurs, 2/8 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 2/13 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 2/14 | Lecture 7: Nuts and Bolts of Computer Vision | pdf | pptx |
| Thurs, 2/15 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 2/15 | P3 Released | |
| Fri, 2/16 | P2 Due | |
| Tues, 2/20 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 2/21 | P2 Lightning Talks | slides |
| Thurs, 2/22 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 2/27 | Lecture 8: Guest Lecturer Dr. Semmy Purewal | |
| Wed, 2/28 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 3/1 | Lecture 9: Guest Lecturer Khalifeh AlJadda | |
| Tues, 3/6 | Lecture 10: Guest Lecturer Yu Zhao | pdf | pptx |
| Wed, 3/7 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 3/8 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 3/8 | P3 Due | |
| Fri, 3/9 | Final Project Proposals Due | |
| Mon, 3/12 - Fri, 3/16 | SPRING BREAK | |
| Tues, 3/20 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 3/20 | P4 Released | |
| Wed, 3/21 | P3 Lightning Talks | slides |
| Thurs, 3/22 | Office Hours | |
| Fri, 3/23 | Final Project Proposal Feedback | |
| Tues, 3/27 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 3/28 | Lecture 11: Guest Lecturer Xiaoxiao Sun, Ph.D. student in Dr. Ping Ma's group | |
| Thurs, 3/29 | Lecture 12: Guest Lecturer Tony Fast | slides |
| Tues, 4/3 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 4/4 | Lecture 13: Guest Lecturer Chris Barrick | slides |
| Thurs, 4/5 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 4/5 | P4 Due | |
| Fri, 4/6 | Final Project Progress Updates Due | |
| Tues, 4/10 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 4/11 | P4 Lightning Talks | slides |
| Thurs, 4/12 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 4/17 | Lecture 14 | pdf | pptx |
| Wed, 4/18 | Final Project Talks |
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| Thurs, 4/19 | Final Project Talks |
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| Tues, 4/24 | Final Project Talks |
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| Wed, 4/25 | Final Project Talks |
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| Fri, 4/27 | Final Project Write-ups Due |