Spring 2019 Core & Elective courses

Below is a list of already approved electives to help you start choosing electives- the core classes are listed on the top. Course information provided below is as of today (October 17, 2018), and is subject to change at
the discretion of the Department that manages the course.
ALWAYS check SIS for the most accurate up-to-date information. Lou's list is helpful, but is not the official University course catalog.
Visit this helpful site for how to enroll in classes through SIS.
If a course requires "Instructor permission"
Read the prerequisites (if any); some classes are better suited for some than others.  
If a course has special enrollment requirements or is full you should place yourself on the waitlist (if available) and/or reach out to the instructor to see if they are willing to admit you.
They may ask you to bring a course action form.
Please complete the Student Request form if you would like to take a new course not listed below.

Course Type Dept Number SIS Code Title/Topic Credits Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday AM/PM Instructor Classroom
MSDS students will be enrolled into the core courses by November 30- you do not need to enroll yourself into these classes.
Practice and Application of
Core DS 6003 14804 2 12-12:50 12-12:50 PM Don Brown Dell 1 105
Data Science II

Instructor Data Science Capstone Your capstone

Core DS 6013
specific Project Work II
1 Independent study, no scheduled lectures supervisor
Not applicable

Will be listed on SIS

Core SYS 6016 16476 Machine Learning 3 9:30-10:45 9:30-10:45 AM Gilmer Hall 141
before Spring.

MSDS students will have priority enrollment for DS 5559 and 6559 elective classes until November 16- after that date these courses will be open to all non-MSDS students.
See the next page for descriptions on these new electives
DSI Elective DS 5559 19800 Exploratory Text Analytics 3 11- 12:15 11- 12:15 PM Raf Alvarado Gilmer Hall 141

Biomedical Cloud Computing

DSI Elective DS 6559 19817 1 3:30 - 4:45 PM Tim Clark New Cabell Hall 338
Seminar

DSI Elective DS 6559 17898 Bayesian Machine Learning 3 2-3:15 2 to 3:15 PM Don Brown Dell 1 105

Mohammad
Elective CS 6160 16640 Theory of Computation 3 2-4:45 PM Olsson Hall 011
Mahmoody Ghidary

Elective CS 6750 16566 Database Systems 3 5-6:15 5-6:15 PM Abdeltawab Hendawi Olsson Hall 005

Elective CS 6501 16645 Tensors for Data Science 3 4-5:15pm 4-5:15pm PM Nikolaos Sidiropoulos Thornton Hall E304

Formal Methods for CPS &

Elective CS 6501 16641 Robots (combined with SYS 3 10-10:50 10-10:50 10-10:50 AM Lu Feng Olsson Hall 009
6582, 16766)

Deep Learning for Visual

Vicente Ordonez-
Elective CS 6501 16309 Recognition (topic not listed in 3 3:30-4:45 3:30-4:45 PM Olsson Hall 005
Roman
SIS, yet.)

**NOTE** Other topics for CS 6501 have not been scheduled yet. See SIS for up-to-date information or Lou's List.
The following CS 6501 topics are pre-approved: Vision & Language |Text Mining | Defense Against the Dark Arts | Engineering Logic Cloud Computing
Any new topic not in the above list requires a Student Request form for approval.

Elective ECE 6750 16362 Digital Signal Processing  3 5-6:15 5-6:15 PM Scott Acton Thornton Hall E316

Disc: 12 to 12:50
Elective ECON 7720 10462 Econometrics II 4 2-3:15 2-3:15 PM John Pepper Monroe Hall 114
PM

Elective ECON 8720 12711 Time Series Econometrics  3 2-3:15 2-3:15 PM Leland Farmer Wilson Hall 244

Introduction to GIS lecture, Clark Hall 101

12:30-1:45
Elective EVSC 5020 12024 plus two Lab sections to 4 Lab: 5 to 9 12:30-1:45 PM John Porter (Labs are in different
(Lab: 5-9)
choose from rooms)

Advanced Quantitative David Dobolyi, Richard

Elective GCOM 7240 15146 4 12:30-3:15 12:30-3:15 PM Robertson Hall 317B
Analysis Netemeyer

* Electives that are less

Text Analytics (this class starts than 3 credit hours require
Elective GCOM 7260 15147 1.5* 3:30-4:45 3:30-4:45 PM Christopher Maurer Robertson Hall 118
March 19) approval, even if they are
on the pre-approved list.

* Electives that are less

Big Data (this class ends on than 3 credit hours require
Elective GCOM 7280 15148 1.5* 3:30-4:45 3:30-4:45 PM Jingjing Li Robertson Hall 118
March 7) approval, even if they are
on the pre-approved list.

Elective PHS 7001 17410 Introduction to Biostatistics II 3 11-12:15 11-12:15 PM Timothy McMurry Room to be determined

Elective PHS 7310 17439 Clinical Trials Methodology 3 12:30-1:45 12:30-1:45 PM Gina Petroni Room to be determined

Simulation and Modeling for Multistory (Old) Hospital

Elective PHS 7370 17421 3 8:30-11 AM TBA
Quality and Research 3181
Fundamentals of Item
Elective PSYC 5720 12509 3 9-11:30 AM Karen Schmidt Gilmer Hall 225
Response Theory
Elective SARC 5400 14916 Data Visualization 3 7-9:30 PM Eric Field Campbell Hall 158

Elective STAT 5170 12298 Applied Time Series 3 11-12:15 11-12:15 PM Daniel Keenan Maury Hall 104

Elective STAT 6260 18539 Categorical Data Analysis 3 2-3:15 2-3:15 PM Jianhui Zhou New Cabell Hall 323

Cognitive Systems
Elective SYS 6023 16317 3 5-6:15 5-6:15 PM Stephanie Guerlain Olsson Hall 011
Engineering

15884, 18605,
Elective SYS 6050
16937
Risk Analysis Offering three sections, see SIS.

9am to 5pm, and

Cyber-Physical Sys/Data Garrick Louis,
Elective SYS 6581 16935 meets on Room to be determined
Science Kenneth Lichtendahl
Saturdays.

Elective SYS 6582 16465 Reinforcement Learning 3 3:30-6 PM Peter Beling Olsson Hall 011

Formal Methods for CPS &

Elective SYS 6582 16766 Robots (cross-listed with CS 3 10-10:50 10-10:50 10-10:50 AM Lu Feng Olsson Hall 009
6501, 16641)
DS 5559- Exploratory Text Analytics (SIS code: 19800; 3 credit hours)
Meets: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11 to 12:15pm
Room: Gilmer Hall 141
Instructor: Raf Alvarado
Introduction to text analytics with a focus on long-form documents, such as novels and
newspapers. Students convert source texts into graph and vector-space representations and
apply methods such as term frequency measures, topic models, and sentiment analyses in
order to address problems of classification, clustering, and other areas, such as social event
detection and structuralist poetics. Involves basic Python and some probability theory.

DS 6559- Biomedical Cloud Computing Seminar (SIS code: 19817; 1 credit hours)
Meets: Tuesdays, 3:30 to 4:45pm
Room: New Cabell Hall 338
Instructor: Tim Clark
This seminar will discuss theory and applications of biomedical cloud computing. We will be
reading and discussing important literature in the field, with guest presentations by leading
experts. Planned topics include NIH's cloud strategy; major computational platforms;
reproducibility; workflow abstraction & interoperability; FAIR data and PHI; Identifiers,
ontologies and metadata; authentication & authorization; and differential privacy.

DS 6559- Bayesian Machine Learning (SIS code: 19817; 3 credit hours)

Meets: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2 to 3:15pm
Room: Dell 1 105
Instructor: Don Brown
Bayesian inferential methods provide a foundation for machine learning under conditions of
uncertainty. Bayesian machine learning techniques can help us to more effectively address
the limits to our understanding of world problems. This class covers the major related
techniques, including Bayesian inference, conjugate prior probabilities, naive Bayes
classifiers, expectation maximization, Markov chain monte carlo, and variational inference.