Instructor: Ran Duan

Designed to appeal to a diverse audience, this course examines some of the fundamental ideas of the science of computing. Lectures and hands-on assignments cover a wide variety of topics such as hardware organization, the Internet, computer programming, limits of computing, and graphics. No prerequisite.

Instructor: Jian Li

This course gives an introduction to the basics of algorithm, common algorithm design techniques, and the analysis of running time (complexity). The main contents include: tools of algorithm analysis, divide and conquer algorithms, dynamic programming, greedy algorithms etc. algorithm design techniques, and NP complete, randomized algorithms, approximation algorithms and other advanced topics.

Instructor: Yang Yuan

Machine learning studies how computers can learn from experiences. Combining ideas from theoretical computer science and statistics, researchers have developed many learning methods and their applications to computer vision, bioinformatics, natural language processing etc. are highly successful. Machine learning theory addresses the fundamental problems in learning. It studies the power and theoretical limits of learning. The aim is to provide deep understand of learning and the guidance for the development of practical algorithms.

Instructor: Shimin Hu

This course introduces basic concepts, elements, algorithms and systems of computer graphics. The main contents include color model, illumination model (Phong model, Cook-Torrance model), phong shading and Gouraud shading, texture mapping, ray tracing, curve and surface modeling, solid modeling, geometry processing, etc.

Instructor: Wei Xu

This course teaches the basic principles of operating systems: computer and operating system structures, mechanisms and policies, resource management, implementation of multitask systems, memory management, file systems, I/O subsystem and device management, communication and networking, protection and security. Students are expected to spend additional time to gain hands-on experience.

Instructor: Jianyang Zeng

To introduce various computational problems for analyzing biological data (e.g. DNA, RNA, protein sequences, and biological networks) and the algorithms for solving these problems. Topics covered include: biological sequence analysis, gene identification, regulatory motif discovery, genome assembly, genome duplication and rearrangements, evolutionary theory, clustering algorithms, and scale-free networks.