Incoming MS students for the Fall 2021 semester are encouraged to select four courses from the options listed below to register for in their first semester. These include core courses in each of the focus areas (Software, Hardware, Artificial Intelligence, and Theory/Algorithms) as well as electives.
The CSE faculty have provided introductory videos for these courses, which provide information on what you can expect to learn in each course and what knowledge and skills you should come to the class already knowing.
These are the courses we recommend incoming MS students choose from for the Fall 2021 semester. To view the course syllabus, click the Course Code.
Course Code | Course Title | Course Instructor |
Software Core Requirement | ||
CSE 521 Download pdf | Introduction to Operating Systems | Farshad Ghanei |
CSE 535 Download pdf | Information Retrieval | Rohini Srihari |
CSE 570 Download pdf | Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Processing | Jaric Zola |
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Core Requirement | ||
CSE 546 Download pdf | Reinforcement Learning | Alina Vereshchaka |
CSE 555 Download pdf | Introduction to Pattern Recognition | Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee |
CSE 568 Download pdf | Robotics Algorithms | Karthik Dantu |
CSE 573 Download pdf | Introduction to Computer Vision and Image Processing | Junsong Yuan |
Introduction to Machine Learning | Mingchen Gao (A) Sargur Srihari (B) | |
Theory Core Requirement | ||
CSE 529 Download pdf | Algorithms for Modern Computing Systems | Russ Miller |
CSE 531 Download pdf | Analysis of Algorithms | Roger He |
CSE 596 Download pdf | Theory of Computation | Kenneth Regan |
Hardware Core Requirement | ||
CSE 586 | Large-Scale Distributed Systems | Bina Ramamurthy |
CSE 589 Download pdf | Modern Networking Concepts | Hongxin Hu |
CSE 593 Download pdf | Introduction to VLSI Electronics | Ramalingam Sridhar |
Electives (choose one) | ||
CSE 510 | Special Topics: Software Testing | Weihang Wang |
CSE 510 Download pdf | Special Topics: Software Security | Ziming Zhao |
CSE 701 | Seminar: Deep Learning Methods in Biometrics | Nalini Ratha |
CSE 702 | Seminar: Programming Massively Parallel Systems | Russ Miller |
CSE 704 | Seminar: Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Social Good | Rohini Srihari |
CSE 705 | Seminar: Deep Generative Models | Wen Dong |
CSE 706 Download pdf | Seminar: Selected Topics in Deep Learning | Changyou Chen |
CSE 708 Download pdf | Seminar: Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things (IoT) | Marina Blanton |
CSE 740 | Seminar: Connected and Autonomous Vehicles | Chunming Qiao |