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MS Data Science

Program Structure & Curriculum

Outline of the Program

The program is spread over 4 semesters, with a 6-credit hour thesis being offered in the second year.

Course Offer Plan

Course types

Cumulative Credits

Program Core Courses (3)

9

Specialization Core Courses (2)

6

Electives Courses (3)

9

Postgraduate Research Thesis

6

Courses

Course Code

Course Title

Credit Hours

DS-5100

Postgraduate Research Thesis

(6+0)

Program Core Courses

DS-5101

Statistical and Mathematical Methods For Data Science

(3+0)

DS-5102

Tools and Techniques in Data Science

(3+0)

DS-5103

Machine Learning

(3+0)

Specialized Core Courses: (Choose any 2)

DS-5104

Big Data Analytics

(3+0)

DS-5105

Deep Learning

(3+0)

DS-5106

Natural Language Processing

(3+0)

DS-5107

Distributed Data Processing

(3+0)

Elective Courses

Course Code

Course Title

Credit Hours

DS-5108

Advanced Computer Vision

(3+0)

DS-5109

Algorithmic trading

(3+0)

DS-5110

Bayesian Data Analysis

(3+0)

DS-5111

Big Data Analytics

(3+0)

DS-5112

Bioinformatics

(3+0)

DS-5113

Cloud computing

(3+0)

DS-5114

Computational Genomics

(3+0)

DS-5115

Data Visualization

(3+0)

DS-5116

Deep Learning

(3+0)

DS-5117

Deep Reinforcement Learning

(3+0)

DS-5118

Distributed Data Processing and Machine Learning

(3+0)

DS-5119

Distributed Machine Learning in Apache Spark

(3+0)

DS-5120

High performance computing

(3+0)

DS-5121

Inference & Representation

(3+0)

DS-5122

Natural Language Processing

(3+0)

DS-5123

Optimization Methods for Data Science and Machine Learning

(3+0)

DS-5124

Probabilistic Graphical Models

(3+0)

DS-5125

Scientific Computing in Finance

(3+0)

DS-5126

Social network analysis

(3+0)

DS-5127

Time series Analysis and Prediction

(3+0)

In addition, students are allowed to take any elective course in other department of University with the permission of Chairman.

Degree Completion Requirements

For completion of MS degree, a student must have:

  • Passed courses totaling at least 30 credit hours, including core courses.
  • Obtained at least 2.5 on a scale of 4.0