Graduate Specializations

Our department offers optional graduate specializations for students who wish to focus their studies in a specific area. By following these pathways, students can gain depth in a field of interest and better align their coursework with future career goals.

These optional specializations are available only to students in the master’s programs in artificial intelligence and computer science. These specializations are not official concentrations that will appear on a transcript. Instead, the recommended course sequences are designed to help students focus their studies in areas such as autonomous driving, robotics, health informatics, quantum computing and more. Upon graduation, the student will receive a certificate recognizing the successful completion of the specialization.

 

Shared specializations (AI and CS)

Autonomous driving

• CISC642 Introduction to Computer Vision
• CISC667 Introduction to Autonomous Driving
• CISC867 Advanced Topics in Autonomous Systems

Health and biomedical informatics

• CISC642 Introduction to Computer Vision OR CISC688 Introduction to Natural Language Processing
• BINF620 Big Data Analytics in Healthcare
• BINF644 Bioinformatics OR BINF695 Computational Systems Biology OR CISC844 Computational Biomedicine

Human-computer interaction

• CISC682 Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction
• CISC675 Software Engineering Principles and Practices
• CISC688 Introduction to Natural Language Processing or CISC683 Introduction to Data Mining

Network science

• CISC621 Algorithm Design and Analysis
• CISC822 Graph Mining
• CISC830 Combinatorial Optimization and Advanced Algorithms

Quantum computing

• CISC621 Algorithm Design and Analysis
• QSEG650 Introduction to Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
• CISC820 Quantum Algorithms

Robotics

• CISC686 Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems OR CISC886 Multi-Agent Systems
• CISC642 Introduction to Computer Vision
• CISC867 Advanced Topics in Autonomous Systems OR CISC849 Robot Navigation & Autonomy

Additional specialization for CS

Artificial intelligence

• CISC 681 Artificial Intelligence
• CISC 683 Introduction to Data Mining
• CISC 684 Introduction to Machine Learning
• Any two out of the following three courses:
  • CISC 686 Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems
  • CISC 688 Introduction to Natural Language Processing
  • CISC 642 Introduction to Computer Vision