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Courses with an asterisk are electives open to students outside the MLDS program, assuming space after MLDS students are enrolled.

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CourseCourse TitleFall 2026Winter 2027Spring 2027
MLDS 400Topics in Data EngineeringM 9am - 12pm
Evan Boyd
(Lab: M 1-2pm)

MLDS 401Machine Learning IMW 3 - 4:20pm
Edward Malthouse
(Lab: W 1-2pm)

MLDS 410Generating Business Value with Data ScienceW 9 - 11:50am
Joel Shapiro

MLDS 413Databases & Information Retrieval TTh 10 - 11:20am
Nikos Hardavellas
(Lab: T 3-4pm)

MLDS 414Natural Language Processing

Emilia Apostolova
MLDS 420Machine Learning II

Yuri Balasanov
MLDS 421Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery

Ashish Pujari
MLDS 422Programming for Data ScienceTTh 1 - 2:20pm
Alice Zhao
(Lab: Th 3-4pm)

MLDS 423Cloud Engineering for Data Science


Ashish Pujari
MLDS 424Generative & Agentic AI


Diego Klabjan
MLDS 430Data Visualization & WarehousingTTh 3:30 - 4:50pm
Alice Zhao
(Lab: W 4-5pm)

MLDS 431Big Data Systems


Diego Klabjan
MLDS 432Deep Learning

Ashish Pujari
MLDS 440*Optimization and Heuristics


Ehsan Kodabandeh and Michael Watson
MLDS 490*Advanced Algorithms for Machine LearningTTh 2-3:20pm
Diego Klabjan
(Lab: M 10-11am)

MLDS 490*Bayesian Methods for Inference and Decision MakingTTh 11am-12:20pm
Yuri Balasanov
(Lab: F 12:30 - 1:30pm)

MLDS 490*Human-AI Collaboration for Decision-MakingFri 9am-12pm
Noshir Contractor

MLDS 490*Time SeriesFirst five weeks, asynchronous
Ali Marami

MLDS 490*Sports AnalyticsSecond five weeks, asynchronous
Evan Boyd

MLDS 490*Interpretable Machine Learning for Finance


William Chiu
MLDS 490*Software Engineering


Lowell Lindstrom
MLDS 491-493Industry Practicum
Yuri Balasanov
Yuri Balasanov
Yuri Balasanov
MLDS 499Industry Capstone
Yuri Balasanov