Computer Science, Doctoral (CS)

Advanced topics in data structures and computational complexity, including randomized algorithms, dynamic programming, recurrence relations, amortized analysis, network flow algorithms, and approximation algorithms and NP-completeness will be discussed. This course covers both fundamental techniques and applications. Instructor approval required to register.

Research seminar by domain experts, and student presentations on research papers. Restrictions/Requirements: Computer Science PhD candidacy.

The student will work closely with the advisor to conduct literature survey, identify a research problem with solution methodologies, and create a clear research plan for the dissertation.

The student will work closely with the advisor to develop the dissertation research proposal for defense.

Overview of Big Data technologies, applications, and market trend. Fundamental Big Data storage and processing platforms, such as Hadoop, and IBM System G for Linked Big Data. Big Data upload, storage, distribution, and process with HDFS, HBase, KV stores, document database, and graph database. Important analytics and visualization algorithms on different platforms. Large-scale machine learning methods that are foundations for artificial intelligence and cognitive networks. Instructor approval required to register.

Advanced theory and applications of databases, including the relational calculus, functional dependence, query optimization, schema normalization and concurrent databases. Instructor approval required to register.

Theory and data structures and algorithms related to artificial intelligence and heuristic programming. Topics include description of cognitive processes, definition of heuristic vs. algorithmic methods, slate space and problem reduction, search methods, theorem proving, natural language processing and pattern recognition techniques. Students are expected to implement an advanced project. Instructor approval required to register.

This will be a Pace University leading edge computing course for Computer Science PhD advance masters students. This quantum computing course will demonstrate that Seidenberg School is providing a leading-edge computing technology education to its students, thus making Pace University competitive with major universities in the greater NYC area. Instructor approval required to register.

This course covers advanced research topics in computer vision. Building on the introductory materials covered in the Computer Vision prereq class, this class will prepare graduate students in both the theoretical foundations of computer vision as well as the practical approaches to building real Computer Vision systems. This course investigates current research topics in computer vision with an emphasis on recognition tasks and deep learning. Topics include optical flow, object tracking, object recognition, bag-of-features representation, deep neural networks, etc. We will examine data sources, features, and learning algorithms useful for understanding and manipulating visual data. Instructor approval required to register.

This course focuses on the fundamental concepts, theories, and algorithms for pattern recognition and machine learning. Diverse application areas such as optical character recognition, speech recognition, and biometrics are discussed. Topics covered include supervised and unsupervised (clustering) pattern classification algorithms, parametric and non-parametric supervised learning techniques, including Bayesian decision theory, neural networks, support vector machines, nearest neighbor, and genetic algorithms. Instructor approval required to register.