ECE365: Data Science and Engineering! (Spring 2021)

Course Description

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Instructors: Prof. Venugopal V. Veeravalli, Prof. Ilan Shomorony, Prof. Suma Pallathadka Bhat

Lectures: 3:30 PM CST - 4:20 PM TR CST. The Zoom link for part 1 is here. The Zoom link for part 2 is here

Labs (Same as Office Hours): 4:00 PM CST - 7:00 PM CST for UIUC students, and 7:00 PM CST - 10:00 PM CST for ZJUI students. The Zoom link is here, same for both sections.

Please see Zoom links in corresponding sections.

Gradescope entry code is X3V4ZB. Please change your gradescope Student ID to your University UIN.

And don't forget to add yourself on Piazza!

For UIUC students only: Please add yourself to the class on the CBTF scheduler. This is only for UIUC students. The way that the ZJUI students will be proctored will be announced later.

Course Outline

Big Data is all around us. Petabytes of data is collected by Google and Facebook. 24 hours of video is uploaded on Youtube every minute. Making sense of all this data in the relevant context is a critical question. This course takes a holistic view towards understanding how this data is collected, represented and stored, retrieved and computed/analyzed upon to finally arrive at appropriate outcomes for the underlying context. The course is based around three topics, drawn from diverse areas of engineering. The topics for the Spring 2021 offering are:

• Fundamentals of Machine Learning (Instructor: Venugopal V Veeravalli)

• Data Science and Genomics (Instructor: Ilan Shomorony)

• Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Instructor: Suma Pallathadka Bhat)

Further descriptions of these areas are given in the syllabus.