DSC762: Seminar and Industry Engagement / College of Computing, Informatics and Mathematics

The objective of this course is to help a student to get started in the Research Project in the following semester. The course provides for individual study in areas of data science not covered in the regular curriculum under the supervision of a data science lecturer and an industry supervisor. The supervisors guide the student in the research process. The students also have to engage with the industry by attending seminars whereby domain experts are invited to share with the students practical case studies. The student and the supervisors should have an agreement on the work to be done by the student in advance; and then, develop the research proposal. Regular meetings with the supervisor(s) are required. The student need to review literature in the area of the planned Research Project, propose comparison, improving or applying selected algorithms or methods as part of developing solutions to the Research Project’s problem. The work done is to be presented in a form of a research proposal and also communicated professionally in an oral presentation.