Fernando Perez Cruz: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2020

Name	Prof. Dr. Fernando Perez Cruz
Address	Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) ETH Zürich, OAT W 23 Andreasstrasse 5 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND
Telephone	+41 44 633 63 65
E-mail	fernando.perezcruz@sdsc.ethz.ch
Department	Computer Science
Relationship	Adjunct Professor

Number	Title	ECTS	Hours	Lecturers
263-5225-00L	Advanced Topics in Machine Learning and Data Science Number of participants limited to 20. The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the fourth week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar.	2 credits	2S	F. Perez Cruz
Abstract	In this seminar, recent papers of the machine learning and data science literature are presented and discussed. Possible topics cover statistical models, machine learning algorithms and its applications.
Objective	The seminar “Advanced Topics in Machine Learning and Data Science” familiarizes students with recent developments in machine learning and data science. Recently published articles, as well as influential papers, have to be presented and critically reviewed. The students will learn how to structure a scientific presentation, which covers the motivation, key ideas and main results of a scientific paper. An important goal of the seminar presentation is to summarize the essential ideas of the paper in sufficient depth for the audience to be able to follow its main conclusion, especially why the article is (or is not) worth attention. The presentation style will play an important role and should reach the level of professional scientific presentations.
Content	The seminar will cover a number of recent papers which have emerged as important contributions to the machine learning and data science literatures. The topics will vary from year to year but they are centered on methodological issues in machine learning and its application, not only to text or images, but other scientific domains like medicine, climate or physics.
Literature	The papers will be presented in the first session of the seminar.
266-0100-00L	Capstone Project Only for DAS in Data Science.	8 credits	17A	F. Perez Cruz, O. Verscheure, T. Hofmann
Abstract	The capstone project is part of the DAS in Data Science and is an opportunity to apply the knowledge acquired in the program in an independent, real-world project.
Objective	To apply the knowledge acquired in the program in an independent, real-world project.
Content	The capstone project can be done under the supervision of the Swiss Data Science Center, or of any core or adjunct faculty of Data Science. The project has to be finished within 6 months. Deadline for a project the following semester conducted at the SDSC is mid June/mid December.