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This will be a graduate level course on challenges in alignment and safety of artificial intelligence. We will consider both technical aspects as well as questions on societal and other impact on the field. This is a fast-moving area and it will be a fast-moving course. I will expect ...

The goal of this multidisciplinary course is to enable students to learn how to create miniaturized devices. In addition to the weekly lectures, hand-on activities will lead students to become capable of creating micro-nano devices. Students will understand the physics of sensors and actuators, beco...

Introduction to computer-controlled robotic manipulators. Topics include coordinate frames and transformations, forward and inverse kinematic solutions to open-chain manipulators, the Jacobian, dynamics and control, and motion planning. In addition, special topics will be introduced such as computer...

The goal of this multidisciplinary course is to enable students to learn how to create miniaturized devices. In addition to the weekly lectures, hand-on activities will lead students to become capable of creating micro-nano devices. Students will understand the physics of sensors and actuators, beco...

This course will take a hands-on approach to learning climate and atmospheric physics. Some of the topics covered will include the Greenhouse effect, hurricanes, climate variability, the jet stream, and global climate modeling. Students will learn to create effective data visualizations and read sci...

Observations and fundamentals of ocean dynamics, from the role of the oceans in climate change to beach waves. Topics include the greenhouse effect and the role of the oceans in global warming; El Ni​ño events in the equatorial Pacific Ocean; the wind-driven ocean circulation and the Gulf Stream; co...

Chemical and physical processes determining the composition of the atmosphere and its implications for air pollution, climate, and life on Earth. Emphasis is on the construction of engineering models and the application of chemical principles to understand and address current environmental issues. N...

Many science and engineering problems don’t have simple analytical solutions or even accurate analytical approximations. Scientific computing can address certain of these problems successfully, providing unique insight. This course introduces some of the widely used techniques in scientific computin...

Students will read, analyze, present, and discuss research papers in data visualization. Throughout the semester, we will examine seminal works and recent state-of-the-art research in information visualization, scientific visualization, and visual analytics. Students will collaborate in small groups...

This course focuses on recognizing, formulating, and solving convex optimization problems. We will introduce basic convex analysis, discuss convex optimization theory, introduce algorithms for solving convex optimization problems, and touch on some advanced topics. We will explore all these in the c...

This course provides an in-depth exploration of modern storage systems, covering both hardware and software components. Students will look into the full stack of storage systems, from an individual drive, the file system on top of it, to modern large-scale distributed storage systems. Emphasis is pl...

Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems often need the ability to make sequential decisions in an unknown, uncertain, possibly hostile environment, by actively interacting with the environment to collect relevant data. This graduate-level course focuses on the theoretical and algorithmic foundat...

This is a seminar course focused on design thinking, analysis, planning, and executing the development of engineered systems. Weekly meetings will include discussions and assigned readings of case studies and examples of the systems surrounding the developing technical system. Organizing and executi...

This course is a seminar-style course where students will help present papers every other day. We'll survey different compositional AI systems, ranging from classical AI systems such as logic, constraint satisfaction, production systems, to modern compositional AI systems such as multi-agent languag...

This research seminar explores the emerging shift from human-crafted heuristics to automatic methodologies in computer systems design. Students will examine how autonomous approaches are beginning to shape compiler optimizations, processor architectures, and microprocessor chip design implementation...

An introductory course in the design, fabrication, and assembly of mechanical and electromechanical devices. Topics include: Engineering graphics and tolerances; Structural design and material selection; Machine elements and two-dimensional mechanisms; DC motors; Design methodology. Emphasis on hand...

An interdisciplinary introduction to the central frameworks that shape the relationship and application of computation in design. Students undertake theoretical and practical exercises on computational models – rule-based description, shape grammars, learning algorithms – and deepen their understand...

Entrepreneurship is increasingly transforming our society and economy. This course aims to provide for undergraduates an introduction to entrepreneurship and its implications for innovation. The class will primarily consist of case study discussions but will also include some traditional lecture ses...

Entrepreneurship is increasingly transforming our society and economy. This course aims to provide for undergraduates an introduction to entrepreneurship and its implications for innovation. The class will primarily consist of case study discussions but will also include some traditional lecture ses...