Intermediate Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the intermediate level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- ResearchIntermediateNew
Audit an Agentic Workflow for Safety Failures
Read the system's existing capability spec + tool-allow-list. Design 50+ adversarial inputs across categories: prompt-injection, tool-confusion, scope-escape (agent does somethi…
- Ai Red Teaming
- Agent Safety
- Prompt Injection
Multi-Agent Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Add Differential Privacy to a Mental-Health App's Analytics Dashboard
Wrap the analytics module in `analytics_module.py` (provided) with a differential-privacy layer built on OpenDP. Implement epsilon-delta accounting: add Laplace noise to counts …
- Differential Privacy
- Privacy Budget
- Python Programming
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Instruction-Tune a Small Model for an Edtech Tutor
You receive a 1.5B base model (e.g., SmolLM-1.7B or Qwen-1.8B), permission to use 2 hours of a rented A100, and a curated seed of around 5,000 math-tutoring dialogues. Augment w…
- Instruction Tuning
- Supervised Fine Tuning
- Dataset Curation
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models - CodeIntermediateNew
Plan Inventory Replenishment as an MDP for an E-Commerce AI Startup
You receive 18 months of daily demand for 50 representative SKUs at one warehouse plus lead-time and unit-cost data. For one SKU at a time, formulate an MDP with state = (on-han…
- Mdp Modeling
- Value Iteration
- Dynamic Programming
Decision Making Under Uncertainty Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Map Knowledge Diffusion Across an Open-Source Project Ecosystem
Using the de-identified contributor activity export (material 1), build a temporal contributor-project network from the recorded events, then collapse it into a contributor-to-c…
- Network Science
- Temporal Networks
- Graph Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Cross-Functional Team Simulation: Launch a Sustainable Energy Subscription Service
Form a team of 4-5 and assign roles: (1) Product Lead — define the subscription tiers and customer experience, (2) Marketing Lead — develop brand positioning and customer acquis…
- Digital Business Models
- Collaborative Work
- Project Management
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cut Latency and Cost on a High-Volume Summarization Service
You receive 30 days of anonymized request logs (prompt token counts, completion token counts, latencies, models used). Profile the cost and latency distribution, then design and…
- Cost Optimization
- Latency Optimization
- Prompt Compression
LLM Application Development - StrategyIntermediateNew
Rebranding a B2B SaaS Scale-up for Global Expansion
As a marketing analyst, you must recommend whether TaskFlow should use a single global brand or adapt its brand name, logo, and messaging for key markets (Germany, Japan, Brazil…
- Brand Strategy
- Cross Cultural B2B Marketing
- Positioning
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Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- CodeIntermediateNew
AI-Driven Sales Lead Scoring for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up
You will receive a sample dataset of 200 leads with fields like company size, industry, email open rates, and website visits. Using AI tools, you must craft prompts to generate …
- Prompt Engineering
- Lead Scoring
- Data Analysis
Data-Driven Prototyping with AI - CodeIntermediateNew
Apply Software Transactional Memory to a Real-Time Auction Book
Implement two variants of the same auction-book API (best-bid/best-ask lookup, place-order, cancel-order, match-orders): (1) baseline with java.util.concurrent locks + a SkipLis…
- Transactional Memory
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Haskell
Advanced Concurrency and Parallel Computing - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Accessibility Audit and 90-Day Fix Plan for Halo Insights
Working from the provided dashboard specification (the twelve pages and their shared components), the representative page component (a real dashboard page with accessibility def…
- Accessibility
- Wcag Audit
- Usability Evaluation
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Strangler-Fig Migration of a Monolithic Order Service
Stand up an HTTP facade in front of the monolith (Nginx or a small Go proxy) that routes by URL pattern. Slice 1: extract the order-status read endpoint, dual-write nothing, rou…
- Strangler Fig Pattern
- Refactoring
- Legacy Modernization
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection Build a verifiable portfolio.
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Why Ewance
- CodeIntermediateNew
DPO Fine-Tune for a Domain-Specific Writing Assistant
You receive a base instruction-tuned model checkpoint plus 2,500 preference pairs from editorial reviews (each pair: two grant-application paragraphs, the editor-preferred winne…
- Dpo
- Preference Learning
- Model Finetuning
Machine Learning from Human Preferences (RLHF and Alignment) - DesignIntermediateNew
Rebuilding Team Dynamics in a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Your team will conduct a team dynamics assessment using Tuckman's stages and Lencioni's five dysfunctions model. You will analyze survey data (provided) and propose a structured…
- Team Dynamics
- Conflict Resolution
- Organizational Development
Organizational Behavior - ResearchIntermediateNew
Safety-Test a Customer-Service Agent for Adversarial Prompts
You receive a sandboxed instance of the agent (a tool-using LLM that can read account balances and open support tickets — both mocked). Design a red-team suite of at least 80 pr…
- LLM Agents
- Red Teaming
- Adversarial Prompts
AI Agents and LLM-Based Agents - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Mapping TaskFlow's Influencer Network for Enterprise Reach
Working from the campaign case file, the account-attributes dataset, and the interaction-edges dataset (all listed in provided materials), build a directed influence network whe…
- Network Analysis
- Twitter API
- Influencer Identification
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Market Entry Strategy for TaskFlow into German Manufacturing
Your team must produce a market entry strategy for TaskFlow's move into German manufacturing, working only from the materials you are given: a leadership mandate memo that state…
- Market Entry
- Competitive Strategy
- Game Theory
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Circular Economy Business Model for a Fashion Rental Platform
Propose a circular business model for Rent-a-Robe that includes a take-back program, repair service, and resale marketplace. Your deliverable is a 5-slide pitch deck outlining t…
- Circular Economy
- Business Model Innovation
- Financial Modeling
Sustainability and Sustainable Business - CodeIntermediateNew
Design an Event-Sourced Inventory System for a Third-Party Warehouse
Working from the operations case file and the warehouse domain specification, design an event model of twelve to fifteen events that covers the warehouse lifecycle (receive, put…
- Event Sourcing
- Cqrs
- Eventstoredb
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Audit Recommender Filter Bubbles for a Civic Forum
You receive 90 days of impression logs (about 30 million recommendation events) tagged with content viewpoint labels (left-leaning, center, right-leaning, non-political) from an…
- Recommender Evaluation
- Diversity Metrics
- Audit Methodology
Social Network Analysis and Web Science - StrategyIntermediateNew
Scaling PLG to Enterprise: A 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You are a growth strategist at TaskFlow. Your task is to propose a strategy to acquire enterprise customers without alienating the existing PLG base. Constraints: limited sales …
- Product Led Growth
- Enterprise Sales
- Pricing Strategy
Digital Strategy and Platforms - ResearchIntermediateNew
Lab Project: Compare Three Architectures on Your Own Mini-Benchmark
Scope the problem yourself (suggested examples: sentiment classification on a niche domain, tabular anomaly detection, time-series forecasting on a public dataset). Define the t…
- Experiment Design
- Statistical Testing
- Pytorch
AI/ML Practicum and Hands-on Lab - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a WCAG 2.2 AA Accessible Chart Component Library
Build a React and TypeScript component library that exports four chart components (bar, line, scatter, heatmap), each rendering the figures in the provided sample analytics data…
- Accessibility
- Wcag 2
- React
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Lab-Automation Pipeline for a Bangalore Materials Startup
Design (not build) the full closed-loop lab pipeline: data layer (LIMS plus experiment store), model layer (a surrogate plus an acquisition function such as Expected Improvement…
- Systems Architecture
- Active Learning
- Mlops Design
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