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- DesignBeginnerNew
Greedy Delivery-Slot Assignment for a Munich Grocery Startup
Using the provided order history sample, rider roster, and manual dispatch baseline, design and implement a greedy slot-assignment algorithm in Python. The algorithm must (1) so…
- Greedy Algorithms
- Algorithm Analysis
- Python
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Compare Kernel Methods to Trees on a Genomics Classification Task
You receive a curated benchmark of about 12,000 labeled variants with ~120 numerical + ~40 string features. Fit kernel SVMs (RBF, polynomial, string), random forest, and XGBoost…
- Kernel Methods
- Svm
- Tree Ensembles
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Amortized-Analysis Investigation of a Production Telemetry Cache
Working only from the three provided materials — the de-identified incident record (incident-record), the representative cache source module (cache-source), and the recorded ope…
- Amortized Analysis
- Data Structures
- Algorithm Analysis
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Add Constant Folding and Dead Code Elimination to a Teaching Compiler
Using the provided intermediate-representation specification, design and propose constant folding and dead code elimination as two intermediate-representation-to-intermediate-re…
- Intermediate Representation
- Constant Folding
- Dead Code Elimination
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Multi-Level Feedback Queue Scheduler in xv6
Fork the xv6-riscv repository and implement MLFQ in proc.c with 3 priority queues, per-queue time slices (10ms / 20ms / 40ms), priority demotion on slice exhaustion, and a 100ms…
- Operating Systems
- Scheduling
- C Programming
Operating Systems - AnalysisSeniorNew
Brain-Tumor MRI Segmentation Bake-Off
You receive a curated public multi-modal MRI brain-tumor cohort (~600 patients, T1/T1c/T2/FLAIR with whole-tumor / tumor-core / enhancing-tumor masks). Train all three architect…
- Medical Imaging
- Segmentation
- Convolutional Neural Networks
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Design a Polyhedral Loop-Tiling Strategy for a Tensor DSL
Study the DSL's IR (provided, MLIR-based with linalg-style ops). Choose a tiling strategy (rectangular tiling with cost-modeled tile sizes is the safe baseline; full polyhedral …
- Polyhedral Analysis
- Loop Tiling
- Mlir
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization - CodeIntermediateNew
Solve a Vehicle-Routing Problem with Tabu Search
You receive a week of anonymized daily VRPTW instances (around 800 orders per day, 120 vehicles, hard delivery windows). Implement tabu search with: a route-insertion constructi…
- Tabu Search
- Metaheuristics
- Vehicle Routing
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- DesignSeniorNew
OTA Firmware-Update Architecture for a 50,000-Device Smart-Meter Fleet
Design a 4-stage OTA architecture: (1) signed image build + manifest, (2) backend rollout (1 percent canary, 10 percent expand, 50 percent expand, 100 percent), (3) device-side …
- Embedded Systems
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Edge Computing
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - CodeBeginnerNew
Image-Classification Model for a Quality-Control Line at a Bottling Plant
Train an image classifier on 8,000 labeled bottle images (3 defect classes + 'ok'). Use transfer learning from a pre-trained backbone (EfficientNet-B0 or MobileNetV3) — the line…
- Deep Learning
- Supervised Learning
- Ml Applications
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - CodeIntermediateNew
Detect Atrial Fibrillation from Wearable Heart-Rate Data
Build a Python pipeline that ingests raw PPG + accelerometer at 100Hz, applies motion-artifact rejection using the accelerometer channel, detects beats, computes RR-interval irr…
- Health Sensing
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Signals
Computational Biology and Health Informatics - 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
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- ResearchIntermediateNew
Evaluate a Knowledge-Graph-Augmented Recommender
You receive permission to use the public MovieLens 1M dataset plus a derived item-KG (movie -> genre, director, decade) built from Wikidata. Train two recommenders: a matrix-fac…
- Knowledge Graph Embeddings
- Recommender Systems
- Benchmarking
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Benchmark Visual SLAM Stacks for an Indoor Delivery Robot
You receive 8 indoor rosbag recordings (about 90 minutes total) captured by the robot's stereo camera + Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) plus ground-truth trajectories from an ex…
- Visual Slam
- Sensor Fusion
- Trajectory Evaluation
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Parallelize an Image-Processing Pipeline with Data Parallelism
Your analysis task is to take the serial pipeline module and its configuration (provided as 'serial-pipeline-module'), run it against the representative image batch described in…
- Data Parallelism
- Python
- Multiprocessing
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Reliable Transport Layer Over UDP
Implement in Go: connection establishment (3-way handshake), sequenced and acknowledged data segments, retransmission timer with exponential backoff, fast retransmit on triple d…
- Tcp Ip
- Reliable Transport
- Udp
Computer Networks - ResearchIntermediateNew
Differential Fuzzing Campaign on a Production C Compiler Backend
Using the incident case file and the campaign scope brief, stand up a Csmith-based generator that produces at least 200,000 random but valid C programs across the two-week windo…
- Fuzzing
- Differential Testing
- Test Case Minimization
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cost-Optimize a Misshapen Kubernetes Cluster
Receive 30 days of cluster metrics (Prometheus + AWS Cost Explorer exports), Helm releases, and PodDisruptionBudgets per namespace. Profile: identify the top 3 cost drivers (lik…
- Kubernetes
- Cost Optimization
- AWS
Cloud Computing - DesignIntermediateNew
Real-Time Traffic-Sensor Fusion for a Smart Intersection
Design a fusion architecture: per-modality timestamping (NTP-disciplined within 50ms), per-modality confidence weighting (modality-specific noise model), Kalman-filter or partic…
- Sensor Fusion
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Edge Computing
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Compare ML Compiler Stacks on a Vision Backbone
Take a frozen ResNet-50 (or similar) in ONNX. Compile and benchmark it via TensorRT on Jetson + GPU, ONNX Runtime on all three, OpenVINO on x86 CPU, and IREE on ARM if time allo…
- Ml Compilers
- Tensorrt
- Onnx
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Implement an Autoregressive Model for Anonymized Voice-Synthesis at a Defense Vendor
You receive a public-domain speech dataset (LibriTTS subset, around 50 speakers) and a fixed evaluation protocol (speaker-identifiability AUC, emotion-preservation MOS proxy, in…
- Autoregressive Models
- Voice Conversion
- Speech Synthesis
Deep Generative Models - ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate Open-Source Embedding Models for a Multilingual Help Center
You receive 1,200 labeled (query, relevant-help-article) pairs across 6 languages plus the help-center corpus (~25,000 articles). Index the corpus with each of 4 open-source mul…
- Multilingual Embeddings
- Dense Retrieval
- Ir Evaluation
Information Retrieval and Search - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Spectral Clustering Proposal for Customer Segmentation at Cadence
Using the provided customer usage sample, construct a similarity graph (k-nearest-neighbors with k=15 and Gaussian radial-basis-function edge weights), compute the normalized gr…
- Spectral Methods
- Linear Algebra
- Algorithm Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Design a Custom Page-Replacement Policy for a Tier-1 Cloud Provider Simulator
Use the provided simulator (Python harness wrapping a C++ page-cache model) and the team's 3 anonymized workload traces (web-cache, key-value store, batch analytics). Implement …
- Memory Management
- Page Replacement
- Benchmarking
Operating Systems
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