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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Model Diffusion of a Hashtag Across a Music-Discovery Platform
You receive 30 days of hashtag-usage data (about 2.4 million events) with account metadata and the follow graph between active hashtag users. Fit an information-diffusion model …
- Diffusion Models
- Network Analysis
- Causal Attribution
Social Network Analysis and Web Science - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Stress-Test a Hiring-Funnel Model for Bias
You receive a synthetic-but-realistic dataset of 25,000 past applicants with features (years of experience, education tier, prior role tags) and outcome labels (advanced past th…
- Model Evaluation
- Fairness Metrics
- Logistic Regression
Machine Learning (Undergraduate) - CodeIntermediateNew
Diagnose and Fix a Deadlock in a Multi-Threaded Payments Service
Receive the service source (Java 21 + Spring Boot, around 30,000 lines), 4 thread dumps from production deadlocks, and a load harness that reproduces the bug roughly 1 in 50 run…
- Deadlock Analysis
- Locks And Monitors
- Python Or JavaScript
Concurrent and Parallel Programming - CodeIntermediateNew
Simulated Annealing for Shift Scheduling at a Hospital
You receive 6 months of anonymized shift demand data, the nurse roster (skills, certifications, contracted hours), and the labor-law hard constraints. Encode the schedule as a 7…
- Simulated Annealing
- Metaheuristics
- Constraint Handling
Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristic Search Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real industry context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Negotiation Support Tool for Climate-Tech Supplier Contracts
You will design and prototype a negotiation support tool for a single supplier contract with six issues (price per kg, delivery lead time, minimum order quantity, payment terms,…
- Negotiation Modeling
- Decision Support Systems
- Multi Issue Bargaining
Decision Support Systems and Decision Analysis - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Reproducible Pricing Analysis for a DTC Skincare Brand
You receive 24 months of order-line data (around 480,000 lines), a Shopify-style customer export, and a discount-code log. Build a Python pipeline that produces: SKU-level price…
- Data Wrangling
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Cohort Analysis
Applied Data Analysis and Practical Data Science - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Race-Free Cache for a Read-Heavy Service
Implement a thread-safe LRU-bounded cache in Java (or Go — your choice, defend it) with: read-write lock or copy-on-write semantics, get-or-load pattern with single-flight to de…
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Race Conditions
- Single Flight
Concurrent and Parallel Programming - CodeIntermediateNew
Refactor a Legacy Reporting Script for a Renewable-Energy Startup
Read the existing script and identify 5-7 distinct responsibilities tangled together. Refactor into 3 layers: data loaders (CSV, REST API), transformers (pure functions over row…
- Abstraction
- Higher Order Functions
- Refactoring
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Optimizing Last-Mile Delivery for a Lisbon Grocery Startup
Your task is to build a linear programming model (or heuristic) to assign orders to vehicles and sequence deliveries. Success means reducing average route length by at least 15%…
- Linear Programming
- Python Or JavaScript
- Route Optimization
Operations Analytics and Optimization - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Audit a Hiring-Screening Model for Demographic Bias
You receive: (a) inference API access to the production model (black-box), (b) a 12,000-resume audit benchmark with self-declared gender and age-band labels (consented, GDPR-com…
- Fairness Metrics
- Bias Auditing
- Model Evaluation
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - CodeIntermediateNew
Calibrate a Multi-Camera Rig for Warehouse Robotics
You will design and prototype a calibration workflow using a printed ChArUco board (a chessboard with embedded ArUco markers). You receive a sample dataset of 200 raw frames per…
- Camera Calibration
- Multi View Geometry
- OpenCV
3D Vision and Multi-View Geometry - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Domain Model for a Library Loan System (Java)
Implement, in Java 21, an Item type hierarchy (Book, AudioBook, Periodical, EquipmentLoan — each with sub-type-specific rules), Member with eligibility logic, Loan as an aggrega…
- Python Or JavaScript
- Oo Design
- Domain Modeling
Object-Oriented Programming and Design Build a verifiable portfolio.
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Knowledge-Graph Recommender for a Niche Online Bookstore
Model the catalog as a knowledge graph (nodes: books, authors, genres, themes, eras, awards; edges: wrote, in-genre, has-theme, won, similar-to). Use Neo4j or a simple Python in…
- Knowledge Representation
- Knowledge Graphs
- Python Or JavaScript
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS Elective) - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Topic Modeling for Sustainable Fashion Brand's Social Media
You are given a dataset of 50,000 social media posts (text only) mentioning EcoWear. Your task is to preprocess the text, apply an unsupervised topic modeling technique (e.g., L…
- Topic Modeling
- Text Mining
- Lda
Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Source-to-Source Migration Tool for a Legacy API
Use Python's libcst (concrete syntax tree library) to parse customer code while preserving formatting. For each of the 14 transformations, write a CST visitor that matches the v…
- Abstract Syntax Trees
- Source To Source Transformation
- Python Or JavaScript
Compiler Construction - CodeIntermediateNew
Characterization Tests for an Untested Pricing Engine
Drive the pricing engine with around 800 representative input vectors generated from anonymized production quotes (provided). For each vector, capture the current output as the …
- Characterization Tests
- Approval Testing
- Legacy Code
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - CodeIntermediateNew
Image Search for a DTC Furniture Retailer's App
Use a pretrained vision-embedding model (CLIP ViT-B/32 or DINOv2-small). Index a catalog of around 1,500 furniture images. Curate a small evaluation set of around 50 user-style …
- Image Embeddings
- Vision Transformers
- Image Search
Computer Vision (Undergraduate) - CodeIntermediateNew
Refactor a Tangled Java Pricing Engine With Design Patterns
Start from a provided Java 21 codebase with the legacy PricingEngine class, 38 example fixtures (input cart, expected price), and one failing test demonstrating a bug from last …
- Python Or JavaScript
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
Object-Oriented Programming and Design - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Approximate Inference for a Topic Model on Customer Tickets
You receive 180,000 tickets (subject + body) spanning the last 18 months. Preprocess into a bag-of-words representation with sensible stopwords and bigrams. Fit a 20-topic LDA v…
- Variational Inference
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Approximate Inference
Probabilistic Graphical Models - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Credit-Card Fraud Detector for a Singapore Neobank
You receive 9 months of anonymized authorization data (around 8 million transactions, around 0.4 percent fraud) plus current rule outcomes. Split temporally and train at least t…
- Classification Modeling
- Class Imbalance
- Model Calibration
AI and Quantitative Finance - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Diagnose Query Failures in an E-Commerce Search Box
You receive 6 months of anonymized query logs (~480 million rows): query string, language hint, results-shown count, top-3 product clicks, and add-to-cart events. Build a notebo…
- Query Log Analysis
- Clustering
- Ir Failure Analysis
Information Retrieval and Search - StrategyIntermediateNew
Toil Audit + Automation Sprint for a Platform Team
Week 1-2: every team member logs every toil instance for 10 working days (timestamp, category, duration). Categorize using the Google SRE toil taxonomy (manual, repetitive, auto…
- Toil Reduction
- Automation
- Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering - CodeIntermediateNew
Fuzzy-Logic Controller for a Sustainable-Greenhouse Operator
You receive a year of 15-minute climate logs (inside/outside temperature, humidity, light, CO2), the current rule-based controller, and the head grower's qualitative description…
- Fuzzy Logic
- Mamdani Inference
- Rule Based Systems
Fuzzy Logic, Knowledge Representation, and Symbolic Reasoning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Community Detection on a Pharma Clinical-Trial Investigator Graph
You receive a pre-fetched dump of around 15,000 trials from a public registry covering oncology over the last 10 years and a mapping of trials to investigator names + institutio…
- Community Detection
- Louvain
- Leiden
Machine Learning on Graphs
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