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Case-Study Analysis of a Public AI Incident
Pick one public AI incident (suggestions: a chatbot's harmful response that went viral, a facial-recognition false-arrest case, a financial-model bias scandal). Produce a 6-page…
- Incident Analysis
- Responsible Ai
- Case Study Research
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - StrategyIntermediateNew
Decompose a CRM Monolith into Bounded Services
Analyze the monolith using NDepend or similar (provided). Identify the top 4-6 candidate service boundaries based on coupling + business-capability seams (likely: Quotation, Pol…
- Strangler Fig Pattern
- Service Decomposition
- Csharp Programming
Enterprise and Business Software Engineering - CodeIntermediateNew
Unify a Logistics Driver App and Add Bluetooth Vehicle Telematics
Working only from the materials provided, build a React Native app (Expo bare workflow) that replaces the three legacy flows documented in the case file — optimized route view, …
- Mobile Development
- React Native
- Ble
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Quantize a CNN for Battery-Powered Wildlife Cameras at a Climate Nonprofit
You receive an FP32 CNN (MobileNetV2 fine-tuned to 22 species, around 13 MB) and a hold-out test set of 4,000 images. Quantize to int8 (post-training quantization first, then qu…
- Quantization
- Qat
- Edge Deployment
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Design an Electronic Health Record Data-Quality Audit
Stand up a Python (pandas + DuckDB) audit notebook ingesting the 14M-record extract. Define and run quality checks across four dimensions: completeness (required-field missingne…
- Health Informatics
- Data Quality
- Snomed Ct
Computational Biology and Health Informatics - CodeSeniorNew
Prototype an Augmented-Reality Hip-Implant Planning Overlay
Build a HoloLens 2 application that loads a three-dimensional bone scan from the sample medical imaging data ('hip-dicom-samples'), renders it as a placeable hologram, and lets …
- Ar Development
- Mixed Reality Applications
- 3d Interaction
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Migrate a Legacy Warehouse to a Lakehouse for an Edtech AI Platform
You receive a Postgres dump of around 50 GB and the current dbt models that produce the student-attempts mart. Land the raw data in object storage (S3 or GCS) as Parquet partiti…
- Lakehouse Architecture
- Delta Lake
- Spark
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - AnalysisIntermediateNew
TCP Congestion Control Comparison on a Long-Fat Network
Set up two Linux test hosts in Sydney + Frankfurt cloud regions (or one host pair with tc-netem emulating 280ms RTT). Run iperf3 transfers using CUBIC and BBR at 4 loss rates (0…
- Tcp Ip
- Congestion Control
- Performance Testing
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Pricing Strategist
Set the price that captures value without leaving sales on the table. Demand modelling, willingness-to-pay research, and the disciplined experimentation that turns pricing into a competitive advantage.
- CodeSeniorNew
Build an MLOps Platform Slice for a Fintech Risk Team
Across a 5-person team, ship (1) experiment tracking integrated into a sample model training job; (2) a model registry that promotes-by-tag; (3) a training pipeline orchestrated…
- Mlops Design
- Experiment Tracking
- Model Registry
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Design Safe Navigation Behavior for a Hospital Delivery Robot
You receive a dataset of 200 anonymized hospital corridor traces (people positions over time from the robot's LIDAR) plus the current planner's parameters. Design a policy that …
- Human Aware Navigation
- Ros2
- Motion Planning
Human-Robot Interaction - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Branch Predictor Study for a Cryptocurrency Hashing Library
Profile the hot inner loop with perf record + perf annotate to identify the 5 highest-frequency branches. Measure per-branch mispredict counts using perf counters (BR_MISP_RETIR…
- Branch Prediction
- Performance Counters
- Benchmarking
Computer Architecture - CodeIntermediateNew
Fuzz a Memory-Unsafe Image-Parsing Library
Identify 3 critical parser entry points (DICOM dataset parser, JPEG 2000 decoder, TIFF directory parser) and write a libFuzzer harness + an AFL++ harness for each. Build with AS…
- Fuzzing
- Memory Safety
- Address Sanitizer
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Run a Human-Preference Study Comparing Two Coding Assistants
Design a blinded paired-comparison study: 12 developer participants, each gets the same 8 realistic coding tasks (refactor, write a function, debug, test), each task is solved b…
- Experiment Design
- Statistical Evaluation
- Human Evaluation
AI Measurement and Evaluation - 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 - AnalysisSeniorNew
Diagnose a Hard-Real-Time Failure in an Automotive ECU
Receive anonymized AUTOSAR runnable + task traces (CSV + Vector CANalyzer .blf), 8 hours covering 3 failure events. Identify timing budget per task and runnable. Reproduce on th…
- Autosar
- Real Time Debugging
- Can Bus Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Explain a Credit-Risk Model with SHAP for a Fintech
You receive a trained XGBoost credit-risk model (binary default prediction), the training feature schema (38 features), and a held-out 10,000-sample test set with labels. Comput…
- Shap
- Interpretability
- Fairness Analysis
Explainable and Interpretable AI - CodeBeginnerNew
Refactor a Node.js Service into Scala with Effect Systems
Take the existing Node.js price-normalization code (provided). Rewrite in Scala 3 using ZIO (or Cats Effect) — model every effect explicitly (IO for side effects, Either or type…
- Scala Programming
- Zio Effects
- Cats Effect
Functional Programming - 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 - PresentationBeginnerNew
Pitch an LLM Earnings-Call Analyst to an Equity Long-Short Team
Pick 3 publicly available US tech earnings-call transcripts (from a free source like sec.gov filings or company investor-relations pages) and build a retrieval-augmented LLM wor…
- Prompt Engineering
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
- LLM Evaluation
AI and Quantitative Finance - CodeIntermediateNew
Forecasting Model for Online-Game Daily Active Users
Build forecasts at 14-day horizon per region using: (1) classical baseline — SARIMA or Prophet; (2) ML approach — gradient-boosted regressor on engineered features (day-of-week,…
- Supervised Learning
- Time Series Forecasting
- Python Programming
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - DesignBeginnerNew
Build a Multi-Criteria Vendor Selection Tool for an AI Consulting Firm
You will design a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA, a structured way to score options against weighted criteria) tool that accepts 6-10 vendor options, 6-12 weighted crite…
- Mcda
- Decision Support Systems
- Streamlit
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Real-Time Order Pipeline for a Fintech Payments Platform
You receive a synthetic Kafka stream of around 500 transactions per second, a static merchant dimension table (about 80,000 rows), and a daily FX rate snapshot. Design an end-to…
- Streaming Data
- Kafka
- Stream Processing
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
GPU-Parallel Graph Coloring for an EDA Tools Vendor
Implement Jones-Plassmann graph coloring in CUDA (or HIP if AMD hardware available). Input: a 12-million-node graph in CSR format (compressed sparse row). Output: a valid colori…
- Parallel Algorithms
- Gpu Programming
- Cuda
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - ResearchIntermediateNew
Hardware-Aware NAS for a Wearable ECG Classifier
You receive a labeled subset of an arrhythmia ECG dataset (about 80,000 10-second windows, 4 classes), a microcontroller latency lookup table (op-level milliseconds) for a Corte…
- Neural Architecture Search
- Hardware Aware Design
- Edge Inference
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