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Multi-Tenant SaaS Backend with Postgres Row Security
Design the multi-tenant schema: shared tables with a tenant_id column, indexed appropriately. Write a forward + backward migration (using Drizzle or Prisma). Implement Postgres …
- Multi Tenant Architecture
- Postgresql
- Row Level Security
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Secure a LoRaWAN Sensor Network for Cold-Chain Logistics
Read the LoRaWAN 1.0.x vs 1.1 spec (the network runs 1.0.3). Design the new key management: device-unique AppKey + NwkSKey, rotation every 90 days for the warehouse devices (the…
- Lorawan
- Wireless Security
- Key Management
Wireless and Mobile Networks - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communication Trial Analysis
Load the anonymised dataset (logged packet RX/TX, PC5 sidelink RSSI, RSRP, SINR, vehicle trajectory, application latency for safety messages). Compute the canonical 3GPP Release…
- C V2x
- Pc5 Sidelink
- Wireless Performance Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cellular IoT NB-IoT vs LTE-M Choice for Smart Metering
Define 6 evaluation axes: indoor / basement coverage (MCL / Maximum Coupling Loss target), battery life (15-year), data cadence (1 message every 4 hours), mobility (static), MNO…
- Nb Iot
- Lte M
- Cellular Iot
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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 - ResearchIntermediateNew
Train a NeRF for Real-Estate Virtual Tours
You receive a curated dataset of 3 apartments, each with around 120 input images and known camera poses (already SfM-processed). Train a NeRF variant (Instant-NGP or Nerfacto re…
- Neural Scene Representation
- Nerf
- Pytorch
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Finetune a Diffusion Model for Sustainable-Fashion Mockups
You receive 1,200 product photos with paired captions and the brand's style guide. Fine-tune a Stable-Diffusion-class base model with LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation, a parameter-effi…
- Diffusion Models
- Lora Finetuning
- Pytorch
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Benchmark Long-Context Architectures on a Legal-Doc Retrieval Task
You receive a public legal-QA dataset (e.g., LongBench's legal split or similar) filtered to documents over 50,000 tokens. Implement or wrap 3 architectures: a sliding-window Tr…
- Long Context Architectures
- State Space Models
- Transformers
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Build a Robust Image Classifier for a Climate-Tech Satellite Startup
You receive a labeled dataset of about 25,000 Sentinel-2 patches (positive = illegal construction visible, negative = not). The dataset is split by region AND by season so you c…
- Data Augmentation
- Deep Learning
- Pytorch
Advanced Deep Learning - ResearchSeniorNew
Investigate Why Our Generative Model Memorizes Training Data
Pick a small open-source diffusion model (e.g., a Stable-Diffusion-class community model trained on LAION-subset). Reproduce a published membership-inference + extraction probe …
- Generative Models
- Memorization Analysis
- Differential Privacy
Advanced Deep Learning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Bayesian Credit-Scoring Model for an Emerging-Markets Fintech
You receive an anonymized snapshot of about 30,000 historical applications with features (income proxy, tenure on platform, prior loans, region) and the binary default outcome. …
- Bayesian Learning
- Credit Scoring
- Model Evaluation
Advanced Machine Learning - CodeBeginnerNew
Stack Five Models for a Kaggle-Style Forecasting Bake-Off
You receive a pseudonymized dataset of 24 months of daily shipment volumes across about 200 origin-destination lanes plus weather and holiday features. Train 5 base models, use …
- Ensemble Methods
- Time Series Forecasting
- Feature Engineering
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Optimize Hyperparameters with Bayesian Optimization on a Tight Budget
You receive a B2B-SaaS churn dataset (about 12,000 customer-month rows, 38 features) and a fixed sweep budget of 40 trials per model family. Implement a Bayesian optimizer (Optu…
- Bayesian Optimization
- Hyperparameter Tuning
- Ensemble Methods
Advanced Machine Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Kernel Methods vs. Deep Learning on a Tiny-Data Drug-Discovery Task
You receive (or download) 3 public ADMET datasets from MoleculeNet (e.g., BBBP, Lipophilicity, FreeSolv). For each, train both: (a) a Gaussian process with a Tanimoto kernel ove…
- Kernel Methods
- Gaussian Processes
- Graph Neural Networks
Advanced Machine Learning - CodeSeniorNew
Train a Manipulation Policy for Bin Picking with Imitation Learning
You receive a dataset of 500 teleop trajectories on the in-distribution part plus a held-out simulation environment with a never-seen part. Train an imitation-learning policy (D…
- Imitation Learning
- Manipulation
- Diffusion Policy
Advanced Robotics - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Model Predictive Control for a Delivery Robot
You receive a kinematic bicycle model of the robot, a published track layout, and 30 minutes of recorded waypoint trajectories. Implement a nonlinear MPC controller using acados…
- Model Predictive Control
- Optimal Control
- Robotics Simulation
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Localize a Mobile Robot with Particle-Filter SLAM
You receive 4 ROS bags from real customer plants, each containing 2D LiDAR scans, wheel odometry, and ground-truth poses (from a motion-capture cell used only for evaluation). I…
- State Estimation
- Particle Filter
- Slam
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Plan Under Uncertainty for a Warehouse Restocking Robot
You receive a discrete-event simulator of a 1,200-shelf warehouse with calibrated optical-scanning error rates and stock-out cost per shelf. Formulate the restocking decision as…
- Planning Under Uncertainty
- Pomdp
- Monte Carlo Planning
Advanced Robotics - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an Internal-Tools Agent for a Mid-Cap Enterprise
You receive OpenAPI specs for 4 mock internal APIs and 30 reference question-answer pairs spanning easy lookups and multi-tool chains. Build the agent using an LLM tool-use fram…
- LLM Agents
- Tool Use
- Agent Evaluation
AI Agents and LLM-Based Agents - CodeIntermediateNew
Multi-Agent Research Assistant for Biotech Patent Review
You receive 20 historical patent applications with the firm's own prior-art memos as ground truth. Design and build a 3-agent system: (a) Searcher — issues queries to a patent-s…
- LLM Agents
- Multi Agent Collaboration
- Agent Evaluation
AI Agents and LLM-Based Agents - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Evaluate an Agent Suite on the SWE-Bench-Style Coding Benchmark
You receive a sandboxed set of 50 small repo-modification tasks (test-passing as the success signal). Run 3 open-source agent frameworks (e.g., OpenHands, SWE-agent, and Aider) …
- LLM Agents
- Agent Evaluation
- Benchmarking
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
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 - DesignBeginnerNew
Draft a Model Card for a Generative Image Product
You receive the model's training-data summary, evaluation metrics, intended-use statement, and known failure modes from the ML team. Write: (a) a 3-page plain-language model car…
- Model Cards
- Transparency Documentation
- Responsible Ai
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design an Internal AI-Use Policy for a Mid-Cap Bank
You receive the bank's existing IT-acceptable-use policy and a description of which AI tools are being rolled out (an internal Anthropic Claude wrapper for general use; a code-c…
- Ai Governance
- Policy Design
- Responsible Ai
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI
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