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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Stand Up Contract Testing for a Logistics Microservices Backend
Using only the materials provided, choose and justify the six producer-consumer service pairs to migrate first. Read the 90-day staging breakage log to rank pairs by how much pa…
- Contract Testing
- Pact
- Microservices
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Technical Debt Register for a Legacy Banking Monolith
Run 8 structured 45-minute engineer interviews (template provided) capturing one debt item per pain point with reproducible evidence. Run SonarQube against the monolith for a qu…
- Technical Debt
- Debt Quadrant
- Code Quality
Technical Debt Management - DesignIntermediateNew
Rate and Reduce Technical Debt in a Telecom OSS Codebase
Design a SQALE-based technical-debt rating and improvement proposal for Lumera Telekom's OSS. Using only the static-analysis findings export, the module inventory and rating gri…
- Sqale Method
- Technical Debt
- Code Quality
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Refactor the Untouchable ReturnsProcessor Class Safely
Start from the representative ReturnsProcessor module extract and the behavior contract supplied in the provided materials, and use the change-and-incident history to decide whe…
- Refactoring
- Mikado Method
- Characterization Testing
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
5G Network Slicing Strategy for a Smart-Port Pilot
Inventory the 3 workloads with concrete numbers (e.g., 'straddle carriers: 12 ms one-way latency, 99.999 percent availability, 50 Mbps uplink'). Design 3 5G network slices (eMBB…
- 5g Network Slicing
- Cellular Networks
- Qos Design
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 - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Compare Stereo Depth Methods for a Drone Inspection Startup
You receive 500 calibrated stereo pairs from a turbine inspection plus sparse LiDAR ground truth on each pair. Implement (or wrap) three depth estimators: OpenCV Semi-Global Mat…
- Stereo Depth Estimation
- Multi View Geometry
- Model Evaluation
Open coursework - 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
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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.
- 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
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Forgetting-Curve-Aware Spaced-Repetition Engine
You receive 6 months of practice logs from 8,000 learners (item, timestamp, response correctness, response latency). Fit a learner-personalized forgetting model (logistic per-it…
- Spaced Repetition
- Personalization
- Behavioral Data
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Compliance Strategy for an AI Robo-Advisor in the EU
Anchor the work on the published EU AI Regulation risk classification (limited vs. high-risk systems) and the European Securities and Markets Authority guidelines on robo-advice…
- Ai Governance
- Regulatory Analysis
- Product Strategy
AI and Quantitative Finance - 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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- CodeIntermediateNew
Reason over a Climate Policy Knowledge Graph for an EU Think Tank
Design a knowledge graph schema covering regulations, member states, sectors, transposition dates, and source-document citations. Ingest a curated dataset of around 200 nodes th…
- Knowledge Graphs
- Knowledge Representation
- Rule Based Reasoning
Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques - CodeIntermediateNew
Design an SAT-Based Verifier for an Autonomous-Vehicle Test Lab
Model a simplified four-way intersection: agent positions, lights, and discrete time steps. Define 5 safety properties in propositional logic (e.g., 'no two agents in the inters…
- Sat Solving
- Logical Inference
- Formal Verification
Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques - PresentationIntermediateNew
Design a Hybrid Symbolic-Neural Agent for an Enterprise RAG Demo
Design a hybrid agent for a 'company-policy assistant' demo: a symbolic planner decomposes user goals into typed subtasks ('find policy', 'check applicability', 'compose answer'…
- Hybrid Ai
- Symbolic Planning
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Map a Healthtech Startup's Triage Bot to the EU AI Regulation
Read the EU AI Regulation's Annex III (high-risk areas) carefully. Classify the triage bot's components and explain whether the system is high-risk; if so, enumerate the applica…
- Regulatory Analysis
- Ai Governance
- Risk Mapping
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Draft GDPR + AI Act Data Provisions for a Training-Data Vendor
Anchor the work on (1) GDPR Articles 28 (processor obligations) and 32 (security), (2) the EU AI Regulation's data-governance article for high-risk systems, and (3) the EDPB's p…
- Data Protection Law
- Contract Redlining
- Regulatory Analysis
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Continuous Eval Pipeline for an Enterprise RAG Product
Design (and partially build) a continuous-eval pipeline for a RAG system: (1) a structured eval set with at least 50 queries grouped by query class; (2) automated scoring (LLM-a…
- Continuous Evaluation
- LLM Evaluation
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
AI Measurement and Evaluation - ResearchIntermediateNew
Red-Team a Customer-Service Chatbot for Jailbreak Resistance
Use a published taxonomy of jailbreak categories (prompt injection, persona override, encoded payloads, multi-turn escalation, refusal bypass, tool-misuse). For each category, d…
- Red Teaming
- Jailbreak Analysis
- LLM Evaluation
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Design a Capability Evaluation for an Open-Weights Coding Model
Pick a recent open-weights coding model (e.g., a Qwen, DeepSeek, or Llama variant). Design an evaluation set of around 40 coding tasks across 4 buckets: standard benign coding, …
- Capability Evaluation
- Safety Evaluation
- LLM Evaluation
AI Safety and Alignment - 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
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Run a Monte Carlo Tree Search Strategy for a Robotics Pick-and-Place Task
You receive a simulator of the pick-and-place task: a bin with 10 randomly-placed parts, an action space of which part to pick next, and a reward = parts picked per minute with …
- Monte Carlo Tree Search
- Planning
- Simulation
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Optimize Stop-Loss Policies with Dynamic Programming at a Quant Fund
You receive five years of daily PnL series for 12 momentum strategies plus a small set of state features (rolling vol, drawdown, regime indicator). Calibrate a discrete Markov m…
- Dynamic Programming
- Backward Induction
- State Modeling
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Frame an Energy-Storage Dispatch Decision as a Bayesian Decision Problem
You receive 2 years of hourly spot-price data, 2 years of wind generation data, and a manufacturer's battery degradation model. Frame dispatch as a Bayesian decision problem: mo…
- Bayesian Decision Theory
- Price Modeling
- Back Testing
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