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ML Engineering & MLOps Challenges
ML Engineering & MLOps challenges put you inside the work of getting models out of notebooks and into production. You'll develop skills in building ML Pipelines, Model Packaging and Model Deployment, and understanding the gap between Training vs Serving, while tracking work in MLflow.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — Model Monitoring, Drift detection & auto-retraining, Kubeflow pipelines, Edge Deployment, and ONNX optimization — running Weights & Biases experiment tracking and Production ML deployment the way real MLOps teams do. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
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Ship a Churn-Prediction Mini-Project End to End
You receive a 12-month anonymized dataset of subscriber events (logins, lesson completions, payment history, support tickets) for around 200,000 users. Define churn precisely (n…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Evaluation
- Gradient Boosting
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Audit a Sepsis Early-Warning Model for Subgroup Performance
You receive a pre-trained vendor model, the training-data summary, and a held-out hospital-network evaluation set (about 18,000 ICU stays with sepsis labels). Compute AUROC + AU…
- Model Evaluation
- Fairness Metrics
- Model Calibration
Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biomedicine - CodeFoundationalNew
Classify Retail Product Photos for an E-Commerce Marketplace
Use a publicly-available product-image dataset (e.g., Fashion-MNIST extended, or a Kaggle e-commerce subset of around 10k images across 12 categories). Fine-tune a small pretrai…
- Image Classification
- Transfer Learning
- Pytorch
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Structure Learning for a Causal Network in Fintech Risk
You receive the 60-signal dataset and a short interview summary of risk analysts' beliefs about which signals influence which. Use a hill-climbing structure-learning algorithm w…
- Structure Learning
- Bayesian Networks
- Causal Modeling
Open coursework Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- ResearchSeniorNew
Pretrain a Small Vision Transformer with Self-Supervised Learning
You receive 80,000 unlabeled 224x224 histology tiles plus 4,000 labeled tiles split into train/val/test. Pretrain a ViT-Small using a self-supervised method of your choice (DINO…
- Self Supervised Learning
- Vision Transformers
- Pytorch
Advanced Deep Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Neural Surrogate for Computational Fluid Dynamics in HVAC Design
Use a published CFD dataset (e.g., AirfRANS or a small in-house dataset if available) of around 1,000 steady-state airflow simulations on 2D building zones. Train a Fourier Neur…
- Neural Operators
- Surrogate Modeling
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
AI for Science and Engineering - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Transfer-Learning Backbone Bake-Off for Retail Product Tagging
You receive 80,000 retail product images tagged with multiple labels from a 250-tag taxonomy. Use each of the three pretrained backbones via two transfer strategies: (1) linear …
- Transfer Learning
- Fine Tuning
- Self Supervised Learning
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Audit a Production Model for Membership Inference Attacks
Use a black-box membership inference attack (e.g., the LiRA or shadow-model attack). You have query access to a sandboxed copy of the model + the original training data labels f…
- Membership Inference
- Privacy Attacks
- Model Evaluation
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Marketing Analyst
Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Build an Ensemble Strategy for Marketing-Mix Modelling
You receive 36 months of weekly marketing-spend and outcome data for 8 sample brands. Build a per-brand baseline gradient-boosting MMM model, then build two more base learners (…
- Ensemble Methods
- Stacking
- Time Series Cv
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Triage Medical-Imaging Annotations with a Small Vision Model
Train a binary normal/abnormal classifier on the public CheXpert or NIH ChestX-ray14 dataset. Use temperature scaling to calibrate the output, then define abstention thresholds …
- Image Classification
- Transfer Learning
- Calibration
Applied Machine Learning - CodeBeginnerNew
Ship a Lightweight ML Microservice for an EdTech Reading App
You receive 3 months of session telemetry (around 50M reading events, child-anonymized). Engineer features per session window, train a small classifier (logistic regression base…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Serving
- Containerization
Applied Machine Learning - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Evaluate Speech-to-Text Quality for a Contact-Center Analytics Vendor
You receive 200 anonymized call-recording snippets (2-4 minutes each, ~67 per language) with reference transcripts plus a domain glossary of about 600 product terms. Run all thr…
- Speech Recognition
- Sequence Models
- Model Evaluation
Machine Perception Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
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Predict Loan Default Risk for a Cross-Border Fintech
You receive 18 months of transactions (around 12M rows) and seller-firmographic data. Define a defensible proxy label for default (e.g., a 60-day chargeback-or-dispute spike com…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Selection
- Model Evaluation
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How it works
From brief to credential, in six steps.
Step 01
Browse challenges aligned to your studies.
Step 02
Accept the one that fits your goals.
Step 03
Work through it with AI Copilot guidance.
Step 04
Submit for structured evaluation.
Step 05
Earn a verified credential.
Step 06
Add it to LinkedIn with one click.
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