Senior Challenges
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- CodeSeniorNew
Design an In-House Bare-Metal Bootloader for a Smartwatch Prototype
Working only from the provided materials, design and implement a bare-metal C bootloader for the Cortex-M4 target with no operating system, a custom linker script, and vector-ta…
- C Programming
- Manual Memory Management
- Pointers
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Benchmark Reward-from-Feedback Methods on a Tabletop Pick-Place
You will use a Franka Panda arm in PyBullet on a 4-object pick-and-place task. For each of the three feedback methods, train a reward model and a downstream policy until converg…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Reward Learning
- Preference Comparison
Human-Robot Interaction - CodeSeniorNew
Port a Microkernel's Fast Message Path from x86-64 to RISC-V
Starting from the representative fast-path module and its behavioral specification in the provided materials, re-implement the synchronous fast message path for RISC-V 64-bit (t…
- Microkernels
- Ipc
- Risc V
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Compare RNN vs Transformer for Long-Sequence Modeling
Pick a public trajectory dataset (e.g., Argoverse 2, Waymo Open, or ETH-UCY). Implement three models with comparable parameter counts (around 5M each): an LSTM baseline, a vanil…
- Transformers
- Rnn
- State Space Models
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- CodeSeniorNew
Assess Secure Cross-Bank Fraud Computation for a Four-Bank Consortium
Using the de-identified situation in the consortium case file and the two synthetic per-bank datasets (the bank suspicious-account lists and the merchant fraud-marker tallies), …
- Secure Computation
- Mpc
- Cryptography
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Time a 500-Million-Euro Solar Investment to the Eurozone Cycle
You are SunVista's economic analyst, and the Chief Financial Officer has asked you for a decision-ready report that guides the timing of the 500-million-euro solar build-out. Wo…
- Business Cycle Analysis
- Macroeconomic Forecasting
- Investment Timing
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Cross-Chain Bridge Protocol with Honest Threat Model
Read the Vitalik 'cross-chain interoperability' essay and survey 3 existing bridge designs (lock-and-mint, atomic-swap, optimistic-rollup-native). Design your protocol around a …
- Blockchain Protocols
- Smart Contracts
- Solidity
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Assess ESG Integration in a Family Office Portfolio
Analyze the current portfolio's ESG ratings using MSCI or Sustainalytics data (provided). Identify sectors with high carbon footprint and poor social scores. Recommend a new ass…
- ESG Integration
- Portfolio Optimization
- Impact Measurement
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- AnalysisSeniorNew
Tame the P99 Latency Tail of a Real-Time Ad-Auction Service
Working from the four provided materials only, isolate and fix the latency tail of the bidder. Start with the representative auction-handler module ('bidder-module') as the code…
- Performance Optimization
- Ebpf
- Go
Open coursework - 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 - AnalysisSeniorNew
Social Listening for a B2B SaaS Brand Reputation
Your task is to perform a social listening analysis for CloudSync over the past 3 months. Constraints: use only free or trial versions of tools (e.g., Brandwatch, Talkwalker, or…
- Social Listening
- Sentiment Analysis
- Reputation Management
Social Media Marketing - AnalysisSeniorNew
Data Protection Impact Assessment for a Fintech App
You are the data protection officer (DPO) for the fintech. Perform a DPIA for the new AI-driven loan feature, following ICO guidelines. Identify at least 5 key risks, rate them …
- GDPR Compliance
- Data Protection Impact Assessment
- Risk Management
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Prototype a Gaussian-Splatting Capture App for Consumer AR
You will design and prototype (no app-store deploy required) a 5-step capture-to-share flow: (1) capture about 60 photos with on-screen guidance, (2) upload to a backend job que…
- Gaussian Splatting
- Neural Scene Representation
- Product Design
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Investigate Coffee-Price and Euro Risk for a Vietnamese Exporter
Investigate using only the materials provided. First, observe the real market: track how the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) robusta coffee futures settlement price and the euro…
- IFRS 9
- Hedge Accounting
- Derivatives
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Diagnose and Fix Query-Planner Misestimates in a FinTech Warehouse
For each of the 6 queries, capture EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) and compare estimated vs actual rows at each node. Identify the misestimate source per query (single-column stats s…
- Query Optimization
- Postgresql Planner
- Extended Statistics
Advanced Database Systems - PresentationSeniorNew
Run a Post-Mortem on a Failed ML Deployment
You receive a packet: original training data sample, post-launch production logs, three Slack-style threads from the on-call rotation, and a summary of the telco's complaints. R…
- Root Cause Analysis
- Stakeholder Framing
- Model Monitoring
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Build Co-Located Mixed-Reality Engine Inspection Training
Build a Unity prototype that supports three people wearing Magic Leap 2 headsets (or Quest 3 with passthrough as a fallback) in the same physical room, all seeing one shared vir…
- Mixed Reality Applications
- Multiplayer Xr
- Shared Anchors
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Brain-Tumor MRI Segmentation Bake-Off
You receive a curated public multi-modal MRI brain-tumor cohort (~600 patients, T1/T1c/T2/FLAIR with whole-tumor / tumor-core / enhancing-tumor masks). Train all three architect…
- Medical Imaging
- Segmentation
- Convolutional Neural Networks
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Train a Small Diffusion Model for Synthetic Defect Generation
You receive 2,000 labeled defect images and 18,000 clean weld images. Train a small class-conditional latent diffusion model on the defect images (Hugging Face diffusers is fine…
- Generative Perception
- Diffusion Models
- Data Augmentation
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Build a Distributed Shared Memory Layer Over RDMA for Risk Engines
Build a Distributed Shared Memory library in C++ that exposes a small region interface — allocate a shared region, read from it, write to it, and free it — starting from the pro…
- Distributed Systems
- Rdma
- Consistency Models
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Lock-Free Concurrent Skip List for a Time-Series Database
Using the baseline implementation and benchmark harness in the provided code module (baseline-skiplist-rs), design and build a lock-free skip list that replaces the mutex-guarde…
- Lock Free
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Rust Programming
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Train a Reinforcement-Learning Policy for Drone Obstacle Avoidance
You receive a custom Gymnasium drone-flight environment (provided), a baseline hand-engineered controller, and a target evaluation suite covering 4 obstacle densities. Train a P…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Ppo
- Robotics Simulation
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Value Creation Plan for a SaaS Scale-Up
Develop a 100-day value creation plan: analyze current sales funnel, pricing tiers, and customer segments. Propose changes to sales compensation, product packaging, and customer…
- Value Creation
- Saas Metrics
- Pricing Strategy
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Design a Fair-Pricing Auction for a Renewable Energy Certificate Marketplace
Using the GreenCert market context brief and the European certificate-system reference for the regulatory and product backdrop, design an auction that clears trades in this cert…
- Auction Theory
- Mechanism Design
- Market Design
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