Senior Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the senior level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- ResearchSeniorNew
Model-Based RL for a Robotic Arm Pick-Place Task
You receive a PyBullet pick-and-place environment (Franka Panda arm, 12 object types, randomized starting poses) and a SAC baseline that hits 85% success after about 1.5 million…
- Model Based Rl
- World Models
- Reinforcement Learning
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Build a Real-Time Cascade Detection Pipeline for a Trading Platform
Receive 6 months of anonymized trade events (timestamp, ticker, side, volume, account_segment) plus a static follower graph among 50k 'top trader' accounts. Build a streaming pi…
- Streaming
- Network Science
- Graph Analysis
Network Science and Computational Social Science - StrategySeniorNew
EcoThreads Exit: Recommend an Initial Public Offering or Acquisition
Using the EcoThreads company fact base and the public-versus-private market-conditions readout provided, build a recommendation for the investment committee on whether the fund …
- Exit Strategy
- IPO Readiness
- Mergers And Acquisitions
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Performance Pay for Teachers in a Charter School Network
Your task is to design a performance pay system for teachers that links compensation to student achievement and other performance metrics. The system must address equity concern…
- Performance Pay
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Educational Measurement
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- ResearchSeniorNew
Experimental Design for a Fintech App's Savings Nudge
You are a behavioral data scientist at SaveSmart. Design a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test the effect of a 'future self' nudge on savings behavior. Define treatment an…
- Experimental Design
- Statistical Analysis
- Nudge Theory
Behavioral Economics - ResearchSeniorNew
Neuromarketing Audit for a Sustainable Fashion Retailer
Your team will design and simulate a neuromarketing experiment. First, propose two alternative store layouts (e.g., circular vs. grid) and two website homepage designs (e.g., he…
- Neuromarketing
- Experimental Design
- Eye Tracking Analysis
Consumer Behavior - StrategySeniorNew
Hostile Takeover Defense for a Mid-Cap Pharma Firm
As a special M&A advisor to MediCore's board, you must analyze the bid, assess the company's intrinsic value, and recommend a defense strategy. Options include a poison pill, wh…
- Takeover Defense
- Valuation
- Negotiation
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Foresight-Driven Innovation for a Renewable Energy Co-op
You are a foresight analyst for WindFolk. Develop three alternative futures for the Danish energy market in 2030 (e.g., 'Green Grid', 'Tech Fragmentation', 'Policy Stagnation').…
- Scenario Planning
- Financial Modeling
- Decision Analysis
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- CodeSeniorNew
Port a Numerical Kernel from CPU to GPU for a CFD Simulator
Receive the existing CFD solver (C++17 + OpenMP, around 8,000 lines, the hot kernel is a 7-point stencil sweep over a 512^3 grid), the validation harness, and access to an A100 …
- Gpu Programming
- Cuda
- Parallelism
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Inductive Logic Programming for a Fraud-Rule Discovery Pilot
You receive a labeled fraud dataset (around 25,000 transactions, around 4% positive class), a feature schema (28 features including device, geo, behavioral history), and a basel…
- Inductive Logic Programming
- Symbolic Ai
- Rule Learning
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Auction Design for Renewable Energy Subsidies
Your team must design an auction mechanism for allocating subsidies to offshore wind projects. You have historical bid data from past auctions, cost estimates for different tech…
- Auction Theory
- Mechanism Design
- Game Theory
Industrial Economics and Game Theory - CodeSeniorNew
Real-Time Global Illumination for an Indie Game
Survey 3 candidate GI techniques: voxel cone tracing (VXGI-style), screen-space GI (SSGI), and irradiance probe volumes. Pick one and justify based on quality/perf trade-offs fo…
- Physically Based Rendering
- Global Illumination
- Gpu Pipeline
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- DesignSeniorNew
Designing a Data Warehouse for a Renewable Energy Firm
You are given sample data from three sources: energy production logs, weather data, and equipment maintenance records. Your task is to: (1) design a star schema with fact and di…
- Data Warehousing
- Star Schema
- Etl
Database Systems - AnalysisSeniorNew
Renewable Energy Investment Under Policy Uncertainty
You are a financial analyst at SunVest. The proposed solar farm has a capacity of 50 MW, construction cost €80M, and expected life 25 years. Key uncertainties: annual electricit…
- Real Options
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Stochastic Modeling
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Coordinate a Fleet of Warehouse Robots
Implement a simulated warehouse grid with 80 robots solving a pick-and-deliver workload. Design a decentralized coordination protocol (recommend a contract-net or auction-based …
- Multi Agent Coordination
- Decentralized Algorithms
- Simulation
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Price American Options with a Deep Hedging Notebook
Simulate price paths for a single underlying (geometric Brownian motion is fine as a baseline; bonus for stochastic volatility). Implement Longstaff-Schwartz Monte Carlo as the …
- Deep Learning
- Stochastic Modeling
- Derivatives Pricing
AI and Quantitative Finance - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Symbolic-Execution Test-Generation Pipeline for a Date-Time Library
Design a generation pipeline that turns the public parsing and arithmetic surface of the supplied library module into branch-covering test inputs using a symbolic-execution engi…
- Symbolic Execution
- Klee
- Test Generation
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Reproduce a Mechanistic Interpretability Result on a Small Transformer
Pick a published mechanistic-interpretability paper that operates on a small (under 1 billion parameter) open-source transformer (e.g., GPT-2 small, Pythia 70M). Set up the envi…
- Mechanistic Interpretability
- Transformer Internals
- Pytorch
AI Safety and Alignment - AnalysisSeniorNew
Audit a Decentralized Lending Protocol for Smart Contract Vulnerabilities
Working only from the provided lending protocol contract module — which contains LendFlow's core deposit-and-borrow pool together with a simplified price oracle it depends on — …
- Solidity
- Smart Contract Auditing
- Decentralized Finance
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
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Harden a Container Supply Chain to SLSA Level 3
Audit the current build and deploy pipeline against the SLSA 1.0 specification. Identify SLSA-3 gaps (typically: provenance generation, hermetic builds, two-person review, signe…
- Supply Chain Security
- Slsa
- Sigstore
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Open-Vocabulary Segmentation Benchmark for a Robotics R&D Lab
Use a curated 200-image household scene set (publicly-available HM3D renderings or COCO + a handful of household prompts). Benchmark 3 open-vocabulary segmentation models: SAM +…
- Open Vocabulary Segmentation
- Vision Language Models
- Benchmarking
Computer Vision - CodeSeniorNew
Offline RL for Robot-Arm Skill Reuse
You receive 5,000 logged trajectories (state, action, reward, next-state) across 12 tasks, with 9 tasks for training and 3 held out. Train an offline RL algorithm (CQL or IQL re…
- Offline Rl
- Conservative Q Learning
- Skill Reuse
Robot Learning - ResearchSeniorNew
Blockchain Pilot for Coffee Supply Chain Traceability
Your task is to propose a blockchain pilot project for one coffee origin (choose Colombia). Define the data to be captured at each supply chain node (farm, mill, exporter, roast…
- Blockchain In Supply Chain
- Traceability
- ROI Analysis
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