TOPICS COURSES

Below are tables with topics courses that have been offered over the last few years. The tables also show which tracks each course can be applied to for the MS in Computer Science degree -“X” means the course counts towards that track. If you have any questions, please contact CS Advising. Approval requests for courses not listed on these charts should be directed to your MS Faculty Advisor.

COMS 4995

“X” means the course counts towards that track

Course	Computational Biology	Computer Security	Foundations	Machine Learning	Natural Language Processing	Network Systems	Software Systems	Vision and Graphics	CS/Journalism
Advanced Algorithms (now COMS W4232)	x		x	x					x
Advanced Systems Programming (Lee)							x
Algorithms, Incentives, and Learning	x		x	x					x
Applied Computer Vision								X
Applied Deep Learning				X	X				X
Applied Machine Learning	X			x					x
Arts Rsch: Interactive Stories								x
Blockchains and their Applications
Business of Software Delivery						x
Causal Inference for Data Science
Competitive Programming							X
Crypto & Financial Processes		x	x
Data Sci Tech Entrepreneurship	x					x
Deep Learning (Iddo Drori)	x		X	x	x			x
Deep Learning for Computer Vision (Peter Belhumeur)	X			X	x			x	X
Design Using C++ (Stroustrup)							x
Digital Geometry Processing								x	x
Elements for Data Science
Elements of Data Science: A First Course	X				X				X
Empirical Methods Data Science
Engineering Software as a Service (now COMS W4152)							X
Fund. of Distributed Systems (now COMS W4113)						x	x
Geometric Data Analysis (Blumberg)
GPU Computing	x							x
Hacking 4 Defense (Blaer)						x	x		x
Innovation & Design Lab
Internet Tech Econ Policy						x
Int Agile Project Management			x
Intro to Data Visualization	x			x	X				x
Intro to DevOps
Intro to Networks & Crowds			x	x		x			x
Intro Social Networks				x
Intro to Semantic Web						x
Introduction to Computer Security		x
Lab Computational Biology (Pe’er)
Language Library Design C++							x
Logic and Computability			X
Machine Learning for Functional Genomics	X			X
Machine Learning Theory				X
Mathematics of Machine Learning and Signal Recognition				x
ML w/ Applications in Finance				X
ML w/Probabilistic Programming				X
Methods in Unsupervised Learning	X		X	X				X	X
Mobile App Develop iOS							X
Multilingual Language Technology and Language Diversity				X	X
Networks & Crowds			X	X		X			X
Neural Networks Deep Learning	X			X	X
Open source Development							X		X
Optimization Methods in Machine Learning	X		X	X
Parallel Functional Programming (Edwards)							X
Randomized Algorithms	X		X	X
Secure Software Development		x				x	X		x
Semantic Representations for NLP				X	X				X
Topics in Financial Computing
Video Game Development								x
Video Game Technology (Production) and Design								x
VoIP Security		x				x

COMS 6998

“X” means the course counts towards that track

Course	Computational Biology	Computer Security	Foundations	Machine Learning	Natural Language Processing	Network Systems	Software Systems	Vision and Graphics	CS/Journalism
3D UI Curriculum Design								x
Advanced Distributed Systems (now COMS E6114)	x	x				x	x
Advanced Image-Based Vision and Rendering								x
Advanced Internet Routing						x
Advanced ML for Personalization				x	x
Adv Sem Computational Genomics	x
Advanced Spoken Language Processing (Hirschberg)	X			X	X
Adv. Topics in Competitive Programming (Alman)
Adv. Topics in Comp. Geometry			x
Adv. Topics in Complexity Theory			x
Adv. Topics Proj Deep Learning (Belhumeur)	x			x				x	x
Adv. Topics in Machine Learning	x		x	x	x
Advanced Topics in Programming Language/Compilers			x				x
Advanced Topics in Security		x
Advanced Video Game Development								x
Algebraic Techniques in CS			X
Algo Techniques Massive Data		x	x	x				x
Algorithms for Dealing with Massive Data			x	x
Algorithms for Massive Data					X
Algorithms Through Geometric Lens			x	x		x
Algorithmic Game Theory			x	x
Algorithmic Graph Theory	x					x
Analysis of Networks & Crowds (Chaintreau)			X	X	X				X
APPL MACHINE LEARN CLOUD
Bandits & Reinforcement Learning	x		x	x		x		x	x
Bayesian Analysis for NLP				x	x
Biological Networks	x
Cellular Networks Mobile Compt						x
Cloud Computing (now COMS W4153)	x	x				x
Cloud Computing and Big Data	x	x		x	X	x	x	X	x
Cloud and Mobile Challenges		x				x
Cloud and Mobile Security						x
Cognitive Computing IBM Watson	x			x	x
Computation & the Brain (Papadimitriou)	x		X	x	x
Comp Methods/High Thrghpt SEQ	x
Computational Models of Speech and Language					x				x
Comp Models of Social Meaning	x			x	x
Computational Aspects of Geometrical Design								x
Computational Human Genetics	x
COMP ARCH MODEL SIM EVAL
Cpm Vis Machine Learning Mobile Platform	x			x				x
Content Distribution						x
Content Networking						x
Cybersecurity Tech Policy Law		X				x			x
Data Science & Entrepreneurship				x		x
Database Topics in Research & Practice							x
Design for Generative AI (Formerly Advanced Web Design Studio) (Chilton)				X	X		X	X	X
Dialog Systems (Conversational AI)					x
Digitally Mediated Storytelling				x	x
Economics Cybersecurity (Sethumadhavan)
Econ of Social Networks			x	x		x
Embedded Scalable Platforms						x
Empirical Methods of Data Science	X		X	X	X				X
ENGR WEB3 BLOCKCHAIN APPS (Gu)							X
Experimental Analysis Algos			x	x
Formal Hardware & Software Verification		x
Formal Verification						X
Formal Verification/HW/SW Syst (now COMS E6863)		x					x
Formal Verification of System Software							X
Foundations of Blockchains			X
Fund of Speaker Recognition/Fund of Speech Recognition*	X		X	X	X			X	X
Geometry Processing and Animation								x
Generative Models for Code (Ray)							X
Graphics & Comp Motion (Zheng)								x
High-Dimensional Data Analysis				x				x
High Performance Machine Learning				X
Humanoid Robotics								x
Hyperscale Infrastructure (Nieh)							X
Information Theory in CS			X	X					X
Info Theory in Theoretical CS			x	x		x
Interactive Data Exploration Systems	x			x			x		x
Int Agile Project Management
Internet Economics						x
Intro to Brain Computer Interaction				x	x
Intro to DevOps
Intro/Distributed Data Mining	x			x
Intro to Project Management (general elective only)
Lower Bounds of Theoretical CS			x
Machine Learning and Climate				x
Machine Learning Datasets				x
Machine Learning for NLP				x	x
Machine Learning Frontiers (Vondrick)
Machine Translation				x	x
Malware Analysis Rev Eng as COMS 6998 only		x				x			x
Micro-service Apps & APIs						x	x
Microservice/Cloud Apps							x
ML W/Probabilistic Progr									x
Mobile Computing						x
Mobile Computing with iPhone and Android						x
Mobile HCI								x
Modern As-a-Service App Development		x				x	x		x
Modern Internet App Development						x	x	x
Modern Internet Service Oriented Application Development						x	x	x
Modern Serverless Cloud Apps		x					x
NLP: Computer Models of Soc. Meaning				x
NLP for the Web				x	x
Network Systems Implementation						x
Network Theory		x	x	x	x	x
Next Generation Network Arch						x
Practical Cryptography						x
Practical Deep Learning				x
Practical Deep Learning System Performance				X
Practical Privacy Technologies		X					X
Privacy in Online Social Networks		x				x
PRIVACY PRESERVING SYS						X	X
Private Systems (Geambasu)							X
Probabilistic Programming	x			x
Program Approximation & Reasoning / Program Analysis Approx (Jana)							X
Q&A Tech for IBM Watson					x
Quantum Computing: Theory and Practice		x	x
Randomness in Computing			x
Readings Language Design (Stroustrup)							X		X
Representation Learning	X			x	x				X
Research Seminar in Computational Genomics	x
Resilient Hardware Systems		x				x
Search Engine Technology	x			x	x	x
Security and Robustness of ML Systems		x		X			X		X
Semantic Tech in IBM Watson				x	x
Seminar in Animation and Geometry Processing								x
Seminar in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics	x
Seminar on Biological Networks	x
Seminar on Spoken Dialogue Systems	x
Social Networks		x	x	x	x	x			x
Software Defined Network						x
Software Security and Exploitations		x
Statistical Methods for NLP				x	x
Storytelling with Streaming Data					x
Sublinear Time Algos Learning			x	x
The Synthetic Control Method				X	x				X
Systems for Human Data Interaction					X		X
The TSP in Theory and Practice			x
Topics in Cloud Computing (Kaffes)							X
Topics in Computational Complexity	x		x	x
Topics in Computer Vision								x
Topics in Datacenter Networking		x				x	x
Topics in Human Language Technology				x	x				x
Topics in Learning Theory	x		x	x				x
Topics in Mobile Computing (Zhou)
Topics in Networked Tags	x	x				x
Topics in Robotic Learning				X	X
Topics in Virtual and Augmented Reality								X	X
Ubiquitous Genomics	x
UNCOND LOW BNDS DERANDMZN (Servedio)
Virtual Machines		x				x	X
Web Application Servers – Arch-Design						x	X

*Due to significant overlap, students can receive credits for only one of these courses.

Last updated October 8, 2024.