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Courses

The program in Data Science and Scientific Computing is organized in three curricula: 

 

Each curriculum is further organized in several study plans, each corresponding to a specific application area, proposing a choice of specialization courses. 

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Bioinformatics and Genomic Data Analytics

Genome sequencing technologies have revolutionised our approach to study biological systems. From healthy tissues to diseases, many questions are approached through the collection of far larger sequencing datasets, and some argue that all modern biology is computational biology. Sequencing technologies can measure molecular states at various degrees of resolution and noise, and complex bioinformatics/ machine learning pipelines are required to extract complex patterns that characterise from basic cellular processes to disease progression.

 

Control Theory

Objective: providing advanced notions of the theory of dynamical systems both in continuous and in discrete time. Introduce to modern techniques for the design of complex control systems with particular reference to application contexts of engineering interest in the industrial field.

 

Cyber-Physical Systems

Objective: introduces the students to the design and analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems, we will see how to model such systems, how to specify and monitor their behaviors using formal languages as temporal logics, and how to use monitoring techniques for different applications as parameter synthesis and falsification test 

Data Management for Big Data

Objective: introducing students to computational management of data, in particular the characterization of an information system, data modeling, design and management of databases, including non-traditional ones (eg, unstructured documents, spatial data, biological data , multimedia data), to the fundamentals of distributed data and to methodologies and techniques for the management and analysis of big data.

 

Introduction to Machine Learning

Objective: Introduce the students to the machine learning fundamentals, to the main techniques on supervised learning, and to the principal application domains. Present evolutionary calculation. The course explains how to design, develop and evaluate simple ML-based end-to-end systems and, at the same time, how to describe their operations.

 

 

Network Science

Objective: You will learn how to organize, transform, analyse and visualize data, with a focus on the relational data model, and a detour to semistructured data. You will learn the fundamentals of data science using R environment.

Numerical Analysis

Objective: providing numerical analysis tools for scientific computing, with particular attention to linear algebra, polynomial approximation, numerical integration, numerical solution of ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations, approximation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

 

Open Data Management and the Cloud

Objective: providing students with practical information on how to design data models and data structures, to manage metadata to optimize access and research, and to become familiar with interoperability standards. The course will focus on the concept of open data, with efficiency for big data projects, and the concept of cloud as an infrastructure for data management and their processes.