The principles and computational methods to study the biological data generated by genome sequencing, gene expressions, protein profiles, and metabolic fluxes. Application of arithmetic, algebraic, graph, pattern matching, sorting and searching algorithms and statistical tools to genome analysis. Applications of Bioinformatics to metabolic engineering, drug design, and biotechnology.

Study of computational models of visual perception and their implementation in computer systems. Topics include: image formation; edge, corner and boundary extraction, segmentation, matching, pattern recognition and classification techniques; 3-D Vision: projection geometry, camera calibration, shape from stereo/silhouette/shading, model-based 3D object recognition; color texture, radiometry and BDRF; motion analysis.

Introduction to distributed computing, overview of operating systems, process synchronization and deadlocks, threads and thread synchronization, communication protocols, synchronization in distributed systems, management of time, causality, logical clocks, consistent global states, distributed mutual exclusion, distributed deadlock detection, election algorithms, agreement protocols, consensus, multicast communication, distributed transactions, replication, shared memory model, scheduling, distributed file systems, fault tolerance in distributed systems, distributed real-time systems.

Review of multimedia (image, video and audio) source coding/compression techniques and standards (JPEG, MPEG, H26x); Review of communication and networking architectures and IP networks; QoS, delay, jitter, rate control, scheduling, and traffic engineering for real-time multimedia delivery; Reliability, error control, error concealment and resilience techniques; Streaming media and real-time communication techniques and protocols, RTP/RTCP, IntServ, DiffServ, MPLS; Transmission of multimedia over Internet, wireless channels, mobile cellular networks, GSM, 3G, 4G wireless systems, and satellite networks; Current and future applications of multimedia communications, e.g., voice-over-IP (VoIP), Internet Video conferencing, SIP, IMS, video-on-demand, digital video broadcasting systems, real-time delivery of 3DTV; Current state-of-the-art and future visions in multimedia communications research.

Basic linear models for classification and regression; stochastic gradient descent (backpropagation) learning; multi-layer perceptrons, convolutional neural networks, and recurrent neural networks; recent advances in the field; practical examples from machine translation, computer vision; practical experience in programming, training, evaluating and benchmarking deep learning models.

Sound and human speech systems, phonetics and phonology, speech signal representations, role of pitch and formants, pitch-scale and time-scale modifications, basics of speech coding and VoIP systems, fundamentals of pattern and speech recognition, search algorithms for speech recognition.

Theory and practice of 3D computer graphics. Topics covered include graphics systems and models; geometric representations and transformations; graphics programming; input and interaction; viewing and projections; compositing and blending; illumination and color models; shading; texture mapping; animation; rendering and implementation; hierarchical and object-oriented modeling; scene graphs; 3D reconstruction and modeling.

Next generation communication systems, wireless cellular networks, machine-to-machine communications, Internet of things, software defined networking, physical layer data transmission, channel propagation characteristics, modulation, demodulation, medium access control layer, data link layer, forward and backward error control, routing layer, optimal routing, transport layer, flow control, congestion control.

Overview of Computer Security Techniques, Conventional Encryption, Public-Key Cryptography, Key Management, Message Authentication, Hash Functions and Algorithms, Digital Signatures, Authentication Protocols, Access Control Mechanisms, Network Security Practice, TCP/IP Security, Web Security, SSL (Secure Socket Layer), Denial-of-Service Attacks, Intrusion Detection, Viruses.

Fundamental concepts and current research in natural language processing. Algorithms for processing linguistic information. Computational properties of human languages. Analysis at the level of morphology, syntax, and semantics. Modern quantitative techniques of using large corpora, statistical models, and machine learning applied to problems of acquisition, disambiguation and parsing. Applications such as machine translation and question answering.