CSI 5180: Topics in Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning for Bioinformatics Application

This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester.

Note that this schedule will be updated as the semester progresses, with all changes documented here.

Week Date Topic Prepare Slides Assignment Exam
1 Jan. 7 Overview - -
Jan. 10 Essential Celluar Biology - -
2 Jan. 14 Essential Celluar Biology (continued) - -
Jan. 17 Essential Celluar Biology (continued) - -
3 Jan. 21 Essential Bioinformatis Skills - -
Jan. 24 Introduction to Machine Learning - -
4 Jan. 28 Decision Trees - -
Jan. 31 Linear Regression - -
5 Feb. 4 Logistic Regression - -
Feb. 7 Linear Models (Continued) - -
Feb. 10 Scientific Paper Proposal - - Paper -
6 Feb. 11 Performance Evaluation - -
Feb. 14 Hyper parameter Tuning - -
Feb. 14 Project Proposal Deadline - - Proposal -
- Feb. 18 Reading week - - - -
Feb. 21 Reading week - - - -
Feb. 21 Assignment 1 Submission Deadline - - A1
7 Feb. 25 Midterm examination - - - Midterm
Feb. 28 Bias-Variance Tradeoff - -
8 Mar. 4 Machine Learning Engineering - -
Mar. 7 Introduction to Deep Learning - -
9 Mar. 11 Deep Learning Training - - - -
Mar. 14 Deep Learning Architectures - - - -
10 Mar. 18 Maram El-Azouni & Rebecca Tobin - - -
Mar. 18 Peizhou Zhang & Qilin Wu - - - -
Mar. 18 Geet Choudhari - - - -
Mar. 21 James Couture - - -
Mar. 21 Ayman Fakri & Lanney Wang - - - -
Mar. 21 Stacy Guo & Lubing Yang - - - -
11 Mar. 25 Jie Wang - - -
Mar. 25 Steven Sun & Hong Qian Zhao - - - -
Mar. 25 Siavash Khalaj - - - -
Mar. 25 Yi Chen - - - -
Mar. 26 Assigment 2 Submission Deadline - - A2 -
Mar. 28 Ziyang Mao & Kaixi Xu - - -
Mar. 28 Steven Wilson - - - -
Mar. 28 Nicole Sabourin - - - -
Mar. 28 Rang Zhang - - - -
12 Apr. 1 Patricia Huang & Alan Zou - - -
Apr. 1 Mahyar Sadeghi Garjan - - - -
Apr. 1 Amirhossein Ebrahimi & Hoda Vaf - - - -
Apr. 4 Marc Wu, Matthieu Vilain - - -
Apr. 4 Jean-Marie Kouamé N’Dah - - - -
Apr. 7 Project Report Submission - - Report -
Apr. 10 Final Examination, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM, CRX C407 - - - Final

The lecture notes from the year 2019 can be found here.