ORIE 4160 - Topics in Data Science and OR

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Recommended prerequisite: ORIE 3300, ORIE 3500, and CS 2800 are useful. Co-meets with ORIE 5160.

D. Goldberg.

Each year, the course will cover a different advanced topic at the intersection of data science and operations research, with the specific topic to be chosen by the instructor that year. The class will entail advanced reading, homework, and course project. Example semester-long topics include: Multi-arm bandit models in ML and OR, Statistical recovery in data science and OR, Graphical models in data science and OR, Causal inference in data science and OR, and Reinforcement learning in data science and OR.