Oral Exam Topics for PhD and Integrated PhD Programs

Considering the courses you have completed the fields of programming, computer science, mathematics, statistics and probability, questions that measure how much to learn the basic concepts about these fields will be asked.

Written & Oral Exam Topics for MS Program

Written and Oral Exam Topics
DSAI - 2025 MS Written Exam
DSAI - 2025 MS Written Exam Answer Key

• Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, 9th edition, Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond H. Myers, Sharon L. Myers, Keying E. Ye.
• Linear Algebra and Basic Optimization: "Mathematics for Machine Learning" by Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, and Cheng Soon Ong, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• Introduction to Machine Learning, 4th edition, Ethem Alpaydın
• Deep Learning, Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courvill, 2016
• Programming: https://leetcode.com/problemset/
• Data Science, Doing Data Science_ Straight Talk from the Frontline-O'Reilly Media (2013) Rachel Schutt, Cathy O'Neil

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