

Graduates will have technical knowledge and research and development skills necessary for applying artificial intelligence to industry, community, military including sectors requiring intelligent pattern-analysis and visualization of big data such as retail, healthcare, biology, psychology, and intelligent human-machine interactions and interfaces. There is a strong growing industrial demand for AI graduates with starting salary averaging around US $120,000 per year.
The Master of Science degree in Artificial Intelligence prepares students with a focused educational and research environment to develop career paths through necessary learning and training with emerging artificial intelligence technologies and applications to intelligent analytics, smart homes and communities and robotics and automation. Graduates have technical knowledge and research and development skills necessary for applying artificial intelligence to industry, community and military. These areas include sectors requiring intelligent pattern-analysis of big data such as retail, healthcare, biology, psychology and intelligent human-machine interactions and interfaces.
For more information about graduate admissions, visit the graduate admission website. For more information on international admissions, visit the international admission website.
Highly qualified students lacking preparation in some standard areas may be considered for admission on a case-by-case basis.
Prospective students must successfully have completed undergraduate coursework in algorithms, databases, data structures, programming skills and probability and statistics. In addition, course(s) in operating systems is recommended. Highly qualified students lacking preparation in certain standards areas may be admitted.
Recommended but not required: Successful course completion in computer programming, discrete structures, data structures and abstraction, operating systems, database and computer algorithms (equivalent to CS 13011, CS 13012, CS 23001, CS 23022, CS 33007, CS 33211, CS 46101).
Applications submitted after this deadline will be considered on a space-available basis.
Graduates of this program will be able to:
Code | Title | Credit Hours |
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Major Requirements | ||
CS 53302 | ALGORITHMIC ROBOTICS | 3 |
or CS 64301 | PATTERN RECOGNITION PRINCIPLES | |
or CS 67302 | INFORMATION VISUALIZATION | |
CS 54201 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | 3 |
CS 54202 | MACHINE LEARNING AND DEEP LEARNING | 3 |
CS 63005 | ADVANCED DATABASE SYSTEMS DESIGN | 3 |
CS 64201 | ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | 3 |
Major Electives, choose from the following: | 9 | |
CS 53301 | SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR ROBOTICS | |
CS 53302 | ALGORITHMIC ROBOTICS | |
CS 53303 | INTERNET OF THINGS | |
CS 53305 | ADVANCED DIGITAL DESIGN | |
CS 53334 | HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION | |
CS 57201 | HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION | |
CS 63015 | DATA MINING TECHNIQUES | |
CS 63016 | BIG DATA ANALYTICS | |
CS 63017 | BIG DATA MANAGEMENT | |
CS 63018 | PROBABILISTIC DATA MANAGEMENT | |
CS 63100 | COMPUTATIONAL HEALTH INFORMATICS | |
CS 63306 | EMBEDDED COMPUTING | |
CS 64301 | PATTERN RECOGNITION PRINCIPLES | |
CS 64401 | IMAGE PROCESSING | |
CS 64402 | MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND BIOMETRICS | |
CS 65203 | WIRELESS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS | |
CS 67301 | SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION | |
CS 67302 | INFORMATION VISUALIZATION | |
Culminating Requirement | ||
Choose from the following: | 6 | |
CS 69099 | CAPSTONE PROJECT | |
CS 69099 & CS 69192 | CAPSTONE PROJECT and GRADUATE INTERNSHIP | |
CS 69199 | THESIS I | |
Minimum Total Credit Hours: | 30 |
Students should complete a minimum of two required courses and either CS 53302, CS 64301 or CS 67302 before taking elective courses.
Students must maintain a minimum 3.000 GPA. Students earning less than a 3.000 GPA or earning a C grade or lower in two courses will be placed on academic probation.
Minimum Major GPA | Minimum Overall GPA |
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3.000 | 3.000 |
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