Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems
Certificate in Artificial Intelligence
This certificate is open to currently registered Dalhousie students in all Faculties; it will not be open for direct application.
The Certificate in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a credential for undergraduate students who focus on AI in their coursework and aim for a career specialization in this field of increasing importance in industry and government. The certificate confirms (1) a strong understanding of the foundations of AI and machine learning; (2) their application to areas such as speech and language processing, software engineering, gaming, data mining and information retrieval; and (3) the ability to implement AI and machine learning algorithms operating on data using open-source libraries in the Python programming language such as scikit learn, and keras.
Students who complete the certificate will have a solid grounding in the foundations, theory, and applications of AI and machine learning; and would be well prepared to commence graduate work in this field. This is reflected in the minimum grade requirements of the certificate.
This certificate requires a student to take two required courses and four electives at the fourth-year level from a list of elective courses for a total of 18 credit-hours. The required courses must be completed with at least B- each, and an average of B- must be attained over all six certificate courses. At least two electives must be from Group A.
Required courses:
Group A Electives (a minimum of two must be taken from this group):
- CSCI 4152: Natural Language Processing
- CSCI 4156: Reinforcement Learning with Gaming Applications
- CSCI 4157: Deep Speech Technologies
- CSCI 4158: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
- CSCI 4250: Deep Reinforcement Learning
Group B Electives:
- CSCI 4130: Applied Machine Learning for Software Engineering Applications
- CSCI 4141: Information Retrieval
- CSCI 4144: Introduction to Data Mining and Data Warehousing
Requirements
Note that to obtain a certificate, the degree requirements must be satisfied. To be awarded a Certificate, students must apply to graduate with a Certificate at the time they apply to graduate from their degree program. Students may not obtain both this certificate and the former Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems.