2025-08-18: Eight WSDL Classes Offered for Fall 2025

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Eight courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered for Fall 2025.  The classes will be a mixture of on-line, f2f, and hybrid. 

  • CS 418/518 Web Programming, Ms. Nasreen Muhammad Arif, Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4:15 
    Topics: MySQL, React, Express.js, NodeJS, MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub  
  • CS 432/532 Web Science, Ms. Nasreen Muhammad Arif, asynchronous  
    Topics: Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.  
  • CS 433/533 Web Security, Ms. Kritika Garg, asynchronous  
    Topics: HTTP, Cross-Site Request Forgery, Same Origin Policy, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Fingerprinting, Denial-of-service, Phishing. 
  • CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics, Dr. Sampath Jayarathna, Web, Tuesdays & Thursdays 6-7:15 and asynchronous (8 week session starting in October)
    Topics: Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML, Colab.
  • CS 625 Data Visualization, Dr. Michele C. Weigle, asynchronous 
    Topics: Tableau, Python Seaborn, Matplotlib, Vega-Lite, Observable, Markdown, OpenRefine, data cleaning, visual perception, visualization design, exploratory data analysis, visual storytelling 
  • CS 733/833 Natural Language Processing, Dr. Vikas Ashok, Wednesdays 4:30-7 
    Topics: Language Models, Parsing, Word Embedding, Machine Translation, Text Simplification, Text Summarization, Question Answering
  • CS 734/834 Information Retrieval, Dr. Jian Wu, Tuesdays 6-8:40 
    Topics: crawling, ranking, query processing, retrieval models, evaluation, clustering, machine learning. 
  • CS 795/895 Foundational Models for Data Science, Dr. Jian Wu, Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30-2:45 
    Topics: AI, Foundation Models, Language Models, Large Language Models, Multimodal Large Language Models, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Text Generation
Dr. Michael L. Nelson will not be teaching in Fall 2025.  Non-WSDL faculty member Ms. Nasreen Muhammad Arif will also teach a section of  CS 624, and current WSDL PhD student and newly appointed lecturer Bhanuka Mahanama will teach a section of CS 620.

 The Spring 2026 semester is still undecided, but the following courses are likely:

  • CS 725/825 Information Visualization, Dr. Michele C. Weigle
  • CS 728/828 Deep Learning, Dr. Jian Wu
  • CS 800 Research Methods, Dr. Michael L. Nelson

Previous course offerings: S25, F24, S24, F23, S23, F22, S22, F21, S21, F20, S20, F19, S19, and F18.


--Michael


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