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Data Science and AI Applications

Course
2026-2027

Admission requirements

Description

How can we use AI/ML techniques in real life? What kind of models have been used in different fields? In this course; we will introduce domain specific AI/ML applications and discuss challenges we are facing in using AI/ML in different fields. In addition; special datasets created and processed in diverse domains will be explained. This course will especially focus on fields including society; environment; health care and life science. Various types of data will be introduced such as biological imaging; spatial; or network data.

This course is a combination of lectures; practical sessions and project work. After the introductory lectures and practical sessions; students will design their own AI/ML applications.

Course objectives

  • Understand and discuss applications of the most used ML/AI models in the following fields o Time series o Spatial databases o Network datasets o Human mobility data o Text corpora o Healthcare data o Biological imaging

  • Apply and/or implement evaluation metrics to compare the performance of AI/ML models

  • Understand limitations and best practices of AI/ML models

  • Understand FAIR principles; ethics; algorithmic fairness; identify and discuss potential problems in different fields

  • Apply and compare different ML/AI models in a chosen topic

Schedule

Teaching method

Lectures

Practical sessions / working groups

Presentation of own work (including a written report following a template)

Assesment method

Grading is based on:

  • assignments completion (10%)

  • contribution to a project: presentation, report (90%) = final presentation (25%) + final report (65%)

The final grade is the weighted average of the above as indicated.
If an assignment or a presentation is not completed, the resulting grade is a 0. There will be no retakes for the assignments and the presentations. The final grade can only be sufficient if the weighted average grade is at least 5.5.

Resit, review & feedback

There will be no retakes for the assignments and the presentations. The retake for the final report is a one-time resubmission with an improved version. The final grade can only be sufficient if the weighted average grade is at least 5.5.

Reading list

Registration

Application period

For minor students; TU Delft; Erasmus and LDE students: Tuesday 19 May 13.00h until 30 June. Please use this link to enroll.

More information about the application procedure can be found on this website.

Contact

minordatascience@liacs.leidenuniv.nl

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