Courses taught by Reza Zafarani in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. Graduate courses are where most Data Lab students first encounter the lab’s research; if you are thinking about joining us, see prospective students.
Graduate Courses
- CIS 563 — Introduction to Data Science
- Sample topics: classification, clustering, large-scale hashing, dimensionality reduction, mining time series, mining data streams, mining graphs.
- CIS 787 — Analytical Data Mining
- Sample topics: the data mining pipeline end to end — data preparation, frequent pattern and association analysis, supervised and unsupervised learning, model selection and evaluation.
- CIS 700 — Machine Learning with Graphs
- Sample topics: graph representation learning, node and whole-graph embeddings, graph neural networks, graph sparsification, link prediction, graph classification, higher-order networks.
- CIS 700 — Spectral Graph Theory
- Sample topics: spectral theory, the Laplacian and graph drawing, known spectra, Cauchy’s interlacing theorem, graph coloring, isoperimetric ratio, conductance, the Cheeger constant, cuts, random walks and rates of convergence, expanders and bounds, effective resistance, sparsification.
- CIS 700 — Social Media Mining
- Sample topics: network measures, network models (data-driven and model-based), community analysis, information diffusion, influence and homophily.
- Built around our textbook, Social Media Mining: An Introduction — the full text and all lecture slides are freely available.
- CIS 700 — Network Science
- Sample topics: structure and evolution of large networks, degree distributions and generative models, centrality and community structure, diffusion and contagion, robustness.
Undergraduate Courses
- CSE 384 — Systems and Network Programming
- CIS 321 — Introduction to Probability and Statistics
- CIS 151 — Fundamentals of Computing and Programming
Course offerings vary by semester; check the ECS course catalog and MySlice for the current term. Beyond the classroom, the lab keeps a set of open conference tutorials and textbook materials that anyone can use.