Stat 546: Machine Learning in Data Science

Welcome!

This the official website of STAT 546: Machine Learning in Data Science. I am co-teaching this course with Prof. Feng Liang. This website only contain the second half of this course. To get started, please read the Course Syllabus. We meet at 112 Transportation Building on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30pm to 1:50pm. Homework should be submitted to Gradescope. Entry code is VB756J.

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Office Hour

• Yuhan Li (yuhanli8): 7:00pm - 8:00pm on Mon/Wed via [Zoom | pw: 260056]
• Ruoqing Zhu: 11:00pm - 12:00pm on Tue/Thur at 137 CAB or by appointment
  • Base on recent requests, zoom will also be available during this time (same zoom as Yuhan). However in-person questions may have priority.
    
  • On Mar 28 (Thur), the office hour will be moved to 10:00am - 11:00am

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Course Schedule

Week	Topic
Week 8 (Mar 4 - Mar 8)	Introduction, Randomized Trial and Propensity Score
Week 9	Spring Break
Week 10 (Mar 18 - Mar 22)	Robust Estimators and Instrumental Variables
Week 11 (Mar 25 - Mar 29)	Estimating the Optimal Treatment Regime
Week 12 (Apr 1 - Apr 5)	Dynamic Treatment Rules
Week 13 (Apr 8 - Apr 12)	Markov Decision Process and Bellman Equation
Week 14 (Apr 15 - Apr 19)	Algorithms for Policy Learning
Week 15 (Apr 22 - Apr 26)	Other Topics in Reinforcement Learning
Week 16 (Apr 29)	No Class

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