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Doctor of Philosophy in Intelligent Systems

Degree Requirements

Students are expected to have the prerequisites needed to take the courses necessary to obtain the PhD degree in ISP. These may be required if not already taken.

General Intelligent Systems Track

First-year students

Core

AND choose two of the following:

Theory

Applied or mathematical statistics.  Choose one of the following:

Theory of computation, algorithms. Choose one of the following:

One additional course required. Any of the theory courses listed above are acceptable.

Advanced courses

Four ISSP advanced elective courses, from the list below with the approval of the student’s academic advisor and Program Director. Contact the ISP Administrator after completing an advisor-approved elective course that falls outside of the ISSP course offerings, as a waiver may need to be submitted.

Biomedical Informatics Track (ISP/MI)

This assumes that a student already has training in a health care field; if this is not so, then the faculty will select a set of courses that teach the student basic medical knowledge, and the student may take these courses as electives.

First-year students

Core

Then choose one of the following:

AND choose one of the following:

AND choose one of the following:

AND choose two of the following:

Advanced Courses

Three ISSP advanced elective courses, from the list below with the approval of the student’s academic advisor and Program Director. Contact the ISP Administrator after completing an advisor-approved elective course that falls outside of the ISSP course offerings, as a waiver may need to be submitted.

TA

Students will register for three credits of the BIOINF 3998 - Doctoral Teaching Practicum. Special enrollment permission must be obtained from BMI training program coordinator.

For more degree requirements details, visit the Intelligent Systems course catalog.