DATA SCIENCE AND SECURITY
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
   

ECE 1157 - DATA SCIENCE AND SECURITY


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course introduces data science and machine learning methods for securing modern systems, with emphasis on anomaly detection, adversarial machine learning, and data privacy. Students learn to identify unusual patterns in data and system behavior to detect unreliable data, rare events, and potential cyberattacks, while also examining how machine learning models can be attacked and how their robustness can be improved. The course covers extreme value analysis for modeling low-frequency, high-impact events; supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised machine learning approaches to anomaly detection; and privacy-preserving techniques, including data anonymization and differential privacy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 1155 or ECE 1150 or ECE 1395


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