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Lecture notes, projects and various resources on the courses I attended at Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca for my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science.

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Contents

• General resources
• Master’s
  • Probabilistic Models for decision making
  • Data Analytics
  • Complex Systems
  • Cloud Computing
  • Data and Text Mining
  • Software Design Lab
  • Theory of Computation
  • Concurrent Models
  • Data Technology and Machine Learning
  • Informatics for industrial applications (Digital systems)
  • Methods of Scientific Computing
• Bachelor’s
  • Internship/Thesis
  • Operations Research
  • Information Security
  • Databases
  • Bioinformatics
  • Operative Systems
  • Programming Paradigms
  • Embedded Systems
  • Building

General resources

Master thesis guidelines:

• Technische Universität Chemnitz
• Università della Svizzera Italiana

More courses notes:

• C. Baldi (Bachelor’s)

Some theses I appreciated and used as examples for the graduating students I advised:

• M. Rota - Rilevamento di elementi testuali in immagini digitali - Fully convutional networks. Advisors: R. Schettini, M.Buzzelli.
• L. Soligo - Generazione di reti Bayesiane a partire da ontologie - Advisors: F. Stella, G. Sottocornola.
• R. Pozzi - Aggiornamento e ripristino delle funzionalità in sistemi Linux Embedded - Advisors: L. Mariani, A. Vivace.

Master’s

2018-2020

Thesis

• Modernising the CERN CMS Trigger Rates Monitoring software

Probabilistic Models for decision making

• Course project: kalman2d - Interactive 2D simulation of the Kalman Filter (LQE) in use to reduce (statistical) input noise.

Data Analytics

• Course project: Amazon Reviews Analytics - Data exploration, Analytics, Sentiment Analysis, Topic Analysis (LDA) and a web demo exposing the ML trained models.
• Notes, definitions and solved questions
• Unbalaced data: Survey of resampling techniques for improving classification performance in unbalanced datasets
• Community Detection approaches: Web Structure Mining: Community Detection and Evaluation
• Spectral Clustering:
  • On Spectral Clustering: ANalysis and an algorithm - Ng, Jordan, WWeiss
  • Spectral clustering - The intuition and math behind how it works!
  • Spectral Clustering: A quick overview
  • (Video) Spectral Clustering
  • (Video) Spectral Clustering Algorithm

Complex Systems

• Course project: Physarum - Final course project. Physarum polycephalum slime mould computing simulations.

Cloud Computing

• Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems - Afternotes by Antonio E. Cinà from the course at University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, master in Computer Science - Data Management and Analytics.
• Cambridge - Concurrent and Distributed Systems

Data and Text Mining

• Course Project: Cervical Cancer - Exploratory study on Cervical Cancer: verifying known causal relations and assessing risk factors from women medical history datasets.

Software Design Lab

• Course project: Smart Home Automation - A Rasberry Pi integrated domotic solution with MQTT supporting sensors, actuators and a thermostat. Controllable from a fancy web application, smart speakers or a basic SMS interface. Documentation (Software Requirements Specification, Software Architecture, Testing, Deploy and Implementation) and a software implementation in Connexion (OpenAPI 3) and VueJS.

Theory of Computation

• Notes

Concurrent Models

• Axiomatic semantics solved exercises (Hoare triples)
• Paolo Mancarella (Università degli studi di Pisa) - Note di semantica assiomatica
• Luca Aceto - Reactive Systems: Modelling, Specification and Verification
• Linear Temporal Logic examples

Data Technology and Machine Learning

• Course project: Basket Shots - Predicting Basket Shots outcomes using Suppor Vector Machines (documentation).
• Course project: pokemon-fights - Predicting Pokèmon fights outcomes with decision trees.
• Notes: Introduction to non-centralized DBMSs, Data Quality dimensions.

Informatics for industrial applications (Digital systems)

• Course project: VHDLtrafficlights - Implement a semaphore with a Xilinx FPGA.
• Elementi di Programmazione Logica

Methods of Scientific Computing

Final course projects:

• MSC1-SparseMatrix - Comparing open source and propetary solvers for sparse matrices.
• MSC2-DCT - Comparing naïve and scipy implementations of Discrete Cosine Transform 2 (and its inverse) and exposing the scipy implementation on a web appplication allowing to apply it on user provided images (BMP format).

Bachelor’s

2014-2017

Internship/Thesis

• DNA Recombination. Approaching a Computational Biology problem with integer linear programming tools.

Operations Research

• Soluzioni domande esami scritti

Information Security

• Applicazioni
• Crittografia
• Sistemi Operativi
• Reti

Databases

• Relational algebra exercises
• Logic programming
• Relational algebra
• SQL

Bioinformatics

• Theory: Pattern Matching, Suffix Trees and Alignment
• Final project: scripts, final PR. Add a method to compare sequence graphs to the RGFA library (Ruby).

Operative Systems

• Process Synchronization, deadlocks

Programming Paradigms

• Theory: Functional Programming and Lisp
• Final project. Two libraries (Prolog and Common Lisp) to manipulate multivariate polynomials. Available predicates allows parsing, sorting, operations(sum, product), evaluating and printing polynomials.

Embedded Systems

• Theory
• Final Project. Implement in C, on a Silicon Labs C8051F020 board (and an additional board driven via SMBus):
  • continuos detection of the inclination and the temperature,
  • continuos display of the value on the LCD display,
  • LCD controls (turn on, off, backlight intensity) with an hardware button.

  Using interrupts and PWM techniques.

Building

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