Program Schedule

Students will study at Mahidol University for 24 months (2 years) consisting of 2 semesters per academic year.

Academic Year

Semester 1: August – December
Semester 2: January – May
Semester 3 (summer): May – July (no class)

Program Location

Students in the Master of Science Program in Computer Science will study at the Faculty of ICT building, Mahidol University (MU), Bangkok, Thailand (Phayathai Campus).

Class Time

Classes are taught in the evening of weekdays (18:00 – 21:00) or during the day of weekends (9:00 – 16:00).

Graduation Requirements

Plan A (Thesis)

1. Total time of study should not exceed the study plan.
2. Students must complete courses as stated in the curriculum. At least 24 credits excluding thesis (12 credits) for 36 credits in total, with a minimum CUM-GPA of 3.00.
3. Students must meet the English Competence Standard of Graduate Students, Mahidol University as defined by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University.
4. Students must participate in skill development activities by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University.
5. Students must submit theses and pass the thesis defence in accordance with the Regulations of Mahidol University on Graduate Studies and the oral thesis defense must be open to public.
6. Theses are required to be published in an international academic journal or proceedings that is listed by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University.

Plan B (Research Project/Thematic Paper)

1. Total time of study should not exceed the study plan.
2. Students must complete courses as stated in the curriculum at least 30 credits excluding the thematic paper (6 credits) for 36 credits in total, with a minimum CUM-GPA of 3.00.
3. Students must meet the English Competence Standard of Graduate Students, Mahidol University as defined by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University.
4. Students must participate in skill development activities by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University.
5. Students must pass the comprehensive examination following Regulations of Mahidol University on Graduate Studies.
6. Student must propose and complete a thematic paper and pass the oral thematic paper Examination required for graduation according to regulations of Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University and the oral thematic paper Examination must be open to public.
7. The Thematic paper or a part of thematic paper must be published and searchable.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

The structure of the entire program consists of 4 semesters (2 semesters per year). The number of credits required for graduation depends on the plan of study.

Study Plan

Plan A (thesis)::

Plan A or thesis track requires a student to complete 18 credits of required courses and 6 credits of elective courses in addition to the 12-credit thesis. In order to graduate, the student needs to successfully defend his/her thesis and publish parts of the thesis in an international conference.

• ITCS    509     Research Methodology in Computer Science                                  2 (2-0-4) 

Research development process and methodology; research design and planning; experimental design; data gathering; sampling; data management; statistical data analysis; reviewing research works; writing research proposals; qualitative and quantitative research methodology; writing conclusions and reports of research in computer science; research ethics

• ITCS    521      Agile Software Product Management                                               3 (3-0-6)

Agile values, principles and practices; managing an agile team: roles and responsibilities; product discovery; agile planning for software products; agile development process; testing with agile; agile metrics; concept of continuous integration and delivery; practice of agile development to a real-world software development project

• ITCS    522      Edge Computing and Internet of Things                                          3 (3-0-6)

Principles of the Internet of Things (Internet of Things) and edge computing; Internet of Things communication and protocol; the embedded and autonomous systems; sensors and actuators; wireless sensor networks; Internet of Things data streaming and management; short-range and long-range wireless protocols; Internet of Things and cloud infrastructure; applications of Internet of Things

• ITCS    523      Data Sciences Essentials                                                                   3 (3-0-6)

An overview of data science principles; data science applications and tools; foundation of mathematics for data science; foundation of computer algorithms for data science; artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for data science; fundamentals of databases and big data; understanding of big data and domain knowledge; extract/transform/load (ETL) for big data; exploratory data analysis and data visualization; research challenges associated with data science

• ITCS    603      Seminar in Computer Science                                                           1 (1-0-2)

Seminar on current research in computer science; in-depth analysis and application of scientific methods in computer science; presentation of research findings for the computer science community; professional ethics of computer scientists

• ITCS    659      Multimedia Technologies and Applications                                     3 (3-0-6)

Multimedia data, systems, technologies; multimedia design and development; digital media delivery; multimedia programming; programming tools and environments; software libraries related to image and video processing; computer vision and computer graphics libraries; research issues in multimedia technologies

• ITCS    661      Advanced Artificial Intelligence                                                         3 (3-0-6)

Principles, methodology and applications of artificial intelligence; ai agents; problem solving and search; heuristic strategies; constrained satisfaction problems; knowledge representation and reasoning; probabilistic and statistical inference; expert systems; fuzzy logic; evolutionary computing; artificial neural networks; learning theory and practice; ai technologies and applications

 2. Elective Courses

Credits (lecture – practice – self–study)

• ITCS    503      Design and Analysis of Algorithms                                                  3 (3-0-6)

Basic data structures: sets, arrays, strings, queues, stacks, trees, graphs; design and evaluation of algorithms; searching; sorting; hashing; brute-force algorithms; greedy algorithms; divide-and-conquer; backtracking; heuristics; graph algorithms; string matching algorithms; arithmetic algorithms; geometric algorithms; parallel algorithms

• ITCS    504      Computer System Organization and Architecture                           3 (3-0-6)

Architecture and organization of the computer systems; basic components of computers; memory system organization; memory components; memory hierarchy and interleaving; cache memory; virtual memory; input and output systems; storage systems; processor design; multiprocessors; graphic processing units; parallel architecture

• ITCS    507      Mathematical Foundations for Computer Science                          3 (3-0-6)

Sets, functions, relations, numbers, inequalities; polynomials and basic algebra; trigonometry; exponentials and logarithms; induction and recursion; counting techniques; probability; sequences, series and limits; fundamental calculus

• ITCS    513      Project Management                                                                           3 (3-0-6)

Planning, staffing, implementation, control and evaluation of a project; choices of process models; project scheduling and processes; working team organization; quality assurance; resource allocation; scheduling presentations and tools; project documentation; management of computer-based projects; computerized techniques and software used for project management; ethics in project management; research issues in project management

• ITCS    517      Machine Learning                                                                               3 (3-0-6)

Supervised learning for classification and regression; unsupervised learning such as clustering and kernel methods; reinforcement learning and adaptive control; mathematical and statistical analysis concepts underlying machine learning algorithms; numerical methods and optimization related to performance of machine learning algorithms and systems

• ITCS    518      Image Analysis and Understanding                                                  3 (3-0-6)

Image formation and acquisition; pixels and cameras; light and colors; interpolation and convolution; filtering in spatial and frequency domain; image de-noising and restoration; edge and corner detection; shape and texture; morphology and transformation; projective geometry for image analysis; depth recovery; surface reconstruction; perceptual grouping and scene understanding

• ITCS    551      Service Oriented and Cloud Computing                                           3 (3-0-6)

Concepts, theories, and techniques for service-oriented computing; web services and service-oriented architecture (soa); web service composition; description, discovery, and engagement of web services; cloud computing; cloud architecture and components; system virtualization; cloud services; cloud characteristics such as elasticity, self-service provisioning, standards based interfaces and pricing models; cloud security, threats, and privacy

• ITCS    552      Mobile and Pervasive Computing                                                     3 (3-0-6)

Mobile networks; adhoc networks; wireless networks; mobile and pervasive applications; mobile data access; naming and service discovery; adaptive applications; consistency management; energy-aware systems and energy management; location and context awareness; personalized context aware services; sensor networks; sensor-based and context-aware systems; invisibility; localized scalability; uneven conditioning; social networking; mobile computing on clouds; security and privacy

• ITCS    554      Information Security Management                                                    3 (3-0-6)

Access control principles, policies, issues, and administration; communication security on telecommunication networks; network security and internet security; risk management and business continuity planning; security policy, standards and organization; computer architecture and system security; law; investigation and ethics; application program security; cryptography; computer operations security; physical security; disaster recovery plans and management; information technology auditing

• ITCS    612      Network Programming                                                                       3 (3-0-6)

Principles of network application and implementation; process-to-process communications; distributed architectures; implementation of web applications and services; implementation of mobile applications

• ITCS    613      Tools and Environments for Software Development                       3 (3-0-6)

Tools and environments for software engineering tasks; version and configuration management; build and testing tools; continuous integration and continuous delivery tools; debugging and profiling tools; software analysis; code auditing

• ITCS    615      Empirical Software Engineering                                                        3 (3-0-6)

Empirical methods applied to the field of software engineering; quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods in software engineering; applications of machine learning and data analysis to mining software repositories

• ITCS    621      Database Design and Administration                                               3 (3-0-6)

Principles of database design; relational model; data semantics; logical and physical design; database administration; transaction processing; query processing and optimization; data storage management; advanced indexing techniques; database recovery and backup; database performance evaluation; object oriented databases; modern database models; column-based databases; database security and privacy; ethics and legal issues; research issues in database design

• ITCS    628      Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery                                            3 (3-0-6)

Data mining concepts; knowledge discovery processes; data preparation; data mining techniques and algorithms; frequent patterns and association; classification; cluster analysis; case studies of data mining applications; advanced techniques of data mining; web mining; text mining; stream data mining; sequence data mining; data mining visualization

• ITCS    631      Computer Communications and Networks                                      3 (3-0-6)

Computer networks models; network components; network architectures; local area and wide area networks; network topologies; data link, network, and transport protocols; point-to-point networks; wireless networks; broadband networks; routing and congestion control; application layer protocols; naming; internetworking; network programming and applications; research issues in computer communications and networks

• ITCS    643      Software Engineering                                                                         3 (3-0-6)

Principles and practice of software engineering; software requirements; software process models; software specification; formal specification; software design and implementation; software cost estimation; software verification and validation; software configuration management; software testing; software quality assurance; ethics and research issues in software engineering

• ITCS    644      Software Quality Assurance                                                              3 (3-0-6)

Roles, functions, and responsibilities of a quality assurance group; quality assurance work plan in software development; quality assurance methods; software testing techniques; verification techniques; software reuse; metrics and models in software quality engineering; ethics in software quality assurance

• ITCS    655      Computer Graphics                                                                            3 (3-0-6)

Basic principles for computer graphics; 2d and 3d graphical image synthesis; principles of displaying objects in 3d; computation of visualized surfaces; light and shades; light and color in image synthesis; synthesis of surface mapping, shadows, curves, and areas; geometric transformation; interactive techniques; hidden surface elimination; writing graphics software on video display interfaces; research issues in computer graphics

• ITCS    658      Human Computer Interaction                                                            3 (3-0-6)

Usability principles; human information processing limitations; human cognitive and sensory limits; user interface design paradigms and guidelines; process of interaction design; design languages; principles of graphical user interfaces; interaction styles and techniques including screen design, layout, color, fonts, labeling and visual programming; hci tools; multimedia and web communication; human-centered development and evaluation; user modeling and the user profile; adaptive interfaces; usability tests; predictive and interpretive evaluation; human performance models: perception, movement, cognition, culture, communication, and organization; 3d user interfaces; augmented reality; conversational interfaces; multimodal interfaces; perceptual interfaces; research issues in human computer interaction

• ITCS    665      Natural Language Processing                                                           3 (3-0-6)

The role of knowledge in language processing; models and algorithms; languages; thought and understanding; regular expressions and automata; morphology and finite-state transducers; n-gram models of syntax; word classes and part-of-speech tagging; context-free grammars; parsing with context-free grammar; features and unification; language and complexity; representing meaning; semantic analysis; lexical semantics; word sense disambiguation and information retrieval; discourse; dialog; conversational agents; natural language generation; machine translation

• ITCS    667      Advanced Computer Vision                                                               3 (3-0-6)

Artificial and biological vision systems; computational algorithms for visual perception; feature extraction and feature engineering; semantic segmentation; image retrieval; object detection and classification; activity recognition; stereo and motion analysis; tracking; image interpretation and inference using convolutional neural networks; geometry-based techniques and graph-based methods

• ITCS    668      Cloud Database and Big Data Technology                                       3 (3-0-6)

Principles of big data management; applications, tools and techniques used with cloud database and big data; cloud database infrastructure and architectural models; distributed storage technologies; cloud storage performance, resource management of cloud environments; applications of data mining and machine learning methods in big data

• ITCS    669      System Performance Modeling                                                         3 (3-0-6)

Analysis of computer system operation including process scheduling, virtual memory management, and storage device management; models of program behavior; fundamentals of performance evaluation; system performance measurement techniques and tools; workloads; capacity planning and benchmarking; queueing systems; simulation; research issues in computer system performance analysis and evaluation

• ITCS    682      Advanced Database Systems                                                            3 (3-0-6)

Advanced database management systems, object-oriented, object-relational, semi-structured and streaming databases; replicated database management; advanced query processing; parallel and distributed databases; data warehousing; online analytical processing; distributed information integration; xml query engines; web and semi-structured data management; multimedia databases; heterogeneous and peer-to-peer systems

• ITCS    696      Advanced Topics in Computer Science                                            3 (0-6-3)

Advanced and contemporary research topics in computer science; in-depth analysis of computer science topics

3.Thesis 

Credits (lecture – practice – self–study)

• ITCS    698 Thesis                                                                                                    12 (0-36-0)

In-depth research in computer science using scientific methods; reporting of research findings; research ethics

4.Thematic Paper

Credits (lecture – practice – self–study)

• ITCS    697      Research Project in Computer Science                                          6 (0-18-0)

Identifying research project titles; submitting research proposals; conducting ethical research studies; information collection; analysis, synthesis, and critique of research results; reporting research results in terms of a thematic paper; thematic paper presentations