This is an introductory course to machine learning and deep learning (short for ML) offered by the Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University. Artificial intelligence, in particular the ML subfield, is now ubiquitous. Using data as its core, the rapid surge and democratization on ML accelerates innovation in many domains. It is thus essential for students with engineering background to acquire basic understanding and ability on the subject.

This course is designed to help you to view problems and applications from a ML perspective and to understand principles of ML. There is a fundamental structure to ML thinking and basic principles that should be understood. There are also particular areas where intuition, creativity, common sense, and domain knowledge must be brought to bear. A ML perspective aims to provide students with structure and principles, and this will give you a framework to systematically analyze problems and to develop applications in various domains.