In this course, each student will work in an industrial/research setting under the joint supervision of a CityUHK faculty member and an external industry/research supervisor* at a local/overseas host institution. Each student will gain hands-on experience in tackling challenging data science problems in an industry/business/research area of his/her choice. Specifically, this course aims to cultivate each student's ability to independently formulate and solve real data science problems in an application area of his/her choice, and it also aims to develop each student's data science skills and knowledge further in the application area of his/her choice. The course provides a platform for students to demonstrate their ability to innovatively apply data science theories and methods they learnt in classrooms, or develop new data science theories and methods to solve complex real-world problems. Students are expected to independently apply or develop advanced data science theories and methods to solve significant real-world problems in the course.

*If the internship position is an internal one (i.e., at CityUHK), then an external industry/research supervisor is not needed.