Intelligent Systems

PhD Qualifying Exam: General Information

First, make sure you read the general CoC information page about the qualifying exam.

The written part of the Intelligent Systems qualifying exam requires that each candidate be examined in a Central Core and in two specialization areas. The exam will be approximately evenly divided amongst those three sections.

The specialization areas are:

• Robotics
• Perception
• Machine Learning
• Planning and Search
• Cognitive Science
• Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Natural Language

All candidates must inform the IS faculty as to which sub-areas will be their primary and secondary areas.

Reading List

The reading lists for the Core and various sub areas may be found here.