Fall 2026

Master's Research and Thesis

NE 790 is a Master's Research and Thesis course involving directed study projects arranged with an instructor.

offering recorded1–9 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Riccardo Bonazza4.0/5Jennifer Franck3.8/5Charles Hirst3.8/5 +17 more

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Adrien Couet

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Cary Forest

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Curt Bronkhorst

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ADELLE WRIGHT is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ADRIEN COUET is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

BENEDIKT GEIGER is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CARY FOREST is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CHARLIE HIRST is recorded teaching in Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CHRIS HEGNA is recorded teaching in Fall 2010, Spring 2011. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JENNIFER FRANCK is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JULIANA PACHECO DUARTE is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KUMAR SRIDHARAN is recorded teaching in Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MARK ANDERSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

OLIVER SCHMITZ is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

PAUL WILSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2025, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

RICCARDO BONAZZA is recorded teaching in Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2019, Fall 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

STEPHANIE DIEM is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

YONGFENG ZHANG is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Fall 2026

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Directed study projects as arranged with instructor.

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Topics

  • Master's research and thesis

Skills

  • Conducting directed study projects

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NE 790 · Fall 2026

Master's Research and Thesis

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
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    "term_id": "1272",
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    "title": "Master's Research and Thesis",
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    "typically_offered": "Occasionally"
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]
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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  "task_version": "14",
  "output_id": "9dfee7b19c7c50a2228dfe19a7ee5b5ed4cda7ac91850d3db8502fdd87e183d0",
  "requirements_status": "valid",
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}