Master of Science in Agentic AI Systems

Award Requirements

Students are required to complete 31 credits for MSc in Agentic AI Systems, typically over 1 year (full-time) or 2 years (part-time). All subjects carry 3 credits, except for the Dissertation (9 credits) and Project (6 credits). Full-time students generally enroll in five subjects per semester, while part-time students take two to three subjects.

Awards	MScCYS
With Dissertation	3 Core + 3 Disciplinary-specific Electives + 1 Elective + 1 Dissertation + 1 AIE Subject
With Project	3 Core + 3 Disciplinary-specific Electives + 2 elective + 1 Project + 1 AIE Subject
Without Dissertation/ Project	3 Core + 3 Disciplinary-specific Electives + 4 Electives + 1 AIE Subject
Credits requirements	31

List of Subjects

Below is the table summarising the core and elective subjects. All subjects are three-credit based, unless otherwise stated. Subjects such as Dissertation and Project have different assessment requirements and require supervision arrangement. More details can be obtained from the departmental intranet, i.e. http://intranet.comp.polyu.edu.hk.

Core Subjects (9 credits required)
1	Artificial Intelligence of Things
2	Agentic Computing, Systems, and Applications
3	Large Language Models for Agents
4	Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
5	Trustworthy AI Systems and Technologies***
Disciplinary-specific Electives (9 credits required)
6	Cloud Computing and Hyperscale AI Infrastructure
7	Human Computer Interaction
8	Computer Vision and Image Processing
9	Embedded Systems***
10	Big Data Computing
11	Advanced Artificial Intelligence
12	Theoretical Aspects of Reinforcement Learning***
13	Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Computing in Practice
14	Embodied Robot Intelligence
15	Brain-inspired Computing
16	Efficient Data Processing
17	Modern Deep Learning***
Elective Subjects (12 credits required)
18	Natural Language Processing
19	Optimization and Applications
20	AI Security***
21	Probability and Stochastic Models
22	Statistical Inference***
23	Statistical Data Mining***
24	Hands-on AI for Science and Technology (subject to approval)
25	Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Computing
26	IoT Tools and Applications
27	Industrial Human-Robot Systems and Automation
28	Lab Studies in Human Cyber-Physical Systems
29	Agentic AI Systems Project (6 credits)***
30	COMP5940 Dissertation (9 credits)***
31	DSAI5901 Dissertation (9 credits)

AIE Subject (1 credit required)
32	Academic Integrity and Ethics in Data Science (1 credit) (subject to approval)

All subjects are offered at the discretion of subject offering departments, depending on students’ demand and resources available.

Please also visit http://www.polyu.edu.hk/study for other details of the programme and admission.

*** Please refer to the Subject Description Forms for details on the Pre-requisite/ Exclusion requirement(s).

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