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	COMP5582 Artificial Intelligence of Things
2	COMP5583 Agentic Computing, Systems, and Applications
3	COMP5584 Large Language Models for Agents
4	DSAI5205 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
5	DSAI5208 Trustworthy AI Systems and Technologies ***
Disciplinary-specific Electives (9 credits required)
6	COMP5434 Big Data Computing
7	COMP5517 Human Computer Interaction
8	COMP5523 Computer Vision and Image Processing
9	COMP5554 Advanced Artificial Intelligence
10	COMP5585 Cloud Computing and Hyperscale AI Infrastructure
11	COMP5586 Embedded Systems ***
12	AMA577 Theoretical Aspects of Reinforcement Learning ***
13	DSAI5201 Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Computing in Practice
14	DSAI5203 Brain-inspired Computing
15	DSAI5204 Efficient Data Processing
16	DSAI5207 Modern Deep Learning***
17	ME5301 Embodied Robot Intelligence
Elective Subjects (12 credits required)
18	COMP5423 Natural Language Processing
19	COMP5542 Optimization and Applications
20	COMP5577 AI Security ***
21	AMA528 Probability and Stochastic Models
22	AMA529 Statistical Inference ***
23	DSAI5101 Statistical Data Mining ***
24	DSAI5105 Hands-on AI for Science and Technology (subject to approval)
25	DSAI5202 Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Computing
26	EIE568 IoT Tools and Applications
27	ISE5312 Industrial Human-Robot Systems and Automation
28	SD5132 Lab Studies in Human Cyber-Physical Systems
29	COMP5934 Agentic AI Systems Project (6 credits) ***
30	COMP5940 Dissertation (9 credits)***
31	DSAI5901 Dissertation (9 credits)

AIE Subject (1 credit required)
32	DSAI5T09 Academic Integrity and Ethics in Computer and Mathematical Sciences (1 credit)

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) of COMP subjects.

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