| Instructor | Recommended Background | Area | Number | Course Title |
| P. Alencar | Open background | SE | 846-001 | Topic: Software Engineering for Big Data |
| D. Berry | Open background | SE | 846-002 | Topic: Advanced Topics in Requirements Engineering |
| K. Salem | UG course in database systems | DB | 848 | DBMS for ML, ML for DBMS |
| D.R Stinson | Some background in cryptopgraphy would be helpful but not required. Mathematical background in discrete math, algebra and probability would be helpful. | AC | 858 | Topic: Unconditionally Secure Cryptopgraphy (Combinatorial Cryptography) |
| L.C. Lau | Linear algebra, probability theory, convex optimization, algorithms | AC | 860-001 | Topic: Spectral graph theory and high dimensional expanders |
| D. Gosset | QIC | 867 | Topic: Quantum Algorithms | |
| E. Lank | Open background | GUI | 889 | Experimental Methods in HCI |
| Y. Boykov | Linear algebra, probability theory, convex optimization, algorithms | AI | 898 | Topics in Computer Vision |