Columbia University Courses

Career Certificate

Construction Management

9826 ratings at Coursera

Manage construction projects end to end: plan and initiate work, build schedules, estimate and control costs, and read project financials.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Career Certificate

Financial Engineering and Risk Management

436 ratings at Coursera

Price derivatives and optimize portfolios: work through term-structure and credit derivatives, asset allocation, real options, commodity and energy derivatives, algorithmic trading, and model calibration.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

The Construction Industry: The Way Forward

411 ratings at Coursera

Examine the construction industry's productivity challenge through case studies, ten megatrends such as aging infrastructure and urbanization, and technologies like 3D printing, robotics, and digital twins.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Financial Engineering and Risk Management

333 ratings at Coursera

Price fixed income securities and derivatives: compute present value in an arbitrage-free setting, then value swaps, options, futures and forwards with binomial and Black-Scholes models.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Camera and Imaging

163 ratings at Coursera

Learn how images are formed and cleaned up: lens optics, F-number and depth of field, CCD and CMOS sensors, high dynamic range, binary images, denoising and filtering.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Causal Inference

107 ratings at Coursera

Distinguish causal from non-causal relationships and estimate average treatment effects using randomization inference, regression, propensity scores, matching, and inverse probability weighting.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Term-Structure and Credit Derivatives

69 ratings at Coursera

Model the evolution of interest rates with term-structure lattices, calibrate a Black-Derman-Toy model in Excel, and price swaptions, credit default swaps, MBS and CMOs.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Features and Boundaries

55 ratings at Coursera

Detect edges, boundaries, corners and interest points using derivative-based operators and the SIFT detector, then apply them to panoramic image stitching and face detection.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Optimization Methods in Asset Management

49 ratings at Coursera

Construct optimal portfolios with Mean-Variance Analysis and CAPM in Excel, measure risk using VaR and CVaR, and model transaction costs from order books and bid-ask spreads.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Computational Methods in Pricing and Model Calibration

48 ratings at Coursera

Price options and interest rate products in Python: apply Fourier and FFT methods, calibrate Black-Merton-Scholes, Heston, Variance Gamma, Vasicek and CIR models to market data.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

3D Reconstruction - Multiple Viewpoints

45 ratings at Coursera

Recover 3D scene structure from multiple views: model and calibrate cameras, build binocular and uncalibrated stereo, estimate optical flow, and apply structure from motion.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 15 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

3D Reconstruction - Single Viewpoint

44 ratings at Coursera

Recover 3D scene structure from images taken at a single viewpoint: radiometry and reflectance, shape from shading, photometric stereo, depth from defocus, and active illumination.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 15 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Visual Perception

35 ratings at Coursera

Track objects in video with change detection, segment images into regions, and recognize objects using PCA-based appearance matching and neural networks trained by backpropagation.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 17 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Advanced Topics in Derivative Pricing

33 ratings at Coursera

Price derivatives beyond textbook models: derive Black-Scholes Greeks, hedge with scenario analysis, price off volatility surfaces, value synthetic CDO tranches and natural gas real options.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Social/Peer Perspective)

30 ratings at Coursera

Follow emergency department, social work, and patient navigator case scenarios to use health IT for care coordination, population health, value-based care, interoperability, and healthcare data analytics.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course