STA304: Artificial Intelligence

Southern University of Science and Technology, Fall 2026

Teaching Staff

	name	email	office hour
Instructor	Fang Kong	kongf@sustech.edu.cn	Tue 4:00-6:00 PM Room 315, Business School Building
TA	Bochao Li	12531179@mail.sustech.edu.cn	Wed 10:20 AM-12:00 PM
	Jinkun Xu	12632279@mail.sustech.edu.cn	Fri 2:00-4:00 PM
	Junhao Lu	12632268@mail.sustech.edu.cn	Wed 10:20 AM-12:00 PM

Course Information

Lecture times: Every Tue 14:00-16:00 and Thu 14:00-16:00 in even-numbered weeks, at Room 327, Lecture Hall 1

Grading: Final exam (40%), assignments (50%), and attendance (10%)

Late submission policy: Final score = original score × (1 − 0.1 × number of days late). Submissions more than 5 days late will not be accepted.

References:

• CS188 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence by Berkeley
• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto
• CS229 Machine Learning by Stanford [Lecture notes link]

Schedule

week	date	topic	materials
1	Sept 8	Introduction	pdf