In addition to providing free, in-person workshop training, UVA Research Computing staff teach for-credit courses. Below is a selection of courses that members of our group have taught, co-taught or provided guest lectures:

BIMS 8382: Introduction to Biomedical Data Science

Spring 2017, Spring 2018

This course introduces methods, tools, and software for reproducibly managing, manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing large-scale biomedical data. Specifically, the course introduces the R statistical computing environment and packages for manipulating and visualizing high-dimensional data, covers strategies for reproducible research, and culminates with analysis of data from a real RNA-seq experiment using R and Bioconductor packages.

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CS 6501: Distributed & Cloud Computing

Spring 2017, Spring 2018

This graduate course introduces a basic grounding in designing and implementing distributed and cloud systems. It aims to acquaint students with principles and technologies of server clusters, virtualized datacenters, Grids/P2P, Internet clouds, social networks, Internet of Things (IoT), and applications. Students will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience on public cloud such as Amazon EC2. Selected scientific applications will also be used as case studies to gain hands-on experiences.

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CS 4740: Cloud Computing

Spring 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2021

Investigates the architectural foundations of the various cloud platforms, as well as examining both current cloud computing platforms and modern cloud research. Student assignments utilize the major cloud platforms.

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DS 3002: Data Science Systems

Spring 2021

Exposes students to contemporary platforms, tools, and pipelines for data analysis through a series of steadily escalating use cases.
The course will begin with simple local database construction and evolve to cloud based providers such as AWS or Google Cloud.
Attention is given to data lakes and NoSQL as appropriate.

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Data Science Bootcamp: Computing, Storage & Data Analysis in the Cloud

Summer 2017

This 1.5-day course introduces MSDS students to the basics of cloud computing in AWS, and the independent management of code, data, and computing resources in a research environment. Particular concern is given to the concepts of programmable, reusable, scalable resources in the AWS cloud, through hands-on labs in EC2 and S3.