Micro-credential

Model-Based, Data-Driven, and Hybrid Signal Processing

For students and professionals who want to move from classical signal processing to modern AI-driven methods and learn how to design complete, practical solutions for real-world signal analysis.

DURATION: 12-14 weeks

WORKLOAD: 6-8 hrs/wk

LANGUAGE: English

FORMAT: Online/Hybrid

CREDENTIAL: Professional Certificate

FINANCING: Installments available

DURATION: 12-14 weeks

WORKLOAD: 6-8 hrs/wk

LANGUAGE: English

FORMAT: Online/Hybrid

CREDENTIAL: Professional Certificate

FINANCING: Installments available

Who Is This For?

This course is designed for students, researchers, and early-career professionals who want a strong and modern foundation in signal processing across both mathematical and data-driven paradigms.

You will fit this course if you are:

For student

In electrical engineering, applied mathematics, computer science, Al, data science, or biomedical engineering.

For Researchers

Working with time series, sensor data, biomedical signals, audio, communications, or radar.

For Engineers

Or analysts who want to understand not only how to apply a method, but how to choose the right one.

Recommended background

basic linear algebra probability and statistics introductory signals and systems programming in Python

No prior deep learning specialization is required, but basic familiarity with coding and mathematical.

What You’ll Achieve?

Build and compare model-based, data-driven, and hybrid pipelines for a real signal.

Apply filtering, spectral analysis, state-space modeling, and statistical estimation to noisy temporal data.

Train and evaluate machine learning and deep learning models for signal classification, denoising, or forecasting.

Design hybrid solutions that combine prior knowledge, physical structure, and learning from data.

Justify your technical choices using performance metrics, robustness analysis, and interpretability criteria.

What You’ll Achieve?

Originality & Market Fit

1.Coherent Framework

Integrates classical DSP, statistical modeling, and modern Al into one coherent framework.

2. Smart Decision-Making

Emphasizes decision-making: not just how to run an algorithm, but when to use it, why it works, and what trade-offs it involves.

3. Real-World Practice

Is built around real analytical practice, where hybrid solutions often outperform purely modelbased or purely data-based approaches.

4. Rigor Meets Application

Combines mathematical rigor with implementation-oriented thinking. preparing students for both research and applied innovation.

What You’ll Learn

Module 1

Introduction and Mathematical Foundations

Understand the core language of signal processing, including signals, systems, noise, uncertainty, transforms, and optimization, so you can frame problems correctly from the start.

Module 1

Module 2

Model-Based Signal Processing

Learn how to build and apply classical signal models, filters, and estimation methods, including FIR/IIR filtering, spectral methods, state-space models, Kalman filtering, and particle filtering.

Module 2

Module 3

Data-Driven Signal Processing

Use machine learning and deep learning for temporal data, including feature-based models, CNNs, recurrent architectures, transformers, and representation learning for signals

Module 3

Module 4

Hybrid Signal Processing

Discover how to combine domain knowledge and learning through structured models, modelinformed neural networks, unrolled optimization, and learning-augmented estimation pipelines.

Module 4

Module 5

Practical Considerations and Final Project

Work with realistic datasets, evaluation protocols, computational constraints, and deploymentaware decisions, then bring everything together in a final comparative project.

Module 5

Individual or team-based capstone project:

A model-based baseline

A data-driven solution

A hybrid solution.

Deliverables:

Project proposal

Intermediate progress report

Final technical report

Presentation and discussion.

Practical Project

problem formulation technical implementation quality of comparison comparison interpretation of results clarity of presentation

Assessment focus:

Learning Experience & Personalization

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Guided learning pathways

with clear progression from fundamentals to advanced methods

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Opportunities to select application domains

aligned with their interests, such as biomedical signals, audio, radar, communications, or sensor systems

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Structured feedback loops

through labs, project milestones, and consultations

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Flexibility to shape the final project

around personal research goals, academic interests, or workplace challenges

AI & Digital Learning Support

Students are supported by a modern digital learning environment that may include:

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A personal AI tutor or course chatbot

trained on course materials

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An LMS with lecture notes, notebooks, recordings, reading lists, and quizzes

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Practical coding labs and experimentation environments

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Reusable templates for reports, experiments, and evaluation

learn more efficiently revisit complex concepts receive just-in-time guidance

is a Professor at the Opole University of Technology (Poland) and Lead Researcher in Institute of Telecommunications and Global Information Space of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is Full Professor (2011), Doctor of Technical Sciences (2011), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Higher School of Ukraine (2021). Lupenko Serhii is the founder and long-term (2004-2015) Head of the Department of Radio Computer Systems and the Department of Computer Systems and Networks at Ternopil Ivan Pul’uj National Technical University. He was awarded various diplomas, in particular in 2020 he was awarded a Diploma of the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

 

Lupenko Serhii is a well-known specialist in the field of mathematical modelling and computational methods. He is the author of the modern theory of modelling and processing of cyclic signals in information systems of their analysis, diagnosis and forecasting. This theory from the standpoint of a unified theoretical-methodological approach takes into account a wide range of possible attributes of cyclicity within deterministic, stochastic, fuzzy and interval modelling paradigms, takes into account the significant variety of changes in rhythm of cyclic signals. Under the leadership of Serhii Lupenko operates a scientific school “Modelling and Mathematical Support of Intellectualized Information Systems in Medicine, Technology and Economics.” He was the Research Supervisor of 8 PhD level theses and 1 Doctor of Technical Sciences level theses. He was the Head of 7 funded international and national scientific and educational projects. During his scientific and scientific-pedagogical activity, Serhii Lupenko has published about 400 scientific and scientific-methodical papers, including 10 scientific monographs and 9 textbooks.

Instructors & Experts

University faculty with expertise in signal processing, applied mathematics, and statistical modeling.

Industry practitioners working in AI, data science, engineering analytics, biomedical technologies, or intelligent sensing systems.

Expertise in signal modeling, estimation theory, and statistical signal processing.

Experience in machine learning for time series, hybrid AI systems, and real-world deployment.

Industry Partners & Use Cases

Where applicable, the course may include:

Guest lectures from industry experts.

Real application cases from engineering, healthcare, sensing, or analytics.

Case discussions involving real datasets and modern workflows.

Pathways toward internships, collaborative projects, or applied research topics.

Potential use cases include: biomedical signal interpretation, intelligent monitoring,
predictive maintenance, audio enhancement, communications, and radar analytics.

Format

Delivery format: Online / Hybrid

Live sessions: [e.g. once per week]

Time commitment: approximately 6–8 hours per week

Self-paced learning: weekly recorded lectures, readings, labs, and quizzes​

Timezone: [Timezone]

Key dates:

  • Applications open: [Date]
  • Enrollment deadline: [Date]
  •  Course start: [Date]
  • Course end: [Date]

Assessment & Certification

Students are assessed through a combination of:

  • quizzes and short knowledge checks
  •  laboratory assignments or home tasks
  •  participation in discussions or reflections
  •  capstone project milestones and final presentation.

Certificate: Certificate of Completion / Professional Certificate
Badge: [If applicable]
ECTS: [If applicable]

Suggested weighting:

  • labs / assignments — 35%
  •  quizzes — 15%
  •  participation — 10%
  •  final project — 40%

Career Impact & Recognition

This course helps students build a portfolio of skills relevant to roles such as:

  • signal processing engineer
  • machine learning engineer for time series
  • data scientist working with sequential data
  • biomedical signal analyst
  • research assistant or PhD candidate in intelligent systems.

Students finish the course with a concrete project artifact that can be included in an academic
or professional portfolio, demonstrating the ability to compare and justify different technical
paradigms for real-world signal analysis.

FAQ

No. A basic technical background is recommended, but the course is structured to build from
foundations toward more advanced methods.

Most students should expect around 6–8 hours per week, including lectures, readings, labs, and
project work.

It is both. The course combines rigorous concepts with implementation-oriented assignments and a
final project.

Yes, students who successfully complete the course requirements receive a certificate, depending on
the credential format selected.

Primarily Python, including standard scientific and machine learning libraries. Additional tools may
be introduced depending on the course format.

Yes. The capstone is designed to be adaptable to personal academic or professional interests.