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Level Up: Java-Powered Machine Learning Specialization

Coursera

Level Up: Java-Powered Machine Learning Specialization

Enterprise Java Machine Learning Engineering. Build production-ready ML systems with optimized Java, from data pipelines to deployed models.

Reza Moradinezhad
Starweaver
Karlis Zars

Instructors: Reza Moradinezhad

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Intermediate level

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2 months to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Design and optimize Java ML systems using SOLID principles, efficient data structures, and memory management for production scalability.

  • Implement core ML algorithms including decision trees, ensemble methods, and entropy-based models with proper evaluation metrics.

  • Build complete ML pipelines with data preprocessing, model training, automated testing, and deployment using enterprise Java tools.

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Specialization - 14 course series

What you'll learn

  • Apply the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) and Open/Closed Principle (OCP) to create modular and extensible components.

  • Implement the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) and the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) to build flexible and decoupled components.

  • Utilize Maven and Gradle to manage dependencies and structure a Java ML project.

  • Evaluate design trade-offs when applying SOLID principles to a Java ML project.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Object Oriented Design
Category: Software Design
Category: Program Evaluation
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Category: Programming Principles
Category: API Design
Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Java
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Machine Learning Methods
Category: Automation
Category: Dependency Analysis
Category: User Interface (UI) Design
Category: Integration Testing
Category: Design Strategies
Category: Maintainability
Category: Apache Maven
Category: Gradle

What you'll learn

  • Evaluate which Java build tools best fit their projects.

  • Construct build processes in Maven and Gradle with optimized cachine and parallelism.

  • Implement common build tasks such as dependency resolution, build automation, and multi-project builds.

Skills you'll gain

Category: CI/CD
Category: Gradle
Category: Apache Maven
Category: Dependency Analysis
Category: Package and Software Management
Category: Java
Category: Build Tools
Category: Software Development Tools
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)

What you'll learn

  • Apply JUnit and Mockito to create and run unit and integration tests that ensure reliability in Java ML components.

  • Analyze CI/CD logs to detect, interpret, and resolve flaky or inconsistent ML test behaviors in automated pipelines.

  • Debug intermittent ML pipeline issues by applying reproducibility controls, fixed random seeds, and stable test setups.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Debugging
Category: Continuous Integration
Category: Jenkins
Category: CI/CD
Category: Test Automation
Category: Test Case
Category: Code Coverage
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: DevOps
Category: JUnit
Category: Test Data
Category: Data Pipelines
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Unit Testing

What you'll learn

  • Create efficient CSV parsers using Java libraries with object mapping, error handling, and streaming for 100K+ records.

  • Build data cleaning pipelines with multiple scaling algorithms, outlier handling, and serializable parameters for train-inference consistency.

  • Architect modular pipelines using builder patterns that chain operations with monitoring and ML framework integration for large-scale data.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Pipelines
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Java
Category: Data Processing
Category: Data Validation
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Unit Testing
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Data Access
Category: Data Quality
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

What you'll learn

  • Analyze profiler output to diagnose memory bottlenecks using Java Flight Recorder by interpreting heap graphs, GC pauses, and object churn.

  • Optimize data structures to reduce GC overhead 15-30% by replacing inefficient collections, implementing object pooling, and using primitives.

  • Tune JVM parameters and GC settings for production ML workloads by configuring heap sizes and selecting appropriate GC algorithms.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Containerization
Category: Java
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Data Structures
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Model Deployment
Category: Application Performance Management
Category: Analysis
Category: Docker (Software)
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Kubernetes

What you'll learn

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Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Structures
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Data Processing
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Program Implementation
Category: Performance Testing
Category: Scalability
Category: Graph Theory
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Benchmarking
Category: Java
Category: Tree Maps
Category: System Monitoring

What you'll learn

  • Configure CI/CD pipelines, jobs, and runners to automate and manage the build, test, and deploy stages of a DevOps development cycle.

  • Design GitLab pipeline workflows that streamline application builds, automate testing, and improve code quality and security.

  • Evaluate and compare deployment strategies to determine the most effective approach for different types of applications and environments.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Structures
Category: Java
Category: Algorithms
Category: Mitigation
Category: Computational Thinking
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Management Consulting
Category: Project Implementation
Category: Programming Principles
Category: Scalability
Category: Debugging
Category: Enterprise Application Management

What you'll learn

  • Apply node-insertion and deletion operations in Java to maintain a Binary Search Tree.

  • Evaluate the time complexity of search, insertion, and deletion operations for both balanced and skewed BSTs.

  • Demonstrate balancing techniques (e.g., AVL rotations) to improve BST performance.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Structures
Category: Algorithms
Category: Software Engineering
Category: Performance Tuning
Category: Application Performance Management
Category: Program Development
Category: Java
Category: Engineering Software
Category: Tree Maps
Category: Theoretical Computer Science
Category: Maintainability
Category: Benchmarking
Category: Scalability

What you'll learn

  • Analyze the differences between Breadth-First Search and Depth-First Search to understand when to use each approach.

  • Implement a Breadth-First Search and Depth-First Search in Java to traverse decision trees.

  • Apply tree traversal algorithms such as BFS and DFS to generate rulesets from decision trees.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Classification And Regression Tree (CART)
Category: Decision Tree Learning
Category: Java Programming
Category: Supervised Learning
Category: Java
Category: Algorithms
Category: Machine Learning Algorithms
Category: Data Structures
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Classification Algorithms
Category: Software Engineering

What you'll learn

  • Describe machine learning concepts, supervised and unsupervised learning types, and how Java's architecture supports scalable ML implementations.

  • Explore Java ML libraries, including Weka, Deeplearning4j, & smile, implementing classification, regression, and clustering models programmatically.

  • Master ML workflows including data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, deployment, and best practices for production systems.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Deep Learning
Category: Java
Category: Java Programming
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Data Pipelines

What you'll learn

  • Explain the core principles of ensemble learning and describe when and why combining diverse models improves predictive accuracy.

  • Implement bagging and boosting algorithms in Java within a Jupyter Notebook, tuning key parameters for optimal performance.

  • Build, tune, and evaluate random forest models for classification and regression, interpret features, and compare results with ensemble methods.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Random Forest Algorithm
Category: Decision Tree Learning
Category: Java
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Program Evaluation
Category: Program Implementation
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Jupyter
Category: Classification Algorithms
Category: Sampling (Statistics)
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Supervised Learning
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Learning Styles

What you'll learn

  • Apply Java ML evaluation methods using metrics alongside cross-validation to measure real-world generalization and avoid overfitting.

  • Benchmark multiple Java ML algorithms on the same dataset to identify the optimal model.

  • Design swappable machine-learning components using interface-driven architecture and the Strategy Pattern.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Decision Tree Learning
Category: Java
Category: Logistic Regression
Category: Maintainability
Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Machine Learning Algorithms
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Classification Algorithms
Category: Matrix Management
Category: Benchmarking
Category: Business Metrics
Category: Business
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Data Preprocessing

What you'll learn

  • Explain decision tree fundamentals including tree structure, splitting criteria, and how recursive partitioning builds predictive models.

  • Build decision tree classifiers using Weka GUI and Java API, implement models with Smile, and configure hyperparameters for optimal performance.

  • Evaluate decision tree models using confusion matrices, accuracy metrics, cross-validation techniques, and interpret results to assess model quality.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Classification Algorithms
Category: Decision Tree Learning
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Java
Category: Machine Learning Algorithms
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Machine Learning Software
Category: Algorithms
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Supervised Learning
Category: MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Tree Maps
Category: Technical Communication

What you'll learn

  • Calculate entropy and information gain in Java to identify the most informative attributes in a dataset.

  • Implement and evaluate a complete ID3 decision tree classifier using proper train-test methodology and performance metrics.

  • Build random forest ensembles, handle real-world data challenges, and deploy ML models with persistent storage and user interfaces.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Random Forest Algorithm
Category: Java
Category: Decision Tree Learning
Category: Algorithms
Category: Program Evaluation
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Feature Engineering
Category: Model Evaluation
Category: Model Deployment
Category: Data Preprocessing
Category: Classification Algorithms
Category: Business Development
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: Program Implementation
Category: Applied Machine Learning

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Instructors

Reza Moradinezhad
Coursera
6 Courses 4,320 learners
Starweaver
Coursera
548 Courses 995,402 learners
Karlis Zars
33 Courses 57,379 learners

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