CHEM 151
Machine Learning for Chemistry
Chemistry and Biochemistry · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to machine learning and its many applications within chemical sciences. Topics include widely-used approaches for modeling large and complex data sets, including neural networks and deep learning, supervised and unsupervised learning, and dimensionality reduction. Exploration of mainstream applications of machine learning to problems of chemical interest, including molecular simulation and computer-aided drug and material design/discovery. Succinct introduction to linear algebra and programming in Python. Particular topics to be covered and projects to be completed may be decided in part based on student interest and input.
P/NP or letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: course 20B or 20BH, Mathematics 33A or 33AH.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
CHEM 151
- CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change
- CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.





