The course is taught by Dr. Evan Y. Peng, EEE&CS Department, HKU. This course aims at providing students with a basic understanding on artificial intelligence and deep learning technology. The topics to be covered are artificial neural networks, backpropagation, deep auto-encoder, convolutional Neural Network (CNN), recurrent Neural Network (RNN), strategies for training deep architectures, handling overfitting, cross-validation, meta-heuristic searching for parameter tuning.