Jane, Mira
Lecturer, Part-time, Computer Science
mira.jane@sjsu.edu
I teach AI and ML courses at SJSU with emphasis on building both a solid theory foundation and acquiring hands-on practical programming skills with which students can pursue recent advances in research and technology.
Currently teaching
Graduate courses
- Reinforcement Learning and Sequential Decision Making, CS 272
- Section 2, Fall 2026, MW 3pm-4:15pm, Canvas, Syllabus pdf.
Past teaching
Graduate courses
- Topics in Machine Learning, CS 271
- Section 2, Fall 2025, TR 1:30pm-2:45pm, Canvas, Syllabus pdf
Undergraduate courses
- Introduction to Machine Learning, CS 171
- Section 3, Spring 2026, MW 3pm-4:15pm, Canvas, Syllabus pdf
- Section 3, Fall 2025, TR 4:30pm-5:45pm, Canvas, Syllabus pdf
- Section 2, Fall 2024, MW 3pm-4:15pm, Canvas, Syllabus pdf
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, CS 156
- Section 4, Spring 2025, TR 10:30am-11:45pm, Canvas, Syllabus pdf
Previously
- Search Engine Design, Spring 2014
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Spring 2011
Education
MS & PhD, Computer Science, UCLA
BTech, IIT, Bombay
Bio
I am also a software engineer in Waymo, working on Machine Learning in Planner for Autonomous Driving. Before that I was a software engineer in Google Search.