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Past Workshops
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Fall 2023
Image Generation and Editing With AINovember 29, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
Unlock the future of visual content with Generative AI in our upcoming workshop on Image Generation and Editing. Dive into cutting-edge techniques for creating and enhancing visuals with unparalleled precision. Whether you’re an artist or just curious about the AI-driven visual realm, join us for hands-on sessions and demonstrations that will enhance your understanding of imagery.
Audience: Students, Faculty, & Staff
Generative AI Update: What You Need to KnowNovember 15, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
The pace of developments in Generative AI is staggering. Get up-to-date on what new and most important!
Audience: Students, Faculty, & Staff
Software Engineering With AINovember 8, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
Programming and software engineering has been revolutionized with the advent of generative AI and tools such as Code Interpreter. Learn how to harness capabilities, speed your programming, refactor code easily, and follow best practice software engineering.
Audience: Students, Faculty, & Staff
AI for Humanities: Prompt Engineering and Code Interpreter for Literature, History, and LanguagesNovember 1, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
The humanities, often seen as the bastion of human intuition and interpretation, are undergoing a renaissance with the integration of AI. This workshop delves into the potential of ChatGPT and prompt engineering in enhancing our understanding of literature, history, and languages. Participants will learn how to harness AI for textual analysis, historical data interpretation, and linguistic studies. We’ll showcase how prompt engineering can be tailored to answer intricate questions about literary themes, historical events, and language patterns. Join us to explore the convergence of AI and the humanities, and witness the dawn of a new era in humanistic studies.
Audience: Students, Faculty, & Staff
Computer Programming With AI for Non-programmersOctober 4, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
Generative AI allows you to solve complex problems that requiring computer programming–without you having to know how to program! Learn how to tackle problems using generative AI and Code Interpreter in this interactive session.
Audience: Students, Faculty, and Staff
AI for Science: Prompt Engineering and Code Interpreter in Laboratory ResearchSeptember 27, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
The frontier of scientific research is expanding rapidly with the integration of advanced AI tools like ChatGPT. This workshop is designed to introduce researchers to the transformative potential of prompt engineering and advanced data analytics in their scientific endeavors. Dive deep into methodologies that allow for intricate data interpretation, hypothesis testing, and pattern recognition. Learn how ChatGPT can be harnessed to analyze complex datasets, simulate scenarios, and even assist in experimental designs.
Audience: Students, Faculty, and Staff
Analytics for All With AISeptember 20, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
Generative AI is a revolutionary tool–Code interpreters supercharges it, allowing the AI to build tools for you on the fly to solve complex problems. Think of it as your personal assistant who understands your problems, and can quickly program useful solutions in Python for you behind the scenes to provide accurate answers in a reproducible way that can be validated.
Audience: Students, Faculty, and Staff
Learning With Your Personal AI Tutor (That Is Slightly Delusional)September 6, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
One of the best uses of Generative AI is as a learning tool. Imagine having a tutor who knows what your background is, and will patiently explain concepts to you in any way you like–for example, using concrete examples or analogies; can whip up quizzes based on your study materials to help you self-test; can assess and make suggestions for your writing; can review your PowerPoint presentations, and suggest what tough questions you’ll face… We’ll cover the prompts, approaches, and tools that unlock these capabilities and more.
Audience: Students, Faculty, and Staff
AI Best Practices: Ethics and Security for FacultyAugust 31, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
Generative AI provides powerful tools that no previous generation has ever had. It also poses challenging ethical, security, and legal problems. We’ll cover best practices, and discuss the implications of using and misusing generative AI.
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Introduction to ChatGPT and Prompt EngineeringAugust 30, 11:30 Am – 1:00 PM (Virtual)
This workshop will introduce faculty to ChatGPT and its computational capabilities that can be used in teaching, research, and personal productivity. The workshop will provide an initial overview of “prompt engineering”, which is the discipline of crafting the statements, called prompts, that are sent to ChatGPT. Approximately half the time will be allocated to presentation and the other half to interactive discussion and examples.
Audience: Faculty
AI Best Practices: Ethics and Security for StudentsAugust 30, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
Generative AI provides powerful tools that no previous generation has ever had. It also poses challenging ethical, security, and legal problems. We’ll cover best practices, and discuss the implications of using and misusing generative AI.
Audience: Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Fall 2023 Data Science Projects Information SessionAugust 28, 1:00 – 2:00 PM (Virtual)
The Vanderbilt Data Science Team will be looking for undergraduate and graduate students to join us as team members on projects in the Fall semester. Learn about upcoming projects including:
- Future of Free Speech
- Future of Learning
- Gravity Waves
- Plain Language Project
We hope to see you at the virtual information session, which will be held on August 28th from 1:00 – 2:00 pm, to learn about these fall semester projects!
Audience: Graduate and Undergraduate Students
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Summer 2023
ChatGPT and the Future of Education WorkshopAugust 2, 11:30 Am – 1:00 PM (Virtual)
This workshop will explore the educational impacts of ChatGPT and its computational capabilities. A significant emphasis will be placed on understanding: 1) how to design assignments that account for ChatGPT, 2) innovative ways of using ChatGPT for teaching, and 3) communicating about appropriate usage with students. Approximately half the time will be allocated to presentation and the other half to interactive discussion and examples.
Introduction to ChatGPT & Prompt Engineering WorkshopJuly 27, 11:30 Am – 1:00 PM (Virtual)
This workshop will introduce faculty to ChatGPT and its computational capabilities, which can be used in teaching, research, and personal productivity. The workshop will provide an initial overview of “prompt engineering”, which is the discipline of crafting the statements, called prompts, that are sent to ChatGPT. Approximately half the time will be allocated to presentation and the other half to interactive discussion and examples.
AI Summer Optional WorkshopMay 22, Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 9:00 Am – 12:00 PM
Vanderbilt Data Science hosted an optional workshop on May 22 for our AI Summer participants in which we discussed the algorithms and architectures that make transformer models possible.
During the workshop, the Data Science Team discusses the influential paper “Formal Algorithms for Transformers” by Mary Phuong and Marcus Hutter. You can access the paper here. We recommend reading through the paper, paying particular attention to the introductory sections. Some notation may be unfamiliar, but you can leverage the power of ChatGPT, GPT4, BingChat, Claude, or Bard to help explain any complex concepts that may arise.
You can watch the workshop here.
AI Summer (Virtual)May 8 to June 2, Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 9:00 Am – 12:00 PM
Vanderbilt Data Science’s AI Summer workshop, from May 8 to June 2, is a free course designed to help researchers, educators, and students gain a deep understanding of the latest AI technologies and techniques, specifically deep learning and transformers, and how they can be used to solve a variety of problems.
The four-week workshop will be virtual on Zoom, and it will include both theoretical and practical sessions. The course will start with a week-long focus on Python for Transformers, followed by a more in-depth AI Deep Dive in the second and third weeks. The workshop has limited capacity, and priority will be given to researchers and educators who have a research goal in mind, as well as students who are interested in joining the researchers and educators on projects that arise from these workshops.
Registration for this workshop is closed. You can view the playlist of each of our AI Summer workshops on our YouTube page.
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Fall 2022
This year, Vanderbilt Data Science is offering two series of workshops; The Knowledge series – which will cover critical concepts and skills in Data Science and AI, covering state-of-the-art Transformer Models, Ethics, Reproducibility and Essential DS and AI tools, and the Skills Series – which will cover skills and tools essential for Data Science and AI projects, covering concepts in Agile workflows and GitHub. For more information and to register to attend, please visit the attached form here.
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Summer 2022
AI Intensive MaymesterMay 11 - June 4, 2022
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Spring 2022
AI Transformer Intensive Workshop