The seminar will be taught by Priyam Mazumdar, a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.
One of NCSA’s core goals is to provide compute resources to researchers nationwide and the expertise and training necessary to fully utilize these resources. This seminar series is open to all, including graduate students, undergraduates, and particularly domain scientists whose primary affiliation is not with a STEM program or department. This seminar aims to equip participants with tools and skills for independent research using AI as a tool. Most lessons will be a mix of live-coding and light derivations to provide the necessary theoretical background. By the end of the series, participants will be able to implement these models from scratch with little use of packages other than PyTorch.