Workshop
WATCH NOW: Deepen Your Understanding of Algorithms and Architectures with optional AI Summer workshop
May. 19, 2023—The Data Science Institute hosted an optional workshop for our AI Summer participants in which we discussed the algorithms and architectures that make transformer models possible. The workshop is now open to everyone on our YouTube page. During the workshop, the Data Science Team discusses the influential paper “Formal Algorithms for Transformers” by Mary Phuong...
Follow along with AI Summer on the Data Science Institute’s YouTube page
May. 16, 2023—The Data Science Institute’s AI Summer workshop is now in its second week. This free course is specially designed to provide researchers, educators, and students with a comprehensive understanding of the latest AI technologies and techniques, focusing on deep learning and transformers and their applications in solving diverse problems. Those unable to participate in the...
Vanderbilt University’s Data Science Institute hosting AI Summer workshop
Apr. 25, 2023— The Data Science Institute’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...
DSI workshop helps Vanderbilt researcher do complex AI analysis of birdsongs
Apr. 10, 2023—Machine learning models have revolutionized the way researchers approach data analysis, but building and training these models can be a daunting task for those who are new to coding. Fortunately, the emergence of AI assistants like ChatGPT is making it easier for novice coders to create their own ML models, even in complex fields like...
DSI hosts AI Revolutions Symposium
Mar. 29, 2023—The Data Science Institute would like to thank all of the attendees and speakers that made our AI Revolutions Symposium this week a great event for the Vanderbilt community. The two-day event showcased the latest developments and impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) in research and academia. The DSI’s Chief Data Scientist, Jesse Spencer-Smith, opened the...
WATCH: DSI Chief Data Scientist Jesse Spencer-Smith discusses prompt engineering and biases in text-to-image AI models
Mar. 1, 2023—As we’ve seen the rapid advancement of artificial intelligent (AI) models in the past year, text-to-image AI has become one of the most popular models to grab the interest of the world even beyond those working in technology fields. An exciting promise of these models is the ability to create any image someone can fathom...
AI Transformer Intensive Jan. 4-7 – Virtual!
Dec. 20, 2021—Trying to uncover insights from challenging sequential data like audio, text, images, or even DNA? Do you have these types of information-rich data, but often reduce them into a few summarized data points or keywords? Unsure of what to do with the free text fields in your surveys? Join us January 4th – January 7th...
Fall Workshop Series Announced
Sep. 1, 2021—The Data Science Institute is offering a series of Fall workshops. A limited number of seats are available for in person registration, or participants can attend via Zoom. A full listing of workshops and registration links can be found here: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/datascience/events/data-science-workshops/