May 2024 Penn LPS AI Boot Camp in collaboration with edX

The Penn LPS AI Boot Camp curriculum covers critical topics such as Python coding, external APIs, data modeling and forecasting, neural network models, deep learning, ethics, and AI.

Earners of this certificate:
-Demonstrated proficiency in numerous technologies to help meet that growing demand, including Python, unsupervised and supervised machine learning, generative AI, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and chatbots.
-Displayed ability to collaborate with diverse teams on work in AI, create Python-based scripts, interact with APIs using Python Requests and JSON parsing techniques, and utilize data-driven programming languages and libraries.
-Exhibited skills necessary to learn new technologies and resolve issues independently

-Built an impressive professional portfolio of work that solves data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence problems

The curriculum covered the foundational skills for AI, including:

Programming for Artificial Intelligence

• Fundamental Python syntax

• Python coding logic & reasoning

• Python script & dictionary creation

Making Predictions with Data

• Data modeling

• Data forecasting

• Time series data

Machine Learning Optimization

• Evaluating model performance

• Imbalanced data

• Model selection for success metrics

• Limitations of traditional models

AI Ethics

• Legal and ethical considerations

• Data reproducibility

• Algorithmic bias

• Data privacy regulations

Deep Learning

• Deep learning vs. neural networks

• Deep learning on TensorFlow and Keras

Natural Language Processing

• Natural language processing

• Tokenization

• Word models

Emerging Topics

• Generative AI

• AI applications outside the computer

• Active research areas

• Ethics and regulation