NextGen AI

Inspiring the Next Generation of AI Researchers.


NextGen AI is a 5-week, intense program that will make you proficient in the realm of machine learning, and connect you with top-tier mentors. We have sent numerous high schoolers (with no previous ML experience) to leading undergraduate AI programs at Stanford, MIT, and CMU, and have helped college students get internships at Google Brain, Facebook AI, and Amazon.

Sponsored by Google and City of Palo Alto.

Overview
NextGen AI has been running successfully for over 4 years now! No previous ML experience is needed, but the program is meant for ambitious high-school and college students who are open to learning. After completing NextGen, you will not only be comfortable with how ML algorithms work, but you will be on track to finish a full-length machine learning project, which you can submit to science fairs, conferences, or simply add to your portfolio.

The next iteration will run for the whole month of August 2021, and sessions will be held remotely each week over Zoom, for two hours in duration.

Instructors

NextGen AI instructors are experts from top AI instiutions such as CMU, Stanford, and Google. They have published books in the field, and have taught for many years.

When and where?

The course is remote, and held over Zoom. Sessions will be 1-2 times per week for the whole month of August, lasting 2 hours each session.

Experience needed?

This course is geared to by introductory, but is still fast-paced. We start with the fundamental math and CS needed, and quickly dive into more complex topics.



Schedule and Syllabus

 This is the syllabus for the August 2021 iteration of the course.
Event TypeDateDescription
Lecture 1 Sunday
August 1		 Course Introduction
Historical context of AI
Course logistics
Linear regresssion
Lecture 2 Saturday
August 7		 Multivariable Regression
LR Answer Key
Python and Libaries
Python Practice
Lecture 3 Saturday
August15		 ML Algorithms
Logistic Regression
Decision Trees
K-Means Clustering
K-Nearest Neighbors
Lecture 4 Saturday
August 22		 Neural Networks
 Matrix Multiplication
Forward Pass
Lecture 5 Saturday
August 29		 Backpropagation and Gradient Descent
How to come up with AI research projects
Brainstorm and get started!