Deep Dive AI Programs for Returning Students

AI Deep Dives are project-based intensive courses for returning students to continue building graduate-level Artificial Intelligence skills. Explore applications of machine learning models in your domain of interest, from medicine and generative AI to deep learning. This program is designed for students who have completed AI Scholars.

AI Deep Dives Program Offerings

In the first half of the course, students learn AI’s core technologies including applications, foundational concepts, and programming tools through live online lectures and coding labs. In a multi-week final project, students apply innovative machine learning techniques to model how a self-driving car works using reinforcement learning, fight bias in criminal justice, preserve privacy in natural language processing models, detect skin cancer from photographs, or more.

Designing Gen AI Apps: Large Language Models

Module 0: Python and AI Review
Module 1: The Power of GPT-3
Module 2: Fine-Tuning ChatGPT
Module 3: Transformers and GANs
Module 4: Implement Safe and Ethical GPT
Module 5: Final Project

Course Curriculum

AI in Medicine

Module 0: Python, CNN and NLP Review
Module 1: Medical AI
Module 2: Medical Imaging
Module 3: Explainable AI
Module 4: Drug Discovery with AI
Module 5: Final Project

Course Curriculum

Deep Dives Project Highlights for 2025

Designing Gen AI Apps Deep Dive: Build an Authentic & Safe Chatbot

Use ChatGPT to build a truthful chatbot and avoid “fake-proofing.”

Designing Gen AI Apps Deep Dive: Build Your Own ChatGPT Assistant

Create your own customized AI assistant using generative AI technology

AI in Medicine Deep Dive: Precision Medicine in Colorectal Cancer

Automate the classification of colorectal tissue types to reduce diagnostic variability.

AI in Medicine Deep Dive: DNA Detectives

Improve public health by predicting a SARS-CoV-2 lineage's country of origin using its genome

Deep Dives Program and Application Information

Prerequisites

High School Students (Grades 9 to 12) or equivalent.

Prior AI programming and computer science experience required. This program is designed for students who have completed AI Scholars.

Program Fees

Program Fee: USD $1400
(all inclusive)

Admitted students will be emailed a link for online payment.

Payment plans available.

Application Deadlines

Fall 2025: November 1, 2025

Applications are processed on a rolling basis. Limited seats.

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Deep Dives 2025 Program Schedule

The program runs for 10 sessions of 2.5 hours each (25 hours total) of live online, small-group learning.
All times for virtual programs are listed in Pacific Time. Please adjust for your time zone.

Fall 2025

Fall 1: Every Friday, September 26 to November 28, 2025, 7pm-9:30pm PT
Fall 2: Every Saturday, September 27 to November 29, 2025, 8am-10:30am PT

Winter 2025

Winter 1: Daily, December 26, 2025 -January 5, 2026, 8:00am-10:30am PT (no class on January 1).

Meet Some of Our AI Deep Dives Instructors

Phil Bell

Master’s in International Education Policy from Harvard University | Bachelor’s in History from Oxford University
Emily Liang

Master’s in Computer Science from Columbia University | Bachelor’s in Economics and Computer Science from NYU
Peter Washington

Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Stanford University | Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University | Computer Science Professor at UHawaii
Erica Yuen

Master’s in Computer Science from MIT | Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from MIT
Ashley Francisco

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer & Information Sciences at University of Pennsylvania | Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Dartmouth College
Anil Palepu

Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Engineering & Medical Physics at MIT | Master’s in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins