Students gain practical, hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI tools and learn from UCLA's leading AI researchers and faculty, earning either a certificate of completion or UCLA course credit.
The UCLA Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) offers a rigorous three-week pre-college program in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI for high school students. The Generative AI track, specifically, introduces students to the foundations and modern techniques of Generative AI, adapted from existing UCLA Computer Science courses like Machine Learning (CS146) and Natural Language Processing (CS162). Students will delve into a wide range of generative AI tasks, including language generation, mathematical reasoning, and multimodal generation, and explore foundational algorithms and methods such as neural networks, representation learning, and large language models. The curriculum emphasizes hands-on coding and projects, allowing students to build and experiment with generative models. Through a blend of theoretical instruction and practical application, students will gain an understanding of machine learning principles that enable generative systems to learn from large-scale data and produce coherent, structured outputs. The program culminates in a tutor-supervised capstone project where students apply learned techniques. Upon successful completion, students receive an official certificate or course credit, depending on their enrollment choice. The program is taught by UCLA faculty and PhD students, with interactive mentorship from undergraduate tutors.
A typical day includes morning lectures (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM tentative) and afternoon group discussions (1:00 PM - 4:00 PM tentative), along with hands-on coding sessions and collaborative projects.
This program is ideal for academically motivated high school students in grades 10-12 with a keen interest in AI and some prior coding experience, eager to explore university-level computer science and prepare for future academic and professional endeavors in AI and data science.
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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