Welcome to an Experimental Journey in GenAI!
If you’ve landed here, you're likely excited about learning and teaching Generative AI.
I taught several innovative courses at UW Foster’s Master of Information Systems and undergraduate programs and delivered guest lectures to a diverse audience, including MBAs, Executive MBAs, PhDs, undergraduates, and entrepreneurship programs.
These courses were a great success and were recognized at the University of Washington with the Charles E. Summer Memorial Teaching Award and the Master of Science in Information Systems Teaching and Innovation Excellence Award. Throughout the courses, I blended the latest AI news, live demos, technical skills, tutorials, discussions, inspirational content, and life lessons. In a matter of weeks, students demonstrated remarkable growth, presenting unique business ideas, live demos of products they built and deployed, video games, websites, and agentic systems.
Let's explore and be inspired by what’s possible with GenAI!
🆕 VibeCoding 101: Build a Complete Website with AI
Create a stunning website in just 20 minutes using Claude, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Runway, Replit, and other GenAI tools! Perfect classroom activity to teach students about vibecoding, human-AI collaboration, and how to combine multiple AI tools for creative projects. Watch now and level up your GenAI skills! 💡
Check out these tutorial slides on combining large language models and OR/MS for Smarter Decision-Making. My colleagues Segev Wasserkrug and Wei Sun (IBM) and I gave this tutorial at the INFORMS' 2024 annual meeting. You can find the written tutorial [🔗 here] or published online on INFORMS' website [🔗 here]. It covers:
How do large language models work?
Making better decisions by combining LLMs and OR/MS
Using LLMs in the creation of optimization solutions
Using LLMs as part of an analytics pipeline
Using LLMs as a user interface
Tips, take-aways, and frontiers
Segev Wasserkrug, Léonard Boussioux, Wei Sun (2024) Combining Large Language Models and OR/MS to Make Smarter Decisions. INFORMS TutORials in Operations Research 1-49.
🆕 My latest slide deck and video recording for my INFORMS GenAI Series Talk
Leveraging Generative AI for Creative Problem-Solving in Operations Research and Management Science
🆕 Lecture slide decks Spring 2025 | For Powerpoint version or undergraduate version (14 lectures, including machine learning), please email me: leobix@uw.edu
4 lectures on Deep Learning Fundamentals: From neural networks and computer vision to transformers and large language models, including an exciting case study on hurricane forecasting built on top of my PhD research.
4 lectures on Generative AI & Creative Problem Solving: Covering the future of work, prompt engineering, idea generation and evaluation, human-AI collaboration and decision-making, diffusion models, and frontiers of GenAI (RAG, Multi-Agent, reasoning models,…)
Media communications about my courses and research
GeekWire Podcast
D^3 Institute, Harvard
Some of my amazing classes and students
Some of my latest talks around our Universal AI research
🆕 Hosting Bi-Weekly Hybrid AI Lunch&Learn at UW
Join us and become part of our vibrant community of learners, builders, and educators. Discover and share the latest AI news and tips! Anyone is welcome. Please sign into our Slack to join the community. To allow us to meet regularly, I organize bi-weekly lunches (one in-person at UW Foster, one hybrid).
🆕 Latest research publications and preprints around Generative AI
Organization Science
Dive into the future of artistry! In this TEDx Talk, I spotlight the transformative power of AI in art and creativity, reinforcing that we all have an inherent artist within waiting to be unleashed.
I advocate for a collective approach to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Using Generative AI, I emphasize that even those with minimal data science knowledge can make a significant difference. Together, we can foster collaboration and drive real-world impact.