AI & Machine Learning Course Lecturer

Governor’s Champion Summer Camp, Southern Methodist University
July 2024 | Dallas, TX

Course Overview

Designed and delivered a comprehensive 4-week curriculum covering artificial intelligence and modern machine learning for talented high school scholars.

Topics Covered

• Intelligent Agents & Search Algorithms: State-space search, heuristic evaluation, and graph traversal.
• Data Preprocessing & Feature Engineering: Tabular transformations, normalization, and handling missing data with Pandas and NumPy.
• Supervised Learning: Linear/logistic regression, decision trees, and classification metrics.
• Deep Neural Networks: Multi-layer perceptrons, activation functions, backpropagation intuition, and introductory computer vision.
• Guided students through end-to-end hands-on capstone projects applying ML models to real-world datasets.