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HawkAI Level-1 Enrollment ... NEW: SPRING 2025 Offerings

HawkAI Level-2 Enrollment ... NEW: SPRING 2025 Offerings

HawkAI Short Courses and Certificate Levels

The Iowa Initiative for Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology Services offer introductory as well as advanced short courses in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML). These short courses can be taken individually, or their sequences can lead to obtaining HawkAI Certificates of Proficiency in AI/ML. The educational short courses will help satisfy diverse AI-education needs of Iowa’s faculty, research staff, and student-researchers. 

HawkAI Certificates will formally attest that their holders have attended the respective-level AI/ML training, possess relevant AI knowledge, and can be sought by others for collaboration or research activities. 

  • As a holder of Level-1 HawkAI Certificate, you will gain understanding of the AI landscape, be able to navigate the rapidly emerging field of AI, boost your productivity by leveraging AI tools, and efficiently participate in AI collaboration activities. 
  • Additional certificate levels will focus on interdisciplinary research and AI methodology and development. Active researchers will gain new ways to lead and participate in data-driven research and be sought by others for scholarly collaborations.

Level 1 AI short courses were first offered during Fall 2024, repeat offering in Spring 2025.

  • This first batch of courses will NOT require any knowledge of AI and will NOT assume any computational background of the participants. 
  • The Level-1 offerings will consist of 7 short courses (between 1 and 3 hours in duration), active participation in 4 of them is required to obtain the HawkAI Level-1 certificate. 
  • To complete a course, registration, attendance, and passing a brief quiz will be required. The main goal of this Level-1 set of courses is to provide an overview of generative AI, analytical AI, and educate about ethical and trustworthiness aspects of using AI in a broad range of daily-life applications across disciplines.
  • Level-1 short courses - overview

Level 2 AI short courses are first offered during Spring 2025. To obtain Level-2 HawkAI proficiency certificate, obtaining Level-1 certificate is a pre-requisite but any Level-2 short courses can also be taken individually. 

  • This second batch of courses will still NOT require any computational background. Level-2 offerings will consist of 5 short courses, active participation in 4 of them is required to obtain the HawkAI Level-2 certificate. 
  • Level-2 short courses will specifically benefit interdisciplinary researchers who are interested in domain specific data-driven research that relies on interdisciplinary collaboration with AI experts. 
  • The short course sequence will elevate the AI knowledge and ability to efficiently conduct research with AI components, write interdisciplinary AI grants, and compete for extramural funding with AI-related methodology. 
  • Level-2 short courses - overview

Level 3 AI short courses will help develop in-depth knowledge of AI/ML methodology and design.

  • AI short courses will benefit those who aspire to become AI researchers and AI-tool developers – computational knowledge and relevant background is a pre-requisite. 
  • Details of Level-3 courses and associated HawkAI certificate will be announced later this academic year. 
  • Level-3 short courses - overview - WORK IN PROGRESS

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Acknowledgment:

  • Support of UI's SPARC P3 funding to offer AI education and AI Certificate program is gratefully acknowledged.

 

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