Jumpstart Your Work with AI

Understanding How Machines See, Learn, and Communicate

Location & Dates

🗓 Dates: August 17–21, 2026

⏰ Time: 10:00 am to 3:00 pm [Lunch provided]

🏛 Location: Innovative Learning Classroom Building (ILCB), TAMU, College Station, Texas

Room 233: Monday, August 17 – Thursday, August 20
Room 229: Friday, August 21

New to AI-Enabled Research?

To help non-technical audiences on campus to get started with AI, this summer bootcamp provides a broad review of AI tools for quick solutions.

The Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing (HPRC) experts will cover Python fundamentals and help the participants set up computing resources. The HPRC ACES (please register in advance to help with the course flow) cluster will host and accelerate a set of Jupyter notebooks for image classification, transfer learning, natural language tokenization and embedding, and translation using a transformer.

We will cover the essential neural network fundamentals and tools for applying deep learning models through hands-on exercises in computer vision and natural language processing.

On Day 5, selected participants will present their problems and be paired with Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) ambassadors for the next steps.

A joint certificate of completion from TAMIDS and HPRC will be offered to participants who pass the in-person exam at the end of the bootcamp.

Sponsored by the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science and Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing. This bootcamp is part of the Generative AI Literacy Initiative, an initiative designed to empower students, educators, researchers, and the broader Texas A&M community with the knowledge and tools needed to understand and responsibly engage with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).

Open to all Texas A&M Students, Staff, and Faculty.

Minimal to no coding experience required!

Your AI Problem Slide

Optional

The registration form includes an opportunity to upload a PDF or PPT file that explains your work/research and any AI utilization challenges or barriers you may have. During the Bootcamp, we will hold consultations with selected participants to demonstrate TAMIDS resources.

Submit a one-page (max) slide during registration. The slide should cover what you want to accomplish in your work or research with AI. You do not need to have all the answers figured out; we just need to know your challenges and goals.