AIC.20000 Introduction to AI Computing

Course Description

This course provides a broad introduction to key research areas and modern techniques in AI computing. It is organized into five two-week modules taught by five faculty members, with each module reflecting the instructor's area of expertise.

In each module, students complete a hands-on mini-project that applies concepts from the lectures. Through these topics and mini-projects, students will develop a broad perspective on modern AI and gain practical experience applying AI techniques.

Instructors

Uichin Lee
TA: Somin Park
somin@iclab.kaist.ac.kr
Minhyuk Sung
TA: Yunjae Jeong
frogjj@kaist.ac.kr
Sungjin Ahn
TA: Hosung Lee
hslee@kaist.ac.kr
Seunghoon Hong
TA: Yeonwoo Cha
ckdusdn03@kaist.ac.kr
Joyce Jiyoung Whang
TA: Chanyoung Chung
chanyoung.chung@kaist.ac.kr

Evaluation

Five Mini-Projects, 20% each

Attendance is required. Students with more than two unexcused absences will receive a failing grade (F).

Schedule

Subject to change

Week	Date	Location	Session	Instructor	TA	Topics
1	Sep 3	E3-1 Room 1104	Lecture 1	Minhyuk Sung	Yunjae Jeong	Introduction to Generative Modeling; Fundamentals of Generative Modeling
2	Sep 10	E3-1 Room 1104	Lecture 2	Minhyuk Sung	Yunjae Jeong	Challenges in Generative Modeling; Mini-Project Presentation
3	Sep 17		No Class			Course Break
4	Sep 24		No Class			Chuseok Holiday
5	Oct 1	E3-1 Room 1104	Lecture 3	Seunghoon Hong	Yeonwoo Cha	Introduction to Computer Vision; Learning to Understand Pixels I
6	Oct 8	E3-1 Room 1104	Lecture 4	Seunghoon Hong	Yeonwoo Cha	Learning to Understand Pixels II; Mini-Project Presentation
7	Oct 15		No Class			Course Break
8	Oct 22		No Class			Midterm Week
9	Oct 29	N1 Room 201	Lecture 5	Joyce Jiyoung Whang	Chanyoung Chung	Graph Machine Learning and Large Language Models; Knowledge Graph Question Answering
10	Nov 5	N1 Room 201	Lecture 6	Joyce Jiyoung Whang	Chanyoung Chung	Graph Neural Networks and Knowledge Graph Representation Learning; Mini-Project Presentation
11	Nov 12	E3-1 Room 1104	Lecture 7	Sungjin Ahn	Hosung Lee	Introduction to Reinforcement Learning; Learning from Rewards
12	Nov 19	E3-1 Room 1104	Lecture 8	Sungjin Ahn	Hosung Lee	Decision-Making in Reinforcement Learning; Mini-Project Presentation
13	Nov 26		No Class			Undergraduate Admissions Interviews
14	Dec 3	N1 Room 201	Lecture 9	Uichin Lee	Somin Park	Human-Computer Interaction and Human-AI Interaction; Human-AI Interaction
15	Dec 10	N1 Room 201	Lecture 10	Uichin Lee	Somin Park	Responsible AI and Ethics; Mini-Project Presentation
16	Dec 17		No Class			Final Exam Week