NEW! Accelerating Innovation in AI

Ready to unleash your inner innovator? Explore our newest certificate in AI!

Through courses in Computer Science and Technology Entrepreneurship, weʼll teach you to build systems leveraging foundational models and generative AI; design products with user-centered machine learning principles; and commercialize these products through customer discovery and business modeling.

Sequence & Curriculum | Total Credits: 11-12

Course # Course Title Credits
FALL
CS 409
or
DTX 495 UX
The Art of Web Programming
or
Intro to UX Theory and Tools
3

2
TE 598 AI0 From Idea to AI Enterprise 2
SPRING
CS 568 User Centered Machine Learning 4
TE 598 AI1 Venture Development of AI Enterprises 3

Email tec-ilee@illinois.edu if you have trouble registering for any of the courses.

Additional details about the certificate coming soon!

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Eligibility

  • This Certificate can be completed in two semesters and is available to Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate students in all majors.
  • Available to MCS and iMBA students in Chicago through face-to-face sections of select courses.
  • Applicants must have a background in elementary data structures (lists, stacks, queues, and trees) and their implementation using an object-oriented programming language, probability theory and statistics with applications to computer science, and a basic understanding of interface design, implementation, and evaluation. These requirements are fulfilled by having taken CS 225 and CS 361, or equivalent courses in these topics.
  • Applicants without a programming background should enroll in DTX 495 UX.