ML and Gen AI Certification

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

AI Founder | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Manu Jayawardana

Exited AI Founder | Co-Founder, Snapdrum

Train a real ML model and fine-tune an LLM in one hands-on half-day session.

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You've read the papers and watched the tutorials. But you still haven't trained your own model or fine-tuned an LLM end to end, with your hands on the code.

In one half-day you'll do both, in a notebook you keep. You'll train and evaluate a real machine learning model, run an open LLM, and fine-tune it on your own data. No GPU, no local setup, everything runs in the browser.

  • Train and evaluate a real ML model with scikit-learn

  • Run and prompt an open LLM with Hugging Face Transformers

  • Fine-tune that LLM on your own data using LoRA

  • Learn when to prompt, when to fine-tune, and when to train from scratch

You leave with working notebooks and a certificate, not just notes. Taught by a practitioner with a PhD in machine learning who ships models for real clients, not a slides-only trainer.

The hype will keep changing. Knowing how to actually train these things won't.

What you’ll learn

Train a real ML model, then run and fine-tune an LLM, all hands-on in one half-day, in notebooks you keep.

  • Go from raw data to a trained model: split, fit, predict, and score

  • Read the accuracy, precision, recall, and a confusion matrix to judge your model

  • Spot overfitting and underfitting, and know what to do about each

  • Prepare features, train, evaluate, then iterate to improve the result

  • Understand train, validation, and test splits and why they matter

  • Keep a clean, rerunnable notebook you can reuse on your own data

  • Load an open model from the Hugging Face hub and generate text

  • Shape outputs with prompting, temperature, and token limits

  • See where a base model falls short and why fine-tuning helps

  • Build a small dataset and fine-tune an open model with LoRA and PEFT

  • Run the fine-tune in the browser with no GPU or local setup

  • Compare the base and fine-tuned model on the same prompts

  • Use a simple decision guide for prompt vs fine-tune vs train from scratch

  • Weigh cost, data, and effort for each path on a real use case

  • Avoid the common trap of fine-tuning when a prompt would do

  • Complete the hands-on build to earn a certificate of completion

  • Walk away with your trained model and fine-tuned LLM in working notebooks

Learn directly from Aki & Manu

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

AI Founder | Educator | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Previous Students from
Google
Meta
NVIDIA
OpenAI
Amazon Web Services
Manu Jayawardana

Manu Jayawardana

Exited AI Founder (Rise AI: 35k Users) | Co-Founder of Krybe and Snapdrum.com

Previous Students from
Google
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
McKinsey & Company
NVIDIA
OpenAI
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Who this course is for

  • The Software Engineer. Ships product code but has never trained a model. Ready to add ML and GenAI to their toolkit, hands-on

  • The Data Analyst. Comfortable with data but new to model training and LLMs. Ready to move from analysis to building

  • The Technical Lead or PM. Briefs ML and GenAI work, but have never built it. Wants to understand it by doing, not just talking

Prerequisites

  • Basic Python

    You can read and edit simple Python. We use notebooks and explain the ML-specific code as we go

  • A Google account

    Everything runs in Google Colab in the browser. No local install, no GPU, no setup

  • No ML background needed

    We build up from the fundamentals. Curiosity matters more than prior machine learning experience

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Dr. Aki Wijesundara & Manu Jayawardana in a real-time, interactive format.

Colab notebooks you keep

Every notebook is yours to rerun and reuse on your own data after the session

Your trained model and fine-tuned LLM

Leave with a working ML model and a fine-tuned LLM you built yourself, not a demo you watched

Certificate of completion

Earn a shareable certificate for completing the hands-on build

Session recording

Get the recording to revisit the steps and code at your own pace afterward

Decision guide

A take-home guide for choosing between prompting, fine-tuning, and training from scratch

Maven Guarantee

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Course syllabus

Week 1

Jul 29

    What machine learning is and when to use it

    5 items

    Types of machine learning: supervised and unsupervised

    5 items

    How data flows through a machine learning system

    5 items

    Understanding features, labels, and datasets

    5 items

    Common machine learning use cases in the real world

    5 items

    Common beginner mistakes and misconceptions

    5 items

    Hands-On Outcome

    3 items

    Resources

    6 items

    Useful Interviews

    2 items

    Articles

    7 items

    Jul

    29

    Build ML Systems: Live Class

    Wed 7/293:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)

Schedule

Live sessions

4 hrs

A single hands-on half-day workshop, roughly 4 hours. You'll train and evaluate a real ML model with scikit-learn, run and prompt an open LLM with Hugging Face, then fine-tune it on your own data with LoRA. Everything runs in Google Colab, no GPU or setup needed. You leave with working notebooks and a certificate

    • Wed, Jul 29

      3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)

Hands On Projects

4 hrs

Complete practical exercises and mini-projects that simulate real-world machine learning workflows. Apply what you learn in live sessions to prepare data, train models, evaluate performance, and iterate on improvements, ensuring you gain hands-on experience that prepares you to build and use machine learning models confidently in real-world setting

Office Hours

1 hr

Testimonials

  • The AI training approach is outstanding. Our team learned to build practical AI solutions that we could implement immediately in our educational platform. The hands-on methodology made complex AI concepts accessible to our entire development team.
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    Kavi T.

    CEO of Tilli Kids / Stanford PhD
  • Not only are the instructors experts in their field, they're incredibly skilled at breaking down complicated AI concepts so students can grasp them quickly. Anyone interested in building foundational AI knowledge should take this training - it's worth the investment.
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    Dr. Elizabeth Creighton

    Founder & Principal at Brazen
  • The instructors help break down AI model development and clearly have plenty of experience to help others learn about complex concepts like infrastructure setup. The practical approach to NLP and LLM applications was exactly what our team needed.
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    Alissa Valentine

    NLP & LLM Real World Data Scientist
  • I sent my team through this training for upskilling, and the results have been remarkable. Within weeks, they became much more efficient at building automations and deploying AI agents at work. This program bridges the gap between theory and practice and it’s had a real impact on our productivity.
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    Aamir Faaiz

    CEO of Bayseian

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