This class is brought to you by a team of amazing instructors, TAs, and guest speakers. Meet them below!
Artem Lukoianov
Lead Instructor
Artem is a lead instructor for this class, PhD researcher at MIT CSAIL, and a co-founder of Sundai Club.
MIT
CSAIL
Sundai Club
Serge Vasylechko
Lead Instructor
Serge is a lead instructor for this class, AI researcher at the Harvard Medical School and a co-founder of Sundai Club.
Harvard
HMS
Sundai Club
Andrew Mead
Lecturer
Machine learning engineer, focused on code generation and local AI
Hacker =)
Sundai Club
Mike Boensel
Lecturer
Mike is a full stack software developer
MIT
Lincoln Labs
Sundai Club
Nikolay Vyahi
Lecturer
CEO of Hyperskill, an AI-powered platform helping engineers build skills through hands-on projects
Hyperskill
Sundai Club
Abinaya Damodaran
Lecturer
Full-stack dev building an AI-powered interactive reading platform for K-12 and a Sundai hacker.
K-12
Sundai Club
Aleks Jakulin
Guest Speaker
Winner of the EurAI award for the best PhD dissertation in artificial intelligence. Serial entrepreneur focused on raising intelligence through data excellence.
Data.Flowers
Sundai Club
Kush Varshney
Guest Speaker
IBM Fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, specializing in trustworthy machine learning and AI. He has created notable open-source AI toolkits and is recognized for his work in data science, predictive analytics, and algorithmic fairness.
IBM
IBM Research
Mark Weber
Guest Speaker
Mark is a seed investor, applied AI researcher, and adventurer.
MIT Media Lab
Tectonic Ventures
Sundai Club
Ilya Gulko
Guest Speaker
Ilya is researching effective and user-friendly AI-enabled social networks. Ilya teaches software development using AI. Ilya helps run a community hacker house called C House
C House
Sundai Club
Maya Murad
Guest Speaker
Maya is a Technical Product Manager at IBM Research focusing on incubating breakthrough technologies.
IBM Research
Sam Rowe
Guest Speaker
Sam Rowe is the Founder and CEO of Æthos, a global start up community building responsible AI
Æthos
Meera Lakhavani
Guest Speaker
Meera is an AI Solutions Engineer at Google, actively involved in the local venture and startup ecosystem. She is passionate about exploring the intersection of technology and ethics.
Google
Kanchana Patlolla
Guest Speaker
Kanch is an AI enthusiast works with building agents in Google Cloud for Enterprises
Google
Nicole Bakker
Lead TA & Course Prep
Nicole is a design engineer on a mission to accelerate the circular economy with digital tools. She graduated from MIT and Harvard and is founder of Circular Engine.
MIT Media Lab
Circular Engine
Sundai Club
Fridolin Haugg
Lead TA & Course Prep
Frido is a medical AI researcher who builds deep learning applications by day and develops AI projects at our Sundai hacker club by night.
Harvard
HMS
Sundai Club
Konstantina Yaneva
Lead TA & Course Prep
Konstantina (Connie) Yaneva is the founder of Criterio Studios Inc, a gaming studio, and a graduate student in data science at Harvard Extension School
Harvard
Criterio Studios
Sundai Club
Angus Chen
Lead TA & Course Prep
Angus Chen is a thought leader bridging technology and management in AI security.
Binary Defense
Sundai Club
Trevor Keith
Lead TA & Course Prep
Trevor is the founder of Codapt.ai, an agentic AI developer that leans into your existing tech stack to deliver more accurate code changes.
codapt.ai
Sundai Club
Gabriella Torres
Lead TA & Course Prep
Gabriella is a product manager and researcher at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative who combines technical expertise in privacy technologies with a human-centered approach, co-founder of Sundai Club.
MIT
Æthos
Sundai Club
Kris Mondlane
Teaching Assistant
Kris is an innovation facilitator at Captains of Innovation, leading Sundai spinouts and workshops to unite teams around bold, real-world solutions.
CIC
CAIRO
Sundai Club
Mihir Attale
Teaching Assistant
Mihir is a master's student at Northeastern, passionate about building machine learning and AI solutions.
Northeastern University
Sundai Club
Eduardo Baena Martinez
Teaching Assistant
Eduardo Baena works on innovative AI solutions in wireless networks and the integration of terrestrial and space-based systems.
Northeastern
WIoT Institute
Sundai Club
Debamitro Chakraborti
Teaching Assistant
Debamitro is an AI-powered builder of AI-powered products.
Sundai Club
Siraaj Khandkar
Teaching Assistant
Siraaj is a type-driven software engineer, often of systems distributed, and an organizer of Hack Free Or Die.