Education

Data Science for All (DS4ALL)

Summers of 2023 – 2025: An NSF-funded summer program to teach high-school students data science and AI/ML. The experience of this program was presented and shared at Data Science Education K-12 conference (DSE-K12 2025), held from February 17-19 in San Antonio, TX.

Program Details, 2023, 2024, 2025, DSE-K12 Paper, DSE-K12 Presentation

Data Science, AI, and ML for Biology

From 7/21 to 7/23, 2025, together with UCLA and UCSD colleagues, we used the Texera platform to teach 17 biology students data science, AI, and ML as part of a dkNet data science bootcamp. It’s the first time we deployed the whole system on AWS with auto-scaling!

Data Science for Middle School Students

7/21/2025: we taught 32 middle school students data science, AI, and ML using Texera.

Photos

Cerritos Workshop: Data Science for Everyone

11/16/2024 and 11/23/2024: A two-day workshop designed for non-CS students to learn data science and ML without a single line of coding. The workshop was hosted on two Saturdays in Nov 2024.

Workshop Details, Album

DS4Bio: Data Science for Bio Engineering Applications

11/13/2024: As part of a six-week hybrid program that introduces data science concepts to engineering undergraduate students, we taught students data science in bio engineering.

Program Details, Album, Recording

ICS 80: Data Science and AI/ML Using Workflows

Spring 2024: In this course at UCI, we taught 42 undergraduates, most of whom are not computer science majors, to learn data science and AI/ML.

Course Syllabus, Album