MassAI

Get weirdly good at AI.

We are UMass Amherst's premier student organization for students passionate about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Whether you're interested in learning the fundamentals or eager to work on hands-on projects, this is the place for you!

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Intro to LLMs, Part 1: RNNs
with Abhijay
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From cutting-edge university labs and big tech to unicorns, quant firms, and seed-stage AI startups, our members are laying the foundations of modern AI systems.

Fall 2026 Lectures

Every Wednesday. No experience needed, just show up.

Sep 23
Opening Meeting
🎤 Adam, Kushaan & Aryaman
Sep 30
Neural Network Basics: AlexNet
🎤 Herbert & Yonathan
Oct 7
Natural Language Processing
🎤 Adam
Oct 14
VLMs / Mechanistic Interpretability
🎤 Guest Speaker
Oct 21
Intro to LLMs, Part 1: RNNs
🎤 Abhijay
Oct 28
Intro to LLMs, Part 2: Transformers (Attention Is All You Need) & Finetuning
🎤 Skye & Yonathan
Nov 4
Agentic Coding: Coding Harnesses, MCP, RAG, A2A & Vector DBs
🎤 Hue & Skye
Nov 11
Hardware + Medical Vision AI
🎤 Junaid & Bhargava
Nov 18
AI Safety
🎤 Ashutosh & Yash
Nov 25
No meeting: Thanksgiving Break
Dec 2
Reinforcement Learning
🎤 Kushaan
Dec 9
World Models
🎤 Kushaan

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The best free material on the internet, hand-picked, plus our own lecture recordings.

Foundations
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📼 Past MassAI lectures
▶ Linear Regression▶ Natural Language Processing & Transformers▶ Neural Networks▶ Computer Vision▶ Introduction to Reinforcement Learning▶ Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning▶ Introduction to Imitation Learning

The crew

Aryaman Tepal
Aryaman Tepal
President of Education
Adam Lubomirski
Adam Lubomirski
President of Outreach
Kushaan Naskar
Kushaan Naskar
Vice President

Where alumni went

MIT
PhD at MIT
Ryan Bahlous-Boldi Ryan Bahlous-Boldi
Cornell Tech
MEng CS at Cornell Tech
Nathan Wolf Nathan Wolf
Robinhood
Lyft
SWE @ Robinhood · ex-Lyft
Kien To Kien To
Loman AI
Software Engineer at Loman AI
Donald Winkelman Donald Winkelman
Nvidia
MSCS @ UMass · SWE @ Nvidia
Shriya Gautam Shriya Gautam
Citadel
Meta
Quant Dev @ Citadel · ex-Meta
Trung Dang Trung Dang