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Artificial Intelligence [Fundamentals] Certificate

Overview

AI technology is advancing quickly, making it a crucial part of nearly every industry. Add AI fundamentals to your professional toolkit with Lebanese American University’s Artificial Intelligence [Fundamentals] Certificate. 

The Artificial Intelligence [Fundamentals] Certificate is an impressive credential for your career, whether you work in business, e-commerce, healthcare, marketing or media. The certificate will cover topics in mathematics and programming for AI, machine learning, deep neural networks and more. Throughout your courses, you will connect with LAU faculty members who have years of AI experience. They will use their expertise to help you apply AI fundamentals to your career.

The certificate will enable any professional, even those without a computing background, to quickly understand, evaluate, apply and contribute to designing and developing AI techniques in their field. 

This certificate program may be completed either in person or online.

Student Outcomes

At the completion of this certificate, students are able to:

  1. Apply fundamental mathematical concepts and programming techniques to design, implement, and evaluate applied AI solutions using modern machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI methods.
  2. Build end-to-end AI workflows  while demonstrating an understanding of the ethical, practical, and domain-specific implications of applied AI.

Admission Requirements

The requirements for admission include:

  • Having earned a bachelor’s degree.
  • This course is taught in English, so applicants must be able to read, write and communicate in English. 
  • GRE is not required.

Curriculum

A total of 9 credits is required to complete the certificate:

Core Courses (6 credits)

  • AAI601 Mathematics for Applied AI (3 cr.)
  • AAI602 Programming for Applied AI (3 cr.)

Elective Courses (3 credits)

  • AAI611 Machine Learning Fundamentals and Applications (3 cr.)
  • AAI612 Deep Learning and its Applications (3 cr.)
  • AAI633 Introduction to Generative AI (2cr.)
  • AAI634 Data Engineering (1cr.)