ESP Biography



JERRY SHAN, Graduate student in Learning Design and Technology



Major: Graduate School of Education

College/Employer: Stanford

Year of Graduation: G

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

I'm Jerry, studying Learning Design and Technology at Stanford's Graduate School of Education. Prior to that, I did my Bachelor's and Master's at UC Berkeley, where I studied computer science, data science, and machine learning.

I'm passionate about CS/AI education, and as someone who got into coding since grade 6, I know that proper guidance is very important for K-12 students interested in computer science. I have cofounded and serving as the CTO of an EdTech startup that focuses on K-12 CS education, and have served thousands of students around the world to begin their journey in the world of computing.

Currently, my research is on how technology can be used to make AI education more engaging for high school students. In my course, you will be using a learning platform I designed myself for learning AI.



Past Classes

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C8024: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence in Splash Spring 2024 (May. 18 - 19, 2024)
Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more integrated in our daily interaction with digital technology, such as face recognition and content recommendation, Do you wonder how they work? If so, this course is for you! In this course, we will go behind the scene and dive into the foundamental ideas behind the creation of intelligent systems. But instead of going through a bunch of algorithms that a typical university course would, we will start from scratch and derive “intelligence” ourselves. There will be lots of hands-on components throughout the course where we tackle different challenges that involve building an intelligent system as the solution. We will start with simple problems and “level up” as we go. By the end of the course, you will have built your first image recognition model and understand how it works.