Industrial Innovation in the Era of AI
June 15-18 2025 ● University of Washington ● Seattle
From Users to Builders: Transform Yourself for the Age of AI
Full Day Short Course at Sunday June 15, 2025 at UW MEB (breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks included). Please bring your own laptop for hands-on sessions.
Instructor:
Yuzheng Sun is the data science evangelist at Statsig, a leading platform for data-driven product development backed by Sequoia, serving clients including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Character.ai. Previously, Yuzheng was the Director of Growth and AI at Tencent Games, a data scientist at Meta, and an economist at Amazon. Yuzheng holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University. Additionally, Yuzheng is the top AI instructor on Maven, with over 250,000 followers across various social media platforms.
Abstract:
With rapid advancements in Generative AI, are you struggling to:
- Master effective prompt engineering?
- Seamlessly incorporate GenAI into your current workflows?
- Keep up with the ever-changing GenAI landscape?
- Filter out the real insights from the noise of clickbait headlines?
If so, you're not alone. GenAI is shaking things up, creating a new frontier in tech. Traditional resources didn’t prepare us for this shift. Traditional ways of learning are not enough.
To excel in this transformative field, you need a transformative approach. We believe that simply using or learning GenAI isn’t enough — you need to build with it. Instead of taking a new course whenever a new concept comes up, the builder’s mindset drives you to keep learning and gives you the power to go after the rewards, which creates a flywheel. This short course show you the pathway to a builder's mindset.