TDAI is excited to offer AI in Your Research, a new hands-on workshop series designed to help Ohio State researchers integrate cutting-edge AI tools into their scholarly work. These intensive workshops are held over two days, with five hours of instruction each day.
The Generative AI in Your Research session, held May 20–21, focuses on the practical use of large language models (LLMs) in academic research. This interactive, application-focused workshop will guide participants through the technical details of working with LLMs by building a tool to enhance and streamline the academic literature review process.
Participants will work directly in Python environments with access to commercial LLMs, gaining hands-on experience applying these tools to real research workflows.
Topics covered include:
- Understanding the transformer architecture behind modern LLMs
- Overview of commercial and open-source LLMs, including cost comparisons
- Ethical and security considerations for using LLMs in research
- Prompt engineering best practices
- Processing and formatting documents for effective LLM ingestion
- Hands-on tutorials for working with LLMs in Python
- Setting up Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to overcome document length limitations
- Techniques for summarizing articles, identifying connections across papers (authors, references, methods), and uncovering key themes
Registration
Registration is $260 per person per workshop ($130 for students). Payment may be made by requisition, purchasing order, or credit card.