GA Tech, Facebook partner to engage Black, Latino students in AI education - University-Industry Engagement Week - Tech Transfer Central

A detailed article on the Georgia Tech and Facebook partnership aimed at building diversity in the AI field appears in the January issue of University-Industry Engagement Advisor. In the initial steps of a program of collaboration with U.S. universities "that serve significant populations of Black and Latino students," Facebook has partnered with Georgia Tech to develop, co-teach, and fund graduate-level online deep learning courses. The program will be expanded in 2021 to include additional institutions. The collaboration at Georgia Tech came about through discussions between Facebook and the university's Machine Learning Center and the School of Interactive Computing, says Zsolt Kira, PhD, associate director of the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech and an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing. This is not the first collaboration between the two partners, says Paco Guzmán, research scientist manager at Facebook and a lecturer for Facebook's Co-teaching AI Program.