2025
Ramin, a former guest and AI engineer who teaches at Northeastern, teaches courses on generative AI theory and on machine learning operations.
“he, he teaches a couple different courses.”
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Northeastern University
11 facts from 4 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2025
Daniel Whitenack says student demand at Northeastern shifted from a generative AI theory course to an AI operations course.
“in the beginning it was everyone wanted to be in the generative AI theory course, and that's basically flipped to everyone wanting to be in the ops course.”
2026
Ramin Mohammadi says Northeastern's Khoury College of Computer Science is updating its curriculum in 2026 with more practical courses and ethics woven into coding.
“Northeastern, Khoury College of Computer Science. Um, the as of this year, basically, 2026, they're updating their curriculums finally”
Undated
Alison Beard states that Nikesh Arora holds an electrical engineering degree from IIT BHU, a master's from Boston College and an MBA from Northeastern University.
“you have a degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, B H U, as well as a master's from Boston College and an MBA from Northeastern.”
Undated
Nikesh Arora said Northeastern University offered him a place for business school and paid his tuition in exchange for teaching computer science.
“I was privileged to be offered a place at Northeastern, where they chose to, uh, pay my tuition if I taught computer science”
Undated
Ramin Mohammadi says his Northeastern MLOps class has roughly 150 to 270 students per semester.
“every semester, right now we have about 150, 270 students within one class, like a huge classroom.”
Undated
In Ramin Mohammadi's course, student teams spend a full semester building one real product in a domain they choose, such as healthcare, finance, sport or robotics.
“Then, as a team, they spend the entire semester on building one real product, and this real product. It's not just homework assignment, it's not a toy example”
Undated
Ramin Mohammadi says the course's MLOps Expo was partnered with Google and scheduled for December 12 at Google's campus in Boston.
“this year, for example, uh, we partnered with Google, uh, so we are hosting on, um, in two weeks, December 12th, at Google Main, Uh campus in Boston”
Undated
In Ramin Mohammadi's survey, about 60 percent of his students said they take online courses on top of their schooling.
“which is 60, basically of the of the students. They said that they are taking online courses on top of what they are taking in in the school.”
Undated
In Ramin Mohammadi's survey, about 82 percent of students said they take part in hackathons to learn to build quickly.
“another question 82 of the students say that they are participating in hackathons in order to learn to how to quickly to build.”
Undated
Ramin Mohammadi says Google provides cloud credits for his MLOps course every semester so students can build real systems.
“they give us lots of credits for our ML Ops course every semester. Because, uh, our students, they can't otherwise build anything in a real world.”
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