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What Have I Gotten Myself Into? Lessons From the eCornell Agentic AI Architecture Certificate

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  • Virtual

    AI Explorations

    Friday, February 6, 2026 2:00 PM → Wednesday, May 28, 2025 3:00 PM
    Online event
    Ayham Boucher, Fermin Romero, Jai Chandnani, MPS-IS

    Join us for informal AI office hours hosted by Ayham Boucher (Director, AI Innovation Hub), Fermin Romero (Infrastructure and Application Development Manager, Student Services IT), and Jai Chandnani (AI Engineer Fellow, AI Innovation Hub). This is your space to come and have an open chat about the newest buzz in AI. We cover breaking news…

  • Hybrid

    Demo Day Spring 2026

    Monday, May 4, 2026, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Biotechnology Building, G10
    Ayham Boucher

    Join us for our Spring 2026 Demo Day! We will feature the latest AI solutions developed in collaboration with campus partners and students. Built for Cornell’s unique needs, we will present custom cutting-edge tools, from agentic workflow automation to AI assistants that improve human decision making

  • Hybrid

    Claude Code Day

    To Be Announced
    TBD
    Ayham Boucher

    Ready to integrate agentic AI into your toolkit? Join us for an intensive upskilling session focused on Claude Code. We will explore how to use this powerful tool to get AI to complete longer and more complex tasks.

April 13, 2026

I recently completed the eCornell Agentic AI Architecture certificate program. If I am being completely honest, my first thought when I logged into the first course was, “What have I gotten myself into?” That feeling lasted for a while, but I kept going anyway.

January 24, 2026

Hi, I'm Fermin Romero III I'm the Application Development Manager for Student Services Information Technologies at Cornell University, and I volunteer as a tech lead with the AI...

January 24, 2026

My initial motivation in joining the AI Innovation Lab as a tech lead was straightforward: to ensure the AI work I was doing at SSIT aligned with broader Cornell efforts What...

January 13, 2026

During the Fall 2025 semester, I took Cornell’s Info 5940 course about AI Chatbots, RAG, AI Agent The course was taught by Prof Ayham Boucher and focused on understanding the...

January 10, 2026

At CALS OIT, the Administrative Computing team plays a vital role in supporting the college’s operations through building and maintaining custom applications tailored to the...

December 20, 2025

Andy Coenen built a really interesting project using tools like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Nano Banana While Andy wrote almost zero lines of code for the entire project, he...