Sean Davis

Talks & teaching

A 2022–2025 archive, mostly AI/ML in medicine and data science. Slides open in a new page; the full source lives in the talks site.
Oct 2025

LLMs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Frontiers of AI in Medicine (IDPT-8079) — How retrieval grounds large language models, with a NotebookLM walkthrough.

Sep 2025

A Brief History of AI in Medicine

Frontiers of AI in Medicine (IDPT-8079) — From early expert systems to modern foundation models, for a clinical audience.

Nov 2024

Lightweight Comparative Analysis of Data Formats

Frontiers of AI in Medicine (IDPT-8079) — Trade-offs across common storage formats for scientific data at scale.

Nov 2024

Language for Computers: Word Embeddings

Frontiers of AI in Medicine (IDPT-8079) — Word embeddings as the representational basis for large language models.

Nov 2024

From Simple Models to Deep Networks

Frontiers of AI in Medicine (IDPT-8079) — An accessible path from linear models to deep learning.

Nov 2024

Fairness in Machine Learning for Healthcare

Frontiers of AI in Medicine (IDPT-8079) — Where models encode bias, and what to do about it in clinical settings.

Oct 2024

A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning

Frontiers of AI in Medicine (IDPT-8079) — Core ideas of ML for a medical and research audience.

Oct 2024

AI/ML for the Oncology Service Line

Invited talk — Practical framing of AI/ML for an oncology clinical audience.

Oct 2024

AI in Medical Education

Invited talk — Opportunities and cautions for AI across the medical curriculum.

Oct 2024

Prompt Engineering

Frontiers of AI in Medicine (IDPT-8079) — Getting reliable behavior out of large language models.

Oct 2024

AI Agents and LLMs

Frontiers of AI in Medicine (IDPT-8079) — What agentic systems built on LLMs can and cannot do.

Nov 2023

JSON and Web Data

Guest lecture, CUNY — JSON and web technologies for working with data.

Jul 2023

Introduction to AI/ML

CSHL Data course — A hands-on introduction to AI and machine learning for genomics.

Sep 2022

Introduction to AI/ML

CU School of Medicine — An introductory overview of AI and ML for a medical school audience.

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