top of page
Deep Learning Boot Camp

Spring 2026

Jan 26, 2026

-

May 1, 2026

Notes: You must have previously completed the Erdős Institute Data Science Boot Camp or pass our Assessment in order to register. 
erdosOspin.gif

Checking your registration status...

To access the program content, you must first create an account and member profile and be logged in.

You are registered for this program.

Registration Deadlines

Jan 21, 2026

-

Erdős members / alumni who have successfully completed a prior Erdős Data Science Boot Camp Project

-

-

Category

Advance, Supplemental, Self-Directed, Project-Based, Boot Camp

Overview

Welcome to deep learning! Each week, you'll complete assigned readings from 2 deep learning books. During the first few weeks, there will be weekly meetings with the instructors and all attendees on Zoom. As you progress more into the material and your projects, you will meet according to your group schedule.

In order to receive a deep learning certificate, you must submit a (team-based) final project by the end of the cohort.

Slack

Click here to be invited to the slack organization: The Erdős Institute

Click here to access the slack cohort channel: #slack-cohort-channel

Click here to access the slack program channel: #slack-program-channel

calendar-icon.png

Click here to download the Events & Deadlines .ics calendar file

Organizers, Instructors, and Advisors

matt_osborne.png

Marcos Ortiz

Lead Deep Learning TA

Office Hours:

As Needed

Email:

Preferred Contact:

Slack

matt_osborne.png

Lindsay Warrenburg

Associate Director of Erdős

Office Hours:

As Needed

Email:

Preferred Contact:

Slack

Slack is the best way to contact me!

Objectives

- Learn the basics of deep learning
- Understand how deep learning is used in industry
- Feel comfortable with deep learning code (PyTorch and FastAI)

Project Examples

TEAM 12

Fraud Detection with Deep Learning

Jude Pereira, Yang Yang, Adrian Wong, Sara Edelman-Munoz, Mary Reith

clear.png
Screen Shot 2022-06-03 at 11.31.35 AM.png
github URL

Fraud detection is a critical area where deep learning has been effectively applied to identify and prevent unauthorized transactions, money laundering, and other financial crimes. Traditional rule-based systems and statistical models often struggle to detect sophisticated fraud patterns, particularly when dealing with large volumes of data and rapidly evolving fraud techniques. In contrast, deep learning models, such as CNNs, RNNs, and autoencoders, have proven highly effective in analyzing complex, high-dimensional transaction data and detecting subtle, non-linear patterns indicative of fraudulent activity.
In this project, we build a User ID-based fraud detection model using autoencoders, trained on unlabelled real-world credit card transaction data, capable of detecting fraud with a precision of up to 35% and a recall of up to 72%, performing significantly better than traditional ML/statistical baseline models..

TEAM 3

Deep Learning - Audio Project (VocalCycleGAN)

Gregory Taylor,Jaspar Wiart,Chutian Ma

clear.png
Screen Shot 2022-06-03 at 11.31.35 AM.png
github URL

In this project, trained a cycleGAN on speech data and singing data to create a voice synthesizer that takes speech and outputs a synthesized voice to play over a given song.

First Steps/Prerequisites

Participants must have successfully completed the data science bootcamp or pass a data science assessment before taking this course.
First Steps

Program Content

I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.

Course materials are available on github through the following link:

25231-github-cat-in-a-circle-icon-vector-icon-vector-eps.png
Request Access to GitHub

github message for user

Program Content

Textbook/Notes

Note: our video player does not support playback speed options. You can find a third party browser extension which will allow you to modify video playback speed. For example, this one works for Chrome: video-speed-controller. If you would prefer to avoid a browser extension you can manually modify the playback speed in the javascript console as well: Speed up any HTML5 video player!

Project Instructions

Instructions

Showing how to create a team, submit a project, and find the previous project database

Slides
Transcript

Project/Homework Instructions

I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.

Project/Team Formation
Project Submission
Projects README

Project Instructions

Instructions

Showing how to create a team, submit a project, and find the previous project database

Slides
Transcript

Schedule

Click on any date for more details

Phase 1 - Instruction and Project Completion: Feb 02 - Mar 20, 2026
Project Review & Judging: Mar 23 - Mar 26, 2026
Phase 2 - Intense Interview Prep & Career Connections: Mar 27 - May 1, 2026

Deep Learning Orientation

Jan 30, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Lesson 2

Feb 9, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Lesson 3

Feb 23, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Check-in Day

Mar 6, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Lesson 6

Mar 16, 2026 at 08:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Phase 2 Orientation

Mar 30, 2026 at 08:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Computer Set-up Day & Lesson 1

Feb 2, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Check-in Day

Feb 13, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Check-in Day

Feb 27, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Lesson 5

Mar 9, 2026 at 08:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Final Check-in Day

Mar 20, 2026 at 08:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Project Pitch Day

Feb 6, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Check-in Day

Feb 20, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Lesson 4

Mar 2, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Check-in Day

Mar 13, 2026 at 08:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Deep Learning Project Showcase

Mar 27, 2026 at 08:00 PM UTC

EVENT

Project/Homework Deadlines

Jan 31, 2026

04:59 AM UTC

Last chance to switch bootcamps

Email Amalya Lehmann at amalya@erdosinstitute.org if you would like to switch to a different bootcamp.

Feb 11, 2026

10:00 PM UTC

Deep Learning Teams and Project Topics Due

Submit on the course website AND slack

Feb 12, 2026

04:59 AM UTC

Last day to defer enrollment to a future cohort

Contact Amalya Lehmann (amalya@erdosinstitute.org) if you would like to unenroll from this cohort and defer to a future cohort.

Mar 20, 2026

09:00 PM UTC

Deep Learning Final Project Due

Final Project

©2017-2025 by The Erdős Institute.

bottom of page