Liz Zhang
The Multimodal Society
AI developer relations, two companies founded, and a community of 250,000. Studied at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Practitioners judge the curriculum and the events
Every judge on this board runs these systems in production. They read the courses each term, the lessons, the labs and the outcome sheet a learner leaves with, and they sit on the panel that judges the events where learners present the workflows they deployed.
The judges
Yunbin Bae
a1mobile
Design and human-computer-interaction research, and one company founded. Studied at the University of Maryland.
Abhinav Balasubramanian
NVIDIA
Generative AI, agentic systems, RAG and AI observability. Studied at San Jose State University.
Abhi Vasanth
Pacific Gas and Electric
Data engineering at one of the largest utilities in the United States. Studied at Udacity.
Sachin Gupta
eBay
Engineering leadership on systems built for massive scale. Studied at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Judge on this program
The board is taking judges
A judge reads the courses each term and sits on the panel that judges the events where learners present the workflows they deployed. It is the one role here that can tell a learner their work is not finished yet.
This is not a panel that meets to agree. A seat is held by one person for one discipline, that person's name is on the board in public, and their verdict is on the record under it. The advisory board turns down far more applications than it seats.
Apply to judgeContinue your application
Have your profile links and a portrait to hand before you start.
How to apply
Three steps, about fifteen minutes
Start with a free account, fill in the form at your own pace, and send it when it is ready. The advisory board reads every application that arrives.
Create your free account
The same account that opens the courses. Your application lives behind your own login because the second half of it asks for your photograph and your phone number, and those belong somewhere only you can post to.
Fill in the form
Your portrait, your profile links, the discipline you would read, and the evidence behind it. Every field saves as you go, so you can stop halfway and finish it another day.
Send it to the board
Add your phone, whether you can sit on a panel in person and in which city, and anything else worth knowing. Pressing send puts it in front of the advisory board, and the same page then shows you where it stands.
What the board looks for
Every one of these is something a stranger can check for themselves, which is the standard the rest of this site holds itself to.
- Depth in one discipline, measured in years of doing it rather than years of managing it.
- A public record somebody else can check: published work, a product shipped, a panel sat on, a profile that matches what you claim.
- Judgement that has been tested in the open. Hiring, reviewing, grading, funding, or shipping to a deadline somebody else set.
- No conflict with the course you would be reading, and the willingness to say so when one appears later.
What it asks of you
Stated before you apply rather than after you are accepted. A seat is a commitment across a whole term.
- One curriculum review per term, filed against the sentence that defines your seat.
- Score the outcome sheets learners submit, against the rubric, without being told whose work it is.
- Sit on the event panel when there is one.
Advisory board
The advisory board decides who teaches and who judges
Applications to teach and applications to judge are read by the advisory board, not by the person who wrote the curriculum. Advisors hold no course and no seat here. They are operators and investors from outside the program, and what they read is the evidence rather than the name on it.
Everything in one file
Your evidence, your links, your portrait and how to reach you, sent from inside your account rather than emailed around.
Read against the bar, not against the field
Your application is measured against what the seat requires, so a strong intake keeps the bar where it is and a thin one keeps it there too.
A conversation, if it gets that far
Anyone the board is seriously considering talks to an advisor, and for a teaching seat that includes watching you explain one thing you built.
An answer either way
The page you applied from shows where your application stands, and it changes the day the board decides.
The advisors
- Sean Kelley on LinkedIn
Sean Kelley
Advisor and angel investor across climate tech, regenerative agriculture and talent tech
