Courses and programs I designed and taught end to end.
AIDE Summer Program — CS Bootcamp Lead (Instructor) · The Ethics Institute, Northeastern University · Summer 2025 · 15 graduate students
Co-designed and led a ten-lab Python and ML bootcamp for philosophy and CS graduate students: Python fundamentals and data wrangling (NumPy/Pandas); supervised ML; fairness and bias mitigation (COMPAS, FairLearn); differential privacy; neural networks, transformers, and embeddings; LLM applications via Hugging Face; prompt engineering; and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG/GraphRAG). All materials are open — see Materials.
Kadir Has University — Instructor of Record · Istanbul · Sep 2020–Sep 2021
Taught Computational Thinking (Python-based) and Civic Values, owning the courses end to end — lectures, assessment design, grading.
SICSS Istanbul — Co-Founder, Co-Organizer & Instructor · Summer Institute in Computational Social Science · 2019–2023
Co-founded and co-organized an annual two-week institute training graduate students and early-career researchers in programming, data collection, machine learning, and text analysis. (The organizing side is under Service.)
NULab Digital Integration Teaching Initiative (DITI) — Fellow · Northeastern University · Summer 2022
A teaching fellowship integrating digital and computational methods into the classroom.
Materials
All ten labs of the AIDE Python and ML bootcamp are openly available: github.com/kacreel/aide_summer