I teach generative AI at UW Foster and industry professionals through courses and bootcamps across undergraduate, specialized master's programs, MBA, EMBA, executive, and entrepreneurship programs. These award-winning courses blend live demos, practical tutorials, and real-world building: in a few hours or weeks, students turn ideas into deployed tools, products, websites, and agentic systems.
Some of the materials I hand my students in MSIS 522 (Advanced Machine Learning) and MSIS 549 (GenAI for Business Applications).
A detailed pedagogical framework for teaching generative AI through building, on SSRN.
MSIS 522 (Advanced Machine Learning) & MSIS 549 (GenAI for Business Applications).
A concise primer on the foundations of AI, written for business students.
How modern LLMs work and how to put them to work, in plain language.
A Socratic AI tutor embedded in a customized quiz interface with modular quizzes and a live randomized study.
Project-based homework where students build and ship something real, not just submit answers.
How to reference these materials: Boussioux, Léonard (2025). Teaching Generative AI Through Building: A Pedagogical Framework for Business Students. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. Accessed at boussioux.com/genai.
Explore the work of my students, deployed tools, games, sites, and agents built in weeks, and the vibe-coding techniques behind them.
Browse the gallery→An interactive textbook on the fundamentals of machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI, with hands-on playgrounds at every step.
Open the textbook→Open & User Innovation Conference · Harvard Business School
Generative AI is collapsing the research crowd of collaborators, coders, and assistants into a single, AI-augmented researcher who can staff an entire lab with agents. I build that lab live: vibe coding tools from natural language, assembling teams of agents, wiring them into a shared knowledge graph that serves as a second brain, and orchestrating them into pipelines that run from question to result. But capability is not the same as quality, my research on human-AI collaboration shows these systems can raise individual work quality while narrowing the diversity of ideas a group produces, and that persuasive AI outputs can substitute compliance for the independent verification rigorous research demands. As the marginal cost of research approaches zero, the researcher's comparative advantage shifts from production to judgment, from generating results to knowing which expeditions to pursue.
MIT Universal AI Summit
Research talk
INFORMS Analytics Society
How LLMs combine with operations research for decision-making: wiring them into optimization solvers, analytics pipelines, and natural-language interfaces. With Segev Wasserkrug & Wei Sun (IBM Research).
Columbia Business School
If AI can build websites, write code, and analyze data with little technical expertise, what should business schools still teach? A conversation on why building beats lecturing, and why human judgment, problem formulation, and domain expertise matter more than ever.
Eight self-contained slide decks across two tracks. Click any slide to open the full deck.
Companion Google Colab notebooks for the lectures. Open one and run it in your browser, no setup required.

Léonard Boussioux, Jacqueline N. Lane, Miaomiao Zhang, Vladimir Jacimovic, Karim R. Lakhani

Jacqueline N. Lane, Léonard Boussioux, Charles Ayoubi, Ying Hao Chen, Camila Lin, Rebecca Spens, Pooja Wagh, Pei-Hsin Wang

Caitlin Cunningham, Rebekah Baik, Léonard Boussioux, Leela Nageswaran

Léonard Boussioux, Hongyu Chen, Ming Fan, Apurva Jain

Segev Wasserkrug, Léonard Boussioux, Wei Sun

Segev Wasserkrug, Léonard Boussioux, Dick den Hertog, Farzaneh Mirzazadeh, İlker Birbil, Jannis Kurtz, Donato Maragno
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▶The future of artistry: the transformative power of AI in art and creativity, and the artist already waiting inside each of us.
▶A collective approach to the UN SDGs, where generative AI lets even non-experts drive real-world impact.
The course ends with a public, poster-session-style fair where every student demos a working product live to industry judges and Foster alumni. No exam, just a laptop, a real demo, and a stranger asking “why does it do that?” It is the most honest assessment instrument I have ever used.
The method behind this showcase is something I teach and share with faculty and leaders around the world: rapid prototyping with generative AI, live student products, and showcase-driven learning.
I bring generative AI education to MBAs, executives, graduates, and undergraduates, and love teaming up with industry on real GenAI problems.