Generative AI & Foundation Models Center

The Generative AI & Foundation Models Center gives students a rigorous grasp of how large-scale foundation models - LLMs, diffusion models, and multimodal systems - are pretrained, aligned via RLHF, and governed by scaling laws, paired with hands-on training and fine-tuning of such models. Students run projects adapting general-purpose models to geoscience-specific applications, including scientific reasoning and data synthesis, using domain adaptation and retrieval-augmented generation. Graduates emerge as practicing AI engineers capable of customizing and deploying foundation models for a specific scientific domain.