Hands-On Guide to Building Your Own GPT Model

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March 25th, 2022 at 12:00pm EST

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WEBINAR on Building Your Own GPT Model

Overview
In this one-hour webinar, funded by CPA Ontario and the Schulich CPA Ontario Centre in Digital Financial Information, Dr. Jerome Niyirora will walk through the foundational steps for building a Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) language model from scratch. The session will cover key concepts such as tokenization, model architecture, training data preparation, and fine-tuning. Dr. Niyirora will also discuss common challenges, ethical considerations, and potential applications.

Webinar participants will receive an official verified confirmation of participation after the webinar that can be used toward CPA professional development requirements.
Duration
1 hour

About the Presenter
Jerome Niyirora, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the College of Health Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly), where he teaches in the Health Information Management and Informatics programs and is the coordinator/director of the Health Informatics graduate program. He received his PhD in Systems Science from SUNY Binghamton (2013) and holds an MS degree in Industrial Engineering from SUNY Buffalo (2010) and an MS degree in Health Services Administration from SUNYIT (2006). His research interests involve integrating systems science, industrial engineering, and machine learning methods into the analytics and control of clinical processes to optimize healthcare systems. Dr. Niyirora has published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the European Journal of Operational Research, Naval Research Logistics, Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Health informatics Journal, Clinical and Translational Neuroscience, Advances in Social Work, Health Systems, Nurse Leader, and Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.​​​​​​​

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