Teaching at U Michigan

• ME 382 Mechanical Behavior of Materials (F25, F26)
  • Some web resources: lm3-lab.github.io/ME382
  • Comprehensive overview of materials science topics for mechanical engineers
  • Around 100 students (half of total intake, core course for major)
  • UM Course Profile
• ME 507 Atomistic Simulation of Materials (W26, W27)
  • Graduate level course, around 20-30 students
  • Coding assignments expose students to state-of-the-art
  • Particular deep dive on ML interatomic potentials, enhanced sampling and informatics
  • Syllabus for Winter 27 term
• COMPLIT 394: Opening the black box of machine translation (W27)
  • Expanded set of lectures on machine translation for the comparative literature department
  • Dual-taught course, roughly 50:50 split between practice in machine and human translation
  • History (Georgetown, Babelfish, n-grams) and present (transformers, mBERT, LLMs)
  • Focus on demystification of LLM-based tools, and fundamental limitations (context, tails)
  • Introduction to fine-tuning / pre-prompting for targeted behavior with open weight models.
• COMPLIT 200: Introduction to translation (F25, W26)
  • Four lecture mini-course on machine translation in the comparative literature department, around 30 students
  • History (Georgetown, Babelfish, n-grams) and present (transformers, mBERT)
  • Focus on demystification of LLM-based tools, and fundamental limitations (context, tails)