OUR MISSION

Founded by Harvard graduates, Veritas AI introduces ambitious high school and middle school students to Artificial Intelligence. Our students work with researchers at top universities to learn the fundamentals of AI and Machine Learning and build a project using these skills. We empower students to apply AI to fields they’re passionate about, such as medicine, finance, physics, and environmental science.

We offer programs for different experience levels: the AI Scholars program is a 10-week introduction for beginners, while the AI Fellowship helps students familiar with Python build their own AI model. Our Deep Dive programs explore AI’s applications in fields like Medicine and Finance. The AI Trailblazers program is specially designed for middle school learners.

Past student projects include AI models that identify the origin of blood clots in images, classify music genre based on audio waveform, and detect ‘pump and dump’ activity in micro-cap stocks.

Veritas AI is academically rigorous. Students who successfully complete our program are eligible for 3 units of post-baccalaureate credit from the University of California, San Diego’s Extended Studies school.

Letter from our Program Director, Tyler Moulton

My small public high school didn’t offer courses in computer science, much less artificial intelligence. So, by the time I reached my junior year at Harvard as an undergraduate, I had only taken one course in computer science and felt that AI was beyond my skillset. Then, a summer in Cambridge using AI and Astronomy changed my trajectory.

The summer after my junior year, I was lucky enough to work at the University of Cambridge as a research fellow at the Institute of Astronomy. It was my first research experience, and I didn’t realize until my first day at Cambridge just how much data was in Astronomy!

I was given a dataset with 10,000 stars and too many variables to count. I was overwhelmed, but luckily, my mentor, a data science and astronomy researcher at Cambridge, helped me learn AI and leverage it to classify stellar types in the Orion Nebula. With his help, I wrote my first research publication at the intersection of astronomy and AI!

I joined the Veritas AI team because I’ve experienced firsthand how learning about AI can change a young scholar’s trajectory. AI might feel difficult for many students, but with the right curriculum, mentor, and support system, I believe any high school student can master the fundamentals of AI! That’s our mission.

I have worked with several of our students on AI projects (hazardous asteroid classification, anyone?), and get so excited at the different projects our mentors and students undertake together. From medicine and finance to art generation and literary analysis, I’ve seen AI applied across every field of study. I’m so excited to help students explore the world of AI - just like my mentor showed me! I hope you’ll join us.

Yours,
Tyler Moulton
Harvard College 2020 Graduate
Program Director, Veritas AI