Mission & About Us

We're an inclusive student-led organization dedicated to cultivate and accelerate student talent through education initiatives and collaborative real-world ML projects.

Instead of limiting ourselves through a selective process, we open our doors to all with a desire to learn.

Our members' journey.

Our members get started with our education initiatives, learning the fundamentals of ML and applying them with a beginner project. As they progress, they advance to further roles and start getting involved with our client projects.

Are you a student interested in joining DAML?

Our members' learning progression

From first project to leading a division, each step builds real client-ready skills.

New Member
Join DAML and access our community, resources, and introductory workshops to build foundational ML skills.
AI Training Program (AITP)
An 8-week program open to all covering exploratory data analysis, model training, and evaluation techniques.
DevOps Bootcamp
Learn cloud computing, containerization, and deployment practices to scale ML models in production environments.
Data Engineering
Master ETL pipelines, data warehousing, and workflow optimization to build reliable data infrastructure.
Project Management
Lead client projects from conception to delivery, managing teams and ensuring successful outcomes.
Division Lead
Oversee divisions, mentor members, and drive strategic innovation across multiple client engagements.

Our research & delivery process for client projects

Each engagement flows through an 4 iterative, research-backed phases. Discovery immerses in context, parallel R&D keeps firmware and software aligned, validation adds faculty and partner rigor, and launch channels outcomes back into the community.

Initial Planning Phase
Project Proposal + Business Strategy

Product Managers/ML Consultants meet to discuss ML strategy, develop a plan, and ensemble a DAML team of engineers.

R&D Sprints
ETL + EDA

Our team extracts, transforms, and loads data for exploratory data analysis, and training/evaluating models, documenting the methodology.

Validation & Deployment
Review + scaling for deployment

Model is presented to clients, where we begin scaling it into deployment.

Launch & Impact
Solutions shipped with documentation

We hand over production-ready repositories, training artifacts, and documentation.

Embedded partnership

How we embed with your team

From assigning DAML teams to delivering progress checks, our deliverables are designed to be easily integrated into your existing workflows.

DAML Teams

Each partner client project has a DAML team working through all phases of a ML project.

Campus Outreach

We are glad to help partners advertise opportunities through our newsletter of 700+ recipiets, general body meetings, and career center fairs.

Curriculum Integration

Option to integrate partner resources with our education initiatives to stay up to date with real-world applications.

Guest Speaker Events

We provide Partners with outreach initiatives via our newsletter + guest speaker GBMs within our club and partnering organizations.

Ready to prototype with DAML?

Contact our teams, share the challenge, the stakeholders we should meet, and the environments we need to plug into.

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