Generative AI at Arizona State University
ASU is at the forefront of AI in higher education. Explore their comprehensive hub for AI tools, guidelines, courses, and initiatives built for students, faculty, and researchers.
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Enroll in cutting-edge courses taught by ASU faculty, from introductory AI to machine learning, ethics, and business analytics.
Explore the foundational concepts behind AI systems, from search algorithms and knowledge representation to machine learning and intelligent decision-making.
Learn how to communicate effectively with AI tools. This course teaches you to craft prompts that get better, more useful results from large language models like ChatGPT.
Discover how AI is being applied across industries today. You’ll examine real-world use cases and develop practical skills for working alongside intelligent systems.
The Human Examine AI through a human lens. This course explores how AI intersects with leadership, ethics, organizational behavior, and what it means to be human in an AI-driven world.
Understand how AI fits within the broader landscape of information technology and how these systems shape society, institutions, and everyday life.
Tackle the big questions: What is intelligence? Can machines truly think? This course brings philosophical inquiry to the ethical and conceptual challenges AI poses to humanity.
A rigorous graduate-level study of core AI principles — covering intelligent agents, reasoning under uncertainty, machine learning, and advanced problem-solving techniques.
Build hands-on programming skills to develop AI and data analytics solutions tailored to real business challenges and decision-making environments.
Discover how AI is being applied across industries today. You’ll examine real-world use cases and develop practical skills for working alongside intelligent systems.
The Human Examine AI through a human lens. This course explores how AI intersects with leadership, ethics, organizational behavior, and what it means to be human in an AI-driven world.
Understand how AI fits within the broader landscape of information technology — and how these systems shape society, institutions, and everyday life.
Explore how organizations harness data at scale — covering enterprise-wide analytics architecture, tools, and the strategies that turn data into competitive advantage.
Apply AI concepts directly to business contexts — from automating workflows to building intelligent systems that create value across the enterprise.
Examine the intersection of Applied Behavior Analysis and AI, with a focus on ethical frameworks for using intelligent systems responsibly in behavioral and clinical settings.
Explore the ethical dimensions of AI as they apply to psychology and the social sciences — covering bias, privacy, consent, and the human impact of algorithmic systems.
This introductory course takes a tour of the reality of university teaching and the impact produced on it by GenAI, analyzing tools and recommendations from groups of experts on how to use them. It offers concrete examples of activities already carried out by university professors at Cintana partner institutions.
Explore how artificial intelligence is transforming modern game development. This advanced certificate equips learners with the skills to integrate AI tools across design, audio, testing, and gameplay systems while addressing ethical and legal considerations.
Participants gain hands-on experience using AI to create immersive, adaptive, and player-centered game experiences.
ASU courses for faculty & staff
Build Practical AI Skills with ASU
Explore two introductory courses designed to help you understand and apply Generative AI. Learn the fundamentals of prompt engineering and discover how to automate tasks using ChatGPT and Python.
As the advancement of generative AI technology continues to transform the landscapes of work and learning, fostering literacy among our students that enables them to navigate and succeed in this evolving world becomes imperative. This course takes an interactive, hands-on approach so that participants will not just learn about generative AI but also have opportunities to apply it in real-world scenarios through the “guided practice” and “create an artifact” exercises.
Put your AI skills to the test. Open to students and faculty across the Cintana Alliance network.
The 2026 Cintana Alliance Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenge is a global competition inviting students and/or faculty to design AI-powered solutions that solve real challenges in higher education. Work in teams, collaborate across disciplines, and showcase your ideas on a global stage, culminating in a live presentation opportunity at ACE Conference 2026 in Tempe, Arizona
A curated selection of AI platforms vetted for academic use — from teaching and research to institutional management. Available in English and Spanish.
Specialized AI agents built for the Cintana Alliance network — from academic advising to institutional support.
Specialized AI assistants built to support Health Sciences faculty in designing high-quality, evidence-based learning experiences across the Cintana Alliance network.
NEMO is a multilingual, AI-powered student engagement agent designed to guide prospective students seamlessly from their first inquiry through enrollment. Acting as a personalized digital admissions companion, NEMO delivers immediate, culturally responsive support across multiple languages, time zones, and communication channels, ensuring that every student receives timely, relevant, and engaging assistance throughout their decision-making journey.
By combining conversational AI with deep integration into institutional systems, NEMO answers questions, provides personalized guidance, nurtures prospective students through key enrollment milestones, and connects them with human advisors whenever needed. The result is a more accessible, inclusive, and responsive admissions experience that bridges communication barriers, increases student engagement, improves conversion rates, and enables institutions to scale personalized support while empowering admissions teams to focus on high-value interactions.
NEMO I is deployed through Request for Information (RFI) forms embedded within university websites, where it launches as an AI-powered conversational assistant for prospective students. Seamlessly integrated with the university’s CRM, NEMO understands each student’s interests and intent, provides immediate, personalized answers to questions about programs, admissions, tuition, and campus life, and intelligently guides students toward the next step in their enrollment journey. When appropriate, it seamlessly hands off conversations or schedules appointments with human admissions advisors, ensuring a smooth transition from digital engagement to personalized support.
Building on NEMO I’s inbound capabilities, NEMO II introduces intelligent outbound follow-up through AI-powered voice calling. The system proactively contacts prospective students who have expressed interest but have not completed key actions—such as scheduling or attending an admissions appointment. An advanced scheduling engine manages outreach using configurable calling windows, retry intervals, delays, and contact limits, enabling institutions to optimize engagement while respecting student preferences. These proactive interactions help recover otherwise lost opportunities, improve conversion rates, and maintain consistent communication throughout the recruitment process.
Human-Centered by Design
In both versions, NEMO is designed to augment—not replace—human admissions advisors. By automating routine interactions and responding instantly to common inquiries, NEMO enables advisors to focus on higher-value conversations that require empathy, expertise, and personalized guidance. Continuous regional feedback loops and ongoing model refinement ensure that NEMO adapts to local languages, cultural norms, and communication styles, delivering increasingly natural, relevant, and effective interactions across diverse student populations.
