LLM
Engineering
Club
A student club where you train, fine tune and ship your own language models on real GPUs, then play against them. Every major is welcome and you do not need any AI background to start.
All majors welcome. No AI background needed.
Engineering, CS, business, arts, anything. If you can run a notebook cell you can train a model with us, and if you cannot yet, that is what the first meeting is for.
Events
Meetings and workshops are in Devon Energy Hall. RSVP on OU Engage so we know how many people to feed.
Upcoming
General meetingFall kickoff: AI news, what we do, officer hiring
A short AI news roundup, what the club does this semester, a preview of the Codenames workshop, and how to join the officer team.
WorkshopOperation Codenames: train a small language model to play Codenames
Build a dataset from scratch, fine tune Gemma 4 with Unsloth on an INQUIRE Lab GPU right in your browser, evaluate it, then play against the model you trained. The workshop portal, the notebook and the slides stay open to everyone. Attendees keep running it on the INQUIRE Lab GPUs for at least one day; we extend that (up to three days) while the lab has GPUs to spare. Everyone else can run the same notebook free in Google Colab.
Officer meetingFirst officer meeting, open to everyone
We picked Wednesday from 1 to 2 PM because that is when most students are available. We will plan our next event and talk about Halloween ideas, the events coming up after that, and study sessions. You do not need to be an officer to come. If getting there in person is hard, join us on Zoom instead.
Halloween game nightNight of the Living LLMs: Halloween game night
A Halloween game night with the OU AI/ML Club. Play Hollowmoon Hill, the spooky multiplayer video game our club built, where the townsfolk are AI characters you can talk to, if you dare. Pizza is at 6:00 as people arrive, then how to play at 6:15, game on at 6:30, a final in-game event at 7:40 and prizes for the top three at 8:00. Bring a laptop or tablet (a phone works too). The game link, llmclub.inquirelab.ai/play, opens at 6:30. All majors are welcome. Sponsored by INQUIRE Lab.
What we do
Hands on workshops
Build datasets, fine tune open models on real GPUs, evaluate them, ship something you can play with. The first series trains a small model to play Codenames.
Study sessions + AI news
Weekly co working with a thirty minute roundup of what actually happened in AI, without the hype. Free food, laptops open.
Live coding
One member drives, everyone builds. Real code, real bugs, real fixes, no slides.
Invited talks
Researchers and professors on self driving, security, and training language models. Short, technical, followed by questions.
Play the model
Three mini games played live by a four billion parameter model running in our lab, with its reasoning printed on screen before every move. Most visitors win at least one.
Become an officer
The club is official and we are building its first officer team: vice president, treasurer, secretary, events, workshops, design, outreach. Pick what interests you.
Meet the officers
The team that runs the club this year. Come say hi at any event.
Arash Ahmadi · President
Founded the club. ECE PhD student at OU researching how language models learn to reason. Runs the club out of the INQUIRE Lab, which is also where the GPUs live.
Sara Aminpour · Vice President
ECE PhD candidate at OU researching quantum machine learning, and a researcher in the INQUIRE Lab.
Qiaoni Pan · Vice President & Outreach
ECE PhD student at OU. Leads our outreach to other clubs, departments and new members.
Maddy Nazari · Treasurer
Information Studies PhD student at OU. Looks after the club budget and the funding for our events.
Joseph Newport · Secretary
Electrical Engineering student at OU. Keeps our meeting notes and club records.
Robert Miller · Workshop Lead
Electrical Engineering PhD student at OU. Plans and runs our hands on workshops.
Jhan Paul Mackey · Design & Social Media
Computer Science student at OU. Makes our flyers and runs our social media.
Tan Khang Banh · Events Coordinator
Professional Pilot student at OU. Plans our events, from booking rooms to ordering the food.
Gallery
Photos from our events, newest first.
