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CS 598 FAL - Systems for GenAI

Last offered Spring 2026

Official Description

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in computer science intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

Section Description

Systems of Generative AI. Description:This course will introduce the key concepts and the state-of-the-art in practical, scalable, and fault-tolerant software systems for emerging Generative AI (GenAI). At the end of the course you will be able to: 1) Critique and evaluate the design details of state-of-the-art GenAI systems 2) Develop and utilize tools to profile and understand the performance of GenAI systems 3) Propose new research ideas in topics related to support practical GenAI. Prerequisite: Students are expected to have good programming skills and must have taken at least one undergraduate-level systems-related course (from operating systems, databases, distributed systems, or networking). Having an undergraduate ML/AI course is helpful but not required. For up-to-date information about CS course restrictions, please see the following link: http://go.cs.illinois.edu/csregister.

Related Faculty

TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Systems for GenAIFAL60197S941230 - 1345 W F  0216 Siebel Center for Comp Sci Fan Lai