YouTube Courses

Hydropower 10-Minute Take - Introduction to Hydropower Technology and Grid Applications

A quick look at how hydropower works, supports the electric grid, and affects the environment, including pumped storage.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Transportation - Environmental Impact and Decarbonization Options

A concise overview of transportation’s climate footprint and decarbonization options, including electric vehicles.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Ocean Energy - Technologies, Environmental Impacts, and Future Trends

An overview of how tidal flows, waves, ocean heat, and salinity gradients can be harnessed for energy, including environmental impacts and future prospects.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Buildings, Energy and Decarbonization

Explains how buildings can reduce climate impact through embodied and operational decarbonization, with strategies including efficiency, electrification, and renewable energy.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Biofuels - 10-Minute Take

A short introduction to how ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, and sustainable aviation fuels are made and used, and what their environmental impacts may be.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Understanding Social Media's Role in Mental Health: Causal Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Pathways

A research talk traces how longitudinal social media data and causal methods reveal both supportive and harmful effects on mental health.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford CS336 - Language Modeling from Scratch 2025

Follow the full process of building a language model from scratch, from preparing pretraining data and constructing a transformer to training and evaluation.

• YouTube
• 22 hours 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Validation of Safety Critical Systems

Learn how to expose failures and estimate risk in autonomous systems through simulation, sampling-based validation, and reachability analysis.

• YouTube
• 18 hours 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford CS234 - Reinforcement Learning - Spring 2024

A practical introduction to how autonomous systems learn to make decisions, centered on reinforcement learning’s challenges of exploration and generalization.

• YouTube
• 20 hours 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford CS236 - Deep Generative Models I 2023

Explore the probabilistic foundations and learning algorithms behind deep generative models, from autoregressive models and VAEs to GANs and diffusion models.

• YouTube
• 23 hours 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Compression - Theory and Applications

Bridges compression theory with hands-on implementation, showing how entropy coding and rate-distortion ideas shape modern image and video codecs.

• YouTube
• 23 hours 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Convex Optimization I - 2023

Learn to recognize and solve convex optimization problems, from application modeling to duality and interior-point methods.

• YouTube
• 23 hours 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Machine Learning with Graphs

Learn how graph structure reveals patterns in connected data, from node embeddings and graph neural networks to reasoning over knowledge graphs.

• YouTube
• 1 day 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford CS109 - Introduction to Probability for Computer Scientists 2022

A probability course for computer scientists connects core probability and statistical inference to applications including Naive Bayes, logistic regression, and deep learning.

• YouTube
• 1 day 11 hours 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford CS224N - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning 2023

Trace neural language models from word vectors and recurrent networks to transformers, pretrained models, and prompting.

• YouTube
• 1 day 5 hours 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video