Decision Making Courses

USC Information Sciences Institute

Benchmarking MLLMs for Embodied Decision Making and Cognitive World Modeling

Discover systematic benchmarking methods for evaluating multimodal large language models in embodied AI environments and spatial cognition tasks.

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

OPENPediatrics

Exploring What Matters - What Families Value in Complex Surgical Decision-Making

Explore family values and preferences in shared decision-making for neuromuscular scoliosis surgery in medically complex children through expert discussion and research insights.

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

Behavioral Finance and Economic Decision-Making

Discover how psychology shapes financial decisions through behavioral finance principles, exploring biases, heuristics, and market anomalies to make smarter economic choices.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Harvard CMSA

Elements of Interactive Decision Making

Explore interactive decision making frameworks covering multi-armed bandits, contextual bandits, and reinforcement learning with statistical learning theory and algorithmic primitives.

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

Y Combinator

When Should You Trust Your Gut? - Founder Decision Making and Validation Strategies

Discover when to trust intuition versus seek validation in startup decision-making, covering expertise levels, product-market fit, and strategic commitment for founders.

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

DEFCONConference

Decision Making in Adversarial Automation

Explore AI decision-making dynamics between stochastic generative models and deterministic predatory systems in competitive cybersecurity environments.

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

UC Berkeley EECS

Inferring and Simulating Human Behaviors for Societal Decision-Making

Explore AI-driven approaches to understanding human behavior for public health decisions, including mobility network inference and generative simulation techniques.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UC Berkeley EECS

Making is Decision Making - Generative AI Tools for Design Exploration and Iterative Refinement

Explore how generative AI tools can better support creative decision-making through hierarchical design exploration and iterative refinement processes.

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

Drupal Association

Decision-Making at Scale - Behind the Drupal Marketplace Process

Discover practical frameworks for organizing complex community-driven initiatives and balancing agility, transparency, and trust in open-source decision-making processes.

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

Data Mining for Decision Making

Master data mining techniques including decision trees, neural networks, and clustering to extract actionable insights from complex datasets for informed decision-making.

• Swayam
• 4 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

GERAD Research Center

On the Foundations of Dynamic Games and Probability - Decision Making in Stochastic Extensive Form

Explore advanced game theory foundations combining decision trees with stochastic processes to model complex dynamics and uncertainty in extensive form games.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Decision Making - Part I: Relevant Cost Analysis

Explore the fundamentals of decision making and understand the concept of relevant costs in this concise introduction.

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

Open Compute Project

Breaking Down IT Hardware Component Emissions for Sustainable Decision-Making at Scale

Discover a scalable methodology using GenAI to assess carbon impact of IT hardware components, enabling sustainable decision-making from individual parts to entire fleets.

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

GOTO Conferences

Decision Dials - The Art of Decision Making in Software Architecture and Design

Explore the art of decision-making in software development with Venkat Subramaniam as he discusses trade-offs, design principles, and evolutionary architecture for better technical choices.

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

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Computational Argumentation for Fair and Explainable AI Decision-making

Explore computational argumentation techniques to build fair and explainable AI systems that make transparent, justifiable decisions in complex scenarios.

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