LSU AI Showcase
AI Innovation @ LSU
CSC 4700 / HNRS 3025
LLM Application Development is a capstone-style course that prepares exceptional undergraduate students to build real-world applications with large language models. The course is taught by an interdisciplinary LSU team: computer scientist James Ghawaly, business instructor and entrepreneur Henry Hays, and inventor and engineer Vicki Colvin, who also serves as dean of the College of Engineering.
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Partner with LSU Undergraduates on AI Business Solutions
Louisiana companies play a major role in the course through project sponsorship. Along with financial support, sponsors offer up an AI business challenge and meet weekly with students to collaborate on a custom solution.
Companies who sponsor courses receive a host of benefits:
- A custom-built AI application, assistant, or agent
- Access to world-class AI faculty experts
- Access to top computer science and business student talent
- Opportunities for mentorship
Contact us to become a 2026 Partner
Students get invaluable experience from the course. Not only do they apply coding and other technical skills but understand the business context for their application and grapple with key considerations in real-world technology deployment, such as change management and return on investment.
Many graduates of the course land full-time AI internships and jobs or pursue additional AI experience in graduate school at LSU.
The sponsor fee is $25,000. For more information on serving as a 2026 partner, contact Caitlynn Coco in the LSU Division of Computer Science & Engineering at cagui22@lsu.edu or (225) 578-6095.