AI Engineering for Global Impact

Explore our curriculum: open-access textbooks, hardware kits, and hands-on laboratories for scaling intelligence.

Foundations of scalable AI. Learn how machine learning systems are built for production at scale.

Deep learning from scratch. Build neural networks without frameworks to understand every detail.

Connecting code to physics. Deploy ML models on embedded devices and microcontrollers.

These recommended readings provide a strong introduction to TinyML and embedded machine learning systems, from foundational technical challenges and benchmarking to real-world educational applications. Together, they highlight how resource-efficient AI can expand access to practical, locally relevant technology and learning opportunities worldwide.
Reddi, V.J., Plancher, B., Kennedy, S., Moroney, L., Warden, P., Agarwal, A., Banbury, C., Banzi, M., Bennett, M., Brown, B. and Chitlangia, S., 2021. Widening access to applied machine learning with tinyml. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.04008.
Read PaperPlancher, B., Buttrich, S., Ellis, J., Goveas, N., Kazimierski, L., Sotelo, J.L., Lukic, M., Mendez, D., Nordin, R., Trevisan, A.O. and Pavan, M., 2024, May. TinyML4D: scaling embedded machine learning education in the developing world. In Proceedings of the AAAI symposium series (Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 508-515).
Read PaperRavindran, Sandeep. "What's tinyML? The Global South's Alternative to Power-Hungry, Pricey AI." Science, 2025, www.science.org/content/article/what-s-tinyml-global-south-s-alternative-power-hungry-pricey-ai.
Read PaperBanbury, C.R., Reddi, V.J., Lam, M., Fu, W., Fazel, A., Holleman, J., Huang, X., Hurtado, R., Kanter, D., Lokhmotov, A. and Patterson, D., 2020. Benchmarking tinyml systems: Challenges and direction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.04821.
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