MIT-Trained AI Tutor
An MIT-Trained AI Tutor Who Builds AI for a Living
Pristone Academy pairs you with an MIT-trained AI tutor — Edward Mabonga, an MIT EECS graduate and senior software engineer who builds production AI systems day to day. In private 1:1 sessions you learn how modern AI genuinely works — large language models, prompting, evaluation, retrieval, and agents — taught from real practice and shaped entirely around your goals.
Premium private coaching, typically structured as multi-session engagements.
This is premium, private tutoring led personally by a practicing AI engineer with an MIT EECS background — not a recorded course or a large cohort class.
Who this is for
Students and professionals who want to learn AI from a credentialed practitioner rather than a generic course — university students, engineers, founders, and self-learners who value depth, judgment, and real-world grounding.
- Learners who want an MIT-trained, practitioner tutor
- Engineers adding real AI fluency to their skill set
- Founders and product people evaluating AI seriously
- Students in AI, ML, or NLP-adjacent coursework
What you walk away with
- ✓A real, working model of how modern AI systems behave
- ✓Hands-on fluency with prompting, evaluation, and AI workflows
- ✓The judgment to tell genuine capability from hype
- ✓A practical foundation you can apply to your own projects
Who this is not for
Being upfront about fit saves everyone time — including yours. This program is not a good match if:
- Anyone looking for the cheapest way to 'get into AI'
- People who want a fixed, generic syllabus over a tailored plan
What we can cover
Foundations of modern AI
How LLMs and AI systems actually work — enough to reason about them, not just use them.
Prompting & evaluation
Getting reliable results from AI and knowing how to measure whether it's working.
Retrieval & agents
How RAG and agentic systems are built, and where they genuinely help.
Applied to your goals
Your coursework, project, or career skills — the plan is built around you.
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