ML@Purdue is run entirely by students. The executive board (president, vice president, and directors) sets the club's direction and owns a program each. Officers run those programs week to week alongside a director. They're separate roles with distinct responsibilities; pick the one that best fits you.
Sets the club's goals across every program, runs exec meetings, and keeps ML@Purdue in good standing with the university. Primary contact for our faculty advisor, Purdue CS, and industry partners.
6–10+ hrs/week
The president's operating partner and backup. A jack of all trades who picks up slack wherever the club needs it, from recruiting to sponsors to events. Usually steps up to president the following year.
6–10 hrs/week
Owns how ML@Purdue is seen and found: brand, the websites, socials, and the recruitment funnel behind callouts, applications, and Catapult registration.
4–8 hrs/week
Makes the club's recurring programming happen: reading groups, workshops, general meetings, and the Symposium. Rooms, food, and logistics all run through here.
3–8 hrs/week
Owns the weekly paper reading groups, roughly 15 a semester. Fills the presenter schedule, curates a balanced slate across subfields, and hosts the sessions.
2–3 hrs/week
Runs the hands-on weekend workshops, the club's most accessible entry point. Designs a lineup that ladders from beginner to advanced and preps the instructors who teach it.
0–4 hrs/week
Decides which projects run each cycle and keeps the slate balanced across subfields. Recruits and supports project managers, and runs the two-phase member application.
6–10 hrs/week
Owns the money: semester budgets, the sponsorship pipeline that funds them, reimbursements, and the records that keep the club solvent and in good standing with Purdue.
5–9 hrs/week
Owns the club's flagship event: a 36-hour AI/ML × entrepreneurship hackathon. Venue, budget, sponsors, prize tracks, judging, and the weekend itself.
4–6 hrs/week, 20+ near the event
Owns the 14-week program that takes beginners from ML fundamentals to a capstone. Curriculum, mentor roster, admissions, and demos at the Symposium.
5–8 hrs/week
Produces the club's content: event graphics, flyers, captions, and Discord announcements, plus photos and recordings from every event.
2–4 hrs/week
Runs event logistics on the ground: room requests, setup, sign-in, food, and attendance. The most flexible commitment in the club.
1–4 hrs/week
Works the cold-email pipeline: builds and qualifies lead lists, sends outreach on the director's cadence, and keeps the contact tracker current.
2–4 hrs/week
Keeps the ledger and the sponsor tracker straight, gets members reimbursed quickly, and verifies that what we sold a sponsor actually shipped.
2–4 hrs/week
Helps plan and run Catapult: sponsor outreach, catering and signage, DevPost setup, participant comms, and staffing the 36 hours.
2–4 hrs/week, 10–15 near the event
Leads one project team end to end. Sets the technical direction, selects 3–6 members, runs the weekly sync, and delivers the promised output.
3–10 hrs/week
Guides a group of 3–5 mentees through all 14 weeks: teaches from first principles, unblocks them without doing the work, and coaches them to a capstone demo.
2–4 hrs/week
You don't have to be on the board or an officer to be part of ML@Purdue. Join a Project Team, start with the Accelerator, or just show up to a Reading Group. Most of our board started exactly there.