E xec u ti ve Ce r ti fi cati on Prog ra m i n

Artificial Intelligence
& Machine Learning
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“The best thing that's happened
to me in the last few decades.”
Yunis Ahmad
Senior Director, Netenrich Technologies

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 Introduction

Embrace the Change

"AI will add 2.3 million
jobs by 2020"
~ Gartner

AI/ML is now mainstream. Every tech professional irrespective of their role

in the organization today needs to be AI/ML ready to compete in the new
world order.

IIIT Hyderabad, a research-based institution is leading the AI/ML research

and education initiatives in India. It is known for being the

First IIIT Largest CS

in India Research Group in India
#1 in AI Research #2 in Robotics
in India Research in Asia

This AI/ML Executive Certification Program is designed for working

professionals and is delivered out of Bengaluru to enable aspiring tech
professionals to benefit from the expertise of IIIT Hyderabad’s Machine
Learning Lab. The executive program on AI/ML by IIIT Hyderabad has
already completed 11 successful cohorts with 1800+ successful participants
currently working with 600 top companies. Over 250 participants from
Bengaluru have already benefited from the program. The next cohort is
starting in January 2020.

This 18 week program includes 3 workshops (total 9 days) of intensive

contact sessions and enables interaction in person with India’s leading
experts in AI /ML from IIIT Hyderabad. The program also provides one on
one mentoring for enhanced practical learning and application in line with
Industry needs. The hybrid format program offers 30 live online classes and
3 weekends of in-class learning. It is led by collaborative faculty from
academia, industry and global bluechip institutions.

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 Participant Feedback

“This Program gave me

“It is about the
collaboration &
networking that this
a scope to get into ML
team in my office.”
Sravya Yellapragada
Development Engineer,

“A Transformational Program brings to the

table.”
Pramati Technologies

Program” Krishna Chilamkurthy

Program Manager,
Microsoft

India’s Top “A clear understanding

of the concepts and
Faculty how to connect it with
real world scenarios.”
“Concise Program,
Laxman
good exposure to Director, Qualcomm
research as well as
Outstanding industry trends and
Ratings practices.”
Meenakshi Singh
Software Developer, Hitachi
Consulting

Rewarding
Outcomes
“Great opportunity to
“Peer Networking, learn from India's Best
Hackathons, Labs gave
Exceptional hands-on perspective.
Professors.”
Rambabu Bonkuri,
Peer Group Exceeded my Lead Developer,
Paymatrix
expectations.”
Venu Chigullapalli
MD, India Operations,
BostonLogix

Most-Preferred
Learning Format

“Overall structure didn't

overwhelm, considering
some of us haven't been
coding for a while.”
Saritha
Sr. Technical Manager,
Netcracker
“Pretty comprehensive
& effective. Brings
participants up to
speed in just 14 weeks.”
Dinesh Koka
Founder, Onward Health

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Faculty

Learn from
Leaders
Dr. C.V. Jawahar
India’s Leading Machine Program Director and
Learning Lab Lead Faculty

Collaborative Faculty from Machine Learning Lab Head.

Academia and Industry Renowned Expert in Machine
Learning and Optimization, Document
From Global Bluechip
Image Analysis, and Computer Vision
Institutions
Problems. Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur.

Dr. Anoop Namboodiri

Lead Faculty

Associate Professor at IIIT-H. Expert in

Pattern Recognition and Machine
Learning, Computer Vision, and
Biometrics. Ph.D. from Michigan State
University.

Asokan Pichai
Lead Faculty

Senior Vice President at TalentSprint.

Industry Instructor, Instructional
Designer, and Programming Guru.
Consults with FOSSEE at IIT Bombay
on Python Courses.

Vineet Gandhi
Lead Faculty

Assistant Professor at IIIT-H. Expert in

Computer vision and multimedia,
human detection and tracking, depth
reconstruction and applications. Ph.D.
from INRIA, France.

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 Transforming Career of 1800+
Professionals with the Power of AI/ML

January 2018 Cohort June 2018 Cohort

@ Hyderabad @ Hyderabad

July 2018 Cohort September 2018 Cohort

@ Bengaluru @ Hyderabad

October 2018 Cohort January 2019 Cohort

@ Bengaluru @ Hyderabad

February 2019 Cohort April 2019 Cohort

@ Bengaluru @ Hyderabad

July 2019 Coohort

@ Hyderabad
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 Outcomes

What should you expect?

Scholarships
Build
Build and deploy AI/ML and Scholarships for professionals
joining in groups and women
Deep Learning Apps professionals to develop
expertise in deep tech skills
and enhance diversity

Ind ust r y Ha c ka t hon s

Learn
Learn from the world class
faculty and professionals Chatbot

Speech-Based IVRS
Reinforce
Reinforce learning by
applying concepts
Phone Unlocking with
Anti-face Spoofing

Certificate Autonomous
Obtain an Advanced Vehicle
Certification from
IIIT-Hyderabad ML Lab

Alumni 0% EMI
Get Alumni Status of Learn Now. Pay Later.
IIIT-Hyderabad Executive
Education
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 Participants Profile

Exceptional Peer Group

1800+ 600+ 70% 19% 30%

Tech Global Participants with Women From Startups and
Professionals Companies over 5 Years of Participants Small Companies
Experience

Job Profile

12% Leadership

27% Managers

27% Analysts

34% Developers

Download Full Report

www.talentsprint.com/aimlreport

Organizations Where Participants Currently Work Include

Accenture Adobe ADP Amazon AMD AT&T Bank of America Bayer

Bosch CA Technologies Capgemini CGI Citrix Cognizant Cyient DBS

Dell DXC Technology Deloitte ECIL Elsevier Ericsson GE Genesys

Genpact Genuitec LLC Guardian HCL Hitachi Consulting Honeywell Housejoy

HP HSBC Hyundai Mobis IBM Intel Intuit JPMorgan Chase LG

LTI Medtronic Microsemi Microsoft NetApp NCR Nokia Novartis NTT Data

Oracle OLA Cabs Paytm Pegasystems Polycom Qualcomm Samsung SAP

Schneider Electric Siemens TCS Tech Mahindra Uber United Health Group

Verizon Virtusa VMWARE Wipro Wells Fargo Zensar Technologies More...

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Curriculum • Schedule • Format
What and how will you learn?
Masterclass Guided
Lectures Mentorship
Unit 0 Foundations
Refresh your knowledge on coding and mathematics
necessary for building expertise in AI/ML.
• Introduction to Python Programming
• Key Python Libraries (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Colab)
• Refresher for Math Concepts (Online)
• Overview of AI and ML Concepts
Unit 2 Closer Look at AIML Algorithms
Learn about and apply standard AI/ML algorithms to
create AI/ML applications.
• Formulating Real World Problems for AI/ML
• Classification and Regression Problems
• Intuitive and Simple Algorithms
• Representation of the World and Real Data
• Linear Algorithms, Optimization and Training
• End-to-end Problem Solving
• Non-linear Solutions and MLP
• Gradient Descent and Backpropagation
• Decision Trees, Random Forests and Ensembles
Upcoming Cohort
January 2020 Cohort
18 Weeks Program
60 Sessions → 120 Hours
30 LIVE Interactive Online Classes (2 X 2 Hours Every Saturday)
In-class Learning at Bengaluru (3 Weekends X 3 Days each)
1 year online access and support
Team Hands-on Industry
Hackathon Labs Workshops
Unit 1 Problem Formulation and Solving
Learn to translate real-world problems in terms of
AI/ML abstractions.
• Overview of Python and its libraries for ML
(Pandas, Matplotlib etc)
• Demystifying ML
• ML Avatars
• Simple but elegant Algorithms
•Ideas about practical issues such as Overfitting etc.
Unit 3 Deep Learning and Practical Issues
Implement practical solutions using Deep Learning
Techniques and Toolchains.
• Visualization, Data Prep, Unsupervised Learning
• Principles and Practice of ML
• Support Vector Machines and Kernels
• Introduction to DL and Toolchain
• Convolutional Neural Networks
• Auto-Encoders
• Recurrent Neural Networks
• Overview of Advanced Topics in DL
• Human In the Loop Solutions, Deployment
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 In-depth Curriculum

Experiential
Learning
In the practical sessions you will
work on a carefully selected set of
problems and case studies covering
the following topics, tools and
techniques.

• Simple Classification Problems

• k-NN Classifiers
• Features: Extraction, Normalization,
Transformation
• Dimensionality Reduction
• Simple PCA
• Visualization: ISOMAP, tSNE
• k-Means
• Logistic Classifiers
• Linear Regression
• Gradient Descent
• Perceptrons and Simple
Neural Networks
• Separability vs Non-separability
• Polynomial Regression
• Dealing with noise
• Training, Validation, Testing
• Overfitting
• Support Vector Machines
• pyTorch
• Convolutions, Tensors
• Multi-layer Perceptrons
• More on Gradient Descent
• CFARNet
• CNN, RNN
• Text Generation

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About IIIT-Hyderabad
First IIIT Largest CS
in India Research Group in India
#1 in AI Research #2 in Robotics
in India Research in Asia
Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) at IIIT-H
was established in 2015 to give a fillip to research,
teaching and entrepreneurship in the Broad Intelli-
gent Systems Area. It has the #1 rated Machine
Learning Lab in India and acts as an umbrella
organization at the institute to both strengthen the
existing groups and facilitate new activities in
related areas. It also acts as a force multiplier in
attracting projects and funding from the govern-
ment and industry sectors, coordinating research in
related domains across different IIIT-H centers, as
well as in the institute's research collaboration with
other academic institutions in the country.
For more information please visit
www.iiit.ac.in
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