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Harness the power of data for

real-world decision making
PG Level Advanced Certification Programme in

Computational Data Science

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India’s #1 12 2 100%
University (2015-23) Months Campus visits of Live Interactive
& Research Institute Executive Friendly 2 days each Classes
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3 Reasons Why This Programme is Unique
Learn from the Leading Faculty at IISc, India’s #1 University and #1 Research Institute*
Designed by Faculty Members of
IISc’s Department of Computational Taught by 5 Engineering and
and Data Sciences Management Sciences Faculty from IISc

Curated Industry Capstones, and 360° Learning on TalentSprint’s

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12 Month Online Live Interactive 1:1 Mentoring by Industry and

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Demonstrate your expertise to get an edge in your career

Build compelling Data Stories to Strengthen your resume by showcasing

chronicle your learning journey your expertise through Data Stories

Reboot your career for hyper-digital economy

Get ready for a new world where Data Design, build and deploy solutions to
Science is transforming business and take data-driven real-world decisions
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Data science is the future

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Gain the IISc Bangalore Advantage

India’s #1 University India's #1 University 2 Bharat Ratna

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IISc (Indian Institute of Science) tops among the oldest and the finest
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three publicly funded institutes to be awarded the Institute of Eminence
status. The alumni of IISc hold significant academic and industry positions
around the globe. For more information visit https://www.iisc.ac.in.

The PG Level Advanced Certification in Computational Data Science will be

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with TalentSprint. CCE delivers courses suitably designed to meet the
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Computational Data Science Course Overview

Are you a working professional looking to build expertise in Data Science?

Look no further than the PG Level Advanced Certification course in Data
Science offered by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in association with
TalentSprint. This highly sought-after programme offers a unique 5-step
learning process, including LIVE online faculty-led interactive sessions,
capstone projects, mentorship, case studies, and data stories.
Taught by world-class faculty from a global institution and supplemented
with industry learnings, this 12-month programme is best suited for
professionals who want to gain practical hands-on experience in solving
real-life challenges. The programme teaches participants how to build
powerful models to generate actionable insights, necessary for making
data-driven decisions.
With an overwhelming response, this programme has enabled 750+
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Curriculum
Cutting-edge curriculum that reflects the latest and proven industry practices

Bridge Module - 4 Weeks

Google Colab
Python
Matplotlib
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Numpy
Pandas

Basic mathematics: Matrix, Calculus, Probability

Basic data visualization
Data Cleaning/Munging

Foundational Modules - 6 weeks

Module 1: Foundations of Data Science: Probability and Statistics

Overall Goal: Gaining working knowledge in the math required to understand and use data science tools

Probabilistic Description of Events and Data: Probability Axioms, Random Variables, PDF,
PMF, Conditional Probabilty, Independence, Expectation, Variance

Describing Common Events using Probability: Bernoulli, Geometric, Binomial, Poisson,

Uniform, Normal, Exponential

Statistical Learning - A/B Testing, Type I and II errors, Sample Size calculation
Mini project in hypothesis testing

Module 2: Foundations of Data Science: Calculus and Matrix

Introduction to Calculus and Linear Algebra in Data Science

Importance of Calculus and Linear Algebra in Data Science
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Basics of Univariate and Multivariate Calculus Vector Operations and Norms

Deep Dive into Calculus for Data Science

Derivatives and Partial Derivatives
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Composite Functions and the Chain Rule

Introduction to Automatic Differentiation
 Optimizing with Gradient Descent and Backpropagation
Gradient Descent Fundamentals
----- The Mechanics of Backpropagation

Fundamentals of Linear Algebra

Vector Spaces, Bases, and Dimensions
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Linear Transformations and Matrices Matrix Operations in Data Science

Principal Component Analysis and Matrix Factorization

Principal Component Analysis (PCA): Theory and Application
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Overview of Matrix Factorization Techniques (e.g., SVD, QR decomposition)

Core Modules - 28 weeks

Module 3: Machine Learning

Foundations of ML
Problem-solving strategy with data science tools, ML, and DL.
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Model selection, feature importance

Regression Models
Least Squares; Regularization - Elastic Net, Ridge, Lasso; Bias-Variance tradeoff
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Development-testing paradigm

Classification Models
Classification algorithms
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Evaluation Metrics: MSE, Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 Score

Decision Trees and Random Forests

Decision Tree Algorithms
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Voting Classifiers, Bagging Ensemble models

Random Forests

Boosting Models
XGBoost
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Light GBM

Unsupervised Learning
Clustering (k-means, dbscan), Agglomerative clustering
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Anomaly Detection

Mini-Project: Five Mini Projects in Machine Learning

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Module 4: AI at Scale

Introduction to Scalable Computing

Overview of scalable computing in AI/ML
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Understanding parallel architectures

Importance of scalability in data science

Introduction to Parallel Computing

Types of parallelism: Data parallelism vs. Task parallelism
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Introduction to Shared Memory (OpenMP) and Distributed Memory (MPI)

Deep Dive into Scalable Computing Technologies

Deep dive into OpenMP and MPI
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Introduction to GPUs and Nvidia accelerators

Overview of CUDA programming

Scalable Data Science Tools

JIT Compiler, Numba, and Dask
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Introduction to TensorFlow distributed computing

Machine Learning at Scale with Parallel ML Libraries

Introduction to Dask, MLLib, cuDF, cuML, cuPY
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Focused exploration of Horovod, Ray, and Rapids

Module 5: Neural Networks

Deep Neural Networks

Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP), backprop, Regression/Classification with MLP,
gradient issues, and activation functions batch normalization, overfitting, drop
out, optimizers and learning rate

Convolutional Neural Networks

Filtering, Convolution, pooling, Various architectures: U-net, Resnet, etc.,
classification, localization, segmentation (Computer Vision Applications)

Recurrent Neural Networks

Sequence modeling, memory cell, GRU, LSTM, gradient issues

(NLP Applications)

Dimensionality Reduction and Self-supervised Neural Networks

PCA, Matrix Completion, LDA, CCA Manifold Learning, t-SNE, LLE

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Advanced Auto-encoder type architectures

Fundamentals of NLP, attention mechanism, and transformer models.

Mini-Project in Neural Networks

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Module 6: Generative AI in production

Introduction to Generative AI
Understanding Generative AI - Introduction to models like GPT, DALL-E, Midjourney,
-----

Sora (and others) including their capabilities and limitations.

Exploring the Potential of Generative AI using APIs of large models (e.g., OpenAI).

Enhancing Applications with Advanced Techniques

Advanced Interaction with Generative Models - Prompt Engineering Techniques
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and Fine-Tuning

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Building and Deploying Business Applications

Identifying business problems and architecting solutions incorporating generative models.
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Integrating Generative AI into Applications though API integration

Navigating Ethical Implications - Privacy, bias, and copyright issues.

Module 7: Data Engineering

Introduction to Big Data storage systems

Relational Databases
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NoSQL Databases: HBase, Graph DB

Distributed File Systems/HDFS
Cloud storage

Introduction to Big Data processing platforms

Data Volume: Hadoop, Spark
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Data Velocity: Storm, Complex Event Processing

Cloud platforms

Deep dive into Apache Spark

Resilient Distributed Dataset
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Transformations, Actions
Designing computational and analytics application using Spark
Hands-on with PySpark programming

Mini-Project in Data Engineering

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Module 8: Business Analytics

Time Series Modeling

Fundamentals, Stationarity, Measures of dependence
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ARMA modeling
Business Case Studies
Market Basket Analysis (Association Rule Mining)
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Optimal Financial Portfolio Allocation

Customer Churn Analysis

Mini-Project in Business Analytics

Capstone Projects - 12 weeks

Module 9: Capstone Part 1

Module 10: Capstone Part 2

Capstone Projects (Option to Bring Your Own Project)

Real-time system ChatGPT based

for Tweet Analytics project

Food Image Talent Retention and

Segmentation Attrition Prediction

Identification of Quora question Stock Market predictions

pairs with the same intent based on Time Series

Prediction of Client Subscription Direct Retail Marketing efforts

to a Bank term Deposit based on Customer Segmentation
using ML based Clustering techniques

Movie Recommendation Predict the future daily-demand

System for a large Logistics Company

Achieving image super-resolution Determine key factors driving literacy

using a Generative Adversarial rate in the Indian demography using
Network Predictive Data Analytics

Urban Crime Data Analytics Breast Cancer classification from

for safety improvement digitized FNA image feature
measurements

Exploratory and Predictive Data Anomaly detection in Bearing

Analytics using Indian Premier Vibration Measurements
League (IPL) dataset
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What should you expect from this Programme?

Learn Network
Learn from Leading IISc Faculty Network with Current and
Future Data Science
Practitioners

Master Prestigious Certificate

Master by applying concepts PG Level Certification by
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Faculty
IISc faculty members are an impressive group bearing academic accreditation from
premier institutions around the world

Programme Coordinator
Prof. Sashikumaar Ganesan
Ph.D., Computational Mathematics, OvGU Germany

Sashikumaar Ganesan is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Computational and Data
Sciences (CDS) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and the founder of Zenteiq Edtech
Pvt. Ltd., a pioneering deep tech startup. With extensive experience in Computational Science,
Scientific Machine Learning (SciML), and Data Science, he specializes in the development of scalable
ML algorithms, distributed training, and cloud computing through Machine Learning Operations
(MLOps). He has earned a reputation for his innovative approaches in integrating Finite Element
Analysis, Scientific Computing & Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing. Before joining
IISc, he held esteemed positions as a Research Associate at Imperial College London and as an
Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow at WIAS Berlin, after earning his Ph.D. from Otto-von-Guericke
University, Germany. Professor Ganesan's wealth of knowledge and multifaceted expertise make him
a leading figure in AI and MLOps, driving advancements in the field.

Dr. Deepak Subramani Programme Coordinator

Bayesian Learning, ML/AI for Environment Autonomy
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, B.Tech and M.Tech, IIT Madras

Prof. Deepak, an assistant professor in the Dept of Computational and Data Sciences, IISc and an
alumnus of MIT and IIT Madras, is a renowned data scientist and AI expert. He develops and
applies machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to solve complex engineering and
environmental problems. His notable contributions include foundational models and GenAI for
autonomous robots, weather forecasting, satellite image analytics, and renewable energy transition.
He is also a passionate teacher and mentor, committed to training the next generation of scientists,
engineers and industry practitioners.

Prof. Yogesh Simmhan

Data and Computing Systems, Big Data, Internet of Things
Ph.D. Computer Science, Indiana University, USA
Associate Professor in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences, IISc, and previously a
Research Faculty at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, and a Postdoc at Microsoft
Research, San Francisco. His research explores abstractions, algorithms and applications on distributed
systems. These span Cloud and Edge Computing, Big Data Platforms and Internet of Things (IoT).

Prof. Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Computational Signal Processing, GNN, ML, Statistical Inference
Ph.D. TU Delft, Netherlands

Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc. His research
areas include ML, AI, and statistical inference for Data and Network Sciences.

Prof. Shashi Jain

Quantitative Finance, Derivative Pricing, Real Option Analysis
PhD Applied Mathematics, TU Delft, Netherlands BTech and MTech IIT Madras

Assistant Professor at the Department of Management Studies, IISc. Before joining IISc he worked
as a Quantitative analyst at ING, Amsterdam. His research interests include quantitative finance,
investment decisions related to energy and environmental sectors and Real options.
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 Schedule

12 Months Executive friendly programme

IISc faculty members-led Live interactive classes, capstone projects,
industry sessions and campus visits to IISc

335 hours of immersive learning (245 hours of classes, practicals,

case studies, mini-projects, tests, campus visits and 90 hours of tutorials)

Participants will have two campus visits of 2 days each

Classes will be held every weekend for 2-3 hours

Eligibility

Education: Bachelors (four years or equivalent) or Masters in Science/

Engineering/Management

Work Experience: Minimum 1 Year

Coding Experience: Programming Knowledge Required

Note: Graduates in other stream with relevant coding experience can apply

Admission Process

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Selection by IISc Committee

Join the Programme

The selection for the programme will be done by IISc and is strictly based on the education,
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