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 3 Reasons why
Professionals Prefer
this Program The faculty helped me
understand the subtle
nuances of working with AI.

Top Faculty Jaya Srivastava

Research PM, Microsoft
Taught by Top Research Professors at
IIIT Hyderabad, Asia’s Top Ranked
Research Institution in AI and Robotics

It is about the peer

Outstanding Peer-group collaboration & networking
that this Program brings to
7 Year Avg. Experience
the table.
40% Leaders and Managers 60% Developers,
Analysts
Krishna Chilamkurthy
30% from Startups and Mid size companies Microsoft

High Impact Format

The Program is structured in
Cohort Based
a way that even a beginner
Live Interactive Lectures
can easily understand complex
Mentored Labs
AI concepts.
Projects, Hackathons
Campus Visit * Kandula Andula Lakshmi Chaya
Research PM, Microsoft

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Participant Profile

2500+ 750+ 70% 30%

Strong Alumni Global Companies Mid to Senior From Startups
Professionals

Job Profile

12% Leaders

27% Managers

27% Analysts

34% Developers

Working with Global Organizations

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 High Impact Format
Program Designed and Perfected for Working Professionals

Curriculum Specially
Designed for Practitioners

Lectures by Distinguished
IIIT Hyderabad Faculty

Industry Sessions by
Eminent Professionals

Labs Supported
by Mentors

Effective Peer-learning
Opportunities

Group Projects
and Hackathons

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Faculty

Learn from Leaders

C. V. Jawahar Advisory Committe

Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

C. V. Jawahar received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is the Machine
Learning Lab Head, Dean (RnD) and Amazon Chair Professor at IIIT Hyderabad. He is a renowned
expert in Machine Learning and Optimization, Document Image Analysis, and Computer Vision.

Anoop Namboodiri Advisory Committe

Associate Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Anoop Namboodiri received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Michigan State University, USA.
He is associated with the Centre for Visual Information Technology. His research interests
include Pattern Recognition, Biometrics, Document Understanding, and Computer Vision

Ravi Kiran Lead Faculty

Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Ravi Kiran received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research areas include Computer Vision, Machine Learning,
Virtual Reality, Robotics, Affective Computing, Document Analysis and Multimedia.

Vineet Gandhi Lead Faculty

Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Vineet Gandhi received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from INRIA Rhone
Alpes/University of Grenoble. His research areas include Computer vision and multimedia, human
detection and tracking, computational photography and cinematography, depth reconstruction and
applications.

Asokan Pichai Lead Faculty

Chief Learning Officer, TalentSprint

Asokan holds a PG Diploma in Computer Programming. He is an Industry Instructor, Instructional

Designer, and Programming Guru, with a software development experience of over 35 years. His
subject-matter expertise includes Programming languages - COBOL, Clipper, C, C++, Python, Haskell,
Elixir, Clojure, Java and Ruby.

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Faculty

Dr. Mohammed Habeebvulla Lead Faculty

Director of Delivery - Executive Programs at TalentSprint

Dr. Habeebvulla received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Calorx University. Habeebvulla has
worked in diverse roles in the software development cycle as Developer and Technical Lead. His
areas of expertise include AI/ML, Data Science, OCR, Computer Vision and Design Patterns.

Manish Gupta Lead Faculty

Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft Adjunct Faculty, IIIT Hyderabad

Manish received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. His area of interest includes Big Data
Analytics, Algorithms, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Web Mining,
Databases, Text Mining, Machine Learning, Time Series Analysis, Graph Mining, Natural Language
Processing, Optimization.

Manish Shrivastava Lead Faculty

Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Manish received his Ph.D. from IIT, Bombay. His areas of interest include Natural Language Processing,
ML, Machine Translation, NLP for Indian Languages. His publications include ‘Experiences in
Constructing a POS Tagger for Hindi’, ‘Hierarchical Phrase Based Machine Translation Systems for Five
Indian Languages’ and more.

Anil Vuppala Lead Faculty

Associate Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Anil received his Ph.D. from IIT, Kharagpur. His areas of interest include Speech Recognition, Speaker
Recognition, Language Identification, Speech Processing in Emotional Conditions, Pathological
Speech Processing and Speech to Speech Machine Translation.

Praveen Paruchuri Lead Faculty

Associate Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Praveen received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. His areas of interest include
Artificial Intelligence, Multi-agent Systems, and Game Theory, Linear/Integer Programming and
Applied Machine Learning.

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Curriculum • Schedule • Format

Curriculum for Practitioners

Unit 1: Programming, Math Foundations and Classical Algorithms (2 Projects)

Key Python Libraries (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Classification 1.0

Matplotlib) k-NN Classification
Numpy
Decision Tree
Scipy
Linear Classifier
Pandas

Matplotlib
Regression 1.0
Linear Regression
Overview of AI and ML concepts Polynomial Regression
Demystifying ML Logistic Regression
Modern AI

Dimensionality Reduction
Principles of ML and Deeper Look at ML Basic Mathematics and Hands-on Analysis
Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning

Classification vs Regression
Representing Text and Language
Training and Testing Methods
Understanding standard NLP Libraries
ML Pipeline
Exploring Different Representations Methods

Data Processing and Visualization

Data Munging
Sampling Methods (Bootstrap and
Bagging)
Outlier Detection
Bootstrapping
Hands-on Data Visualization
Bagging

Features Selection and Extraction

Projects
Feature Selection Methods
Literacy Rate Prediction
Feature Extraction Methods
Aptitude Questions Classification 7
Unit 2: Problem Formulation and Neural Networks (2 Projects)

Intro to Natural Language Processing (NLP) Manifold Learning and Unsupervised

Learning
NLP Problem Formulation and Fundamental Solutions
Non-Linear Dimensionality Reduction for
visualization

Representation of Real-world Data Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering

Exploring Word Embeddings K-means clustering

Features for Perception (Image and

Performance Metrics Speech)
Methods to Measure the Efficacy of the ML models Classical and Modern Feature Representation
for Visual Data

Classical and Modern Feature Representation

Gradient Descent and Back Propagation for Audio/Speech

Single Layer Perceptron

Basic Mathematics
Projects
Practical Tricks and Tips
Author Identification

Customer Segmentation

Non-Linear Solutions and Multi Layer Perceptron

Activation Functions

MLP Architecture

PCA with EigenFaces

PCA Algorithm

Underlying Mathematics

Applications of PCA

Support Vector Machines and Kernels

SVM Formulation

Non-linear Mapping

Popular Kernels

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Unit 3: Deep Learning (2 Projects)

Keras Models
Introduction to Deep Learning
- Sequential Model
Deep Learning Framework - The Functional API
- Model Subclassing
Neural Network Module
Sequential ,odel Steps and it's Parameters
Training a Neural Network and Adding Layers
Building a Network in Keras
Loading and Save the Models with Example
Pytorch and Measuring the Performance
Basics of Pytorch

Pytorch Packages Data Engineering

Computation on GPU ETL

Model Building Dimensional Data Modelling

Big Data Query
Model Training and Evaluation

Overfitting and Generalization

Memorization and Generalization
Convolutional Neural Networks
Occam’s Razor
Convolutional Layers and Backpropagation
Ways to Prevent/Reduce Overfitting
Building Blocks for Convolutional Networks

Applications of CNN - Audio, Text and Image

Time Series
Classical Models (AR, MA, ARMA & ARIMA)
Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting
Autoencoders
Intro to Autoencoders Ensemble methods and Random Forest
Deep Autoencoder Random Forest

De-noising Autoencoder Boosting and Adaboost

Recurrent Neural Networks Human in the Loop Systems

Different Roles for Human in the Loop
Recurrent Neural Network Architecture
Users in the ML Systems
Machine Learning with Sequential Data
Relevance Feedback
Neural Network Language Models
Active Learning

Tensorflow and Keras Projects

Intro to Keras and Keras Basics Image Classification
Identification of plant disease from leaf
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Unit 4: Advanced Topics (2 Projects)

Appreciating CNNs Reinforcement Learning and Applications

Visualizing CNNs Reinforcement Learning Framework
Improving CNNs Single and Multi agent RL

Popular CNN Architectures Q-Learning

Deep RL
RNN, LSTM and GRU RL Applications

Vanishing Gradients
Siamese Networks and GANs
Understanding Recurrent Architectures
Siamese Architecture
RNN, LSTM, GRU Generative Adversarial Networks

Recommendation Systems Computer Vision

Introduction to Recommendation Systems Introduction to Computer Vision

Social Recommender Systems Camera Model and Geometry

Problems in Computer Vision
Collaborative Filtering
Applications and Use Cases
Hybrid Recommendation Models

ML in Speech and NLP

Beyond AlexNet and Transfer Learning ML in NLP
Adapting Pre-trained Models for Desired Applications Sequence Generation and Information Extraction
Latest Text Embedding Models

Fast API Neural Machine Translation

Machine Learning Deployment using Attention Mechanism for DL
Docker
ML in Speech
HTML
DNN based Speech Applications
Java Script
DNN with Attention
Joblib and Pickle
Sequential Network
Encoder Decoder Models for Speech Recognition
Deployment and Practical Issues
Automatic Speech Recognition
Technical and Non-technical Pratical Issues in ML

Industry Lectures and talks

Model Compression
Talks from different domain experienced people
Model Compression
Pruning
Quantization Projects
Student-teacher Network Retail sales forecasting
Image processing and Transfer Learning 10
Industry Hackathons

AI Voice-based Product Anti Face Fraud

Chatbot Ordering System Spoofing Detection

“
“AI Experts Even More in Demand
as Economy Opens Up”

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Languages and Tools

Google
Pythont Basics Data Structures
Text-to-Speech

Newspaper3k Pickle Imageio

Pyplot Torchvision Tarfile

Skimage tqdm Pillow 12

Hands-on Projects - 3 Months
Required to complete PG Certification - 9 Months. Option to opt out of Hands-on
Projects with Advanced Certification.

Machine Information Retrieval Object Detection

Translation Challenges with Documents Among Moving Objects

Recognizing Graphs Text summarization from Traffic Violation

from Images given type of documents Detection

English to Hindi
Speech Translation

Industry Data Sets

Data Room

Monie.io Twenty Newsgroups MNIST Clara GloVe Credit Card Movie Rating

Wisconsin Breast Cancer Cifar Swiss Roll IMFDB Aptitude Classification Bank Notes

Human Brain Weight and Head Size Alphabet Recognition Air Passengers PM2.5 Data

Cats and Dogs Expressions Face Recognition Ants and Bees Fingerprint

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Immersive Learning for Experienced Professionals

120 Hours of 250 Hours of 144 Hours of

LIVE Classes Lab Sessions Hands-on Projects

2 Hours / Day* Weekend 2 Campus

Expected Commitment Schedule Visits*

4 Hackathons 40+ Tools 35+ Data Sets

*Campus visit dates will be decided keeping the safety of participants in mind.

Who is the Program ideal for?

Professionals keen to develop AI expertise, with the

objective of

Enhancing effectiveness in their current role

Transitioning to AI roles in their organization

Seeking to advance their career in the industry

Giving shape to entrepreneurial aspirations

Eligibility

Tech Professionals with at least 1 year work

experience and coding background 14
Fee with Flexible Payment Options

PG Certification Program in AI/ML Advanced Certification Program in AI/ML

With Hands-on Projects Without Hands-on Projects

₹ ₹
9 Months 6 Months

₹ 3,00,000 + GST ₹ 2,00,000 + GST

Scholarship up to ₹75,000 Scholarship up to ₹50,000

Flexible EMI Options Flexible EMI Options

starting at ₹14,489 / Month starting at ₹10,489 / Month

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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 Intelligent 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 government 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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