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Post Graduate Certificate Programme in
Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning (Batch 03)
8 Months | Online | ₹1,88,000 (Including GST)

A Times Of India Group Initiative

A Times Of India Group Initiative
Programme Overview
We are living in a fast-paced world where technological innovations are
happening at a breakneck speed. Technology has given machines the ability
to process and analyse sophisticated information and to even think and make
decisions using a series of algorithms and loads of data. Artificial Intelligence
(AI) has become a buzzword in recent years and is playing a massive role in
strengthening and transforming industries globally.

Though the benefit of AI in business is undeniable, the lack of trained and

experienced professionals is an expected restriction in AI’s market growth.
However, IIT Guwahati’s Post Graduate Certificate Programme in
Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning (PGCPAIDL) fulfils this need. This
course helps you acquire conceptual knowledge of AI and its application to
business problems, simultaneously enhancing your future career prospects.

$267 billion, the size of global AI market by 2027

26% ($15.7 trillion) increase in global GDP will be led by AI

33.2%, the forecasted annual growth rate of AI

during 2020-2027

The World Economic Forum predicts AI may lead to a net

increase of 58 million jobs globally

$9.4 billion, the value of the AI market in India in 2022

AI in India will grow at a CAGR of 27.5% during 2022-2026

and will be $23 billion by 2026

Source: semrush.com, oberlo.in, analyticsindiamag.com

Programme Highlights

8-month programme for professionals from an IT background

Comprehensive curriculum covering fundamentals to

advanced topics

Contextually designed for working professionals with

weekend sessions

5-day campus immersion at IIT Guwahati

Live online sessions by IIT Guwahati faculty, industry experts,

and TimesPro faculty

Capstone project to demonstrate skills by solving business

problems

Joint certification by IIT Guwahati and TimesPro

Learning Outcomes
The course is designed to provide in-depth knowledge of contemporary AI
concepts and tools that enable you to lead your organisational AI strategy. At the
end of the course, the participants will be able to:

Develop a conceptual understanding of AI and be

able to apply it to business problems

Learn concepts that include Programming

with Python, Tensorflow, Machine Learning,
Neural Networks, Deep Learning, etc.

Gain a holistic view of evolving AI tools and

techniques, and their applications

Ability to plan, design, deploy, and lead AI

strategies effectively to enhance the efficiency of
your organisational output
Programme Curriculum

Refresher
Maths and Statistics for AI (Self-paced)

Module 1
Foundations of AI

Module 2
Programming with Python

Module 3
Data Wrangling and Data Analysis

Module 4
Supervised Machine Learning and Text Analytics

Module 5
Unsupervised Machine Learning

Hackathon 1

Module 6
Programming with Tensorrow

Module 7
Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Module 8
Computer Vision & Image Recognition

Module 9
Natural Language Processing & Speech Recognition

Module 10
Advanced AI Applications

Module 11
Cloud Deployment of ML Model (Self-paced)

Campus Immersion & Hackathon 2

Capstone Project
Projects

01 Modelling based on the review datasets from Amazon

02 Auto-tagging photos uploaded by users on the Yelp review website

03 Music genre classification

04 Sentiment analysis on the live Twitter feed

05 Classification of chest X-rays

06 Build a chatbot catering to customer service

07 Automate sorting of rotten produce in a supermarket

08 Predicting bone age from X-rays using Deep Learning

Pedagogy
• Case Studies & Assignments
• Capstone Project (to demonstrate skills by solving business problems)
• Live Sessions by Experienced Faculty
Programme Delivery
• The programme will be delivered in a two-way video/audio interactive mode.

• Students will attend the lectures on their own devices

(Laptop/Desktop/Tablet/Mobile).

• Students will have access to a Learning Management System for referring to the
content (the access will be provided for additional 6 months after programme
completion).

• Live online sessions by IIT Guwahati faculty, TimesPro faculty, and industry
experts.

Duration 8 months | 437 hours of online learning |

134 hours live online + 303 hours self-paced

• 68 hours – Online sessions by
IIT Guwahati Faculty
• 66 hours – Online session by TimesPro
faculty/industry experts

Schedule Every Saturday and Sunday

5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. IST

Campus Immersion There will be 5 days of campus immersion

at IIT Guwahati.

Eligibility • Bachelor’s degree with minimum 50%

• Minimum 2 years of work experience

• Work experience in IT preferred

Assessment & Evaluation

10% 60% 10% 20%

Attendance Assignments Quizzes Capstone
project

Who Should Attend? Admission Criteria

The programme is ideal for The selection will be based on
graduates/post-graduates with an candidate’s profile evaluation,
interest or background in IT and who subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
wish to acquire new-age skills and seek Final selection of participants will be
a career in emerging technologies. solely done by IIT Guwahati.
Certification & Alumni Status
• Joint Certification from IIT Guwahati and TimesPro
• Minimum 50% score to be secured for Certification
• Minimum 75% attendance required to be eligible for the certificate

*Disclaimer : All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion
of IIT Guwahati
Career Support*

1:1 Industry Industry Experts Online Portfolio

Mentorship Speak to learn first- Builder to
based on hand from industry showcase your
individual profile practitioners projects

LinkedIn Profile AI-powered Resume Builder and Resume

Review for creating Reviews enabling easy application to
an impressive various job opportunities
profile

350+ recruitment partners

13,500+ learners placed

70,000+ job opportunities generated in the last 3 years

*The career support is provided by TimesPro.

Programme Coordinator

Dr. Parmeswar K. Iyer

Professor, Department of Chemistry
and Centre for Nanotechnology,
IIT Guwahati

Dr. Parameswar Krishnan Iyer received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the
CSIR-CSMCRI (Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute), Bhavnagar,
India, in 1999. He did his Post-Doctoral Research at Technion, Israel, (1999-2001),
University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, (2001-2003), and Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, USA, (2003-2004). In 2004, he joined as a faculty at
IIT Guwahati, where he is currently a Professor in Chemistry since 2013. He is also
the Dean, Public Relations, Branding and Ranking at IIT Guwahati since July 2019.
His research interests include the design and development of functional materials
and their applications in photovoltaics, LEDs, transistors, memory, sensors-based
device fabrication, and in therapeutics areas. He has more than 200 International
Journal Publications, 11 books/book chapters, 26 patents, and is involved with a
multinational start-up company, two national start-up companies, and has
transferred several technologies to various industries. He is an Associate Editor of
Nature Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Medical Technology and an Editorial
Board member of ACS Sensors, ACS Applied Nano Materials, ACS Applied
Biomaterials, and RSC Material Chemistry Frontiers. He has received several
National and International Awards and serves as an expert member in various
national and international scientific bodies.
Faculty Profiles

Dr. Suresh Sundaram

Associate Professor, Department of
Electronics and Electrical Engineering,
IIT Guwahati

Dr. Suresh Sundaram received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science,
Bengaluru, in 2012, after which he did a one-year stint as a Research Consultant
with Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Bengaluru. Since 2013, he is with the
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Mehta Family School of
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, at IIT Guwahati. His current research
interests include Handwriting Recognition, Biometrics, and Document Analysis.

Dr. Debanga Rag Neog

Assistant Professor, Mehta Family School of
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence,
IIT Guwahati

Dr. Debanga Raj Neog received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, in 2018, co-advised by Prof. Dinesh
K. Pai and Prof. Robert J. Woodham. This was subsequent to his B.Tech in
Electronics and Communication Engineering from the IIT Guwahati. His
interdisciplinary research work has covered Computer Vision, Computer Graphics,
Neuroscience, Machine Learning, and Augmented Reality. He is a recipient of the
Mitacs Globalink Research Award, under which he worked with researchers in
INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France. He also collaborated with Iwahori Lab in
Japan. Dr. Neog co-founded Nytilus Inc., a Toronto-based start-up focusing on
computational imaging solutions to solve problems in industrial inspections,
supported by global accelerators, such as Techstars. Dr. Neog joined IIT Guwahati
in September 2021.
 Dr. Konda Reddy Mopuri
Assistant Professor, Mehta Family School of
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence,
IIT Guwahati

Dr. Konda Reddy Mopuri, before joining IIT Guwahati, held a post-doctoral
position at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK. He received his
Ph.D. in Deep Learning and Computer Vision from the Department of
Computational and Data Sciences, IISc Bengaluru. His thesis won the IUPRAI and
SPCOM ‘Best Doctoral Dissertation’ Awards in 2018. His research lies broadly in
Deep learning, AI, Computer Vision, Image/Signal Processing, and Data Science.
His research has been published in top-tier venues such as ICLR, ICML, CVPR,
ECCV, WACV, BMVC, Trans. on PAMI, Tran. on Image processing, and Frontiers in
Robotics and AI.

Dr. Arghyadip Roy

Assistant Professor, Mehta Family School of
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence,
IIT Guwahati

Dr. Arghyadip Roy, prior to joining IIT Guwahati, was a postdoctoral researcher at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, for two years. He did his Ph.D.
from IIT Bombay in 2019, M.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur in 2012, and B.E. from
Jadavpur University in 2010. He previously worked at Samsung R&D
Institute-Bangalore, India. His research interests include Optimisation and Control
of Stochastic Systems, Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks, Reinforcement
Learning, and Application of Machine Learning in Wireless Communication.
 Mr. Mohankumar Silaparasetty
Head – Technology Programs,
TimesPro

A graduate of IIT Kharagpur and a recognised thought leader, Mr. Mohankumar

has been a part of the IT industry for over 30 years, working in global
organisations like SAP and IBM. He is a sought-after Trainer, Speaker and Author
in the domain of Artificial Intelligence including its subsets of Machine Learning
and Deep Learning.

Mr. Raghavendra N
Data Science Academic Lead,
TimesPro

Mr. Raghavendra is a Data Science practitioner with 16 years of experience

working on various projects in UNIX, Oracle, PLSQL, Machine Learning, and Big
Data across multiple domains. His areas of expertise lie in the emerging
technologies of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Analysis and Big Data
where he has an excellent track record of being a trainer and industry speaker.
 Mr. Punitkumar Harsur
Data Science Faculty,
TimesPro

Mr. Punitkumar is an academic SME researcher with 3 years of experience in

various Data Science projects, including executive programmes of IIMs, and IITs.
He has worked as a Corporate Trainer for various B2B (Deloitte, HP, Fractal,
Tredence and IBM) and B2C clients. His area of specialisation includes Advanced
Python and Python for data science, Python automation, Machine learning, and
Data visualisation using python, Tableau and Power BI. He is also a content creator
and developer for a wide variety of data science courses.
 Programme Fee

Particulars Amount (₹)*

Programme Fee 1,60,000

GST @18% 28,800

Total Fee (inclusive of GST) 1,88,000

Note:
• * All fees are payable directly to BCCL
Instalment Schedule

Instalment Date Amount (� )*

On registration within 3 days 10,000

I Within one week of offer roll-out 59,600

II 10th January, 2023 59,600

III 10th March, 2023 59,600

• *Taxes will be additional as applicable

Programme Timelines

Application Closure Date 30th November, 2022

Programme Start Date 17th December, 2022

Programme End Date August, 2023

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Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) established in 1994 has completed
25 years of glorious existence in 2019. At present, the Institute has eleven
departments, five inter-disciplinary academic centres and four schools covering all
the major engineering, science and humanities disciplines, offering BTech, BDes,
MA, MDes, MTech, MSc and Ph.D. Programs. The institute offers a residential
campus to 425 faculty members and more than 7,000 students at present. Besides
its laurels in teaching and research, IIT Guwahati has been able to fulfil the
aspirations of the people of the North East region to a great extent since its
inception in 1994. The picturesque campus is on a sprawling 285 hectares plot on
the north bank of the Brahmaputra, around 20 km from the heart of the
Guwahati city.

IIT Guwahati is the only academic institution in India that occupied a place among
the top 100 world universities – under 50 years of age – ranked by the
London-based Times Higher Education (THE) in the year 2014 and continues to
maintain its superior position even today in various International Rankings. IIT
Guwahati gained rank 41 globally in the ‘Research Citations per Faculty’ category
and overall 395 rank in the QS World University Rankings 2022 released recently.
IIT Guwahati has retained the 7th position among the best engineering institutions
of the country in the ‘India Rankings 2022’ declared by the National Institutional
Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Union ministry of Human Resource
Development (HRD). IIT Guwahati has been also ranked 2nd in the ‘Swachhata
Ranking’ conducted by the Govt. of India. Recently, IIT Guwahati has been ranked
as the top-ranked University in 2019 for IT developers by HackerRank in the
Asia-Pacific region.

Among other frontier areas of research and innovation, IIT Guwahati is working
towards augmenting critical science research initiatives in Genomics,
Developmental Biology, Health Care and Bioinformatics, Flexible Electronics,
Advanced Functional Materials, Sustainable Polymers, Rural Technologies,
Disaster Resilience and Risk Reduction, and Water Resources and Management. In
its silver jubilee year, IIT Guwahati is poised to scale newer heights through
all-around growth and development.

384th 8th 7th 117th

in QS World University in NIRF 2022 – in NIRF 2022 – in QS Asia University
Rankings 2023 Overall Engineering Category Ranking 2021

6th 6th 7th

in India Today Ranking 2021 in The Week 2021 Ranking in The Week 2021
– Engineering Category under Top Engineering Rankings under the Top
Colleges India Technical University
TimesPro, the award-winning EdTech initiative of The Times Of India Group, was
established in 2013 to cater to the diverse learning needs of Indians with
aspirations of career growth.

Taking the rich legacy of trust, knowledge, and learning of The Times Of India
Group forward, TimesPro strives to embody the values of Education 4.0 –
learner-centric, industry-relevant, role-specific, and technology-enabled – in its
executive education programmes.

Ranging across industries and domains, these programmes are curated and
offered in collaboration with premier national and global educational institutions
to fulfil the aspirations of millions of professionals by equipping them with the
right knowledge and skills.
Indian Institute of TimesPro, 18th Floor, G-02 Wing,
Technology Guwahati Lotus Corporate Park,
Surjyamukhi Road, North, Off Western Express Highway,
Amingaon, Guwahati, Jogeshwari (E), Mumbai – 400 063,
Assam 781039 India.

1800-120-2020
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