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Artificial
Intelligence
I IT R O PA R
POST G RA D UATE C ERTI F I CATE I N
A RTI FI CI A L IN TELLIG E NC E & D EEP LEA RNI NG
ProgramOverview
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related
technologies are revolutionising the way
everyday world works. AI and Deep
Learning (DL) are garnering a lot of
attention of late because of some recent
innovations - Alexa, Siri, humanoids and
chatbots, to name a few. Given the
increasing adoption of AI across industries,
there is a growing demand for AI talent. In a
LinkedIn report – 2020 Emerging Jobs
Report India – featuring the top 15 emerging
jobs, ‘AI Specialist’ stood at the number 2
position. Those aspiring to build a career in
AI and DL can make a head-start with the
Post Graduate Certificate in Artificial
Intelligence & Deep Learning (PGCAIDL)
program.
ProgramHighlights
Designed for working professionals, with
weekend classes

Joint PG Certificate from IIT Ropar and TSW

IIT Ropar Executive Education Alumni status

Direct-to-Device program

Live online instructor-led sessions by top

IIT faculty and industry experts

Industry validated curriculum covering

fundamentals to advanced topics

Hands-on projects to demonstrate skills

by solving business problems

Industry mentoring

GPU access for training Deep Learning

models 

360 degree career support

CareerSupport
1:1 Industry Industry Online
mentorship expert speak Portfolio
based on to learn first Builder for
individual hand from an online
profile industry impact
practitioners

LinkedIn AI powered resume builder and

profile review resume reviews enabling easy
for creating an application to various job
impressive opportunities
profile

250+ recruitment partners

11,000+ learners placed
25,000+ generated in the last
job opportunities
3 years
ProgramContent
MODULE 1 MODULE 2 MODULE 3
Emerging Data is the New Oil Machine Learning
Technologies and Al

MODULE 4 MODULE 5 MODULE 6

Programming with Deep Learning and Image Recognition
Tensorflow Neural Networks

MODULE 7 MODULE 8 MODULE 9

Speech Recognition AI Applications Capstone Project

Tools
Projects
1 Amazon 2 Yelp 3 Google 4 Twitter
Recommend- Auto tagging Classify the Sentiment
ation system photos audio based analysis on
based on the uploaded by on Google live Twitter
reviews the users on Audioset  feed
dataset from review
Amazon website

5 6 Build a 7 Automate 8 Predicting

Classification chat bot sorting of bone age
of Chest catering to rotten from X-rays
X-rays customer produce in a using Deep
service supermarket Learning

Pedagogy
Modules 1-8 Module 9 (Capstone Project)
• Concept and demo videos • Learners can choose from
• Live online instructor-led a variety of projects
sessions • Mentoring by experienced
• Activities (case studies, faculty and industry experts
assignments and
assessments)
ProgramDelivery
The program will be delivered in a two-way video/audio
interactive mode.

Sessions will be delivered from IIT Ropar Studio on BCCL

technology platform. Students will attend the lectures on
their own devices (Laptop / Desktop / Tablet / Mobile).

Live online instructor-led sessions by top IIT faculty and

industry experts.

Program 6 months, conducted over 26

weekends
Duration

Class 2 live online instructor-led sessions

every weekend for 2 hours each
Schedule

Bachelor's degree with minimum

Eligibility 50% aggregate marks
No coding and mathematics
background needed
Minimum 2 years of experience,
preferably in software domain
Evaluation
Weightage

Capstone Quizzes Assignments Attendance

Project 10% & Projects 10%
20% 60%
Learner needs to complete all the modules with at least one
assignment submission and minimum 60% quiz score.

Application Deadline
July 2020
Admission Criteria
Application screening,
admission test and an
Program Fees
interview
` 2,50,000 + applicable
GST
Certification
Joint certificate from
IIT Ropar and TSW

The certificates will be

awarded in a convocation
ceremony at IIT Ropar
campus
ProgramDirector’s
PROFILE

Dr. Sharma joined the Electrical

Engineering Department at IIT Ropar
in 2012. He has initiated activities in
the area of VLSI Design and
Nanoelectronics at IIT Ropar. He is
also the coordinator of the
Indo-Taiwan Joint Research Centre
on Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning (ITJRC).

Dr. Rohit Y Sharma Before joining IIT Ropar, Dr. Sharma

Program Director – was a post-doctoral fellow at the
PGCAIDL; Interconnect Focus Center, Georgia
Coordinator-ITJRC; Tech., Atlanta. Prior to this, he
Associate Professor - worked as a post-doctoral fellow at
Department of Electrical the Design Automation Lab, Seoul
Engineering, IIT Ropar
National University, Seoul.

His current research interests include

design of high-speed chip-chip and
on-chip interconnects, Graphene
based nanoelectronic devices and
interconnects, Signal and Thermal
integrity in high-speed interconnects
and application of Machine Learning
in advance packaging and systems.
AboutIITRopar

IIT Ropar was founded in 2008, as an engineering, science,

and technology higher education institute located in Rupnagar,
Punjab, India, by the Ministry of Human Resource Development
(MHRD), Government of India. Spread in a 500 acres campus
on the banks of river Satluj, IIT Ropar is committed to providing
state-of-the-art technical education in a variety of fields. The
institute puts immense emphasis on promoting cutting edge
research and publications of high quality which is the key to its
recognition in the international research community. It is a
highly reputed institute having secured high ranks in ‘Times
Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2020’, ‘QS
India Rankings 2020’ and Union HRD Ministry’s ‘National
Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)’, among others.
IITRopar-Merits
1st
Rank for citations in The
1 st
Rank in India in The World
World University Rankings University Rankings 2020
2020

301-3015
Rank in The World
University Rankings 2020
1st
Rank in average citation
per publication among
second generation IITs

1st
Rank in average publication
3 rd
Rank in QS Ranking in
per faculty among second research quality
generation IITs

29th 219thRank in QS Asian University

Rank among all Indian
Engineering Institutes as Rankings
per NIRF

107 th
27 th
Rank among 75 in QS
Rank in QS BRICS Ranking
Indian Universities Ranking

500 acres
5 star
GRIHA Rating
State-of-the-art Campus
AboutITJRC
Indo-Taiwan Joint Research Centre (ITJRC) on Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning is a bilateral centre for collaborative research
in disruptive technologies like AI and ML. The Centre was
inaugurated in 2019 and is being supported by the Ministry of
Science and Technology, Taiwan.

AboutTSW
TSW is the executive education division of Times
Professional Learning (a part of The Times of India Group),
aimed to enhance leadership and general management
skills of experienced professionals. With a vision to make
world-class education accessible to aspiring business
leaders through strategic collaborations, TSW’s passion for
excellence and a belief that ‘Executive Education
Empowers’ works hand-in-hand with the organisation’s aim
to impart knowledge to the learner community nationwide.
AboutTimesGroup
The Times of India Group began its operations in the year 1838
and is India’s oldest and largest media house. The Times of India,
is the world’s largest-selling English newspaper, with over 5 million
copies sold daily.

The Economic Times is the world’s 2nd largest English business

newspaper second only to The Wall Street Journal, with over
800,000 copies sold daily.

The Group is also amongst India’s most diverse media houses with
assets across Publishing, Radio, TV, Out of Home (OOH) and
Online Media.
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