Unleash the power of data for

real-world decision making

PG Level Advanced Certification in

Computational
Data Science
For aspiring Data Scientists keen to build expertise
from a leading institute of excellence
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3 Reasons Why This Programme is Unique

Learn from the Leading Faculty at IISc, World’s Top Research University*
Designed by IISc’s Computational Taught by 5 Engineering and
and Data Sciences Department Management Sciences Faculty from IISc

Curated Industry Capstones, and 1:1 Mentoring by Industry and Academia

option to Bring Your Own Project Experts

360° Learning on TalentSprint’s 12 Month Online Live Interactive

best-in-class Pracademic Platform Sessions

Demonstrate your expertise to get an edge in your career

Build compelling Data Stories to Strengthen your resume by showcasing your
chronicle your learning journey expertise through Data Stories

Reboot your career for the post-pandemic hyper-digital economy

Get ready for a new world where Design, build and deploy solutions to take
Data Science is transforming data-driven real-world decisions
business and society at an
unprecedented pace

Derive lifelong benefits from

TalentSprint’s growing network of
Data Scientists

Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the

combustion engine

About 95,000 vacancies for Data Chief Data Officers can increase consistent
Scientists exist in India today production of business value by a factor
of 2.6X

Data science needs will create roughly

11.5 million job openings by 2026

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About the Programme

The PG Level Advanced Certification in Computational Data Science

enables working professionals to gain practical hands-on experience in
solving real-life challenges. The programme will teach participants how to
build powerful models to generate actionable insights, necessary for
making data-driven decisions.

The 12-month programme will be taught by world class faculty from a

global institution and supplemented with industry learnings. It offers a
unique 5-step learning process of LIVE online faculty-led interactive
sessions, capstone projects, mentorship, case studies and data stories to
ensure fast-track learning.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), with its expertise in multi-disciplinary science,

is best positioned to offer the programme on Computational Data Science.
Delivered in association with TalentSprint, this executive friendly programme
is best suited for professionals who are willing to gain an in-depth
understanding of the mechanics of working with data and identifying insights.

So far, the programme has witnessed an overwhelming response for its last
6 cohorts, enabling 620+ professionals to build Data Science expertise. The
programme is now accepting enrollments for Cohort 7.

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About Indian Institute of Science

#1 World’s Top research

University(2023)* #1 University (2016, 2020 and 2022)
Research University (2022)

#1Times Higher Education

University in India (2020)
2 Bharat Ratna
Awardees (1954, 2014)
RUR World #62
(2020)

IISc (Indian Institute of Science) tops among the oldest and the finest
higher education institutes of India. It pursues excellence in research and
education in several fields of Science and Engineering and is one of the first
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
delivered by IISc’s Centre for Continuing Education (CCE). CCE delivers
courses suitably designed to meet the requirements of various target
groups, eg: research & development (R&D) laboratories and industries,
research scientists and engineers, to enable them to grow into competent
managers of technology-intensive and data-driven organizations. For more
information visit http://cce.iisc.ac.in.

*Based on metric of Citations per Faculty

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Learn from Leaders
IISc faculty members are an impressive group bearing academic accreditation from
premier institutions around the world

Prof. Sashikumaar Ganesan Programme Coordinator

Ph.D., Computational Mathematics, OvGU Germany
Chair, Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bangalore. Co-Founder, Zenteiq Edtech Private Limited.
He joined the Department of SERC/CDS as an Assistant Professor in 2011. Before joining
the Department, he was a Research Associate at Imperial College London and an
Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow at WIAS Berlin. His research interests include Finite element
analysis, High-Performance Computing, Data-Driven modeling, Cloud Computing, Scientific
Machine Learning, AI & MLOps at scale. He also heads Scientific Machine Learning and Operations
(STARS) group at CDS.

Dr. Deepak Subramani Programme Coordinator

Bayesian Learning, ML/AI for Environment Analytics, Autonomy
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
B.Tech and M.Tech, IIT Madras
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computational and Data Sciences, IISc. His research focuses
on ML/AI for Environmental Forecasting, Data-Driven Routing of Autonomous Vehicles, Bayesian
Learning and Data Assimilation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Computational Optimization.

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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Curriculum

Module 0 : Bridge Module

Python
Pandas, Seaborn, Data Munging
Variables, Matrices, Functions, Derivatives
sklearn
TF2, keras
Google Data Studio

Mini-Projects in Data Cleaning, Handing, Python

Module 1: Foundations of Data Science

Probabilistic Description of Events and Data: Probability Axioms, Random Variables,

PDF, PMF, Conditional Probabilty, Independence, Expectation, Variance
Statistical Learning, Experiment Design, Confidence Interval and Hypothesis Testing
Bayesian Learning
Univariate and Multivariate Calculus, Norms of Vectors and Functions
Taylor's theorem and Automatic Differntiation
Fundamentals of Linear Algebra Spaces
Machine Learning Tools

Mini-Project in Foundations of Data Science (Bayesian Learning, Data

Handling, Probability)

Module 2: Machine Learning

The ML Process: Problem Formulation to Solution

Linear Regression, Bias/Variance, Regularization, Stochastic Gradient Descent
Linear Classification: Logistic Regression, Linear SVM, Classification Metrics
(Confusion Matrix)
Nonlinear SVM, Decision Tree
Ensemble Methods: Random Forest, Gradient Boosting
Unsupervised Learning: Clustering, Anomaly Detection

Mini-Projects in Machine Learning Algorithms in Multiple Domains (Rental

Business, Healthcare, Banking, NLP, Customer Segmentation)

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Module 3 - MLOps at Scale

Object-oriented programming (OOP):

1. Inheritance
2. Encapsulation
3. Abstraction
4. Polymorphism
5. OOPs in C++ and Python
6. Applications of OOPs in Data Science
Parallel Architectures: Fundamentals of Parallel computer Memory Architecture,
Parallel programming with MPI
Parallel Computing with Accelerators: Parallel programming with OpenMP,
Accelerated computing using GPU
Scalable Computing with Python: Numba:
1. Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler for Python
2. Thread and multiprocessing in python Dask
for NumPy
3. Pandas and Scikit-Learn
4. Parallel computing with TensorFlow
Introduction to MLOps, Foundations, MLOps for containers, Continuous Integration,
Continuous Deployment for ML models, Monitoring and Feedback.
Mini-Projects in Computing for AI/ML (Writing ML packages from scratch, Using
OpenMP/MPI)

Mini-Projects in Computing for AI/ML (Writing ML packages from scratch,

Using OpenMP/MPI)

Module 4 - Neural Networks

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

Multi Layer Perceptron - Deep Neural Networks
Training a MLP - Backprop, Optimization Methods, Rules of Thumb
Convolutional Neural Network for Computer Vision
Recurrent Neural Network for Sequential Modeling
Dimensionality Reduction (PCA, SNE), Generative Models (GANs, VAE)
Reinforcement Learning
Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Mini-Projects in Neural Networks (Computer Vision, Image Analytics, Video

Analytics, Financial Analytics, NLP, Reinforcement Learning Stock Trader)

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Module 5 - Data Engineering

Introduction to Big Data storage systems

Introduction to Big Data processing platforms
Deep Dive into Spark: RDD, Narrow, Wide Transformations
Deep Dive into Spark: Designing, implementing, evaluation and validating
computational and analytics application using Spark
Fast Data Processing Platforms: Apache Storm

Mini-Projects in Data Engineering (Process Movie Data using NoSQL Cassandra,

Complex Analytics on network intrusion using PySpark, End-to-end, PySpark
Analytics on Tweets Data, ML on cloud)

Module 6 - Business Analytics: Data Science in Practice

Time Series Models: Time Series for Business and Financial Data
Market Basket Analysis
Portfolio Optimization
Customer Churn Analysis
Data Analytics in Infectious Disease Spread

Mini-Projects in Business Analytics (Market Basket Analysis, Bitcoin Forecasting,

Air Quality Forecasting, Customer Churn Analysis)

All modules have colab-based experiments with coding exercises (both full code along
and no-hints version)

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Capstone Projects (Option to Bring Your Own Project)
Real-time system
for Tweet Analytics
Food Image
Segmentation
Identification of Quora question
pairs with the same intent
Prediction of Client Subscription
to a Bank term Deposit
Movie Recommendation
System
Achieving image super-resolution
using a Generative Adversarial
Network
Urban Crime Data Analytics
for safety improvement
Exploratory and Predictive Data
Analytics using Indian Premier
League (IPL) dataset
Tools
pymp mpi4py HandySpark
ChatGPT based
project
Talent Retention and
Attrition Prediction
Stock Market predictions
based on Time Series
Direct Retail Marketing efforts
based on Customer Segmentation
using ML based Clustering
techniques
Predict the future daily-demand
for a large Logistics Company
Determine key factors driving
literacy rate in the Indian
demography using Predictive
Data Analytics
Breast Cancer classification from
digitized FNA image feature
measurements
Anomaly detection in Bearing
Vibration Measurements
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Case Studies
Analyse how industry uses computational data science through real-world use cases

Data Stories
Showcase your data science journey in the programme through various experiments,
projects and hackathons in a compelling manner.

Participant Profile

Job Role Work Experience

10 - 15 years
Leadership Developer More than
15 Years
19% 23% 30%
35%

25% 14%
11% 22%
21% Less than
Others 3 Years
5 - 10 years
3 - 5 Years
Manager

From Diverse Job Roles

Assistant Manager Associate Engineer Business Intelligence Analyst Data Engineer

Data Scientist General Manager Project Manager Senior Manager and more

From Top Organizations

Accenture Amazon Bank Of America Capgemini Cisco Citibank

Cognizant HSBC Bank IBM Infosys Oracle TCS and more

From Across Indian Cities and International Locations

Bangalore Chennai Delhi Gurgaon Hyderabad Indore

India Mumbai Abu Dhabi Dubai Germany and more

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Find out why professionals want to join the programme

"My motivation of pursuing this program is to accelerate my career in this

extremely niche domain where I can apply my IT and mathematical skills to find
solution to modern days problems."

Akhilesh Arya
Consulting

“As a data scientist, my work involves building ML and DL propensity and

forecasting models for Credit Cards, Insurance, and Accounts. With this
program, I wish to enhance my expertise and also advance my career.”
Ajeetesh Mishra
Insurance Company

“As an HR professional, I want to build a sound understanding of Data Science

and apply the same to streamline HR activities at my workplace.”
Ramyasri Murali
IT Solutions

"I believe this programme will help me develop that basic computational approach
required to carry out the data analysis and excel in my research field."
Dr Deshika Kohli
Education

"The Data Science field had always caught my attention during my engineering
days coupled with my dream to study at IISc. This opportunity fulfills two of my
goals in one go."
Keshav Singhal
IT & Software

"I was on a career break, preparing for UPSC exams. Now, I am looking forward to
getting back to the job, but with additional expertise. Hence joined this programme
and firmly believe that I made the right decision."
Manish S
Consulting

Note: These are edited versions based on the details submitted by various
programme applicants.
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Schedule

Interactive Online Classes

Faculty-led Interactive Sessions
Convenient Schedule
Direct to Device

12-month programme
2 Campus Visit of 2 Days each
Fee will be based on actuals.

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Eligibility

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

Engineering/Management

Work Experience: Minimum 1 Year

Coding Experience: Programming Knowledge Required

Note: Exceptional engineering students and engineering graduates may apply for special
selection on a case to case basis.

Enrolment Process

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Programme Documents** IISc Committee* program

*Selection for the programme will be done by IISc and is strictly based on the education,
work experience, and motivation of the participants.

**Scanned copies to be submitted within 7 days 1. Education Certificate 2. Experience

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Fee

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