E xecu t i ve C e r t i fic a t i o n Prog ram in

Artificial Intelligence
& Machine Learning

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 Introduction

Turbocharge your Tech Career with

AI and Machine Learning Expertise

Advanced Certification in AI/ML is a 6 months in-depth and

comprehensive program. It enables working professionals from
around the world to build AI/ML expertise from India's top
Machine Learning Lab at IIIT Hyderabad. The program is led by
collaborative faculty from academia, industry and global
bluechip institutions. The unique 5-step learning process of
masterclass lectures, hands-on labs, mentorship, hackathons,
and workshops ensure fast-track learning. There is also an
option to upgrade to PG Certificate by adding a 3 Month Project
on completion of the Advanced Certificate.

*Provisional

“
“The best thing that's happened
to me in the last few decades.”

Yunis Ahmad
Senior Director, Netenrich Technologies

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Faculty

Learn from Leaders

Dr. C.V. Jawahar

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.

Dr. Anoop Namboodiri

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
Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

avi 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.

Dr. Vineet Gandhi

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 cinematogra-
phy, depth reconstruction and applications.

Asokan Pichai
Chief Learning Officer, TalentSprint

Asokan is an Industry Instructor, Instructional Designer, and Programming Guru, with a solid software development experience
of over 35 years. He is an early adopter of open-source software. He has acted as a consultant in the FOSSEE project at IIT
Bombay. He also launched India’s first successful and profitable city portal.

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Faculty

Avinash Sharma
Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Avinash Sharma received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from INP Grenoble and INRIA Rhone-Alpes. His research areas include 3D
Human Reconstruction, 3D Point Cloud Generation and Analysis, Spectral Graph Analytics, Brain Graph Analytics, GraphSLAM in
Robotics

Manish Shrivastava
Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Manish Shrivastava received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His research areas include
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, NLP for India Languages.

Vikram Pudi
Associate Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Vikram Pudi received his Ph.D. in Data Mining from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research areas include Data
Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Database Systems and Pattern Recognition.

Praveen Paruchuri
Associate Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Praveen Paruchuri received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Southern California, USA. His research areas include
Artificial Intelligence, Multi-agent Systems, Game Theory, Applied Machine Learning and Intelligent Transportation.

Naresh Manwani
Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Naresh Manwani received his Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
His research areas include Machine Learning, Data Mining, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, statistical learning
theory, online learning and reinforcement learning.

Girish Varma
Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad

Girish Varma received his Ph.D. in Computational Complexity theory from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. His
research areas include Complexity Theory and Algorithms, Combinatorics, Computer Vision, Transportation & Autonomous Navigation
and Machine Learning.

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Curriculum • Schedule • Format

What and how will you learn?

Masterclass Guided Team Hands-on Industry

Lectures Mentorship Hackathon Labs Workshops

Foundations Problem Formulation and Solving

Refresh your knowledge on coding and mathematics Learn to translate real-world problems in terms of
necessary for building expertise in AI/ML. AI/ML abstractions.
• Introduction to Python Programming • Formulating Real World Problems for AI/ML
• Key Python Libraries (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib) • Intuitive and Simple Algorithms
• Refresher for Math Concepts • Data Processing and Visualization
• Overview of AI and ML Concepts • Representation of Real World Data
• Applications of AI • Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
• Classification and Regression Problems
• End-to-end Problem Solving

Closer Look at AIML Algorithms Deep Learning and Practical Issues

Learn about and apply standard AI/ML algorithms to Implement practical solutions using Deep Learning
create AI/ML applications. Techniques and Toolchains.
• Principles and Practice of ML • Introduction to Deep Learning
• Linear Algorithms, Training and Optimization • Convolutional Neural Networks
• Non-linear Solutions and MLP • Auto-Encoders
• Gradient Descent and Backpropagation • Recurrent Neural Networks
• Decision Trees, Random Forests and Ensembles • Overview of Advanced Topics
• Support Vector Machines and Kernels • Human In the Loop Solutions, Deployment
• Generative Adversarial Networks

Industry Hackathons Projects (PG Certificate)

Chatbot
Machine Information Retrieval
Building a domain agnostic chatbot which can be configured Translation Challenges with Documents
to perform actions such as ticket booking, a restaurant
reservation or even choosing a laptop.
Object Detection Among Recognizing Graphs
Moving Objects from Images
Speech-Based IVRS
Building a voice-based food ordering application that is Text summarization from Traffic Violation
trained to handle voice recognition in a noisy environment given type of documents Detection
by harnessing the power of machine learning.

Phone Unlocking with Anti-face Spoofing English to Hindi

Speech Translation
Building a phone unlocking app, using deep learning algorithms,
to verify a registered face. An app that is secured against
spoofing by identifying the change in expression.
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 Outcomes

What should you expect from this Program?

Build
Build and deploy AI/ML and
Deep Learning Apps

Learn
Learn from the world class
faculty and professionals

Reinforce
Reinforce learning by
applying concepts

Certificate
Obtain an Advanced/PG Certification
from IIIT Hyderabad ML Lab

0% EMI
Alumni Learn Now. Pay Later.
Get Alumni Status of
IIIT Hyderabad Executive
Education

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 Career

Career Accelerator
TalentSprint's Career Accelerator offers real, tangible, and far-reaching career advancement and transformation
solutions to program participants. At TalentSprint, we are committed to helping participants connect, explore,
and empower their future.

Compelling Profile Priority Career Access

Build a compelling professional Get priority access to career
profile with a DeepTech edge opportunities in the industry

Elite Community Startup Mentorship

Become a member of an exclusive Boost your startup ideas with
community of DeepTech experts professional mentorship

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 Participants Profile

Exceptional Peer Group

2500+ 750+ 70% 19% 30%

Tech Top Participants with Women From Startups and
Professionals Companies over 5 Years of Participants Small Companies
Experience

Job Profile

12% Leaders

27% Managers

27% Analysts

34% Developers

Organizations Where Participants Currently Work Include

Accenture Adobe ADP Amazon AMD AT&T Bank of America Bayer

Bosch CA Technologies Capgemini CGI Citrix Cognizant Cyient DBS

Dell DXC Technology Deloitte ECIL Elsevier Ericsson GE Genesys

Genpact Genuitec LLC Guardian HCL Hitachi Consulting Honeywell Housejoy

HP HSBC Hyundai Mobis IBM Intel Intuit JPMorgan Chase LG

LTI Medtronic Microsemi Microsoft NetApp NCR Nokia Novartis NTT Data

Oracle OLA Cabs Paytm Pegasystems Polycom Qualcomm Samsung SAP

Schneider Electric Siemens TCS Tech Mahindra Uber United Health Group

Verizon Virtusa VMWARE Wipro Wells Fargo Zensar Technologies More...

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 Eligibility • Labs • Fee

Eligibility
Tech Professionals with at least 1 year work experience and coding background

DeepTech Labs:
Boost Your Entrepreneurial Instincts
Access India’s one of its kind DeepTech Labs from IIIT Hyderabad

Gain access to Bootcamps Prepare for product pitches

and Mentoring Sessions to Angel investors

Assess the product-market Access to Deep-tech Lab

fit of your MVP Facilities for 6 months

For more information, visit IIIT Deep Tech Labs page. Or contact the program relationship manager .

Fee with Flexible Payment Options

Program Option Program Fee Scholarship

₹2,25,000 Women: 20%

Advanced Certificate Program
Youth (<5 Year Experience): 20%
($3,000)
Professional (all others): 10%

PG Certificate Program ₹3,00,000 Women: 30%

Youth (<5 Year Experience): 30%
($4,000)
Professional (all others): 10%

Fee paid is non-refundable and non-transferable. GST as applicable

Upon successful enrolment, the application fee of ₹1000 ($15) will be adjusted with the program fee.

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 In-depth Curriculum

Experiential
Learning
In the practical sessions you will work on
a carefully selected set of problems and
case studies covering the following
topics, tools and techniques.

• Simple Classification Problems

• k-NN Classifiers
• Features: Extraction, Normalization,
Transformation
• Dimensionality Reduction
• Simple PCA
• Visualization: ISOMAP, tSNE
• k-Means
• Logistic Classifiers
• Linear Regression
• Gradient Descent
• Perceptrons and Simple
Neural Networks
• Separability vs Non-separability
• Polynomial Regression
• Dealing with noise
• Training, Validation, Testing
• Overfitting
• Support Vector Machines
• pyTorch
• Convolutions, Tensors
• Multi-layer Perceptrons
• More on Gradient Descent
• CFARNet
• CNN, RNN
• Text Generation

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 About IIIT Hyderabad About TalentSprint
Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) at IIIT-H TalentSprint brings high-end and deep-tech education
was established in 2015 to give a fillip to research, to aspiring and experienced professionals. It partners
teaching and entrepreneurship in the Broad Intelli- with world-class academic institutions and global
gent Systems Area. It has the #1 rated Machine corporations to develop and offer disruptive
Learning Lab in India and acts as an umbrella programs. TalentSprint's hybrid platform delivers
organization at the institute to both strengthen the unique online and onsite experiences that help build
existing groups and facilitate new activities in cutting-edge expertise, for today and tomorrow.
related areas. It also acts as a force multiplier in Funded by Nexus Venture Partners and the NSDC, it is
attracting projects and funding from the government the recipient of several national and international
and industry sectors, awards including Dream Company To Work For 2017,
coordinating research in related domains across Best Innovative Technology Organisation In Education
different IIIT-H centers, as well as in the institute's Sector Award 2016, World HRD Congress HR Tech
research collaboration with other academic institu- Leader Award 2014, CIO Review Company of the Year
tions in the country. Award 2014, Silicon India Industry Performer of the
For more information please visit Year Award 2014 and others.

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