Advanced Certificate Programme in

MACHINE LEARNING &

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
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Table of
Contents
2 About upGrad and IIITB

3 Why upGrad?

4 Program Highlights

5 Faculty and Industry Experts

7 upGrad Learning Experience

8 Learning Path

9 Industry Projects

10 Program Curriculum

16 Meet the Class

17 Career Support

18 Hear from Our Learners

19 Program Details and Admission Process

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About upGrad and

IIITB
upGrad has delivered over 20 million hours of
learning, delivering programs by collaborating
with universities across the world including Duke
CE, IIT Madras, IIIT Bangalore and Deakin Business
School, among others.

Online education is a fundamental Learning & Natural Language Processing in

disruption that will have a far-reaching this program. This will be further complemented
impact. upGrad was founded taking this by industry relevant case studies from major
into consideration. upGrad is an online industry verticals by industry leaders with 8+ yrs
education platform to help individuals of experience from upGrad’s industry network.
develop their professional potential in the
most engaging learning environment. Thus, the Advanced Certificate Programme
in Machine Learning & Natural Language
Since inception, upGrad has delivered Processing has been developed by IIITB
over 20 million hours of learning, deliv- faculty in collaboration with industry experts
ering programs by collaborating with uni- and upGrad to bring you the most cutting-
versities across the world including Duke, edge and industry-relevant curriculum.
IIT-Madras, IIIT Bangalore and Deakin
Business School among others. Who is this program for?
This program is for anyone looking to gain
upGrad is focussed on helping working a foothold in the Machine Learning In-
professionals in their bid to learn, grow dustry. No previous experience is nec-
and move up in their career through a essary for you to take up this progam.
wide-range of programs designed to As long as you have the passion to learn, this cut-
improve their expertise. ting-edge program will ensure you’re equipped
to kick-start your Machine Learning career.
IIITB is a renowned university offering In order to enrol, an application form must be
programs specialising in data science, filled out for the admissions committee’s review,
machine learning and artificial intelligence. post which you may begin your journey in Ma-
The IIITB faculty includes an average of chine Learning & NLP!
15+ yrs of experience and will be covering
the conceptual depths of Machine
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Why
upGrad?
2+ Million Learners

87% program
completion rates

INR 1.23 CR
Highest Salary
50% Avg. Salary Hike

50+ countries learner base

700+ Industry Experts

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Program
Highlights
Advanced Certification Programme
from IIITB
Differentiate yourself from your peers
by earning the industry recognized
Advanced Certification from IIIT
Bangalore.

For the Industry, by the Industry

Learn and apply concepts on industry
projects and work on a mini-capstone
project along with personalised
industry mentorship.

360° Career Assistance

360° Career Support with Career
Mentorship Sessions(1:1), Exclusive job
opportunities Portal, High Performance
Coaching(1:1), AI Powered Profile
Builder, etc.

Unparalleled Learning Experience

Learn concepts from experienced
IIITB faculty & understand the
applications from Industry experts to
get a blend of theoretical knowledge
and practical hands-on experience.
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Faculty and Industry

Experts

Chandrashekar Ramanathan S. Anand Ujjyaini Mitra

Dean | Academics, IIIT-B CEO, Gramener Head of Analytics, Zee5

Prof. Chandrashekar has a PhD from A gold medallist from IIM Bangalore, An alumnus of Mckinsey and Co.,
Mississippi State University and over an alumnus of IIT Madras and London Flipkart, and Bharti Airtel with over 11
10 years of experience in several School of Business, Anand is among the years of experience.
multinational organisations. top 10 data scientists in India.

Anshuman Gupta Ankit Jain Kalpana Subbaramappa

Director | Data Science, Pitney Bowes Sr. Research Scientist, Uber ex-AVP | Decision Science, Genpact

He has a PhD (Dual) from Penn State An alumnus of IIT Bombay, UCB, Kalpana is the ex-AVP of Decision
University as well as a B.Tech. degree and Harvard Business School with Sciences at Genpact with over 20
from IIT Bombay. over 9 years of experience. years of experience.
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Chandramouleeswaran Prof. S. Sadagopan Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan

(Mouli Sankaran) Director, IIIT-B Professor, IIIT-B
Adjunct Faculty, IIIT-B
Prof. Sadagopan is currently the Prof. Srinivasaraghavan has a PhD in
Director (President) of IIIT Bangalore. Computer Science from IIT Kanpur and
Professor Chandramouleeswaran has
He has an M.S. and a PhD from 18 years of experience with Infosys
33+ years of experience in networking,
Purdue University as well as a B.E. Technologies and several other
embedded SW, ML. He is an Adjunct
(Hons) degree from Madras University. companies.
faculty at IIIT Bangalore and a visiting
faculty at IIIT Lucknow, handling courses
on AI for IoT and Python.

Mirza Rahim Baig Dinesh Babu Jayagopi Srinath Srinivasa

Lead | Business Analytics, Flipkart Assistant Professor, IIIT-B Professor & Dean | R&D, IIIT-B

Advanced analytics professional with Prof. Dinesh has a PhD from Ecole He holds a PhD in Information Systems
8+ years of experience as a consultant Polytechnic Federate Switzerland, M.Sc. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate
in the e-commerce and healthcare from IISc Bangalore in System Science School, Germany, and is a recipient of
domains. and Signal Processing, and B.Tech. various international grants.
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upGrad Learning
Experience
Job Opportunities Learning Support

upGrad Opportunities Industry Expert Guidance

• upGrad Elevate: Virtual hiring drive giving • Interactive Live Sessions with leading industry
you the opportunity to interview with experts covering curriculum + advanced topics
upGrad’s 300+ hiring partners • Personalised Industry Session in small groups (of
• Job Opportunities Portal: Gain exclusive 10-12) with industry experts to augment program
access to upGrad’s Job Opportunities portal curriculum with customized industry based learning
which has 100+ openings from upGrad’s
hiring partners at any given time Student Support
• Be the first to know about the vacancies to • Student support is available 7 days a week, 24*7.
gain an edge in the application process You can write to us via studentsupport@upgrad.com
• Connect with companies that are the best
match for you

Practical Learning and Networking

Career Assistance Hands-on Projects & Hackathons

• 6 projects & assignments and a Mini-Capstone
Career Mentorship Sessions (1:1) Project to apply your learnings
• Get mentored by an experienced industry • 1 Hackathon every quarter to network & build on
expert and receive personalised feedback to core concepts. Live coding classes on Kaggle
achieve your desired outcome & OpenCV

High Performance Coaching (1:1) Networking & Learning Experience

• Get a dedicated career coach after the • Live Discussion forum for peer to peer doubt
program to help track your career goals, resolution monitored by technical experts
coach you on your profile, and support you • Peer to peer networking opportunities with a alumni
during your career transition journey pool of 10000+
• Lab walkthroughs of industry-driven projects
AI Powered Profile Builder • Weekly real-time doubt clearing sessions
• Obtain specific, AI powered inputs on your
resume and Linkedin structure along with
content on real time basis

Interview Preparation
• Get access to Industry Experts and discuss
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Learning
Path

Preparatory Course Statistics and Exploratory Machine Learning I

Data Analytics (7 weeks)
(5 weeks)

Advanced Certificate in Natural Language Processing Machine Learning - II

Machine Learning and (7 weeks) (7 weeks)
Natural Language Processing

Programming Tools,
Languages & Libraries
Pandas, Matplotlib, Numpy, Seaborn, Scikit-learn, Statsmodels,
NLTK, Python, MySQL, Excel
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Program
Curriculum
PRE-PROGRAM PREPARATORY CONTENT

1 INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON
Build a foundation for the most in-demand programming language of the 21 st century.

2 PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE

Learn how to manipulate datasets in Python using Pandas, which is the most powerful library
for data preparation and analysis.

3 DATA VISUALISATION IN PYTHON

Humans are visual learners and hence no task related to data is complete without visualisation.
Learn to plot and interpret various graphs in Python and observe how they make data analysis
and drawing insights easier.

4 DATA ANALYSIS USING SQL

Data in companies is definitely not stored in excel sheets! Learn the fundamentals of database
and extract information from RDBMS using the structured query language.

5 ADVANCED SQL AND BEST PRACTICES

Apply advanced SQL concepts like windowing and procedures to derive insights from data
and answer pertinent business questions.

6 DATA ANALYSIS IN EXCEL

Taught by one of the most renowned data scientists in the country (S. Anand, CEO, Gramener),
this module takes you from a beginner level Excel user to an almost professional user.

7 ANALYTICS PROBLEM SOLVING

This module covers concepts of the CRISP-DM framework for business problem-solving.

8 MATH FOR MACHINE LEARNING

Learn the prerequisite mathematical tools and techniques for ML - Linear Algebra and Multi-
variable Calculus.

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university

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Program
Curriculum
STATISTICS AND EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYTICS

1
EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS
Learn how to find and analyse the patterns in the data to draw actionable insights.

2 CLOUD ESSENTIALS: INTRO TO GIT AND GITHUB

Learn version control, collaborating, portfolio making using git. Understand the process of creating
repository. Learn the process of creating github portfolio using github pages with jekyll.

3
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
Build a strong statistical foundation and learn how to ‘infer’ insights from a huge population using a
small sample.

4
HYPOTHESIS TESTING
Understand how to formulate and validate hypotheses for a population to solve real-life
business problems.

5 LENDING CLUB CASE STUDY

Determine which customers are at the risk of default and what are their characteristics so as
to avoid providing loans to similar people in the future.

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university

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Program
Curriculum
MACHINE LEARNING I

1
LINEAR REGRESSION
Venture into the machine learning community by learning how one variable can be predicted
using several other variables through a housing dataset where you will predict the prices of
houses based on various factors.

2
LINEAR REGRESSION ASSIGNMENT
Build a model to understand the factors car prices vary on and help a Chinese company enter
the US car market.

3
LOGISTIC REGRESSION
Learn your first binary classification technique by determining which customers of a telecom
operator are likely to churn to help versus who are not to help business retain customers.

4
NAIVE BAYES
Understand the basic building blocks of Naive Bayes and learn how to build an SMS Spam
Ham Classifier using Naive Bayes technique.

5
MODEL SELECTION
Learn the pros and cons of simple and complex models and the different methods for quantifying
model complexity, along with regularisation and cross validation.
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Program
Curriculum
MACHINE LEARNING II

1
ADVANCED REGRESSION
Understand generalised regression and different feature selection techniques, along with the
perils of overfitting and how it can be countered using regularisation.

2
ADVANCED REGRESSION ASSIGNMENT
Build a model to understand the factors house prices vary on and help an American company
enter the Australian housing market.

3
SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (OPTIONAL)
Learn how to find a maximal marginal classifier using SVM, and use them to detect spam emails,
recognise alphabets and more!

4
TREE MODELS
Learn how the human decision making process can be replicated using a decision tree and
other powerful ensemble algorithms.

5
MODEL SELECTION: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Given a business problem, how do you choose the best algorithm? Learn a few practical tips
for doing this here.

6
BOOSTING
Learn how weak learners can be ‘boosted’ with the help of each other and become strong
learners using different boosting algorithms such as Adaboost, GBM, and XGBoost.

7
UNSUPERVISED LEARNING: CLUSTERING
Learn how to group elements into different clusters when you don’t have any pre-defined labels
to segregate them through K-means clustering, hierarchical clustering, and more.

8
UNSUPERVISED LEARNING: PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
Understand important concepts related to dimensionality reduction, the basic idea and the
learning algorithm of PCA, and its practical applications on supervised and unsupervised prob-
lems.

9
TELECOM CHURN CASE STUDY
Solve the most crucial business problem for a leading telecom operator in India and Southeast
Asia - predicting customer churn.

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university

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Program
Curriculum
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

1 LEXICAL PROCESSING
Do you get annoyed by the constant spams in your mail box? Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a
program to check your spellings? In this module, learn how to build a spell checker and spam
detector using techniques like phonetic hashing, bag-of-words, TF-IDF, etc.

2 SYNTACTIC PROCESSING
Learn how to analyse the syntax or the grammatical structure of sentences using POS tagging
and Dependency parsing.

3 SYNTACTIC PROCESSING - ASSIGNMENT

Use the techniques such as POS tagging and Dependency parsing to extract information from
unstructured text data.

4
SEMANTIC PROCESSING
Learn the most interesting area in the field of NLP and understand different techniques like
word embeddings, topic modelling, to build an application that extracts opinions about socially
relevant issues.

5
CASE STUDY: CLASSIFYING CUSTOMER COMPLAINT TICKETS
In this case study you will create a solution that will help in identifying the type of complaint
ticket raised by the customers of a multinational bank.

Disclaimer: Program curriculum is subject to change basis inputs from the institute and experts. Please refer to the website for update
details, or speak to our Admission Counsellors.

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university

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Industry
Projects

Investment Analysis Lending Club Case Study

Learners will fill in the shoes of an Determine which customers are at the
analyst at an investment bank and risk of default and what are their
determine where the firm should characteristics so as to avoid
invest. They will then have to explain providing loans to similar people in
their recommendations in lieu of the the future.
analysis conducted.

House Price Prediction

Car Price Prediction Build a model to understand the
Build a model to understand the factors house prices vary on and help
factors car prices vary on and help a an American company enter the
Chinese company enter the US car Australian housing market.
market.
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Industry
Projects

Part-of-Speech Tagger Project

Use the techniques such as POS
tagging and Dependency parsing to
extract information from unstructured
text data. MINI CAPSTONE PROJECT:
Classification of
Customer Complaint Tickets
Create a solution that will help in identifying
the type of complaint ticket raised by the
customers of a multinational bank.

Telecom Churn Case

Solve the most crucial business
problem for a leading telecom
operator in India and Southeast Asia -
predicting customer churn.
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Meet the
Class
20.9% BFSI

INDUSTRIES
OUR LEARNERS COME FROM

7.5% Healthcare 1.9% Logistics & Supply Chain

5% Retail 1.9% Media

5.2% E-Commerce
3.1% Consulting

4.1% Education
3.5% Manufacturing

1.7% Aerospace
3.7% Automobile

3.9% Energy
1.7% Security

1.7% Transport

5.6% Telecom

25.1% IT 3.7% Others

WORK EXPERIENCE RANGE

OF OUR LEARNERS
15% 6.1-9 years
11% 9.1-12 years

21% 3.1-6 years

33% 0-3 years

20% 12.1+ years
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• Recruitment Drive to connect you with • Help you define your value
the best talent admirers in the industry proposition
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opportunities and find the perfect job adhere to your timelines and goals
• Apply your learnings to real industry • Help you with interview preparations,
problems finding jobs in the market, salary
negotiations and other preparation as
required
Interview Preparation
Pre-recorded content on topics such as:
• Profile building, communications, etc Personalised Industry Session
• Problem solving approach 90-minute sessions over the weekend by leading
• Approaching guesstimates industry experts.
• Domain specific interview question bank • Session categories: Career, Technical
and much more and Communications
• Doubt resolution
• Develop proof of concepts and apply
Profile Builder (AI Powered) theoretical concepts in the real world
• Assess skill levels
An easy to use Resume, LinkedIn and • Peer Networking
Cover Letter preparation tool. • Classroom element
• Resume Score: AI-Driven • Business communication sessions and
Resume Score much more
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Hear from
Our Learners
Suchet Raghavan, 3.5 Years
“I would recommend this program to anyone interested in stepping into this domain,
or to expand their current knowledge. The group case studies and assignments
played a vital role throughout the course for me as I was able to truly implement
the theoretical concepts learnt during the course which were in line with industry
expectations.”

Loveneet Kumar, Experience: 13 Years

“At present , this is the most comprehensive and effective ML and Data science
course available online. They emphasize on implementation of techniques and ap-
proaches rather than theory. With lots of hands on it gives you confidence to start
with any real world problem if you have data.”

Sachinraj CS, Experience: 6 Years

“Satisfied with the modules, mentor support and all the services offered. Content
would cover every concept of machine learning including the math behind it that
gives full confidence while building any model.”

Avinash Rai, Experience: Fresher

“The best part about the program is the faculty and the website experience. I didn’t
feel like I was missing out something irrespective of whether it was in a class. In many
ways it is better than a class room experience. The program assumes you are from a
non-science or non-mathematical background. There are people to help you along
the way, you’ll get to reach out with many successful Software Engineers, Product
Managers and even CEOs. You will have the opportunity to build relationships and
understand the industry, it will give you a good perspective of what you need to do
to reach what you’re aiming for.”
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Program Details and

Admission Process
PROGRAM DURATION AND FORMAT PROGRAM FEE
8 Months | Online Please refer to the website for the program fees.

PROGRAM START DATES ELIGIBILITY

Please refer to the website for the program start Bachelor’s degree with 50% or equivalent
dates. passing marks.

TIME COMMITMENT (12 hours/week)

6 HOURS 6 HOURS LIVE SESSION

Asynchronous learning time. Assignments and projects. Every weekend.

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