POST GRADUATE PROGRAM IN

ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE AND
MACHINE LEARNING:
BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Hundreds of online courses exist today. What many of them lack, however, is a commitment to
helping you translate your knowledge into something tangible - the ability to excel and grow as an
AI/ML professional. To tackle this, the PGP-AIML has been designed to give you the academic rigor,
learning support, and peer interaction of a full-time course with the flexibility of an online program.

The PGP-AIML enables you to master the basics of programming without any prior coding experience.
It offers a comprehensive curriculum with cutting-edge technologies like Deep Learning, Computer Vision,
NLP, TensorFlow, Generative AI like ChatGPT and many more. A structured learning journey keeps you on
rack throughout as you achieve your weekly learning milestones with your mentor and benefit from their
rich professional experience.

FORMAT
Online (Recorded Video
Lectures + Interactive
Mentored Learning)

LEARNING
SUPPORT
Dedicated Program
Manager + Industry
Mentor

TIME
COMMITMENT
Following a learn-by-doing pedagogy, the 8-10 Hours per Week
program offers you the opportunity to apply
your skills and knowledge in real-time every
week through interactive mentor-led practice DURATION
sessions, quizzes, assignments, and hands-on 6 Months
projects. As you do so, you come to truly
appreciate the nuances of Artificial Intelligence
PROJECTS
and build your portfolio in the process.
24 Hands-On Projects
& 42 Case Studies
On a whole, the program empowers you with
the skills, body of work, and job market insights
you need to find the right career opportunities PERSONALIZED
or lead AI and ML teams in your current CODING
organisation. All this comes with the credibility,
ASSISTANCE
global advantage, and academic leadership of Build projects with
the ease of supportive
McCombs School of Business at The University coding tools
of Texas at Austin.

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THE UT AUSTIN
ADVANTAGE
Founded in 1883 and home to more than 51,000
students and 3,000 teaching faculty, The
University of Texas at Austin is one of the leading
public universities in the United States. The UT
Austin name is globally-recognized as a leader in
the domains of science, business, technology,
and social science.

With a proven track record of success,

cutting-edge research, and teaching methods,
you can be confident that you are learning from
the best of the best.

IN THE US FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS

#3 QS World University Rankings 2022

IN CUSTOM PROGRAMS
#6 Financial Times - Executive Education

Key Facts about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The AI industry could be worth more than $15 trillion by 2030.

By 2025, the AI industry will be generating revenues of $118.6 billion a year.

86% of executives at fast-growing companies say AI is important to their company’s success.

AI could create 97 Million new jobs by 2025.

Source: PWC, Statista, Cognizant Report, World Economic Forum

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THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU, IF YOU:
Aspire to build a technical career in AI and Machine Learning.

Like solving complex problems in a structured manner.

Are comfortable in dealing with advanced algorithms.

Do not have any prior coding/programming experience.

Want to build AI/ML solutions integrated into tech infrastructures.

Wish to learn advanced AI, ML, and Deep Learning techniques and their applications.

OVERALL, THE PROGRAM WILL HELP YOU:

Lead the implementation of AI in your current role or company.

Transition to a tech career in AI and Machine Learning.

CERTIFICATE

Showcase your competence with a Certificate of Completion from The University of Texas at Austin.

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PAST LEARNER PROFILES
Each of the cohorts represent a diverse mix of work experience, industries, and geographies -
guaranteeing a truly global and eclectic learning experience. Below is an indicative mix of where
past learners have come from.

24% 26% 24% 26%

0-3 Years 3-8 Years 8-15 Years 15+ Years

Automobile 1%
BFSI 9%
Consulting 3%
Education 3%
Energy 5%
Healthcare 1%
IT and Telecom 44%
Logistics and Transportation 1%
Manufacturing 3%
Others 24%
Pharma 2%
Research 2%
Retail 2%

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KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

Build your expertise in the most widely-used AI & ML

tools and technologies.

Acquire the ability to independently solve business

problems using AI & ML.

Master the skills needed to build Machine Learning

and Deep Learning models.

Develop know-how of the applications of AI in areas

such as Computer Vision and NLP.

Understand the possibilities and implications of AI in

different industries.

Build a substantial body of work and an industry-ready

portfolio in AI & ML.

Get an additional certificate in Python Foundations.

"The program gave me fair coverage in terms of both breadth and depth of AI & ML in 6 months.
The hands-on projects, mentored learning sessions by industry experts give you a holistic learning
path. Add the personal attention from the Program Manager and it doubles your progress. Truly a
Great Learning experience!"

- Sujoy Joy, Module & Process Owner,

Nielsen, USA

"The AIML program has been comprehensive in key concepts. The video lectures were detailed
and the projects and quizzes challenged us to work through real-life applications. I would
recommend this program to professionals wanting to learn more about AIML, as I have applied
my learnings and tools in my career to solve client problems."

- Steve Carr, Project Manager

enVista, USA

"Overall, I enjoyed the program and learned a lot. I learnt the most in the projects and mentor
learning sessions. It hammered in the process of approaching AIML problems. The next best thing
is the breadth and range of topics as well as working on patents for using or implementing AI."

- Eric Taylor, Design Engineer

Arteris IP, USA

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COURSE CURRICULUM
SELF PACED INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE AND AI
MODULE
Gain an understanding of the evolution of AI and data science over time, their
application in industries, the mathematics and statistics behind them, and an
overview of the life cycle of building data driven solutions.

• The Fascinating History of Data Science and AI

• Transforming Industries through Data Science and AI
• The Math and Stats Underlying the Technology
• Navigating the Data Science and AI lifecycle

SELF PACED PYTHON PRE-WORK

MODULE
Gain a fundamental understanding of the basics of Python programming and
build a strong foundation of coding to build AI applications.

• Python IDE
• Introduction to Python Programming

SELF PACED GENERATIVE AI

MODULE
Get an overview of Generative AI, what ChatGPT is and how it works. delve into
the business applications of ChatGPT, and an overview of other generative AI
models/tools via demonstrations.

• ChatGPT and Generative AI - Overview

• ChatGPT - Applications and Business
• Breaking Down ChatGPT
• Limitations and Beyond ChatGPT
• Generative AI Demonstrations

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MODULE 1 PYTHON FOUNDATIONS
7 Projects | 9 Case Studies

Read, explore, manipulate, and visualize data to tell stories, solve business
problems, and deliver actionable insights and business recommendations using
some of the most widely used Python packages.

• Python Programming Fundamentals (Variables and Datatypes, Data

Structures, Conditional and Looping Statements, Functions)
• Python for Data Science - NumPy and Pandas
• Python for Visualization
• Exploratory Data Analysis (Univariate Analysis, Bivariate/Multivariate
Analysis, Missing Value Treatment, Outlier Detection and Treatment)
• AI Application Case Studies

Graded Project | FoodHub Order Analysis using Python

Analyze the data of a food aggregator company, answer key ques-
tions provided, draw actionable insights, and help the company to
improve the business and customer experience.

MODULE 2 MACHINE LEARNING

4 Projects | 6 Case Studies

Understand the concept of learning from data, build linear and non-linear
models to capture the relationships between attributes and a known outcome,
and discover patterns and segment data with no labels.

• Intro to Supervised Learning - Linear Regression

• Decision Trees (Regression Trees, Logistic Regression)
• K-Means Clustering (Hierarchical Clustering, Dimensionality Reduction, PCA)

Graded Project | Personal Loan Campaign Purchase Prediction

Build a Machine Learning model to identify potential customers for a bank
who have a higher probability of purchasing the loan and the driving
factors behind the decision making.

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MODULE 3 ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING
4 Projects | 6 Case Studies

Combine the decisions from multiple models using ensemble techniques to

improve model performance and make better predictions, and employ feature
engineering techniques and hyperparameter tuning to arrive at generalized,
robust models to optimize associated business costs.

• Bagging and Random Forest

• Boosting (AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, Stacking)
• Model Tuning

Graded Project | Credit Card Users Churn Prediction

Analyze the data and come up with a predictive model to determine if a
customer will leave the credit card services or not and the reason behind it.

MODULE 4 INTRODUCTION TO DEEP LEARNING & COMPUTER VISION

4 Projects | 5 Case Studies

Understand the working of deep neural networks and build neural network
architectures to extract patterns from tabular data, and use Convolutional
Neural Networks (CNNs) to efficiently handle image data and solve different
business problems associated with image classification.

• Introduction to Neural Networks

• Introduction to Computer Vision and Convolutional Neural Networks
• Transfer Learning

Graded Project | Plant Seedling Classification

Build a robust image classifier using CNNs to efficiently classify different
plant seedlings and weeds to improve crop yields and minimize human
involvement.

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MODULE 5 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
3 Projects | 6 Case Studies

Understand the working of the transformer architecture that lie at the

heart of Large Language Models (LLMs), gain clarity on different
transformer architectures and their uses, understand and fine-tune the
BERT model for specific tasks, and use open-source LLMS with prompt
engineering to solve different business problems.

• Attention Mechanism and Transformer Models

• BERT and its Applications
• Large Language Models
• Prompt Engineering

Graded Project | E-commerce Customer Review Sentiment Analysis

Analyze the customer reviews on the portal of an e-commerce
website and build a predictive model that can parse the reviews and
predict the sentiment of the customer.

SELF PACED STATISTICAL LEARNING

MODULE
1 Project | 8 Case Studies

Perform statistical analysis using Python to evaluate the reliability of a

particular business estimate using confidence intervals and test hypotheses
(assumptions) before putting them into action and committing resources by
analyzing data distributions and performing hypothesis testing.

• Introduction to Inferential Statistics

• Probability Distributions
• Sampling and Central Limit Theorem
• Estimation Theory
• Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
• Common Statistical Tests

Project | E-News Express Landing Page Conversion

Explore the data provided and perform statistical analysis to decide
whether the new landing page of an online news portal is effective
enough to gather new subscribers as compared to the old one.

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SELF PACED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM
MODULE
1 Project | 2 Case Studies

Get introduced to recommendation systems and learn how to build

recommendation systems that use past product purchase and satisfaction
data to make high-quality personalized recommendations.

• Market Basket Analysis

• Popularity Based and Content Based Recommendation Systems
• Collaborative Filtering
• Hybrid Recommendation Systems

Project | E-Commerce Product Recommendation

Build a recommendation system for an e-commerce website to
provide personalized product recommendations for the customers.

SELF PACED MODEL DEPLOYMENT

MODULE
Gain an overview of model deployment, how to serialize ML models to make
them accessible, and use technologies like Docker and Kubernetes for scaling
deployed ML models.

• Model Serialization - Pickling

• Batch Mode and Flask
• Docker and Kubernetes

Please get in touch with a Program Advisor

for a detailed module-wise breakdown of
the course curriculum.

aiml.utaustin@mygreatlearning.com

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A STRUCTURED
LEARNING JOURNEY

View & Learn Engage in a Mentor

Recorded Content Session
Consume recorded video lectures Clarify your doubts and
by UT Austin faculty & industry practice on live data-sets
experts over the week. with your mentor on the
weekend.

Complete a Hands-On Participate in Webinars

Project by UT Austin
Work on a real-world problem to Get an insiders’ perspective
apply concepts and techniques into the industry through
learnt in the module. webinars with leading UT
Austin faculty every month.

PROGRAM MANAGER:
YOUR PERSONAL GUIDE

Your Program Manager will assist you

through the learning journey to ensure
you achieve your learning objectives.
They will act as your sole point of contact
during the program, supporting you by
ensuring you receive the appropriate and
timely assistance from the ecosystem.
Along with monitoring your progress, they
will be there to give you the necessary
encouragement to ensure your success.

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LEARN FROM THE BEST OF
ACADEMIA
The program is taught by academic experts in the fields of Artifcial Intelligence and Machine
Learning. The faculty’s vast experience with research as well as theory in the domains of AI and
Machine Learning will be a crucial part of the learning journey that is aimed at inspiring a love for
data in you and making you industry-ready.

FACULTY PROFILES

DR. KUMAR MUTHURAMAN

Faculty Director, Center for Research and Analytics, McCombs School of Business, The
University of Texas at Austin. H. Timothy (Tim) Harkins Centennial Professor.
M.S & Ph.D., Stanford University.

DR. ABHINANDA SARKAR

Academic Director, Great Learning.
B.Stat & M.Stat, Indian Statistical Institute.
Ph.D., Stanford University.

PROF. MUKESH RAO

Consultant, Big Data & Machine Learning.

DR. AMIT SETHI

Faculty, Image Processing and Machine Learning. B.Tech, IIT Delhi.
M.S and Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

DR. DAN MITCHELL

Assistant Professor, McCombs School of Business.
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin.

DR. SUNIL KUMAR

GM - Engineering Innovation.
Ph.D. in Computer Science.

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BECOME INDUSTRY-READY
WITH LIVE MENTORSHIP
Along with strong theoretical foundations, hands-on learning goes a long way in preparing you to
make data-driven decisions regarding business problems. As you work on real-life projects, you will
receive personalized live mentorship every weekend from industry experts in AI and Machine Learning.

MENTOR PROFILES

EVANS OTALOR DIANA PHOLO

Data Science Consultant Data Scientist
Sterling Predictive Insights

RAM THILAK PREM KUMAR AMARJEET SAHOO

Data Scientist Lead-Data Science, Pricing
Mercedes-Benz & Promotional Strategy, JC Penny

GOKUL KRISHNAA HELGE REIKERÅS

Machine Learning Developer Data Scientist
SAP Offer Zen

Translate Your Learnings Into Practical Applications

28+ live mentorship sessions focused on doubt-resolution and case-study
based practice

Collaborative yet personalized learning in small groups of up to 15 learners

Network with peers from different geographies and domains

Work on 24 hands-on projects under the guidance of industry experts

Hands-on learning with AI practitioners from leading organizations such as,

Microsoft, SAP, Verizon, IBM among others

To access more details on the mentored learning model, please get in touch with a Program Advisor
at aiml.utaustin@mygreatlearning.com

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DEDICATED LAND YOUR DREAM JOB WITH:

CAREER 1:1 CAREER SESSIONS

SUPPORT
Interact personally with industry
professionals to get valuable insights
and guidance.
When you are beginning afresh in a
field, insights from someone on the
inside can help you get a headstart. RESUME & LINKEDIN PROFILE
REVIEW
Apart from the immediate result of
Present yourself in the best light
landing a job, career coaches work
through assets that truly showcase your
with you on the long haul – building
strengths.
your strengths, working on gaps, and
developing a strategy to achieve your
career goals.
INTERVIEW PREPARATION
OUR ALUMNI WORK AT Get an insiders’ perspective to
understand what recruiters look for.

E-PORTFOLIO
Build an industry-ready portfolio to
showcase your mastery of skills and
tools.

and many more...

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ADMISSION
PROCESS
ELIGIBILITY

Bachelor’s or Undergraduate degree

with at least 50% aggregate marks
or equivalent.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Application Form
Register by filling up the online application form. The program follows a rolling process, so
we encourage you to apply early.

Shortlisting and Panel Review

A panel will review your application to determine your fit with the program. They will
evaluate you on your academic performance, work experience, and motivation.

Interview/Screening
If shortlisted, you will go through a telephonic screening interview (This may be waived for
candidates with strong profiles and experience).

upcoming cohort of the program.

PROGRAM FEE

USD $3,800
Please get in touch with a Program Advisor for more details on flexible fee payments 16
PROGRAM
PARTNER

The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin is

collaborating with Great Learning to deliver this program in Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning: Business Applications to learners from around the world.

Great Learning is one of the leading ed-tech platforms for professional and higher
education. It offers comprehensive, industry-relevant programs in Software
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Having impacted 9.2 million+ learners from over 170+ countries, Great Learning is
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