Syllabus for AI and ML Certification courses

3.5-Month AI and ML Certification Course

Total Duration: 80 sessions (2 hours/day, 6 days a week)

Week 1–2: Introduction to Programming with Python (12 sessions)

 Basics of programming: Variables, data types, and operators

 Conditional statements and loops (if-else, for, while)

 Functions: Definition, arguments, and return values

 Introduction to Python IDEs and Jupyter Notebooks

 Hands-on: Simple programs like calculators, and condition-based

programs

Week 3: Python Data Structures (6 sessions)

 Lists, tuples, and dictionaries: Creation, manipulation, and iteration

 Strings: Common operations and slicing

 Sets: Use cases and applications

 Hands-on: Build small projects like contact books or inventory systems

Week 4: Python Libraries and File Handling (6 sessions)

 Introduction to Python libraries (NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib)

 File handling: Reading/writing text and CSV files

 Hands-on: Process and visualize simple datasets

Week 5: Mathematics for AI and ML (6 sessions)

  Linear algebra basics: Vectors, matrices, dot product

 Probability: Basic concepts, distributions, and expectations

 Calculus: Derivatives and gradients (practical understanding)

 Hands-on: Solve basic mathematical problems using Python

Week 6: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) (6 sessions)

 Pandas: Data manipulation and cleaning

 Visualization with Matplotlib and Seaborn

 Hands-on: Analyze and visualize datasets (e.g., weather or sales data)

Week 7–8: Introduction to Machine Learning Concepts (12 sessions)

 What is Machine Learning? Types: Supervised, unsupervised,

reinforcement

 Overview of ML workflow

 Linear regression: Theory and implementation in Python

 Hands-on: Predict house prices using simple regression

Week 9: Supervised Learning – Classification (6 sessions)

 Logistic regression

 Decision trees and random forests

 Performance evaluation: Confusion matrix, precision, recall, and F1-

score

 Hands-on: Classify emails as spam or non-spam

Week 10: Unsupervised Learning (6 sessions)

 Clustering: K-means and hierarchical clustering

 Dimensionality reduction: Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

  Hands-on: Customer segmentation with clustering

Week 11: Feature Engineering and Preprocessing (6 sessions)

 Handling missing data

 Feature scaling and normalization

 Encoding categorical variables

 Hands-on: Prepare a dataset for ML models

Week 12: Introduction to Deep Learning (6 sessions)

 What is Deep Learning?

 Neural networks: Basic structure and functioning

 Introduction to TensorFlow/Keras

 Hands-on: Build and train a basic neural network

Week 13–14: Final Projects and Advanced Topics (8 sessions)

 Build an end-to-end ML project (e.g., predict sales or classify images)

 Advanced topics overview: Time series analysis, Natural Language

Processing (NLP)

 Presentation and feedback

6-Month AI and ML Certification Course

Total Duration: 150 sessions (2 hours/day, 6 days a week)

Phase 1: Foundations of Programming and Data Handling (Weeks 1–

4, 24 sessions)

Week 1–2: Python Fundamentals and Data Structures (12 sessions)

 Basics of programming: Variables, data types, loops, functions

 Advanced data structures: Lists, tuples, dictionaries, sets

 File handling: Reading/writing CSV, JSON, and text files

 Error handling: Try-except, debugging techniques

 Hands-on: Develop small programs like student grade calculators

Week 3–4: Data Analysis and Visualization (12 sessions)

 Pandas: Data manipulation, merging, grouping, and cleaning

 Visualization: Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Plotly

 Introduction to SQL: Queries, joins, and database operations

 Hands-on: Analyze datasets (e.g., sales or sports statistics)

Phase 2: Mathematics for AI and ML (Weeks 5–6, 12 sessions)

Week 5: Linear Algebra and Calculus (6 sessions)

 Vectors, matrices, and operations

 Eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and matrix decompositions

 Gradients and optimization concepts

Week 6: Probability and Statistics (6 sessions)

 Probability distributions: Normal, binomial, and Poisson

 Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals

 Hands-on: Solve math problems using Python

Phase 3: Core Machine Learning Techniques (Weeks 7–12, 36

sessions)

Week 7–8: Supervised Learning (12 sessions)

 Regression: Linear, logistic regression, and regularization (Ridge,

Lasso)

 Classification: Decision trees, random forests, and support vector

machines (SVM)

 Model evaluation: Cross-validation, confusion matrix, and ROC-AUC

 Hands-on: Predict house prices and classify emails as spam or non-

spam

Week 9–10: Unsupervised Learning and Clustering (12 sessions)

 K-means and hierarchical clustering

 Dimensionality reduction: PCA and t-SNE

 Applications of clustering in real-world scenarios

 Hands-on: Customer segmentation with clustering

Week 11–12: Feature Engineering and Preprocessing (12 sessions)

 Handling missing data, feature scaling, and encoding categorical

variables
  Feature selection methods: Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE), Mutual
Information

 Hands-on: Prepare datasets for machine learning models

Phase 4: Deep Learning Foundations (Weeks 13–18, 36 sessions)

Week 13–14: Neural Networks and Optimization (12 sessions)

 Neural network architecture: Layers, activation functions, loss

functions

 Optimization techniques: Gradient descent, Adam optimizer

 Hands-on: Build and train neural networks for classification (e.g.,

MNIST dataset)

Week 15–16: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) (12 sessions)

 Filters, pooling layers, and CNN architectures (VGG, ResNet)

 Transfer learning with pre-trained models (e.g., MobileNet, Inception)

 Hands-on: Build image classification and object detection systems

Week 17: Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) (6 sessions)

 Understanding RNNs and LSTMs

 Applications in time series and text data

 Hands-on: Predict stock prices or perform text generation

Week 18: Advanced Topics in Deep Learning (6 sessions)

 Introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

 Overview of Attention Mechanisms and Transformers

 Hands-on: Build simple GANs or fine-tune transformer models

Phase 5: Specialized Applications and Capstone Projects (Weeks 19–
24, 42 sessions)

Week 19: Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) (6 sessions)

 Word embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe

 Transformers and pre-trained models (e.g., BERT)

 Hands-on: Perform sentiment analysis or create a chatbot

Week 20: Recommendation Systems (6 sessions)

 Collaborative filtering: User-based and item-based methods

 Content-based filtering and hybrid approaches

 Hands-on: Develop a recommendation system for movies or products

Week 21: Computer Vision Applications (6 sessions)

 Object detection and segmentation: YOLO, Mask R-CNN (overview)

 Image augmentation and preprocessing techniques

 Hands-on: Perform object detection or image segmentation tasks

Week 22: Real-World Project Development (6 sessions)

 Select project topics integrating NLP, recommendation systems, or

computer vision

 Build pipelines for data preparation, model training, and evaluation

Week 23–24: Capstone Project and Presentations (12 sessions)

 Work on comprehensive capstone projects (e.g., classify diseases using

images, build recommendation engines)
 Project presentation, peer review, and feedback