AI & Deep Learning for Professionals
AI & Deep Learning for Professionals
Artificial
Intelligence
I I T R OPA R
P O ST G R A D UATE C E RTI FI CATE I N
A RT IF IC I A L I N T E L L I G E NCE & DE E P LE A RNI NG
ProgramOverview
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies are revolutionising the way everyday world
works. AI and Deep Learning (DL) are garnering a lot of attention of late because of some recent
innovations - Alexa, Siri, humanoids and chatbots, to name a few. Given the increasing adoption of
AI across industries, there is a growing demand for AI talent. In a LinkedIn report – 2020 Emerging
Jobs Report India – featuring the top 15 emerging jobs, ‘AI Specialist’ stood at the number 2
position. Those aspiring to build a career in AI and DL can make a head-start with the Post
Graduate Certificate in Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning (PGCAIDL) Program.
Destination AI 5
Program Directors 14
Program Mentors 17
Certification 21
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Dartmouth Conference - John McCarthy
coins the word Artificial Intelligence
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Birth of ELIZA, predecessor of Amazon’s
Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri
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A self-driven Mercedes-Benz van proves
successful
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IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer defeats
chess world champion Garry Kasparov
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A Stanford vehicle wins the DARPA
challenge by driving autonomously
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IBM’s Watson AI wins the Jeopardy! TV
game show defeating former winners
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Google’s AI identifies cats in millions of
images in YouTube videos
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Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI triumphs
on Go world champion Lee Sedol
Live online instructor-led sessions by top IIT faculty and industry experts
Industry mentoring
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PGCAIDLHelpSYouAchieve
LearningOutcomes
Understand the concepts of Artificial Neural Networks
Learn how to build and train Deep Neural Networks to solve real-world problems
TopSkillsLearnt
Supervised and Programming Advanced Neural
Unsupervised with Tensorflow AI Networks
Machine Learning Applications
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TSWCareerEdge
Committed to learners’ success, TSW brings forth the comfort and assurance of career support
services.
ToolsLearnt
Transformers
(BERT/GPT)
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ThePGCAIDLLearningJourney
The program offers deep coverage and industry-validated curriculum that strikes the right balance
between rigor and effort.
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• Future with Al
Learning Outcome
In this module, you will get introduced to AI, its history, related terminologies and
MODULE applications in industry. This will form the foundation for the rest of your program.
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• Handling text data
Learning Outcome
In this module, you will learn about foundations of Data Science. It is important that you are
MODULE aware about the tools and technologies that are used for handling data.
MACHINE LEARNING
• What is Machine Learning?
• Supervised Learning: Regression and Classification
• Unsupervised Learning: Clustering
• Case studies/hands-on practice
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MODULE
Learning Outcome
In this module, you will learn about different Machine Learning algorithms and their
applications. You will get hands-on practice with your very first predictions using Machine
Learning models.
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PROGRAMMING WITH TENSORFLOW
• Tensorflow installation/setup
• Tensorflow 1.0 programming concepts
• Tensors
• Computational graphs & sessions
• Tensorflow 2.0
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MODULE
Learning Outcome
Tensoflow is an end-to-end open source platform for Machine Learning. It provides
advantages like easy model building, robust ML production and powerful experimentation.
In this module, you will get hands-on experience of programming with Tensorflow.
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Learning Outcome
Get introduced to the concept of a neuron and how multiple neurons can be used to
construct an Artificial Neural Network. Deep Learning is a class of Machine Learning
algorithms that progressively extract features for better understanding of the problem. You
MODULE will learn about various Deep Learning models built using Artificial Neural Networks.
IMAGE RECOGNITION
• Computer vision and Open CV
• Convolutional Neural Networks
• Architecture
• Pretrained models
• Training a CNN model
• Image classification
• Binary
• Multiclass
• Object detection
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MODULE
Learning Outcome
One of the popular applications of Deep Learning is in image recognition. You will learn
how to build complex image recognition and object detection models and apply them to
solve business use cases.
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SPEECH RECOGNITION
• How speech recognition works?
• Natural Language Processing
• Recurrent Neural Networks - RNN
• Chatbots
• Alexa skills
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MODULE
Learning Outcome
Processing the naturally spoken language is one of the complex tasks faced by
researchers. In this module, you will learn about Natural Language Processing and how
Deep Learning models can be used to build speech recognition applications.
AI APPLICATIONS
• Working of a self-driving car
• How drones work?
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• What is Deep Fake?
Learning Outcome
Learn about cutting-edge application of Artificial Intelligence from self-driving cars to
MODULE drones in the sky.
CAPSTONE PROJECT*
• Classification of chest X-rays
• Build a chat bot catering to customer service
Learning Outcome
End-to-end project to apply the concepts taught in the program.
*Candidates get to choose a project from a list of Capstone Projects. Problem statement
and data set will be provided. Students will be provided a Capstone Project consisting of
the following:
- Problem statement
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- Data set
- Python-based solution
- Mentoring sessions for students for the Capstone Project
While experienced faculty will provide supervision for the projects and
MODULE assignments, project completion will be the responsibility of the student.
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CaseStudies
Sorting food items for a supermarket using image recognition
Classify UI icons
Projects
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Amazon Yelp Google Twitter
Recommendation Auto tagging Classify the audio Sentiment
system based on photos uploaded based on Google analysis on live
the reviews by the users on Audioset Twitter feed
dataset from review website
Amazon
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Classification of Build a chat bot Automate sorting Predicting bone
Chest X-rays catering to of rotten age from X-rays
customer service produce in a using Deep
supermarket Learning
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PGCAIDLAdvisoryBoard
The PGCAIDL program advisory board comprises senior members of the industry and acclaimed
academicians, who guide the rigor and integrity of the program. With a commitment to provide
exceptional and contemporary education to the learners, they help inform the program curriculum
and provide competent inputs to ensure that the program is aligned with the industry’s needs.
Their role is significant in providing quality assurance for PGCAIDL program.
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ProgramDirectors
Dr. Sharma joined the Electrical Engineering Department at
IIT Ropar in 2012. He has initiated activities in the area of
VLSI Design and Nanoelectronics at IIT Ropar. He is also the
coordinator of the Indo-Taiwan Joint Research Centre on
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (ITJRC).
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ProgramFacultyProfiles
Dr. Somdev Kar
Associate Professor, Department: Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Ropar
Before joining IIT Ropar, Dr. Kar worked in Germany and Qatar. His research
interests are in Phonetics, Phonology, NLP, etc. He has published a book and
research articles in internationally acclaimed journals.
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Dr. Subrahmanyam Murala
Associate Professor, Department: Electrical Engineering, IIT Ropar
Dr. Murala has earlier worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Windsor, Canada. His major
fields of interests are Image Retrieval, Computer Vision, Medical Image Processing
and Object Detection.
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ProgramMentors
Mr. Silaparasetty Mohankumar
Program Director – PGCAIDL;
Head – Technology Programs, Times Professional Learning
A recognised thought leader, Mr. Mohankumar has been in the IT industry for more
than 25 years, with 10+ years in Analytics. With technical expertise in AI and related
technologies, Mr. Mohankumar is also a seasoned trainer, speaker and author.
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ProgramDelivery
The program will be delivered in a two-way video/audio PROGRAM
interactive mode. DURATION
Sessions will be delivered from IIT Ropar Studio on 6 months | conducted
BCCL technology platform. over 26 weekends | 96
Students will attend the lectures on their own devices hours of comprehensive
(Laptop / Desktop / Tablet / Mobile). instruction | 115 hours of
Live online instructor-led sessions by top IIT faculty and recorded videos,
industry experts. assignments, and
projects from various
Pedagogy
industries
MODULES 1-8
CLASS
Each module has three components SCHEDULE
• Concept and demo videos 2 live online
• Live online instructor-led sessions instructor-led sessions
• Activities (case studies, assignments & assessments) every weekend
All the modules need to be completed in a (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
chronological manner
Learners to understand concepts before attending
classes so that the online class can focus on doubts
and application
Learner effort is around 10 hours every week ELIGIBILITY
Learner needs to submit assignment and quiz to Bachelor's degree
proceed to next module with minimum 50%
aggregate marks
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AdmissionCriteria
Evaluation
WEIGHTAGE
Learner needs to complete all the modules with at least one assignment submission and
minimum 60% quiz score.
LearningEnvironment
Access to LMS for the period of program + 6 months
Reminders via emails
Learner dashboard on LMS for details of progress
Mobile app with ability to download course and use offline
Online sessions’ recordings to be available on LMS
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Certification
• Joint certificate from IIT Ropar and TSW.
• The certificates will be awarded in a convocation ceremony at IIT Ropar campus.
SAMPLE CERTIFICATE
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ProgramFees&InstalmentS
Component Amount (₹) Payment Schedule
Financing
Loan Amount
₹ 2,50,000 + GST = ₹ 2,95,000
EMI of ₹ 10,591/- for a 3-year loan
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MarkyourCalendar
Application Closure Date
2oth September, 2o2o
Program Start Date
26th September, 2o2o
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AboutIITRopar
IIT Ropar was founded in 2008, as an engineering, science, and technology higher
education institute located in Rupnagar, Punjab, India, by the Ministry of Human
Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. Spread in a 500 acres campus
on the banks of river Satluj, IIT Ropar is committed to providing state-of-the-art technical
education in a variety of fields. The institute puts immense emphasis on promoting
cutting-edge research and publications of high quality which is the key to its recognition
in the international research community. It is a highly reputed institute having secured
high ranks in ‘Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2020’, ‘QS India
Rankings 2020’, and Union HRD Ministry’s ‘National Institutional Ranking Framework
(NIRF)’, among others.
AboutITJRC
Indo-Taiwan Joint Research Centre (ITJRC) on
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is
a bilateral centre for collaborative research in
disruptive technologies like AI and ML. The
Centre was inaugurated in 2019 and is being
supported by the Ministry of Science and
Technology, Taiwan.
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IITRopar-Merits
1stRank for citations in The World University Rankings 2020
301-350
Rank in The World University Rankings 2020
29th
Rank among all Indian Engineering Institutes as per NIRF
107th
Rank in QS BRICS Ranking
500 acres
State-of-the-art Campus
27th
Rank among 75 in QS Indian Universities Ranking
5star
GRIHA Rating
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AboutTSW
TSW is the executive education division of Times Professional Learning (a part of The Times of
India Group), aimed to enhance leadership and general management skills of experienced
professionals. With a vision to make world-class education accessible to aspiring business leaders
through strategic collaborations, TSW’s passion for excellence and a belief that ‘Executive
Education Empowers’ works hand-in-hand with the organisation’s aim to impart knowledge to the
learner community nationwide.
AboutTimesGroup
The Times of India Group began its operations in the year 1838 and is India’s oldest and largest
media house. The Times of India is the world’s largest-selling English newspaper, with over 5
million copies sold daily.
The Economic Times is the world’s 2nd largest English business newspaper after The Wall Street
Journal, with over 800,000 copies sold daily.
The Group is also amongst India’s most diverse media houses with assets across Publishing, Radio,
TV, Out-of-Home (OOH) and Online Media.
Largest selling English Daily in Leading English Business News World’s Second largest English
the World in terms of Readership TV Channel Financial Daily
Nationwide Initiative to identify One of the Biggest Career Nationwide Initiative to identify
India’s Future Leaders Portals India’s Future Leaders
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