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Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is globally recognized for excellence in technical education, basic and applied research, innovation, entrepreneurship and industrial consultancy. Founded in 1959 with technical and financial assistance from the former government of West Germany, IIT Madras has been the top-ranked engineering institute in India for four consecutive years as well as the ‘Best Educational Institution’ in Overall Category in the NIRF Rankings by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. For more information visit www.iitm.ac.in
IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation, a Section 8 company hosted by IIT Madras and funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, drives innovation through the Technology Innovation Hub on Sensors, Networking, Actuators, and Control Systems (SNACS) under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). Focused on advancing Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), which integrate digital and physical elements for data-driven decision-making, IITM Pravartak fosters cutting-edge research, technology development, entrepreneurship, and human resource development while collaborating with industry, academia, government, and international organizations to translate research into impactful products.
The 12-month online PG Level Advanced Certification Programme in Applied Data Science and Machine Learning, offered in partnership with the Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI (WSAI) at IIT Madras, is a cutting-edge course designed to enable learners to build deep tech capabilities and make data-driven business decisions. With the massive amount of data generated daily from millions of devices, Applied Data Science has become a crucial field in today's world. The program offers a unique learning experience that combines masterclass lectures, hands-on labs, hackathons, workshops, industry interactions, and a campus visit to fast-track learning.
The Data Science course covers various topics such as data preprocessing, machine learning algorithms, deep learning models, and natural language processing, among others, to prepare learners to handle complex data sets and provide data-driven solutions. The curriculum is designed to meet industry standards and includes real-world case studies, ensuring learners have hands-on experience working with industry-relevant tools and technologies. The course also enables learners to acquire soft skills such as communication, teamwork, and leadership, which are essential for success in the workplace.
Participants of the course benefit from the expertise of leading faculty members and industry experts, who provide personalized guidance and mentorship throughout the course. Upon completion of the course, learners receive a PG Level Advanced Certification in Applied Data Science and Machine Learning from IIT Madras, which enhances their career prospects and enables them to become sought-after professionals in the data science and machine learning field.
IITM Campus Visit
Linear equations and solutions Matrices and their Properties; Eigenvalues and eigenvectors; Matrix Factorizations; Inner products; Distance measures; Projections; Notion of hyperplanes; halfplanes.
Probability theory and axioms; Random variables; Probability distributions and density functions ;Expectations and moments; Covariance and correlation; Statistics and sampling distributions; Hypothesis testing of means, proportions, variances and correlations; Confidence intervals; Correlation functions; Parameter estimation – MLE and Bayesian methods
Unconstrained optimization; Necessary and Sufficiency conditions for optima; Gradient descent methods; constrained optimization, KKTConditions; Introduction to least squares optimization;
1. Use cases from the healthcare domain where NLP is applied
2. Models such as Bi-LSTM-CRF, CAML, HAN, ResNexT.
3. Public domain datasets - MIMIC-III.
Introduction to big data in biology
Levels of omics data, basic information flow in biology
Importance of Networks in Biology: Overview
Introduction to Network Science
Learning from Network structure: Predicting essential genes
Learning on Networks: Community detection to identify disease genes - Learning using Networks: Graph mining for predicting biosynthesis routes - Omic data analysis: Predicting mutations and genes that drive cancer
1. Problem Statement : Four case studies will be demonstrated. CS1: Choice of mode CS2: Travel time estimation CS3: Accident hot spot analysis CS4: Accident severity modelling
2. Model(s) intended to demonstrate : Logistics regression, Support vector regression, k-means clustering and random forest
3. Dataset to be used during the demo
4. Dataset for the mini project
1. Levels of omics data, basic information flow in biology
2. Genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenomics, Proteomics and Multi omics - Identification human disease genes using genomics
3. Application of transcriptomics for identifying disease mechanisms
4. Clinical data - kinds of clinical data Garbhini dataset - a clinical data case study
a. Artificial Neuron
b. Multilayer Perceptron
c. Universal Approximation Theorem
d. Backpropagation in MLPs
e. Backprop on general graphs
a. Gradient Descent and its variants
b. Momentum, Adam, etc.
c. Batch Normalization
a. Introduction
b. CNN Operations
c. CNN Training
d. Illustrative Example (“Hello World”) - MNIST digit classification e. Image Recognition-SoTA model(s)
f. Object detection/localization - SoTA model(s)
g. Semantic segmentation -SoTA model(s)
a. Smart Cities
b. Industry Use case 1
c. Climate Science
d. Manufacturing
e. Bio-informatics
Industry Use case 2
The programme is designed by a distinguished faculty group bearing academic accreditation from premier institutions around the world.
Ph.D, Stanford University, USA
Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence in compressible and hypersonic flows, Computation of rarefied flows, Numerical Analysis and High-Performance Computing.
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Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Reinforcement Learning, Geometric Deep Learning, Data Mining
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Ph.D., Engineering Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Experimentation, Applied Statistics and Machine Learning
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Ph.D., Computer, Communication and Information Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Machine Learning for Biological and Engineering Networks, Safe Reinforcement Learning
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Ph. D., Systems Biology, IISc
Biological Networks, Computational Systems Biology, Genomics and Computational Biology
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Ph.D. ,Transportation Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Network Modeling, Dynamic Traffic Simulation and Assignment, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Vehicular Emissions, Urban Freight, Public Transit Systems, and Road Safety
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Ph.D., Clarkson University, New York, USA
Process system engineering, Optimization, Process control, Fault diagnosis
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Ph.D., Cambridge University, UK
System Genetics, Multiomic Analysis of Genotype & Phenotype Relationship, Healthcare Data Science & AI
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Ph.D., IISc Bangalore
Machine Learning, Rank Aggregation, Statistical Learning
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Ph.d., IISc Bangalore
Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Stochastic Approximation and Large Scale Markov Decision Processes
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Ph.D, IISc Bangalore
Machine Learning, Learning Theory and Optimisation
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Ph.D., Purdue University, USA
Multi-Modal Pre-Clinical Imaging System, Medical Image Processing
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Program Fee ₹2,50,000
Programme Fee with Scholarship ₹1,87,500
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Application Fee ₹2,000
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It is well known that Data Science helps businesses extract actionable insights from massive sets of data. Data Science and the technologies empowering it, like AI and Machine Learning, have become central to every business strategy today.
However, Applied Data Science takes the game many notches higher. It broadens the scope of data science to include
Applied Data Science becomes important in the backdrop of the fact that the global data created per day is likely to reach 394 zettabytes per day by 2028. Such massive data cannot be made sense of by traditional algorithms.
This is where Machine Intelligence (MI) can add immense value to business in conjunction with Applied Data Science.
Machine Intelligence as a higher evolution of machine learning - a stepping stone to true AI.
According to LinkedIn, Applied Data Science and Machine Learning offers exciting job opportunities for professionals with expertise in these fields.
The IIT Madras Advantage
Cutting-edge Applied Learning
The TalentSprint Advantage
The programme will be delivered in an interactive online format, retaining effectiveness while maintaining safety. The format uniquely combines the benefits of an in-class programme with the flexibility and safety of online learning.
The programme will be delivered on TalentSprint's patent-pending iPearl.ai, a leading digital learning platform of choice used for programs delivered by the likes of Google, IIM Calcutta, IIT Hyderabad, IISc, and IIT Kanpur, to name a few.
Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence in compressible and hypersonic flows, Computation of rarefied flows, Numerical Analysis and High-Performance Computing.
Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering & WSAI at IIT Madras. Before joining IIT Madras, he worked as a faculty member in the Applied Mechanics Department at IIT Delhi. His research interests include Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence in compressible and hypersonic flows, Computation of rarefied flows, Numerical Analysis and High Performance Computing.
Experimentation, Applied Statistics and Machine Learning
Faculty member in the Department of Management Studies, core member of the Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI (WSAI), and Co-Head of the American Express Lab for Data Analytics, Risk and Technology (DART) at IIT Madras. Before joining IIT Madras, Nandan worked as a quantitative researcher for five years at a high-frequency algorithmic trading firm in New York. His research and work experience focuses on applications of experimentation, machine learning and the abstraction of data to models and algorithms. This spans data and problems across different domains, including but not limited to finance, urban mobility, digital platforms, civic services, and criminology.
Machine Learning for Biological and Engineering Networks, Safe Reinforcement Learning
Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, coordinator of Network Systems Learning, Control and Evolution Group, core faculty member at Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI and Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering, IIT Madras. Nirav’s research interests include first-principle and machine learning approaches for modeling and control of biological networks from multi-sensor and multi-scale data, safe learning and control of man-made networks, and bioprocess data analysis.
Reinforcement Learning, Geometric Deep Learning, Data Mining
Head of the Wadhwani School of Data Science & AI (WSAI) and Mindtree Faculty Fellow and Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras. He has published nearly 100 papers in premier journals and conferences such as ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, ICDM, ICLR, NeurIPS, UAI, ISMB, and AAMAS. He has also co-authored the chapter on Reinforcement Learning in the Handbook of Neural Computation published by Oxford University Press. His work with students has won multiple best paper awards, the most recent being a best-paper runner-up at AAMAS 2020. His current research interests are centred around geometric deep learning and reinforcement learning.
Biological Networks, Computational Systems Biology, Genomics and Computational Biology
Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, IIT Madras, coordinator for the Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering (IBSE) and core faculty member at WSAI, IIT Madras. Karthik is also the co-founder of qBiome Research Private Limited, an IIT Madras incubated startup offering customised cellular, metabolic and process engineering solutions for the biotech, pharma and chemical industry. His group works on scalable algorithms to study biological networks, and machine learning using high-dimensional multi-omic data, with applications in metabolic engineering and disease biology.
Network Modeling, Dynamic Traffic Simulation and Assignment, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Vehicular Emissions, Urban Freight, Public Transit Systems, and Road Safety
Dr. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai is an Professor in the Transportation Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras and a core faculty member in the Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and AI at IIT Madras. He received his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in June 2009, M.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Texas at Austin in December 2003, and B.Tech. with honors in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in May 2002.
Process system engineering, Optimization, Process control, Fault diagnosis
Dr. Sridharakumar Narasimhan received his M.Tech (Integrated course) degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1998. Subsequently, he worked for 2 years as a process engineer in the mineral process group of the R&D division of Larsen and Toubro, Mumbai for 2 years. He then started his graduate studies in Chemical Engineering and obtained his PhD from Clarkson University in 2006.
System Genetics, Multiomic Analysis of Genotype & Phenotype Relationship, Healthcare Data Science & AI
Dr. Himanshu Sinha is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in the Department of Biotechnology. He is also a Co-ordinator for the Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering. His research area is Complex Genetics, Systems Biology. Dr. Himanshu Sinha received his Ph.D. in the Department of Plant Science at the [Downing College, Cambridge University]. He carried out his postdoctorate at the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA.
Machine Learning, Rank Aggregation, Statistical Learning
Dr. Arun Rajkumar is currently an Assistant Professor at the Data Science and AI department of IIT Madras. Prior to joining IIT Madras, he was a research scientist at the Xerox Research Center (now Conduent Labs), Bangalore for three years. He earned his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Science where he worked on ‘Ranking from Pairwise Comparisons’.
Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Stochastic Approximation and Large Scale Markov Decision Processes
Dr. Chandrashekar is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras. Prior to joining IIT Madras, he was an Assistant Professor at IIT Palakkad for a period of 3 years (Aug 2018 - Aug 2021). In the past, he worked as a research scientist at Google-DeepMind (London), and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Alberta. He obtained his masters and PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, and did B. Tech at the National Institute of Technology Trichy.
Machine Learning, Learning Theory and Optimisation.
Harish is currently an assistant professor at the Data science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) department of IIT Madras. His primary areas of interest are in machine learning, statistical learning theory and optimisation.
He was previously a research scientist at IBM research labs and a post-doc at University of Michigan. He completed my PhD at the Computer Science and Automation (CSA) department of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
Multi-Modal Pre-Clinical Imaging System, Medical Image Processing
Prof. Ganapathy Krishnamurthi is a distinguished faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras). With extensive experience in the fields of computational modeling, biomedical systems, and artificial intelligence, he has contributed significantly to interdisciplinary research and applied innovations. Prof. Krishnamurthi brings a strong focus on real-world applications of AI and machine learning, particularly in domains such as biomedical imaging, predictive analytics, and simulation-based modeling.
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