Executive Post Graduate Certificate in

MACHINE LEARNING &

DEEP LEARNING
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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

11 Program Curriculum

14 Meet the Class

15 Career Support

16 Experience upGrad Offline

17 Hear from Our Learners

18 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 program. This will be further com-

disruption that will have a far-reach- plemented by industry relevant case
ing impact. upGrad was founded studies from major industry verticals
taking this into consideration. up- by industry leaders with 8+ yrs of
Grad is an online education platform experience from upGrad’s industry
to help individuals develop their pro- network. The strong career support,
fessional potential in the most en- industry mentorship and the credi-
gaging learning environment. Since bility of this Advanced Certification
inception, upGrad has delivered over Programme from IIITB will provide
20 million hours of learning, deliver- you with just the right push to accel-
ing programs by collaborating with erate your career in
universities across the world includ- Machine Learning and Deep Learn-
ing Duke, IIT-Madras, IIIT Bangalore ing!
and Deakin Business School among
others. upGrad is focussed on help- Who is this program for?
ing working professionals in their This program is for anyone looking to
bid to learn, grow and move up in gain a foothold in the Machine Learn-
their career through a wide-range of ing Industry and there is no previous
programs designed to improve their background necessary in this field to
expertise. undertake this program.
As long as you have the passion to
IIITB is a renowned university of- learn, this cutting-edge program will
fering programs specialising in ensure you’re equipped to kick-start
data science, machine learning your Machine Learning career.
and artificial intelligence. The IIITB In order to enrol, you must fill out an
faculty includes an average of 15+ application form which may begin
yrs of experience & will be covering your journey in ML & Deep Learning!
the conceptual depths of Neural
Networks & Deep Learning in this
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73 LPA Highest Salary

Why
upGrad? 433% Highest Hike

57% Avg Salary Hike

2+ Million Learners
700+ Industry Experts

300+ Hiring Partners

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Faculty and Industry
Experts

Prof. Chandrashekar Prof. S. Sadagopan Mirza Rahim Baig

Ramanathan Director, IIIT-B Lead | Business Analytics
Dean | Academics Flipkart
IIIT-B Prof. Sadagopan is currently
the Director (President) of IIIT Advanced analytics professional
Prof. Chandrashekar has a PhD Bangalore. He has an M.S. and a with 8+ years of experience as a
from Mississippi State University PhD from Purdue University as consultant in the e-commerce
and over 10 years of experience well as a B.E. (Hons) degree from and healthcare domains.
in several multinational Madras University.
organisations.

Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan Dinesh Babu Jayagopi Srinath Srinivasa

Professor, IIIT-B Assistant Professor, IIIT-B Professor & Dean | R&D
IIIT-B
Prof. Srinivasaraghavan has Prof. Dinesh has a PhD from
a PhD in Computer Science Ecole Polytechnic Federate He holds a PhD in Information
from IIT Kanpur and 18 years Switzerland, M.Sc. from IISc Systems from the Berlin-
of experience with Infosys Bangalore in System Science and Brandenburg Graduate School,
Technologies and several other Signal Processing, and B.Tech. Germany, and is a recipient of
well-known organisations. various international grants.
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upGrad Learning
Experience
Student Support Team Networking & Learning Experience

• Student support is available 7 days a • Live discussion forum for peer to peer doubt
week, 24*7 resolution monitored by technical experts
• You can write to us via • Reverse knowledge transfer sessions (FLIP
[email protected] or use classrooms) with learners tutoring fellow
the ‘Talk to Us’ option on the learn batchmates.
platform, for urgent queries • Peer to peer networking opportunities with
alumni pool of 10000+
• Lab walkthroughs of industry-driven projects
Industry Mentors

• Fortnightly personalised group (1:8)

mentorship sessions with industry Hands-on Projects & Hackathon
experts for proactive mentoring
• Calls with industry experts for • 6 projects & assignments and a Mini-
personalised feedback & guidance Capstone Project to apply your learnings
spread over 3 months • Live coding classes on Kaggle & OpenCV
• Live interactive sessions with leading
industry experts covering curriculum +
advanced topics
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Learning
Path

Data Science Toolkit Statistics and Explor- Machine Learning I

(PREPARATORY atory Data Analytics (6 weeks)
COURSE) (5 weeks)

Mini-Capstone Proj- Deep Learning Machine Learning II

ect on Gesture Rec- (8 weeks) (7 weeks)

Advanced Certification Pro-

gramme from IIITB

Programming Tools,
Languages & Libraries
Pandas, Matplotlib, Numpy, Seaborn, Scikit-learn, Statsmodels,
Open CV, Python, Keras, Tensorflow, MySQL, Excel.
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Industry
Projects

Investment Analysis Lending Club Case

Fill in the shoes of an analyst at an Determine which customers are at the risk
investment bank and determine where of default and what are their characteristics
the firm should invest. Explain your so as to avoid providing loans to similar
recommendations in lieu people in the future.
of the analysis conducted.

Car Price Prediction House Price Prediction

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

Telecom Churn Case

Solve the most crucial business
problem for a leading telecom operator
in India and souteast Asia - predicting
customer churn.
MINI CAPSTONE PROJECT:
Gesture Recognition
Make a Smart TV system which can control
the TV with user’s hand gestures as the
remote control.

Skin Cancer Detection

Build a neural network from
scratch in Numpy to identify the
type of skin cancer from image.
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Program
Curriculum
DATA SCIENCE TOOLKIT

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

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MATH FOR MACHINE LEARNING
Learn the prerequisite mathematical tools and techniques for ML - Linear Algebra and
Multivariable Calculus.

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

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university

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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 hypothesis 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.

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.

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!

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university

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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 problems.

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

DEEP LEARNING

1
INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL NETWORKS
Learn the most sophisticated and cutting-edge technique in machine learning - Artificial Neural
Networks or ANNs.

2
CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS -INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS
Learn the basics of CNN and OpenCV and apply it to Computer Vision tasks like detecting anom-
alies in chest X-Ray scans, vehicle detection to count & categorise them to help the government
ascertain the width and strength of the road.

3 CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS - ASSIGNMENT

Ever wondered what goes behind machine translation, sentiment analysis, speech recognition etc.?
Learn how RNN helps in these areas having sequential data like text, speech, videos, etc.

4
RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS
Ever wondered what goes behind machine translation, sentiment analysis, speech recognition etc.?
Learn how RNN helps in these areas having sequential data like text, speech,videos,etc .

5 NEURAL NETWORKS PROJECT - GESTURE RECOGNITION

Make a Smart TV system which can control the TV with user’s hand gestures as the remote control.

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university

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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

3.5% Manufacturing 4.1% Education

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

21% 3.1-6 years

33% 0-3 years

20% 12.1+ years
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Hear from
Our Learners
Ram Krishn Mishra, Experience: 9 Years
“If you are really thinking about being specialized in this area, IIITB is one of the
best places. This program will give you: 1. Deep theoretical understanding of AI
and ML from experienced professors from IIIT Bangalore . 2. Theoretical approach
will be applied to practical problems with Python programming on real time data
led by Industry experts.”

Radhakrishnan Ramanathan
“This program / specialization has helped me in both aspects of understanding
real analysis of problems & applying it to my work on Network optimization and
customer analytics. The course content and the professor (Dr Raghavan) has
been really good & apt for learning in a great way.”

Yogesh Awate, Experience: 2.5 years

“This program on Machine Learning and Deep Learning makes you a completely
skilled machine learning engineer. With industrial assignments and some leading
industrial facilities, it tends to feed you with ‘Ready to go’ knowledge and skills.
I highly recommend this program for those who want to be expertised in Machine
Learning and Deep Learning.”

Sidharth Goel, Experience: 2.5 years

“The program is well structured and cover every important concepts. You get proper
feedback in all of your submitted assignments and regular follow ups from the
student mentor assigned to you. They also arrange doubt clearing live sessions
apart from the recordings which are very helpful. In all upGrad is provides quality
education if someone wants to pursue a course in AI and Machine Learning.”
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Program Details and

Admission Process
PROGRAM DURATION AND FORMAT PROGRAM FEE
8 Months | Online Please visit the website for the most up-to-
date program fees, as prices may be subject
to change in the future.

PROGRAM START DATES ELIGIBILITY

Please refer to the website for the Bachelor’s/Master’s degrees in Computer
program start dates. Science/Engineering/Math/Statistics/
Economics/Science with a minimum of 50%
marks in graduation. No work experience
required.

TIME COMMITMENT (12 hours/week)

6 HOURS 6 HOURS LIVE SESSION

Asynchronous learning time. Assignments and projects. Every weekend.

SELECTION PROCESS

STEP 1: Fill out the Applica- STEP 2: Review and Shortlisting of STEP 3: Enrollment for Ac-
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