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The Executive PG Programme in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, offered by upGrad in collaboration with IIITB, aims to enhance the skills of working professionals through a comprehensive curriculum that includes industry projects and mentorship. Participants will gain alumni status upon completion and have access to a wide range of learning resources, including live sessions and hands-on projects. The program focuses on practical applications of machine learning and AI, preparing learners for advanced roles in the industry.
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Executive PG Programme in

MACHINE LEARNING
AND ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
Detect Your Next Step

Detect Your Next Step


01

Table of
Contents
2 About upGrad and IIITB

3 Why upGrad?

4 Program Highlights

5 Faculty and Industry Experts


7 upGrad Learning Experience

8 Industry Projects

9 Learning Path

11 Executive PG Programme Curriculum

17 Meet the Class

18 Career Support

19 Experience upGrad Offline

20 Hear from Our Learners

22 Program Details and Admission Process


02

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,
IIIT Bangalore and Deakin Business School among
others.

Online education is a fundamental disruption IIITB is a renowned university offering


that will have a far-reaching impact. programs specialising in data science,
upGrad was founded taking this into machine learning and artificial intelligence.
consideration. upGrad is an online education The IIITB faculty includes an average of
platform to help individuals develop their 15+ years of experience.
professional potential in the most engaging
learning environment. The faculty covers the conceptual depths
of topics such as Data Science, Machine
Since inception, upGrad has delivered Learning and Artificial Intelligence,
over 20 million hours of learning, delivering and Big Data Analytics. These will be
programs by collaborating with universities complemented by industry relevant case
across the world including Duke CE, studies from major industry verticals by
IIIT Bangalore and Deakin Business industry leaders with 8+ years of experience
School among others. from upGrad’s industry network.

upGrad is focused on helping working The Executive PG Programme in ML &


professionals in their bid to learn, grow AI has been developed with the expe-
and move up in their career through a rienced faculty of IIITB in collaboration
wide-range of programs designed to with industry experts and upGrad to
improve their expertise. bring you cutting-edge curriculum with
industry relevance. The strong place-
ment network, industry mentorship and
the credibility of this Executive PG
Programme from IIITB will provide you
with just the right push to accelerate
your career in Machine Learning and AI!
433% Highest Hike
03
01

Why
upGrad?
₹1.23 Cr Highest Salary

50% Avg Salary Hike

8.2 Million Learners

5K Experts

300+ Hiring Partners


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Program
Highlights
Executive PG Programme from IIITB
For the Industry, by the Industry
and Alumni Status
Learn and apply concepts on industry
Get certified by IIITB and gain alumni
projects and work on a Capstone
status on successful completion of the
Project along with personalised
program.
industry mentorship.

Blended Learning
Cutting-Edge Curriculum
Learn with the ease and flexibility
of recorded sessions as well as Master advanced ML and
live sessions, designed to ensure AI concepts developed by
a wholesome learning experience. industry experts and faculty.
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01

Faculty and Industry


Experts

Mirza Rahim Baig Chandrashekar Ramanathan S. Anand


Analytics Lead, Zalando Dean Academics, IIITB CEO, Gramener

Mirza is a veteran professional Prof. Chandrashekar has a PhD from A gold medallist from IIM Bangalore,
with 10+ years of experience in Mississippi State University and an alumnus of IIT Madras and London
application of data science, machine experience of over 10 years in several Business School, Anand is among the
learning in e-commerce and healthcare multinational organisations. top 10 data scientists in India with 20
years of experience.

Ujjyaini Mitra Prof. S. Sadagopan Anshuman Gupta


Head of Analytics, Zee5 Director, IIITB Director - Data Science, Pitney Bowes

An alumna of McKinsey and Co., Prof. Sadagopan is currently Director He has a PhD (Dual) from Penn State
Flipkart, and Bharti Airtel with over 11 (President) of IIIT Bangalore. He has an University as well as a BTech Degree
years of experience. MS and a PhD from Purdue University. from IIT Bombay.
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Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan Ankit Jain Dinesh Babu Jayagopi


Professor, IIITB ML Engineering Manager, Meta Associate Professor, IIITB

Prof. Srinivasaraghavan has a PhD Ankit is an experienced AI Researcher/ Prof. Dinesh has a PhD from EPFL
in Computer Science from IIT-K Machine Learning Engineer and is Switzerland, MSc from IISc Bangalore in
and 18 years of experience with currently works as engineering manager System Science and Signal Processing
Infosys Technologies and several other at Meta (Facebook). and BTech.
companies.

Kalpana Subbaramappa Srinath Srinivasa Chandramouleeswaran


Ex-AVP, Genpact Professor and Dean (R&D), IIITB Adjunct Faculty, IIITB

Kalpana is the ex-AVP of Decision He holds a PhD in Information Systems He has 33+ years of experience in
Sciences at Genpact with over 20 years from the Berlin Brandenburg Graduate networking, embedded SW, ML. He
of experience. School, Germany, and is a recipient is an Adjunct faculty at IIIT Bangalore
of various international grants for his and a visiting faculty at IIIT Lucknow,
research activities. handling courses on AI for IoT and
Python.

Georgios Ouzounis Arihant Jain Usha Rengaraju


Head of ML Engineering, Atlas AI Head of Data Science & Risk, IIFL Chief of Research, Exa Protocol
Finance
Technologist and visionary with over 22 Arihant is an expert in the field of She hails from the prestigious Harvard
years of experience and serving as the Machine Learning technologies and as well as Columbia University. She is a
head of ML Engineering at Atlas AI in is currently heading Data Science and unicorn data scientist and have over 10
California, USA. Risk at IIFL Finance. years of industry experience.
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Snehansu Sekhar Sahu Chiranjoy Chowdhuri Sajan Kedia


Applied Scientist, Amazon Chief Analytics Officer, Pidilite Machine Learning Lead, Myntra

Snehansu is currently working as an Chiranjoy is a Data, Analytics and AI Sajan has extensive experience in the
applied scientist at Amazon . Prior to practitioner with 13 years’ experience field of ML, Big Data, Data Science, and
Amazon Snehansu was the Senior AI and In his current role, he is the Global AI. He is the Machine learning lead at
Researcher in ML & AI for Amex. Head of Data and Analytics at Pidilite Myntra .
Industries.

Rohit Ghosh Gunjan Narulkar


Founding Member & Chief Strategy Director, AI/ML Product R&D, Fidelity
Officer, Qure.ai.
Gunjan has extensive experience
Rohit is a IIT-Bombay grad and currently in the AI- Ml products and R&D and
Founding Member & Chief Strategy is currently working as a director at
Officer of Qure.ai. Fidelity Investments.
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upGrad Learning
Experience
Student Support Team

• We have a dedicated Student Support


Team for handling your queries via email or
callback requests
• Student Support is available 7 days a week,
24*7 for non-academic queries. You can write
to us via [email protected] or for
urgent queries, use the “Talk to Us” option
on the Learn platform

Networking & Learning Experience

• Live Discussion forum for peer to peer doubt


resolution monitored by technical experts
• Reverse knowledge transfer sessions (FLIP
classrooms) with learners tutoring fellow batchmates
• 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 experts for
proactive mentoring
• Calls with industry experts for personalised
feedback & guidance spread over 3 months

Hands-on Projects

• 12+ projects & assignments and a Capstone Project


to choose from 6 options
• Live coding classes on Kaggle & OpenCV & sessions
on building your Github profile
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Industry Projects
Telecom Churn
Solve the most crucial business problem for a leading telecom operator in India and southeast
Asia - predicting customer churn.

Classification of customer complaints


Create a solution that will help in identifying the type of complaint ticket raised by the customers
of a multinational bank.

Credit Card Fraud Detection


Build a machine learning model capable of detecting fraudulent transactions. Here you have to
predict fraudulent credit card transactions with the help of machine learning models.

Melanoma Detection Assignment


Build a neural network from scratch in Tensorflow to identify the type of skin cancer from image.

Train an agent to play Tic Tac Toe


Learners will apply Q-Learning to train an RL agent to play the game of numerical Tic Tac Toe.

Gesture Recognition

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

Sales Forecasting
Predict the sales for a european pharma giant using a host of different types of variables. Apply VAR and
VARMAX models to build the appropriate model.

Machine Translation System


To build an attention based Encoder-Decoder architecture for translating between English to Hindi & vice versa.

Face Mask detection


Create a custom object detector using the YOLO algorithm to detect the presence of face masks in the
images of different people.
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Style Transfer using GAN’s

Build a Model for converting MRI images from one type (T1) into other (T2) and vice versa.
CycleGAN model is used for producing T2 type MRI images given T1 type input MRI images.

News Recommender System

Build a model using the concepts of natural language processing and recommender systems to recommend
news stories to users on a popular news platform.

Maximizing Profit of Cab Driver using RL


Learners will use the Markov Decision Process & Q-Learning to build an RL agent that learns to choose the
best request so as to maximize the total profit earned by the agent that day.

Custom Entity Detection in Healthcare Data


You will build a custom NER to get the list of diseases and their treatment from a medical healthcare
dataset.

Eye for the Blind Data


Build a model that can help any visually impaired person in understanding image present before them. It
is a deep learning model which can explain the content of an image in the form of speech. You will build a
custom NER to get the list of diseases and their treatment from a medical healthcare dataset.

Sentiment Analysis based Product Recommender system

Build a sentiment analysis based product recommendation system to recommend the similar products to the
users. Sentiment analysis is used to fine tune the product recommendation system.

Customer Churn prediction


To create an ML system that can predict the propensity of customers cancelling the subscription plan. The aim
of the project is to provide the marketing team with insights into why a customer is choosing to leave. This will
assist in identifying the probability of customer churn in the future so that preventive action can be taken.

Lead Scoring project


To build a lead scoring ML system that can remove junk calls by categorising leads on the basis of propensity to
purchase. The system built should be able to reduce the customer acquisition costs in the long run.

Data Strategy project

Help in creating a Data / AI Strategy for an ecommerce company by creating their roadmaps, solutions for use
cases & prioritization frameworks.
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Learning
Path

Data Science Toolkit Statistics and Git Machine Learning I


Preparatory Content Essentials 7 weeks
(5 weeks)

Natural Language Processing Deep Learning Machine Learning II


7 weeks 8 weeks 7 weeks

Electives Capstone Executive PG Programme in


(DL with Mlops, NLP with 4 weeks Machine Learning and
Mlops & AI Strategy) Artificial Intelligence
10 weeks
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Programming Tools, Languages


and Libraries
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Program
Curriculum
PRE-PROGRAM PREPARATORY CONTENT (3 WEEKS)

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 (OPTIONAL)


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 (OPTIONAL)


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.

8 MATH FOR MACHINE LEARNING


Learn the prerequisite mathematical tools and techniques for ML - Linear Algebra and Multi-
variable Calculus.

STATISTICS AND EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYTICS (5 WEEKS)


EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS

1 Learn how to find and analyse the patterns in the data to draw actionable insights.

CLOUD ESSENTIALS: INTRO TO GIT & GITHUB

2 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 risk of default and what are their characteristics so as to
avoid providing loans to similar people in the future.

MACHINE LEARNING I (7 WEEKS)

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 whether customers of a telecom
operator are likely to churn to help the business retain customers.

NAIVE BAYES

4 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.

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university


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MACHINE LEARNING II (7 WEEKS)


ADVANCED REGRESSION

1 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!

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.

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university


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DEEP LEARNING (8 WEEKS)


INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL NETWORKS

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

CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS - INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS

2 Learn the basics of CNN and OpenCV and apply it to Computer Vision tasks like detecting
anomalies in chest X-Ray scans, vehicle detection to count and categorise them to help the
government ascertain the width and strength of the road.

CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS - ASSIGNMENT

3 Build a neural network from scratch in Tensorflow to identify the type of skin cancer from image

RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS

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

NEURAL NETWORKS PROJECT: GESTURE RECOGNITION

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

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (7 WEEKS)

1
LEXICAL PROCESSING
Do you get annoyed by the constant spams in yor mail box? Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a
program to check your spellings?
In this module learn how to build a spell checker & spam detector using techniques like pho-
netic hashing,bag-of-words, TF-IDF, etc.

2 SYNTACTICAL PROCESSING
Learn how to analyse the syntax or the grammatical structure of sentences using POS tagging
and Dependency parsing.

3 SYNTACTIC PROCESSING - ASSIGNMENT


Use the techniques such as POS tagging and Dependency parsing to extract information from
unstructured text data.

SEMANTIC PROCESSING

4 Learn the most interesting area in the field of NLP and understand different techniques like
word-embeddings, topic modelling to build an application that extracts opinions about socially
relevant issues.

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university


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5 CASE STUDY: CLASSIFYING CUSTOMER COMPLAINT TICKETS


In this case study you will create a solution that will help in identifying the type of complaint
ticket raised by the customers of a multinational bank.

ELECTIVE 1: DL WITH MLOPS (10 WEEKS)

1
Cloud Essentials: Intro to AWS
Understand what is cloud computing, benefits of cloud computing, Different types of cloud
providers: Private, public, hybrid. Iaas,Paas, Saas.
Understand Cloud basic essentials services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM using management
console

2 WORKING WITH AWS: CASE STUDY


In this case study you will work on a machine learning task using AWS services

3
MLOps: INTRODUCTION
MLOps: DATA LIFECYCLE
MLOps: MODEL LIFECYCLE
Do you think ML ends with just deploying a ML solution? You have to monitor the performance
and keep updating the model and its infrastructure from time to time. Learn how to productio-
nise ML model in end to end system in this module.

4 MLOPS ASSIGNMENT
In this assignment you will build and run a complete ML pipeline end-to-end

ADVANCED CV

5 Apply the concepts learned in Neural Networks to advanced computer vision tasks like Object
Detection, Semantic Segmentation using YOLO, SSD, UNet, MaskRCNN.

6
MLOps + Deployment: DL (Theory)
MLOps + Deployment: DL (Assignment)
In this case study you will learn how to automate a deep learning task by building an end-to-end
machine learning pipeline with Amazon SageMaker Pipelines.

ELECTIVE 2: NLP WITH MLOPS (10 WEEKS)

1
Cloud Essentials: Intro to AWS
Understand what is cloud computing, benefits of cloud computing, Different types of cloud
providers: Private, public, hybrid. Iaas,Paas, Saas.
Understand Cloud basic essentials services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM using management
console

2 WORKING WITH AWS: CASE STUDY


In this case study you will work on a machine learning task using AWS services

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university


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3
MLOps: INTRODUCTION
MLOps: DATA LIFECYCLE
MLOps: MODEL LIFECYCLE
Do you think ML ends with just deploying a ML solution? You have to monitor the performance
and keep updating the model and its infrastructure from time to time. Learn how to productionise
ML model in end to end system in this module..

4 MLOPS ASSIGNMENT
In this assignment you will build and run a complete ML pipeline end-to-end

5
ADVANCED NLP
This module will introduce you to the evolving world of deep learning for different NLP related
applications. and will help you gain a complete understanding of how these complex models
work. You will learn how deep learning can be used for solving different NLP related tasks
using concepts like attention mechanism and transformers.
Screen reader support enabled.

6
MLOPS + DEPLOYMENT: NLP (THEORY)
MLOPS + DEPLOYMENT: NLP (ASSIGNMENT)
In this case study you will learn how to automate a NLP task by building an end-to-end machine
learning pipeline with Amazon SageMaker Pipelines.

ELECTIVE 3: AI STRATEGY (10 WEEKS)

1 Cloud Essentials: Intro to AWS


Understand what is cloud computing, benefits of cloud computing, Different types of cloud
providers: Private, public, hybrid. Iaas,Paas, Saas.
Understand Cloud basic essentials services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM using management
console

2 WORKING WITH AWS: CASE STUDY


In this case study you will work on a machine learning task using AWS services

3
MLOps: INTRODUCTION
MLOps: DATA LIFECYCLE
MLOps: MODEL LIFECYCLE
Do you think ML ends with just deploying a ML solution? You have to monitor the performance
and keep updating the model and its infrastructure from time to time. Learn how to productionise
ML model in end to end system in this module.

4 MLOPS ASSIGNMENT
In this assignment you will build and run a complete ML pipeline end-to-end.

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university


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5 AI STRATEGY FRAMEWORK, STRUCTURED PROBLEM SOLVING/ DATA STORYTELLING


• Understanding the impact that AI and ML have done to businessnes and identying their
challenges and risks in terms of executing an AI strategy
• Understanding the fundamental pillars of an AI strategy like Reimagining products and
processes, data, technology, humans etc that will impact the data strategy

6 MAPPING ML WITH DATA ARCHITECTURE STRATEGY


• Understand the principles that guide the decision making for developing a data architecture.
• Explore the tools available for building data architecture; different managed services
and their open-source counterparts. You will also understand selecting tools that fulfil
application requirements.
• Explore commonly used data patterns and their uses.

7 EXECUTING AI STRATEGY
Understanding the use of these aspects through real world case studies

8 AI STRATEGY: ASSIGNMENT
Identify two KRAs/goals/OKRs for your business that could be meet by leveraging an AI solution.

CAPSTONE (4 WEEKS)

1 CAPSTONE
Choose from a range of real-world industry woven projects on advanced topics like
Recommendation Systems, Fraud Detection, GANs among many others.

2
NEWS RECOMMENDER SYSTEM
Build a model to using the concepts of natural language processing and recommender systems
to recommend news stories to users on a popular news platform.

3
CREDIT CARD FRAUD DETECTION
To build a machine learning model capable of detecting fraudulent transactions. Here you
have to predict fraudulent credit card transactions with the help of machine learning models.

4
EYE FOR BLIND - (IMAGE CAPTIONING)
Build a model that can help any visually impaired person in understanding image present before them.
It is a deep learning model which can explain the content of an image in the form of speech.

5
SENTIMENT ANALYSIS BASED PRODUCT RECOMMENDER SYSTEM
Build a sentiment analysis based product recommendation system to recommend the similar products
to the users. Sentiment analysis is used to fine tune the product recommendation system.

6 SALES FORECASTING
Predict the sales for a european pharma giant using a host of different types of variables. Apply VAR
and VARMAX models to build the appropriate model

7 STYLE TRANSFER USING GAN’S


Build a Model for converting MRI images from one type (T1) into other (T2) and vice versa.
CycleGAN model is used for producing T2 type MRI images given T1 type input MRI images.

*Syllabus is subject to change by the university


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REINFORCEMENT LEARNING (OPTIONAL)

1
CLASSICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Ever wondered how Alpha Go beat the best GO player or how Boston Dynamics made robots
that can run. Start your journey with the classical RL algorithms like dynamic programming, Mon-
te Carlo methods, Q Learning to train the state value and action value functions of the policy.

2 ASSIGNMENT - CLASSICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING


Train an agent that’ll beat you in the game of numerical tic-tac-toe everytime you play

DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

3 Want to build your own Atari Game? Learn the Q-function or policy using the various Deep Reinforce-
ment Learning algorithms: Deep Q Learning, Policy Gradient Methods, Actor- Critic method.

4
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING PROJECT
Improve the recommendation of the the rides to the cab drivers by creating a RL based algorithm using
vanilla Deep Q-Learning (DQN) to maximize the driver’s profits and inturn help in retention of the driver
on the cab aggregator service.

Disclaimer: Program curriculum is subject to change basis inputs from the institute and experts. Please refer to the website for update
details, or speak to our Admission Counsellors.

*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

4.1% Education
3.5% Manufacturing

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 years

21% 3.1-6 years

33% 0-3 years


20% 12.1+ years
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Hear from
Our Learners
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in the program.”

Shashank Sane, Experience: 11 Years


“Overall it is a very well rounded program (and only one of the few) and while the
topics are being covered in sufficient depth, it would not be useful to compare this
with MOOC’s or any other specialised programs covering only one of the topics. The
primary importance of this program lies in the structured approach and well-rounded
coverage (with the industry insights that it offers).”

Amarpal Singh, Experience: 17 Years


“According to me this particular program is pretty useful and adds value because
of its structured approach, strict schedule, deadlines and the discipline in learning
that the overall process brings along. The whole idea that you will spend almost a
year learning about ML/AI in a structured and organized manner is the biggest USP
of this program and what makes it different from other short term courses.”

Gaurav Singh, Experience: 2 Years


“This program sets very high standards in the field of ML and AI. Before joining this
program I searched about many other programs but none of them is at par to this
program. Yes it’s true that nothing is perfect in this world, but whenever they commit
mistakes they are very fast to respond and do not hesitate to accept and rectify
that. I am completely satisfied with what they have given me, your money will not
get wasted and you will get opportunity to expose yourself to the field of ML and AI.”
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Program Details and


Admission Process
PROGRAM DURATION AND FORMAT PROGRAM FEE
13 Months | Blended INR 2,99,000 (Incl. of all taxes)
PROGRAM START DATES
Please refer to the website for program start dates. ELIGIBILITY
www.upgrad.com/machine-learning-ai-pgd-iiitb/ Bachelor’s Degree with 50% or equivalent passing
marks. Minimum 1 year of work experience in a
technical domain or a degree in mathematics or
Statistics with programming experience.

WEEKLY COMMITMENT (15 hours/week)

7-8 HOURS 7-8 HOURS 1 LIVE SESSION


Asynchronous learning time. Assignments and projects. Every week.

SELECTION PROCESS

STEP 1: Online Eligibility Test STEP 2: Review and Shortlisting of STEP 3: Enrollment for Access
Fill out an application and take Suitable Candidates to Prep Content
a quick 40-minute online test Our faculty will review all applications, Make a quick block payment
with 18 questions to assess considering the educational and with assistance from our loan
your aptitude. 10 questions professional background of an partners where required,
from mathematics, aptitude & applicant and review the test scores receive immediate access to
reasoning & 8 questions from where applicable. Following this, Offer the prep content and begin
programming. Letters will be rolled out so you are your upGrad journey.
assured a great peer group to learn
and network with.

FOR FURTHER [email protected] Disclaimer: Program fee and payment


options are subject to change. Please refer
INFORMATION, 1800 210 2020 to the website for updated details or speak
CONTACT We are available 24*7 to our admission counsellor.

COMPANY INFORMATION
COMPANY INFORMATION
upGrad
upGrad Education
Education Private
Private Limited
Limited,
Nishuvi,
Nishuvi, 75, Annie
75, Dr. Annie Besant
Besant Road,
Road,
Worli,
Worli, Mumbai
Mumbai - 400018.
– 400018.

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