Amazon India  Invites Applications from Students for Free Online Course on Machine Learning

Amazon India has invited applications from students for a free online course on machine learning. Amazon India announced the third edition of Machine Learning (ML) Summer School, a program that aims at providing students the opportunity to learn key machine technologies from Scientists at Amazon. The free educational course will be conducted over four weekends in September covering eight modules that will provide students an opportunity to gain skills on key machine learning topics.

Amazon says that after the successful second edition in 2022,  the third edition of Amazon Machine Learning Summer School is being launched for students enrolled in any recognized institute in India and who are expected to graduate in 2024 or 2025. Selected students will get to learn from 8 modules of the free online machine learning course.

What the Amazon India Free Online Machine Learning Course Will Cover?

Participants will be provided with a strong foundation in both theoretical concepts and practical applications through the course. Some of the topics that will be covered as part of the course are as follows:

• Supervised learning.
• Deep neural networks.
• Probabilistic graphical models.
• Dimensionality reduction.
• Unsupervised learning.

Who Can Apply for the Amazon India Free Online Machine Learning Course?

The free online machine learning course is open to all engineering students enrolled in Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree from any recognized institute of India and are expected to graduate in 2024 or 2025. Eligible students will be required to take an online assessment focused on basic machine learning concepts and math fundamentals on topics such as probability, statistics, and linear algebra. The top 3000 students are then enrolled to ML Summer School, where they cover eight modules in classroom sessions over four weekends, each session followed by live Q&A sessions with scientists at Amazon.

Benefits of taking Amazon India Free Online Machine Learning Course

Students will get to benefit in the following ways from the machine learning course:

• Participants will receive in-depth knowledge on key machine learning topics from Amazon scientists.
• The course wills serve as a platform for students to interact with scientists and learn about break-through innovations.
• This opportunity could be a base to build a career in machine learning.

Interested students can register on the official website before 6 September 2023, and classes will begin from 16 September onwards.