IIT Roorkee Offers Postgraduate Certificate Program in Data Science and Machine Learning for Working Professionals

IIT Roorkee has partnered with TSW, the Executive Education Division of Times Professional Learning,  and launched a Postgraduate Certificate Program in Data Science and Machine Learning. The program has been designed especially for working professionals with insights from academics and industry experts and will strike the right balance between rigor and practice.

“Data Science and Machine Learning has become increasingly useful in newer areas. In the near future, it is likely to become an essential skill for many different professions and industries. Academic institutions need to come forward for the huge capacity building exercise that is required to meet the needs of the industry.  The situation arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic has given us the hope that many such programs can be effectively delivered online provided the program is for a longer duration. Our partnership with TSW seeks to achieve this with the eleven months certificate program.” said Prof. Ajit K Chaturvedi, director, IIT Roorkee.

Specialization offered by IIT Roorkee Postgraduate Certificate Program in Data Science and Machine Learning

The postgraduate program offers three specializations, which are as follows:

• Computer vision and Image recognition.
• Speech Recognition.
• Data Engineering.

This intensive hands-on program will comprise more than 184 hours of live virtual sessions to be relayed by IIT Roorkee faculty as well as industry experts and has around 200 hours of self-learning content.

All You Need to Know About IIT Roorkee Postgraduate Certificate Program

• This 11-month course with specializations prepares the learner for a career in data science and artificial intelligence.
• No prior knowledge of coding is required to apply for the program; however, an engineering degree is required.
• To enroll in the course, the applicant is required to have a Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 50% aggregate along with minimum of 2 years of experience preferably in the software domain.
• There is a provision of a special 15% discount on the course fee for alumni of IIT Roorkee.

Industry mentorship and career support would be also provided to learners upon the completion of the course. TSW has collaborated with over 250 leading organizations across sectors and more than 11,000 learners have been successfully placed in reputed organizations in the past few years.

With a total of 10 projects and real datasets, students would benefit from hands-on learning on diverse topics such as a recommendation system based on the dataset from Amazon, Auto-tagging photos uploaded by Yelp users on a review website, Classify the audio based on Google Audio set, Sentiment analysis on the live Twitter feed, Lung Cancer Detection, Satellite image classification, Covid-19 dataset analysis and Chatbot using Google Dialogflow.