Executive PG Program in

MACHINE LEARNING
AND ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
Detect Your Next Step
Detect Your Next Step
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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 Industry Projects

9 Learning Path

10 Executive PG Program Curriculum

15 Meet the Class

16 Career Support

17 Experience upGrad Offline

18 Hear from Our Learners

19 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 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
IIT Madras, IIIT Bangalore and Deakin industry leaders with 8+ years of experience
Business School among others. from upGrad’s industry network.

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

professionals in their bid to learn, grow AI has been developed with the ex-
and move up in their career through a perienced faculty of IIITB in collab-
wide-range of programs designed to oration with industry experts and
improve their expertise. upGrad to bring you cutting-edge cur-
riculum with industry relevance. The
strong placement network, industry
mentorship and the credibility of this Exec-
utive PG Program from IIITB will provide you
with just the right push to accelerate your
career in Machine Learning and AI!
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400% Highest Raise

Why
upGrad?
87% program completion rates

58% Avg Salary Raise

40,000+ learners

700+ Industry Experts

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

Dedicated Career Assistance

Receive 360 degree ca-
reer support from mock in-
terviews with hiring manag-
ers, resume building, industry
mentors and much more.

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.
Personalised Mentorship
Get unparalleled personalised
mentorship and doubt resolution
from IIITB faculty and our panel
of industry experts.
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Faculty and Industry

Experts

Hindol Basu Chandrashekar Ramanathan S. Anand

CEO, Actify Data Labs Dean Academics, IIITB CEO, Gramener

An alumnus of IIT and IIM with over 13 Prof. Chandrashekar has a PhD from A gold medallist from IIM Bangalore,
years of experience in analytics with Mississippi State University and an alumnus of IIT Madras and London
industry leaders such as Citigroup and experience of over 10 years in several Business School, Anand is among the
Tata Industries. multinational organisations. top 10 data scientists in India with 20
years of experience.

Tricha Anjali Ujjyaini Mitra Prof. S. Sadagopan

Former Associate Dean, IIITB Head of Analytics, Zee5 Director, IIITB

Prof. Anjali has a PhD from Georgia An alumna of McKinsey and Co., Prof. Sadagopan is currently Director
Institute of Technology as well as an Flipkart, and Bharti Airtel with over 11 (President) of IIIT Bangalore. He has an
integrated MTech (EE) from IIT Bombay. years of experience. MS and a PhD from Purdue University.
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Anshuman Gupta Prof. G. Srinivasaraghavan Ankit Jain

Director - Data Science, Pitney Bowes Professor, IIITB Sr. Research Scientist, Uber

He has a PhD (Dual) from Penn State Prof. Srinivasaraghavan has a PhD An alumnus of IIT Bombay, UCB and
University as well as a BTech Degree in Computer Science from IIT-K Harvard Business School with over 9
from IIT Bombay. and 18 years of experience with years of experience.
Infosys Technologies and several other
companies.

Dinesh Babu Jayagopi Kalpana Subbaramappa Srinath Srinivasa

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

Prof. Dinesh has a PhD from EPFL Kalpana is the ex-AVP of Decision He holds a PhD in Information Systems
Switzerland, MSc from IISc Bangalore in Sciences at Genpact with over 20 years from the Berlin Brandenburg Graduate
System Science and Signal Processing of experience. School, Germany, and is a recipient
and BTech. of various international grants for his
research activities.

Mirza Rahim Baig

Lead Business Analytics, Flipkart

Advanced Analytics professional

with 8+ years of experience as a
consultant in the e-commerce and
healthcare domains.
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upGrad Learning
Experience
Coaching
• Student Support Team & upGrad Buddy
• Weekly real-time doubt clearing sessions
• Live Discussion forum for peer-to-peer doubt
resolution monitored by technical experts
• Peer-to-peer networking opportunities with an
alumni pool of 10,000+ keen professionals
• Lab walk-throughs of 15+ industry-driven
assignments/case studies/projects
• 6 Employability Tests for industry readiness
• Access to the program for up to 3 years

Format
• Online format with weekly live sessions
from industry experts to help with topic
walk-throughs, doubt resolution and
personalised project feedback

Hands-On Projects and Live Projects

• 12+ industry projects
• A Capstone Project to choose from 5+ options

Mentorship
• 60+ live interactive sessions with industry experts
• Fortnightly personalised group (1:8) mentorship
sessions
• Dedicated student mentor for proactive
mentoring
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Industry
Projects

Train an Agent to Play Tic Build a Chatbot Object Detection in Images Fraud Detection
Tac Toe

Detect Anomalies in Chest Speech Recognition Image Captioning Gesture Recognition

X-Ray

Social Media Listening Telecom Churn Analysis Recommendation System Sentiment Analysis on
Twitter

Awesome

Maximize Cab Driver Profit Topic Modelling With And many more!
Using RL Amazon Reviews
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Learning
Path

Data Science Toolkit Statistics and Exploratory Machine Learning I

PREPARATORY COURSE Data Analytics 5 weeks
Tools: Python, Excel, 5 weeks Tools: Python
mySQL Tools: Python

Natural Language Processing Deep Learning Machine Learning II

7 weeks 8 weeks 7 weeks
Tools: Python, Rasa, NLTK Tools: Python, Keras, Tools: Python
Tensorflow

Reinforcement Learning Graphical Model (Optional) Capstone Project and

6 weeks 4 weeks Deployment
Tools: Python Tools: Python 6 weeks
Tools: Python, Docker,
AWS, Flask

Executive PG Program in
Machine Learning and
Artificial Intelligence
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Executive PG Program
Curriculum
DATA SCIENCE TOOLKIT

1 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.

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

3 PYTHON FOR DATA SCIENCE

Learn how to manipulate datasets in Python using Pandas, the most powerful library for data prepa-
ration and analysis.

4 MATH FOR MACHINE LEARNING

Learn the fundamental mathematical concepts for a better understanding of ML algorithms.

5 ANALYTICS PROBLEM SOLVING

Understand the concepts of the CRISP - DM framework for business problem solving, which is widely used in
the industry.

6 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.

7 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.

8 ADVANCED SQL
Design a database from scratch and use programming constructs in SQL to extract data for advanced
analysis.

9 MATH FOR MACHINE LEARNING

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

TOOLS USED
PYTHON EXCEL MYSQL

STATISTICS AND EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYTICS

1 EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS

Learn how to find and analyse the patterns in the data to draw actionable insights.
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2 INVESTMENT CASE STUDY

The students will fill in the shoes of an analyst at an investment bank and determine where the firm
should invest. They will then have to explain their recommendations in lieu of the analysis conducted.

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 hypotheses for a population to solve real-life
business problems.

5C OLENDING CLUB CASE STUDY

MMO
Determine which customers are at risk of default and what are their characteristics so as to

N CURR
avoid providing loans to similar people in the future.

TOOLS USED
PYTHON
I C U LU M
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 which factors influence car prices 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.

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.

TOOLS USED
PYTHON

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.
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2 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!

3 TREE MODELS
Learn how the human decision making process can be replicated using a decision tree and
other powerful ensemble algorithms.

4 MODEL SELECTION: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Given a business problem, how do you choose the best algorithm? Learn a few practical tips
for doing this here.

5 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.

6 UNSUPERVISED LEARNING: CLUSTERING

Learn how to group elements into different clusters when you don’t have any predefined labels
to segregate them through K-means clustering, hierarchical clustering, and more.

7 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.

8 TELECOM CHURN CASE STUDY

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

TOOLS USED
PYTHON

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 AND CNN ASSIGNMENT

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

3 RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS

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

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

TOOLS USED
PYTHON KERAS TENSORFLOW

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

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.

4
SEMANTIC PROCESSING
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.

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.

TOOLS USED
PYTHON NLTK

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

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, Monte
Carlo methods, and Q Learning, to train the state value and action value functions of the policy.

2 TIC TAC TOE ASSIGNMENT/CLASSICAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING ASSIGNMENT

Train an agent that will beat you in the game of numerical tic tac toe every time you play.

3
DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Want to build your own Atari Game? Learn the Q-function or policy using the various Deep Reinforcement
Learning algorithms: Deep Q Learning, Policy Gradient Methods and Actor-Critic method.
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4 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING PROJECT

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

TOOLS USED
PYTHON

DEPLOYMENT AND CAPSTONE PROJECT

1 DEPLOYMENT
Learn how to productionise your model and deploy it on the server.

CAPSTONE PROJECT

2 Choose from a range of real-world industry-woven projects on advanced topics like

Recommendation Systems, Fraud Detection, Emotion Detection from faces, Social Media
Listening, and Speech Recognition among many others.

TOOLS USED
PYTHON DOCKER AWS FLASK
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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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Career
Support
Interview Preparation
Career Counselling
These interviews are customised to the roles
Get personalized career paths traced by that you are applying for. Feedback is also
experts to ascertain the best provided at the end of the interviews.
opportunities based on your interests. Process Involved:
Process Involved: • Detailed review of the interview
• Determine strengths and • Identifying what you did well and ways to
weaknesses of a student improve
• Goal setting for better employment • Objective feedback about your
results competencies in relation to job
applications

Resume Feedback
Our experts will also help you
understand the expectations of the
industry so as to help you prepare your
resume better.
Process Involved:
• Evaluate your resume as a
prospective employer
• Determining areas that might
require additional emphasis
• Tips on best resume practices
catered to job applications
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Hear from
Our Learners
Saurav Kant Kumar, Experience: 3.6 Years
“After just 6 months of starting my AI and ML journey, I have been rewarded with a
Data Scientist position in Tech Mahindra with a very hefty package and this is just
after going halfway through the program. I can put my money on this program on any
given day and assure everyone that this is one program that stands apart from every
other in the market. The program pedagogy is impeccable but what I liked the most is
the constant motivation from my student mentor which kept me going 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.”

AKNR Chandra Shekhar, Experience: 10+ Years

“My favourite part about the learning experience is the approach followed in breaking
a huge content into interesting entities which can be understood and appreciated
independently. In today’s context of Digital Transformation, it is important to stay on
top of latest technologies and grow in the same direction of the industry. A special
thanks to upGrad’s program which helped me in switching my career nurtured with
24 years of IT experience to be part of Digital Transformation.”
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Anurag Narula, Experience: 1 Year

“My favourite part about the learning experience was the relentless support from
upGrad and the lectures by industry experts which helped me learn the practical
applications of various Machine Learning techniques. With what I learned from the
Machine Learning and AI program at upGrad, I made a career switch to Innovaccer
as a Decision Scientist after 1 year of experience.”

Atul Kumar, Experience: 15 Years

“Learning AI and ML with upGrad is an awesome experience in terms of accelerated
learning. I had my worries about schedule and teaching methods. It’s a fair bit of
stretch for sure but worth every rupee and second spent. The best part about the
learning experience is the great community of peers and strict deadlines. Kudos to
the upGrad team.”

Snehit Vemulapati, Experience: 6 Years

“The program’s intent is to first give you some basic theoretical knowledge and
follow that up with substantial practical experience so that you are ready to work
on industry projects. If this is what you are looking for, then the program is good on
these aspects. Additionally, something that upGrad does which most others don’t is
they take your feedback seriously and make improvements within no time for your
cohort itself while the program is still happening.”

Aakash Verma, Experience: 7 Years

“Very early in the program, it has already started helping me in my organization, I
have proactively asked for use cases related to ML to work on and things are going
well. A lot is still to be done to be industry-ready if I want to switch jobs with the
same experience but the program certainly has given me a strong base on which I
can build on.”

Rajendra Talluri, Experience: 15+ Years

“The upGrad team really brings world class technology programs, specifically tailored
for working professionals that fit into their lifestyle for career growth. We can see
equal commitment from three sides upGrad, IIITB and the learner. It is an awesome
course and well designed for the current cutting edge technology trends, and
applicable for those who are really interested and seriously committed to learn and
upgrade themselves to new upcoming technology transformations.”
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Program Details and

Admission Process
PROGRAM DURATION AND FORMAT PROGRAM FEE
12 Months | Online USD 4999

PROGRAM START DATES ELIGIBILITY

Please refer to the website for program start dates. Bachelor’s Degree with 50% or equivalent passing
marks. Minimum 1 year of work experience or a
degree in Mathematics or Statistics.

WEEKLY COMMITMENT (15 hours/week)

7-8 HOURS 7-8 HOURS 1 LIVE SESSION

Asynchronous learning time. Assignments and projects. Every two weeks.

SELECTION PROCESS

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

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