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PG Level Advanced Certification in

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3 Reasons Why This Programme is Unique

Learn from the Leading Faculty at IISc, World’s Top Research University*
Designed by IISc’s Computational and Taught by 5 Engineering and Management
Data Sciences Department Sciences Faculty from IISc

Curated Industry Capstones, and option 1:1 Mentoring by Industry and Academia
to Bring Your Own Project Experts

360° Learning on TalentSprint’s

best-in-class Pracademic Platform

Demonstrate your expertise to get an edge in your career

Build compelling Data Stories to Strengthen your resume by showcasing your
chronicle your learning journey expertise through Data Stories

Reboot your career for the post-pandemic hyper-digital economy

Get ready for a new world where Data Design, build and deploy solutions to take
Science is transforming business and data-driven real-world decisions
society at an unprecedented pace

Derive lifelong benefits from TalentSprint’s

growing network of Data Scientists

Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine

About 95,000 vacancies for Data Scientists Chief Data Officers can increase consistent
exist in India today production of business value by a factor of 2.6X

Data science needs will create roughly By 2022, Data Scientists and Analysts will
11.5 million job openings by 2026 become top emerging roles in the world

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About the Programme

The PG Level Advanced Certification in Computational Data Science enables working profes-
sionals to gain practical hands-on experience in solving real-life challenges. The programme
will teach participants how to build powerful models to generate actionable insights, neces-
sary for making data-driven decisions.

The 12-month programme will be taught by world class faculty from a global institution and
supplemented with industry learnings. It offers a unique 5-step learning process of LIVE
online faculty-led interactive sessions, capstone projects, mentorship, case studies and data
stories to ensure fast-track learning.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), with its expertise in multi-disciplinary science, is best
positioned to offer the programme on Computational Data Science. Delivered in association
with TalentSprint, this executive friendly programme is best suited for professionals who are
willing to gain an in-depth understanding of the mechanics of working with data and identi-
fying insights.

So far, the programme has witnessed an overwhelming response for its last 5 cohorts,
enabling 620+ professionals to build Data Science expertise. The programme is now
accepting enrollments for Cohort 6.

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About Indian Institute of Science

QS World University University (2016, 2020 and 2022)

Rankings #1 (2023)* Research University (2022)

2 Bharat Ratna Times Higher Education

Awardees (1954, 2014) #1 University in India (2020)

RUR World
#62 (2020)

IISc (Indian Institute of Science) tops among the oldest and the finest higher education
institutes of India. It pursues excellence in research and education in several fields of
Science and Engineering and is one of the first three publicly funded institutes to be awarded
the Institute of Eminence status. The alumni of IISc hold significant academic and industry
positions around the globe. For more information visit https://www.iisc.ac.in.

The PG Level Advanced Certification in Computational Data Science will be delivered by

IISc’s Centre for Continuing Education (CCE). CCE delivers courses suitably designed to
meet the requirements of various target groups, eg: research & development (R&D)
laboratories and industries, research scientists and engineers, to enable them to grow
into competent managers of technology-intensive and data-driven organizations. For more
information visit http://cce.iisc.ac.in.

*Based on metric of Citations per Faculty

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Learn from Leaders
IISc faculty members are an impressive group bearing academic accreditation from premier institutions
around the world

Prof. Sashikumaar Ganesan Programme Coordinator

Ph.D., Computational Mathematics, OvGU Germany
Chair, Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore.
Co-Founder, Zenteiq Edtech Private Limited.

He joined the Department of SERC/CDS as an Assistant Professor in 2011. Before joining the Department, he
was a Research Associate at Imperial College London and an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow at WIAS Berlin.
His research interests include Finite element analysis, High-Performance Computing, Data-Driven modeling,
Cloud Computing, Scientific Machine Learning, AI & MLOps at scale. He also heads Scientific Machine
Learning and Operations (STARS) group at CDS.

Dr. Deepak Subramani Programme Co-Coordinator

Bayesian Learning, ML/AI for Environment Analytics, Autonomy
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
B.Tech and M.Tech, IIT Madras

Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computational and Data Sciences, IISc. His research focuses on ML/AI for
Environmental Forecasting, Data-Driven Routing of Autonomous Vehicles, Bayesian Learning and Data
Assimilation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Computational Optimization.

Prof. Yogesh Simmhan

Data and Computing Systems, Big Data, Internet of Things
Ph.D. Computer Science, Indiana University, USA

Associate Professor in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences, IISc, and previously a Research
Faculty at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, and a Postdoc at Microsoft Research,
San Francisco. His research explores abstractions, algorithms and applications on distributed systems.
These span Cloud and Edge Computing, Big Data Platforms and Internet of Things (IoT).

Prof. Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Computational Signal Processing, GNN, ML, Statistical Inference
Ph.D. TU Delft, Netherlands

Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc. His research areas
include ML, AI, and statistical inference for Data and Network Sciences.

Prof. Shashi Jain

Quantitative Finance, Derivative Pricing, Real Option Analysis
PhD Applied Mathematics, TU Delft, Netherlands BTech and MTech IIT Madras

Assistant Professor at the Department of Management Studies, IISc. Before joining IISc he worked as a
Quantitative analyst at ING, Amsterdam. His research interests include quantitative finance, investment
decisions related to energy and environmental sectors and Real options.

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Curriculum

Module 0 : Bridge Module

Python
Pandas, Seaborn, Data Munging
Variables, Matrices, Functions, Derivatives
sklearn
TF2, keras
Google Data Studio

Mini-Projects in Data Cleaning, Handing, Python

Module 1: Foundations of Data Science

Probabilistic Description of Events and Data: Probability Axioms, Random Variables, PDF,
PMF, Conditional Probabilty, Independence, Expectation, Variance
Statistical Learning, Experiment Design, Confidence Interval and Hypothesis Testing
Bayesian Learning
Univariate and Multivariate Calculus, Norms of Vectors and Functions
Taylor's theorem and Automatic Differntiation
Fundamentals of Linear Algebra Spaces
Machine Learning Tools

Mini-Project in Foundations of Data Science (Bayesian Learning, Data Handling, Probability)

Module 2: Machine Learning

The ML Process: Problem Formulation to Solution

Linear Regression, Bias/Variance, Regularization, Stochastic Gradient Descent
Linear Classification: Logistic Regression, Linear SVM, Classification Metrics (Confusion Matrix)
Nonlinear SVM, Decision Tree
Ensemble Methods: Random Forest, Gradient Boosting
Unsupervised Learning: Clustering, Anomaly Detection

Mini-Projects in Machine Learning Algorithms in Multiple Domains (Rental Business,

Healthcare, Banking, NLP, Customer Segmentation)

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Module 3 - MLOps at Scale

Object-oriented programming (OOP): Inheritance, Encapsulation, Abstraction, Polymorphism OOPs

in C++ and Python Applications of OOPs in Data Science

Parallel Architectures: Fundamentals of Parallel computer Memory Architecture, Parallel

programming with MPI
Parallel Computing with Accelerators: Parallel programming with OpenMP, Accelerated computing
using GPU
Scalable Computing with Python: Numba: Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler for Python, Thread and
multiprocessing in python Dask for NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-Learn Parallel computing with
TensorFlow
Introduction to MLOps, Foundations, MLOps for containers, Continuous Integration, Continuous
Deployment for ML models, Monitoring and Feedback.

Mini-Projects in Computing for AI/ML (Writing ML packages from scratch, Using OpenMP/MPI)

Module 4 - Neural Networks

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

Multi Layer Perceptron - Deep Neural Networks
Training a MLP - Backprop, Optimization Methods, Rules of Thumb
Convolutional Neural Network for Computer Vision
Recurrent Neural Network for Sequential Modeling
Dimensionality Reduction (PCA, SNE), Generative Models (GANs, VAE)
Reinforcement Learning

Mini-Projects in Neural Networks (Computer Vision, Image Analytics, Video Analytics, Financial
Analytics, NLP, Reinforcement Learning Stock Trader)

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 Module 5 - Data Engineering

Introduction to Big Data storage systems

Introduction to Big Data processing platforms

Deep Dive into Spark: RDD, Narrow, Wide Transformations
Deep Dive into Spark: Designing, implementing,evaluation and validating computational and analytics
application using Spark
Fast Data Processing Platforms: Apache Storm

Mini-Projects in Data Engineering (Process Movie Data using NoSQL Cassandra, Complex Analytics
on network intrusion using PySpark, End-to-end, PySpark Analytics on Tweets Data, ML on cloud)

Module 6 - Business Analytics: Data Science in Practice

Time Series Models: Time Series for Business and Financial Data
Market Basket Analysis
Portfolio Optimization
Customer Churn Analysis
Data Analytics in Infectious Disease Spread

Mini-Projects in Business Analytics (Market Basket Analysis, Bitcoin Forecasting, Air Quality
Forecasting, Customer Churn Analysis)

All modules have colab-based experiments with coding exercises (both full code along
and no-hints version)

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Capstone Projects (Option to Bring Your Own Project)

Real-time system Food Image

for Tweet Analytics Segmentation

Talent Retention and Identification of Quora question

Attrition Prediction pairs with the same intent

Stock Market predictions Prediction of Client Subscription to

based on Time Series a Bank term Deposit

Direct Retail Marketing efforts based

Movie Recommendation
on Customer Segmentation using ML
System
based Clustering techniques

Predict the future daily-demand Achieving image super-resolution using

for a large Logistics Company a Generative Adversarial Network

Determine key factors driving literacy

Urban Crime Data Analytics
rate in the Indian demography using
for safety improvement
Predictive Data Analytics

Breast Cancer classification from digitized Exploratory and Predictive Data Analytics
FNA image feature measurements using Indian Premier League (IPL) dataset

Anomaly detection in Bearing

Vibration Measurements

Tools

pymp mpi4py HandySpark

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Case Studies
Analyse how industry uses computational data science through real-world use cases

Data Stories
Showcase your data science journey in the programme through various experiments,
projects and hackathons in a compelling manner.

Participant Profile

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Schedule

Interactive Online Classes

Faculty-led Interactive Sessions
Convenient Schedule
Direct to Device

Next Batch starts in March 2023

12-month programme
2 Campus Visit of 3 Days each
Fees will be based on actuals.

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Eligibility

Education: Bachelors (four years or equivalent) or Masters in Science/Engineering/Management

Work Experience: Minimum 1 Year
Coding Experience: Programming Knowledge Required

Note: Exceptional engineering students and engineering graduates may apply for special selection on a case to case basis.

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Programme Details Selection Programme

The selection for the programme will be done by IISc and is strictly based on the education, work
experience, and motivation of the participants.

Fee

Details Domestic Participants International Participants

Amount -INR
Programme Fee ₹4,00,000 $6,000
With Scholarship ₹3,00,000 $4,500

0% EMI
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Employee to Avail Special Benefits

GST as applicable
Scholarships Available

(ii) Campus visit fee to be borne by participants. Will be based on actuals.

(iii) Fee paid is non-refundable and non-transferable.

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TalentSprint, visit TalentSprint website

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