M.Tech.

Artificial Intelligence
& Machine Learning
for Working
Professionals
INDEX
The industry forecast 01

Who Should Apply 01

Programme Highlights 02

Programme Objectives 03

Learning Methodology 04

Programme Curriculum 06

Eligibility 07

Fee Structure 07

Mode of Examination 08

Course Wise Syllabus 10

How to apply 16

UGC Approval 18

Student Speak 19
 With a surge of job opportunities in the fields of Artificial intelligence and
Machine Learning, the world is indeed standing on the threshold of
massive transformation.

According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report, 85

million jobs will be replaced by machines with AI by 2025. While that might
make you uneasy, the same report states that 97 million new jobs will be
created by 2025 due to AI. Are you prepared?

Prepare for a career with infinite possibilities in AI and ML with India’s most
comprehensive and world-class M.Tech. Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning programme without taking any career break.

This four-semester programme covers a wide variety of skills and

knowledge areas, and enables IT professionals and Software developers
to build a skill set that enables career elevation in some of the most
sought-after job roles such as ML Engineers and AI Scientists, etc.

Who Should Apply?

IT and Software professionals working as Software Engineer, Software Developer,
Programmer, Software Test Engineer, Support Engineer, Data Analyst, Business Analyst,
who wish to transition to roles such as ML Engineers & AI Scientists, etc. should consider
applying to this programme

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 What are the Highlights
of the Programme?
M.Tech. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is a BITS Pilani Work Integrated
Learning Programme (WILP). BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes are
UGC approved.

The programme is of four semesters, with online classes conducted mostly on weekends
or after business hours. You can pursue the programme without any career break.

Offers the most comprehensive AI & ML Curriculum for working professionals.

The programme has an unmatched range & depth, and covers the widest variety of skill
& knowledge areas required to develop advanced AI solutions.

Meant for IT professionals and Software developers aiming to become expert Machine
Learning Engineers & AI Scientists.

The programme offers a set of core courses and elective courses, allowing students to
gain expertise in Advanced Deep learning, Computational Learning theory, Speech
Processing, Natural Language Processing, etc.

The programme makes use of Tools and Technologies. These include Tensorflow for
Deep Learning and various Python libraries for data processing, machine learning,
OpenCV for computer vision, NLTK for NLP etc.

The Dissertation (Project Work) in the final semester enables students to apply concepts
and techniques learned during the programme.

The programme uses a Continuous Evaluation System that assesses the learners over
convenient and regular intervals. Such a system provides timely and frequent feedback
and helps busy working professionals stay on course with the programme.

The education delivery methodology is a blend of classroom and experiential learning.

Experiential learning consists of Virtual lab exercises, assignments, case studies and
work-integrated activities.

Participants who successfully complete the programme will become members of an elite
& global community of BITS Pilani Alumni

Option to submit fee using easy-EMI with 0% interest and 0 down payment.

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 What are the
programme objectives?
Abundance of user generated data, easy access to compute and storage in
cloud, open-source libraries and algorithmic advancement have led to
deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques across the
industries. This in turn has fuelled significant job opportunities in the IT products
and services sector in India and across the globe. This program is geared
towards the professional development of employees who are working in the
area of IT products and services industry or who wish to make a career in the
applications of AI and ML techniques in traditional industries; and also address
the needs of professionals who work in or want to make a career in online
commerce or other online businesses etc.

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the programme, the students will be able to:

Demonstrate conceptual understanding and hands on knowledge of traditional and

contemporary AI and machine learning techniques, including deep learning, and
reinforcement learning.

Demonstrate conceptual understanding and hands on knowledge of AI application areas

such as natural language processing, computer vision, robotics or cyber security

Understand the system and software engineering requirements for implementing

machine learning systems on large datasets and in resource constrained environments.

Understand the underlying ethical issues in applying AI and machine learning

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 Learning methodology

Attend online lectures over weekends

Lectures are conducted live via online classes. These lectures can be attended via the internet
using a computer from any location. These online classrooms offer similar levels of interactivity as
regular classrooms at the BITS Pilani campus.

Classes for students admitted during the period July 2023 - Oct 2023 will begin in Oct / Nov 2023.
The class schedule is announced within 1 week of completion of the admission process.

The online lectures are conducted usually over weekends for a total of 7-8 hours per week. If you
miss a lecture, you can also access the recorded lecture on the internet.

Digital Learning

Learners can access engaging learning material which includes recorded lectures from BITS Pilani
faculty members, course handouts and recorded lab content where applicable.

Continuous Assessment

Continuous Assessment includes graded Assignments/ Quizzes, Mid-semester exam, and

Comprehensive Exam.

Case studies and assignments

Carefully chosen real-world cases & assignments are both discussed and used as problem-solving
exercises during the programme.

Dissertation

The fourth semester offers an opportunity for learners to apply their knowledge gained during the
programme to a real-world like complex project. The learner is expected to demonstrate
understanding of vital principles learnt across semesters and their ability to successfully apply
these concepts.

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 Experiential learning
The programme emphasises on Experiential Learning that allows learners to apply concepts learnt
in the classroom in simulated, and real work situations. This is
achieved through:

Simulation Tools, Platforms & Environments: Some or all of the following would be utilised across
the programme.

Tensorflow for Deep Learning and various Python libraries for data processing, machine learning,
OpenCV for computer vision, NLTK for NLP etc.

Tools & Technologies covered

Supplementary learning

In addition to live weekly online lectures, supplementary live online sessions will be organised
periodically comprising of tutorials, doubt-clearing interactions, and industry talks (18-20 hours per
semester).

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 Programme Curriculum

The programme features 12 courses between Semester 1-3, and a Dissertation

in Semester 4. All the courses will be offered using live online mode.

First Semester Second Semester

● Mathematical Foundations for Machine Learning ● Deep Neural Networks
● Introduction to Statistical Methods ● Deep Reinforcement Learning
● Artificial and Computational Intelligence ● Elective 1
● Machine Learning ● Elective 2

Third Semester Fourth Semester

● Elective 3 ● Dissertation
● Elective 4
● Elective 5
● Elective 6

Pool of Electives for Pool of Electives for

Deep Learning Specialization NLP Specialization
● Advanced Deep learning # ● NLP Applications
● Graph Neural Networks ● Speech Processing
● Distributed Machine Learning ● Conversational AI
● ML System Optimization ● Social Media Analytics
● Fair, Accountable, Transparent Machine Learning ● Natural Language Processing #
● Computational Learning Theory ● Information Retrieval
Note: 3 courses are required including the course marked in # Note: 3 courses are required including the course marked in #

General Pool of Electives

● MLOps ● Data Management for Machine Learning
● Design of Algorithms ● Video Analytics
● Computer Vision ● Automated Reasoning
● Probabilistic Graphical Models ● Advanced Data Mining
● Audio Analytics ● AI and ML techniques for Cyber Security
● AI and ML for Robotics ● Metaheuristics for Optimization
Note: Choice of Electives is made available to enrolled students at the beginning of each semester.
Students' choice will be taken as one of the factors while deciding on the Electives offered. However,
Electives finally offered will be at the discretion of the Institute.

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 What is the
Eligibility Criteria?
Employed professionals holding B.E. / B.Tech. with at least 60% aggregate marks and minimum
one-year relevant work experience after the completion of the degree are eligible to apply.

Employed professionals holding MCA / M.Sc. or equivalent with at least 60% aggregate marks with
university level mathematics / statistics as mandatory subjects and minimum one-year relevant
work experience after the completion of the degree are also eligible to apply.

Working knowledge of Computing and programming is required.

Fee Structure
The following fees schedule is applicable for candidates seeking new admission during the
academic year 2023-2024.

Application Fees Admission Fees Semester Fees

(one time) (one time) (per semester)

`1,500 `16,500 `68,500

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Important: For every course in the program institute will recommend textbooks, students would
need to procure these textbooks on their own.

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 Mode of Examinations

Examinations Mode Options applicable for students admitted in Batch

starting in Oct / Nov 2023:
Semester 1, 2 and 3 have Mid-Semester Examinations and Comprehensive Examinations for
each of course. These examinations are mostly scheduled on Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
During these semesters, in addition to the Mid-Semester and Comprehensive examinations,
there will also be Quizzes/Assignments conducted online on the Learning Management
System (LMS) as per the course plan in which the students need to participate. In Semester 4
(Final Semester), the student will be doing a Dissertation/Project Work as per the Institution’s
guidelines.

Two Options on Mode of Examinations:

It is institute’s endeavour to offer two options on mode of exams at the time of the registration
for each semester of the programme. However, please note that Option 2 as explained below
is offered purely on the discretion of the institute. Availability of Option 2 is not assured and is
subject to institute’s own assessment of the feasibility of providing it. Students will need to
choose one from the available option/s provided by the institute at the time of registering for
every semester. The two mode of exam options are explained below:

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 Option 1 - Examinations at Designated Examination Centres:
Students choosing this option will need to appear in person for taking the examinations at the
institution’s designated examination centres as per the examination schedule, instructions, rules and
guidelines announced before every examination. These designated examination centres are at the
following locations: Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, Goa, and
Pilani. In addition to these locations, Institution also has a designated examination centre in Dubai.

Option 2 - Online Examinations:

Students choosing this option can take the examinations online from any location e.g. office or home.
However the Institute at its discretion may choose not to offer this option and in such a case
students will need to take the examinations as per Option 1 that entails appearing for the
examination at any one of the designated examination centres. Also, to take an Online
Examination, the student must possess a Laptop or Desktop system with Two Web Cams (One Web
Cam for the student’s frontal face view and a Second Web Cam for the student’s and Laptop or
Desktop system’s full side view during the exam), a smart phone and good internet connectivity. Please
click here to refer to the complete details about mandatory IT and Non-IT Infrastructure requirements
for taking the online examinations. A student should choose this option only if the student is confident
to arrange the required mandatory IT Infrastructure and Non-IT Infrastructure to take the examinations
under this mode. Students opting for online examinations would require to log in to the institution’s
online examination platform as per the announce examination schedule and take the online
examinations in compliance with the institution’s defined instructions, guidelines, and rules which are
announced before all examinations.

Important:
While it will be institute’s endeavour to offer both the above options for students to choose from at the
time of registering for any semester, however availability of the online mode option may not always
be feasible or is assured and Institute at its own discretion could choose to offer only Option 1 as
mentioned above. Also note that The Institute regularly takes actions to optimize its examination
system and hence the mandatory IT and Non-IT Infrastructure requirements, instructions, guidelines,
and rules associated with both the above mentioned examination modes may change anytime at the
Institute's discretion. All students will need to 100% comply with any such changed specifications
announced by the Institute.

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 Course Wise Syllabus

Mathematical Foundations for Machine Learning

Vector and matrix algebra, systems of linear algebraic equations and their solutions; Eigenvalues,
eigenvectors and diagonalization of matrices, multivariate calculus, vector calculus, Jacobian and
Hessian, multivariate Taylor series, gradient descent, unconstrained optimization, constrained
optimization, nonlinear optimization, stochastic gradient descent, dimensionality reduction and
PCA, optimization for support vector machines.

Introduction to Statistical Methods

Basic probability concepts, Conditional probability, Bayes Theorem, Probability distributions,
Continuous and discrete distributions, Transformation of random variables, estimating mean,
variance, covariance, Hypothesis Testing, Maximum likelihood, ANOVA – single factor, dual factor,
time series analysis: AR, MA, ARIMA, SARIMA, sampling based on distribution, statistical
significance, Gaussian Mixture Model, Expectation Maximization.

Deep Neural Networks

Introduction to neural networks, approximation properties, back propagation, deep network
training, regularization and optimization, convolution neural networks, recurrent neural networks,
attention models, transformers, neural architecture search, federated learning, meta learning,
applications in time series modelling and forecasting, online (incremental) learning.

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Introduction and applications. Markov decision processes(MDP), Tabular MDP planning, Tabular
RL policy evaluation, Q-learning, model based RL, deep RL with function approximation, policy
search, policy gradient, fast learning, applications in game playing, imitation learning, RL for
neural architecture search, batch RL

Advanced Deep Learning

Introduction to Representation Learning, PCA and variants, likelihood based models, flow models,
autoregressive models, latent variables, Deep autoencoders, Boltzmann Machines, Generative
Adversarial learning, Variants of GAN and applications, DeepDream, neural style transfer,
self-supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, language model learning, applications in time
series modelling, representation learning for reinforcement learning, deep clustering.

Graph Neural Networks

Basics of graph theory, machine learning on graphs, node embeddings, link analysis,
representation learning for graphs, label propagation for node classification, empirical risk
minimization, graph convolutional filters, composition with pointwise nonlinearities, permutations,
dilation and stability, transferability, graph RNN, algebraic neural networks, applications of graph
NN in subgraph amining,

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 recommendation systems, community structures in networks, deep generative models,
knowledge graph embeddings and reasoning.

Distributed Machine Learning

Introduction to parallel and distributed models of computation: Scalable frameworks to
parallelize machine learning algorithms, Data and computation heterogeneity, Data
parallelism vs Model parallelism, Challenges: consistency, fault tolerance, communication,
resource management, programming models; Distributed ML algorithms: K-means,
DBSCAN, Distributed association rule mining: FDM, Linear and logistic regression;
Distributed DL Algorithms: Gradient descent techniques for empirical risk minimization,
SGD in Neural Network Training and its convergence analysis, Distributed Synchronous
SGD, Asynchronous SGD, Hogwild, Local-update SGD, Decentralized SGD, Overlap
SGD, Quantized SGD, Adacomm Vs Distributed SGD, Elastic Averaging, AdaSyn,
AdaQuant; Federated learning: Privacy and security in federated learning; Hyper
parameter optimization; In depth case studies of a few algorithms.

ML System Optimization
Review of parallel and distributed systems, System Performance Trade-offs, Distributed
machine learning for large models and datasets, general purpose distributed computing
frameworks - Hadoop, map reduce and Apache Spark, Deep Learning frameworks and
runtimes, deep learning hardware, Deep learning compilers with optimizations, scalable
training and Inference Serving , parameter serving, Federated Learning, model
compression for optimizing communication and resource constrained devices, Case
studies of machine learning on single GPU systems, on GPU Clusters.

Fair, Accountable, Transparent Machine Learning

Biases and fairness, fair representation learning, Interpretability and Transparency,
Example and Visualization Based Methods for Interpretability, Interpreting deep neural
networks, Fairness Through Input Manipulation, Fair NLP/Vision, Robustness and
adversarial attacks/defence, ML auditing, privacy.

Computational Learning Theory

Introduction. The PAC model, Overfitting and Occam's razor, The Online Mistake-Bound
model, Combining Expert Advice / Multiplicative Weights, Regret Minimization, sleeping
experts, The Perceptron Algorithm, Margins, and introduction to Kernels. SVMs, Uniform
Convergence and VC-Dimension, Rademacher Bounds. Boosting. Statistical Query Model,
Computational Hardness Results for Learning. MDPs and Reinforcement Learning.
Differential Privacy and Learning. Semi-Supervised Learning.

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 NLP Applications
Sentiment Analysis, Grammar and Spelling Checkers, Cross Lingual Language Models,
Machine Translation including Indic Languages, Question answering and Chatbots,
Information extraction (named entity recognition, relation extraction), Knowledge graph

Speech Processing
Introduction to statistical speech processing. HMM, WFST and neural net based acoustic
modelling, language modelling, acoustic feature analysis, neural networks for speech
recognition, search and decoding, speech synthesis

Conversational AI
Intro to conversational AI, Use cases of chatbots, NLU and Dialog Management, Design
the flow of conversation, Crafting training data, Training the NLU model, Understanding
Dialog Management, Intent classification and entity extraction, using slots for context
understanding, Understanding NLU components, supporting multiple languages, Voice
bots, Testing the bot, Failing gracefully with fall back action

Social Media Analytics

Social Media Platforms, NLP in SMA, Text Summarization, Opinion Science and
dynamics, ML/DL in SMA- Community detection, Ethical Social Media, Case Studies- Role
of social media in disaster management, SM driven mental health and behaviour Analysis

MLOps
Adaptation of DevOps for building and deploying machine learning systems, Model
Deployment: Infrastructure requirements; Deployment patterns, Model CI/CD (Build, Test,
Integration and Delivery of model); Model Serving tools and technologies; Model life cycle
management, ML pipelines with data management support, model assessment, evolution
and management in production, MLOps infrastructure and tools; Trends in Model
deployment: ML on the Cloud / Edge / Browsers; VMs, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes
(K8S), FaSS; ML-as-a-Service.

Design of Algorithms
Review of important data structures, Design techniques such as divide-and-conquer,
greedy, recursion, backtracking, branch-and-bound, simulation, Dynamic Programming
(Examples, Analysis, General Structure of Solutions, Limitations and Applicability);
Illustrations dealing with problems in AI and machine learning; Computational complexity
and bounds; NP-hard and NP-complete problems; Introduction to Approximation
algorithms; Randomized algorithms.

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 Computer Vision
Image formation, structure, and transformations; Low-level(filters, features, texture),
Mid-level(segmentation, tracking, morphology) and High-Level Vision (registration, contour
geometry, object detection and classification, segmentation); deep learning for object
detection; recognition; face detection and face recognition; Facial key point
recognition;Optical Character recognition; visual annotation; Activity recognition;
Applications for autonomous cars – Landmark detection and tracking, track pedestrians;
3D projection; Image search and retrieval; edge devices for computer vision.

Probabilistic Graphical Models

HMM, Markov Random Field, Bayesian networks, Representation, Learning, Inference;
Dynamic Bayesian Networks and Temporal Bayesian networks, applications.

Audio Analytics
Audio data; sound analysis using DFT, STFT, file formats; Spectrogram; Spectral features;
Feature extraction from Audio signal; Sinusoidal model; Harmonic model; Sound
transformations; Sound and music description; Automatic speech recognition - Acoustic
Phonetics, Dialog, Speech Synthesis, Text to Speech (TTS); Meaning Extraction; Music
genre classification; Indexing music collections; Recommending music; Speech
processing and synthesis — generating artificial voice for conversational agents; tagging
and generation; Similarity search for audio files; HMM; AI for ultrasonic and infrasonic
applications.

AI and ML for Robotics

Fundamentals of robotics. Aerial robots, warehouse robots, under actuated robots. Sensor
systems for robots. Effectors and actuators. Robot Operating System. Robot motion
models. PID control, Beam model of range finders. Recursive state estimation - Bayes
filters, Kalman, extended Kalman, information filters, and nonparametric filters such as
particle filters. Mobile robot localization - extended Kalman filter, Grid and Monte Carlo.
Simultaneous mapping and localization algorithms, path planning algorithms, Instance
based learning, demonstration based path planning using reinforcement learning, deep
learning and reinforcement learning based mapping, navigation and control of mobile
robots.

Data Management for Machine Learning

Data Models and Query Languages: Relational, Object-Relational, NoSQL data models;
Declarative (SQL) and Imperative(MapReduce) Querying; Data Encoding: Evolution,
Formats, Models of dataflow; Machine learning workflow; Data management challenges in
ML workflow; Data Pipelines and patterns; Data Pipeline Stages: Data extraction,
ingestion, cleaning, wrangling, versioning.

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 transformation, exploration, feature management; Modern Data Infrastructure: Diverse
data sources, Cloud data warehouses and lakes, Data Ingestion tools, Data
transformation and modelling tools, Workflow orchestration platforms; ML model
metadata and Registry, ML Observability, Data privacy and anonymity.

Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Understanding and Generation, N-gram and Neural Language
Models, Word to Vectors / Word Embedding (Skip gram/CBOW, Glove, BERT/ XLM,
MURIL), Part of Speech Tagging, Hidden Markov Models, Parsing - Syntactic, Statistical,
Dependency, Word Sense Disambiguation, Semantic Web Ontology.

Video Analytics
Digital Video; Spatio temporal sampling; Low-Level Features to High-Level Semantics;
Video enhancement technologies (denoising, stabilization, unsharp masking,
super-resolution); background modelling and Foreground Detection; ML techniques for
Video Motion Detection; tracking; compression; Indexing and Retrieval; Browsing and
Summarization; Applications in License plate detection on moving vehicles, monitor
traffic jams; Activity recognition; crowd management; gesture recognition.

Automated Reasoning
Propositional Logic: Propositions and logical connectives, Propositional logical
consequence, Logical equivalence, Inductive definitions and structural induction and
recursion; Deductive Reasoning in Propositional Logic: Axiomatic systems for
propositional logic, Semantic Tableaux, Natural Deduction, Clausal Resolution,
Resolution-based derivations; First-order Logic: Syntax and Semantics of first-order
logic, Logical validity, consequence, and equivalence, Syllogisms; Deductive Reasoning
in First-order Logic: Axiomatic system for first-order logic, Semantic Tableaux, Natural
Deduction, Prenex and clausal normal forms, Resolution, Soundness and completeness;
Limitations: Hilbert’s programme, Tarski’s theorem on the undefinability of truth,
Incompleteness of axiom systems, Godel’s incompleteness theorem, Definability and
decidability, Church’s theorem, Church-Turing hypothesis.

Information Retrieval
Organization, representation, and access to information; categorization, indexing, and
content analysis; data structures for unstructured data; design and maintenance of such
data structures, indexing and indexes, retrieval and classification schemes; use of codes,
formats, and standards; analysis, construction and evaluation of search and navigation
techniques; search engines and how they relate to the above. Multimedia data and their
representation and search.

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 Advanced Data Mining
Topics beyond conventional record data mining. Mining complex data structures.
Tree/graph mining, sequence mining, web/text data mining, stream data mining,
spatiotemporal data mining, mining multivariate time series data, high-dimensional data
clustering, and mining social networking sites. Mining data from multiple relations
(Multirelational Data Mining). Privacy preserving Data Mining. Distributed computing
solutions for data intensive data mining

Artificial and Computational Intelligence

Introduction to Intelligent Agents; Search based agents - Informed and Uninformed
searches; Local Search Algorithms - Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Local Beam
Search, Genetic Algorithms, ACO, PSO; Minimax Algorithm, Alpha Beta Pruning;
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Logical Agents - Representation and
reasoning using propositional and predicate logic, resolution, forward and backward
chaining, DPLL; Probabilistic Reasoning - Knowledge representation using Bayesian
networks, exact and approximate inference from bayesian networks; Hidden Markov
Models; Ethics in AI: Explainable AI.

Machine Learning
Introduction to Machine Learning, Various kinds of learning, Supervised Learning,
Unsupervised Learning, Model Selection; Bayesian Learning, MAP Hypothesis, MDL
Principle, Bias Variance Decomposition, Bayes Optimal Classifier, Naive Bayes Classifier;
Linear Models for Regression, Linear Models for Classification; Non-Linear models,
Decision trees; Instance Based Learning, KNN Algorithm, Support Vector Machines,
Ensemble methods: Random Forest, Bagging, Boosting.

AI and ML Techniques for Cyber Security

Introduction to Cyber-Security; Supervised Learning for Misuse/Signature Detection;
Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection; Malware detection and classification; Network
Intrusion detection and classification; Detection and categorization of domain names;
Profiling Network Traffic; Adversarial Machine Learning for Malware detectio

Metaheuristics for Optimization

Metaheuristics refers to a class of approximation algorithms which can solve hard
optimization problems within an acceptable time limit. This course covers principles
behind such algorithms and application to real world problems. The algorithms covered in
the courses include simulated annealing, evolutionary algorithms, ant colony method, and
particle swarms.

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 How to apply

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 Candidates should ideally choose the immediate supervisor or another senior person from the
same organisation. In case a suitable mentor is not available in the same organisation, a
candidate could approach a senior person in another organisation who has the required
qualifications. Wherever the proposed Mentor is not from the same employing organization as
that of the candidate, a supporting document giving justification for the same should be
provided by the candidate’s employer.
Candidates applying to B.Tech. programmes should choose a Mentor who is an employed
professional with B.E./ B.S./ B.Tech./ M.Sc./ A.M.I.E./ Integrated First Degree of BITS or
equivalent. Candidates applying to M.Tech., M.Sc., MBA, M.Phil programme should choose a
Mentor who is an employed professional with:

• B.E./ M.Sc./ M.B.A./ M.C.A./ M.B.B.S. etc. and with a minimum of five
years of relevant work experience OR

• M.E./ M.S./ M.Tech./ M.Phil./ M.D./ Higher Degree of BITS or equivalent

● Further on page no. 5 of the downloaded Application Form, is a Checklist of Enclosures/

Attachments.

• Make photocopies of the documents mentioned in this Checklist

• Applicants are required to self-attest all academic mark sheets and certificates

● Finally, click on Step 4 - 'Upload & Submit All Required Documents’. This will allow you to
upload one-by-one the printed Application Form, Mentor Consent Form, Employer Consent
Form, and all mandatory supporting documents and complete the application process.
Acceptable file formats for uploading these documents are .DOC, .DOCX, .PDF, .ZIP and
.JPEG.

● Upon receipt of your Application Form and all other enclosures, the Admissions Cell will
scrutinise them for completeness, accuracy and eligibility.

● Admission Cell will intimate selected candidates by email within two weeks of submission of
application with all supporting documents. The selection status can also be checked by
logging in to the Online Application Centre.

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 UGC Approval

BITS Pilani is an Institution of Eminence under UGC (Institution of Eminence Deemed to be

Universities) Regulations, 2017. The Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP) of

BITS Pilani constitutes a unique set of educational offerings for working professionals.

WILP are an extension of programmes offered at the BITSPilani Campuses and are

comparable to our regular programmes both in terms of unit/credit requirements as well as

academic rigour. In addition, it capitalises and further builds on practical experience of

students through high degree of integration, which results not only in upgradation of

knowledge, but also in up skilling, and productivity increase. The programme may lead to

award of degree, diploma, and certificate in science, technology/engineering, management,

and humanities and social sciences.

On the recommendation of the Empowered Expert Committee, UGC in its 548th Meeting

held on 09.09.2020 has approved the continued offering of BITS Pilani’s Work Integrated

Learning programmes.

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 Students Speak

I was looking for an upskilling programme that meets my career

aspirations without any career break and BITS Pilani WILP was
exactly what I needed. My experience with the faculty was great and
the concepts I learnt here are relevant in real-time situations as well.

C R Bhargavi
Software Engineer, Ford Motor Pvt Ltd

Pursuing masters, learning more about Data Science and how could I apply
it to my work was something that I always wanted to do. BITS Pilani WILP
helped me pursue my dream without taking a career break. The group
assignments, last-minute preparations and discussions for exams felt like I
am back in college.

Chaithanya Rai K
Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

I truly see my decision of pursuing a degree programme from BITS Pilani

WILP as the best career move so far. This programme equipped me with
world-class skills, technologies and in-depth knowledge in this field that
helped me to become the leader. Learning without a career break from
the best faculty to weekend classes, recorded lectures, everything was
just perfect!

Abhishek Kumar Mishra

Leader, Data Science, Brilio Technologie

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