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DATA A NA LY T I C S
IS CHANGING
T H E WO R L D
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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW calls data science the sexiest job in the 21st century, and by most accounts
this hot new eld promises to revoluWonize industries from business to government, health care to
academia.
According to McKinsey Global InsWtutes research, by 2018 the United States will experience a shortage of
skilled data scienWsts, and 1.5 million managers and analysts capable of reaping acWonable insights from
the big data deluge.
Data scienWsts lead the pack for best jobs in America, according to a new report from company review site,
Glassdoor. According to the report, the median salary for a Data ScienWst is an impressive $116,000.
According to publicaWon in The Hindu* - The big data analyWcs segment would require three lakh skilled
professionals by 2020. The size of analyWcs segment is pegged at $1.5 billion with a projected CAGR
(compounded annual growth rate) of 20 per cent in the next ve years.
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* hhp://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/nasscom-bets-on-big-data-analyWcs-to-set-up-excellence-centre-to-skill-workforce/arWcle7354592.ece
# hhps://rjmetrics.com/resources/reports/the-state-of-data-science/
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ABOUT USC
Started in 1880, The University of Southern
California is one of the worlds leading private
research universiWes.
An anchor insWtuWon in Los Angeles, a global
center for arts, technology and internaWonal
business, USC's diverse curricular oerings
p r o v i d e e x t e n s i v e o p p o r t u n i W e s fo r
interdisciplinary study, and collaboraWon with
leading researchers in highly advanced learning
environments.
The University of Southern California is one of a
small number of research insWtuWons leading
steady stream of new knowledge, art and
technology. USC has nearly $700 million in
annual research expenditures, is ranked rst in
the naWon among all universiWes in the size of
its computer science research program, and
has the largest graduate program in science,
engineering and health of all private research
universiWes.
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WELCOME
Message from Dean
Thank you for your interest in the USC Viterbi School of Engineerings, Post Graduate
Program in AnalyWcs.
Data is opening new doors to the future hard challenges in areas as diverse as medicine,
business, media, and sports are being solved daily. Progress in these domains requires
individuals who understand the relevant engineering principles, but also have a passion for
how informaWon can be used to solve vexing puzzles.
We understand the need for value-added engineering programs and lead the way in
making life-long learning a reality for working engineers. Our collaboraWon with Northwest
on the Post Graduate Program in AnalyWcs is an example of this. By enrolling in this rigorous,
applicaWon-oriented, one- year conWnuing educaWon program, you will: (1) build a strong
understanding of the conceptual frameworks, (2) gain experWse on important tools and
applicaWons, and (3) learn to build systems that will enable companies to leverage complex
data for eecWve decision making.
Yannis C. Yortsos
Dean
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Post Graduate Program in AnalyWcs (PGPA) from the University of Southern California Viterbi
School of Engineering is a rigorous, applicaWon-oriented one year program. It is based on USC
Viterbis Master of Science in Data InformaWcs and extensively leverages research and best
pracWces in eld of Data Sciences, InformaWcs and AnalyWcs.
The program will put you on a fast track path for a rewarding career in the rapidly growing
elds of Big Data, Business AnalyWcs and Data AnalyWcs. You will gain a thorough
understanding of the conceptual frameworks, build experWse on important tools and
applicaWons, get exposed to important applicaWon areas such as markeWng, healthcare,
nance, etc. and learn to build systems that will enable companies to leverage complex data
for eecWve decision making.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Following are some of the key highlights :
Rankings: USC Viterbi School of Engineering has been ranked among top 15 Graduate
Engineering Schools by US News & World Report.
World Class Curriculum: A comprehensive and rigorous program covering applicaWon of
advanced data science and analyWcs concepts in a 300+ hours schedule, spread over a year.
Alumni Benets: Become a member of the USC Viterbi Alumni Network.
Outstanding Faculty: Academic program conducted by accomplished senior faculty
members from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and reputed Industry Experts.
Career Services (Northwest): Program linked Career Services provided by Northwest helps
you with CV development, interview preparaWon and introducWons to potenWal
employers on successful compleWon of the program.
Industry Connect (Northwest): You will be constantly engaged in applying concepts and tools
on realisWc data sets and business problems. You will be interacWng with Industry experts
from leading MulWnaWonals and Indian companies who will bring forth their insights,
experiences and latest emerging pracWces within specic applicaWon areas of Data Science
and AnalyWcs.
Flexible & Convenient: The program design accommodates your demanding work
schedules,with a mix of classroom and self paced online learning, as well as guided project
work over the one-year program.
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
ALUMNI BENEFITS
Successful parWcipants of the program receive USC Viterbi conWnuing educaWon
alumni benets. This enWtles the parWcipants to:
WHO IS IT FOR ?
The program is designed for young professionals and emerging stars with work experience in sopware,
technology, data analysis, business intelligence or reporWng-focused funcWonal roles.
Program is suitable for professionals with:
A strong drive to succeed and aspiraWons for reaching beyond the obvious career milestones.
Demonstrated ability to adapt, learn and apply new knowledge in varied situaWons.
A minimum of 4 years of work experience in Engineering, Business Analysis, Business Intelligence,
Sopware Development, AnalyWcs, or other associated roles.
A graduate degree with a strong academic track record in elds such as Engineering, MathemaWcs,
StaWsWcs or Economics is preferred.
Exposure to sopware programming and/or computer science is preferred.
Fluency in wrihen and spoken English.
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PROGRAM CURRICULUM
The program curriculum is designed to provide parWcipants with the
knowledge and skills to:
Derive insights from data and present exisWng data in intuiWve and insighwul visualizaWons.
Solve complex business challenges by leveraging data extensively.
Help organizaWons eecWvely manage large data sets (i.e. work with Big Data), with focus
on architecture, integrity, management, scalability and arWcial intelligence.
Apply analyWcal models and build systems that can help companies idenWfy causal and
predicWve paherns for eecWve decision making, and
UWlize technical and engineering skills, coupled with informaWcs capabiliWes to provide
enterprise-centric soluWons to stakeholders.
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PROGRAM CURRICULUM
*
FEB - JUL
CORE
COURSES
PROBABILITY &
STATISTICS
DATA INFORMATICS IN
LARGE DATA
ENVIRONMENTS
DATA MANAGEMENT
AUG - FEB
FOUNDATIONS AND
APPLICATIONS OF DATA
MINING
INFORMATION
VISUALIZATION
MACHINE LEARNING FOR
DATA INFORMATICS
BUSINESS
MODULES
INDUSTRY
CONNECT
MARKETING
RETAIL AND OPERATIONS (INCLUDE FORECASTING)
FINANCE
INDUSTRY INTERACTION
INDUSTRY INTERACTION
SESSIONS
SESSIONS
Retail
Insurance and Banking
WORKSHOPS
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PROGRAM CALENDAR*
DATES
MODULE
LENGTH
LOCATION
February 2017
4 Weeks
February 2017
2 days
Delhi, India
February 2017
3 days
Delhi, India
March - April
2017
6 weeks
April 2017
June 2017
2 days
Bangalore &
Delhi, India
July 2017
2 days
Bangalore &
Delhi, India
August 2017
Nov 2017
Informatics Visualization
February, 2018
3 days
Delhi, India
February, 2018
2 days
Delhi, India
February, 2018
Graduation Ceremony
0.5 day
Delhi, India
2 days
6 weeks
6 weeks
2 days
6 weeks
2 days
6 weeks
Online
Online
Bangalore &
Delhi, India
Online
Online
Bangalore &
Delhi, India
Online
Bangalore &
Delhi, India
Online
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Prof. CYRUS SHAHABI is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and
the Director of the InformaWon Laboratory (InfoLAB), Department of Computer Science at
the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He is the Director of the InformaWcs Program at the
USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He is also the Director of the NSFs Integrated Media
Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California (USC). He was the CTO and
co-founder of a USC spin-o, Geosemble Technologies, which was acquired in July 2012.
Since then, he founded another company, ClearPath (recently rebranded as TallyGo),
focusing on predicWve path-planning for car navigaWon systems.
Dr. Shahabi has received funding from several agencies such as NSF, NIJ, NASA, NIH,
DARPA, AFRL, and DHS as well as several industries such as Chevron, Google, HP, Intel,
Microsop, NCR, NGC and Oracle. He is a fellow of IEEE, and a recipient of the ACM
DisWnguished ScienWst award in 2009, the 2003 U.S. PresidenWal Early Career Awards for
ScienWsts and Engineers (PECASE), the NSF CAREER award in 2002, and the 2001 Okawa
FoundaWon Research Grant for InformaWon and TelecommunicaWons. He was also a
recipient of the US Vietnam EducaWon FoundaWon (VEF) faculty fellowship award in 2011
and 2012.
He was an Associate Editor of IEEE TransacWons on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
from 2004 to 2009, IEEE TransacWons on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) from
2010-2013 and VLDB Journal from 2009-2015. He is currently on the editorial board of the
ACM TransacWons on SpaWal Algorithms and Systems (TSAS) and ACM Computers in
Entertainment. He is the founding chair of IEEE NetDB workshop and also the general cochair of SSTD'15, ACM GIS 2007, 2008 and 2009. He is a PC co-Chair of BigComp'2016 and
MDM'2016. In the past, he has been PC co-chair of DASFAA 2015, IEEE MDM 2013 and
IEEE BigData 2013, and regularly serves on the program commihee of major conferences
such as VLDB, ACM SIGMOD, IEEE ICDE, ACM SIGKDD, IEEE ICDM, and ACM MulWmedia.
He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1989
and then his M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern
California in May 1993 and August 1996, respecWvely. He authored two books and more
than two hundred research papers in the areas of databases, GIS and mulWmedia with
more than 12 US Patents.
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DISTINGUISHED FACULTY
USC Viterbi faculty members pursue leading-edge research in criWcal technologies,
supported by the resources of our engineering research centers. Combining disWnguished
scholarship with years of industry experience, the Viterbi School faculty is made up of
enthusiasWc teachers commihed to fostering genuine intellectual partnerships with our
outstanding students.
Each year, USC Viterbi faculty members receive recogniWon for research excellence, and
provide leadership in academics, research and innovaWon. More than a third of the faculty
have been elected fellows of their respecWve professional socieWes and approximately one
third of its faculty hold endowed professorships, and many faculty members have joint
appointments in other departments or schools.
Program faculty may include :
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RAVI GURURAJ
VIJAY ANAND
Embrace InnovaWons
NASSCOM
Vice President
Intuit
AJAY BAKSHI
SHAILESH LAKHANI
ANAND DANIEL
MD and CEO
Managing Director
Partner
Manipal Hospitals
Sequoia Capital
Accel Partners
PEEYUSH RAI
RAHUL CHOWDHRI
Partner
VIKAS MALPANI
Canvera
Helion Ventures
CommonFloor.com
TATAGAT VERMA
GANESH RENGASWAMY
ROHIT JAIN
Founder
Managing Director
Principal
Thought Leadership
Accion
SAIF Partners
PRATYUSH PRASANNA
SOMAK GHOSH
KARTIK SRIVATSA
Vice President
Managing Partner
Managing Partner
Contrarian Capital
Aspada
Co-Founder
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Please note
A resume in Word or PDF format is
required
We require two professional references
who are ready to discuss your candidacy
with us in great detail.
You need to complete one short essay Why are you interested in the eld of
AnalyWcs? What are your long term (5-10
years) career aspiraWons? How will the
USC PGPA help you achieve these?
Document Submission
Interview
Shortlisted candidates may be interviewed
before they are accepted into the program.
These interviews would be conducted in
person or over the telephone.
Please note:
Considering the limited seats in the
program and rolling admissions process,
submiNng your applicaCon in an earlier
round, increases your chances of
acceptance into the program.
ApplicaCon fee is only refunded in the
case an applicant is not oered an
admission to the program.
PROGRAM FEES
The Program fee is USD 8,000 inclusive of
all taxes. It covers teaching fees, all
academic materials, lunches and select
dinners only. The Fees do not include any
transport expenses and accommodaWon for
modules and/or workshops. It also does not
cover any other expenses that are not
expressly menWoned above.
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COMPANY SPONSORSHIP
Companies can support the internal career
advancement of their high potenWal
professionals by sponsoring them in the
program.
Companies interested in sponsoring their
high potenWal professionals and who want
to learn more about the program should
get in touch with Northwest ExecuWve
EducaWon at usc@northwest.in to
schedule a one-on-one discussion with
our program advisor.
You (the candidate) sWll have to pay the
program fee directly to Northwest. You
can arrange to claim reimbursement or
receive funding from your employer.
However, Northwest does not accept
direct payments from companies at this
point in Wme.
LOANS
Financing by way of loans to pay the
program fees and incidental costs is available
to you through Credila (An HDFC Limited
company) at compeWWve interest rates.
Subject to your meeWng certain norms and
based on your credit score (CIBIL raWng),
loans of up to Rs. 12 lakhs may be availed.
Decisions on loan approval and collateral
SELF PAY
You can pay the enWre fee through available
funds/ savings. There is no dierence in
terms of payment schedule and
requirements, should you wish to fund your
own candidacy.
Please note that applying for nancing by way of
loans in no way jeopardizes your applicaCon.
However, in order to ensure that your loan is
disbursed on Cme, we suggest that all
parCcipants seeking loan nancing meet the
early applicaCon deadline.
T W E N T Y Y E A R S F RO M N OW YO U W I L L B E
M O R E D I S A P P O I N T E D B Y T H E T H I N G S T H AT
YO U D I D N ' T D O T H A N B Y T H E O N E S YO U D I D
DO. SO THROW OFF THE BOWLINES. SAIL
A W AY F R O M T H E S A F E H A R B O R . C AT C H T H E
T R A D E W I N D S I N YO U R S A I L S .
E X P L O R E . D R E A M . D I S C OV E R .
- H. JACKSON BROWN, JR.
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PROGRAM PARTNER
Northwest ExecuWve EducaWon is the exclusive program partner for the USC
Post Graduate Program in AnalyWcs (PGPA) and is working with USC Viterbi
School of Engineering, to build PGPA into a signicant professional program
experience for parWcipants.
Northwest delivers high-quality execuWve educaWon programs to execuWves,
professionals and corporates. It works in close collaboraWon with partner
universiWes and schools on India-centric design, curriculum, outreach and
delivery of programs to oer relevant, contextual and internaWonal learning
experiences.
The Northwest leadership team includes alumni of top ranked insWtuWons such
as Harvard Business School and IITs, who have signicant global experience in
renowned organisaWons such as McKinsey, Unilever, P&G, IBM, Future Group,
Wipro, etc.
ProspecWve parWcipants and corporate HR (looking to sponsor candidates) are
requested to contact Northwest with quesWons on the USC PGPA and for any
further informaWon. Please write to us at usc@northwest.in.
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CONTACT US
We encourage you to learn more about the USC PGPA and its t with your
aspiraWons by connecWng with Northwest ExecuWve EducaWon. The Northwest
team will help you to understand and evaluate how this program can put you
on a fast track path for a rewarding career in the rapidly growing elds of Big
Data, Data Science and AnalyWcs.
For more details on program, please visit the USC PGPA page
h>p://northwest.in/USCPGPA/
USC VITERBI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Oce of Graduate and Professional Programs
Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE 106), 3650 McClintock Ave
Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Phone: +1 213-821-4172
Email: info@execengr.usc.edu
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Phone: +91 8587878713 / 14 / 15
Email: usc@northwest.in
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