CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN

MACHINE LEARNING & AI

April 18, 2020

Build Predictive, Prescriptive and

Agent-Based models using ML & AI algorithms
Overview
Driving the next generation
of innovations
Advances in modern computing technologies have led to
major breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine
Learning (ML). Organisations across the world are searching
for nimble and effective ways to leverage AI and ML for
automation, better decision-making, and competitive
advantage. In India, too, a PwC survey of Indian businesses
found that 74% companies believed AI will improve
economic growth, cyber security, global health, and
education.

The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has designed the

Certificate Program in Machine Learning & AI to answer the
growing need to upskill individuals in AI and ML. This
weekend program, conducted over 6 consecutive Saturdays
at the IIT Bombay campus will unravel the emerging
technology and provide you with the requisite toolkit to
deploy it competently.

Carefully conceptualised and planned, this program will

benefit software engineers, programmers and other IT
professionals with at least one year of programming
experience. Participants will learn how to use key machine
learning algorithms to build powerful predictive and
prescriptive models and will develop an in-depth
understanding of popular methods like classification and
regression, optimization techniques, neural networks,
decision trees, agent-based models and deep learning. The
learning journey includes in-person, interactive face-to-face
sessions at the IIT Bombay Campus replete with classroom
lectures, real-life case studies, group discussions, simulations,
lab sessions and interactions with industry experts.

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Program Highlights

Demystify AI and
Machine Learning
Build a solid foundation
on the principles of AI
and ML. Understand their
Enhance AI-driven application across
technical know how industries.
Build predictive models
using neural networks
and decision trees. Use
the nearest neighbour
methods to solve
classification or
regression problems.

Unlock Competitive
Advantage Use
optimisation techniques to
solve learning problems
across models. Build text
classification systems with
NLP and implement them
Learn at one of India's using both linear classifiers
Best Engineering and deep learning
Schools Comprehensive methods. Build AI models
and rigorous curriculum using agent-based models
delivered in-person over that run search algorithms
the course of 6 weeks and achieve their tasks.
(every Saturday). Get
equipped with
industry-level skills and
knowledge by engaging
with case studies.
Relive the Campus
Interaction with reputed
Experience Immerse
faculty members and
yourself at the IITB campus
distinguished industry
for a six-week program
practitioners.
while learning hands-on AI
and ML skills.

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 CEP Chair’s
Message

With the rapid pace of growth in science & technology and frequent paradigm shifts in policy,
governance and management, Continuing Education of working professionals in the industry is a
vital need. The Continuing Education Programme (CEP) office at IIT Bombay has been set up to meet
the manpower training and knowledge upgradation needs of the industry.

"As the pace of technological innovation and adoption gathers speed, it has led to the genesis of
myriad opportunities for business growth. Consequently, our approach towards continuing
education has adapted to these fundamental changes in critical and transformative ways. Our
courses draw on learnings from across the core technical, managerial and design disciplines taught
and researched at IIT Bombay. Therefore we are able to deliver inter-disciplinary material along with
the pedagogical rigour that IITs are known for, making for unrivalled offerings in the context of
continuing education."

"Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills needed to develop a competitive edge and propel your
career into the future."

- Prof. Preeti Rao

Professor-in-Charge, CE&QIP

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Faculty
Prof. Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan
Program Coordinator
Prof. Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His research interests include artificial
intelligence and machine learning, spanning topics such as sequential decision making,
multi-agent learning, on-line learning, and humanoid robotics. Kalyanakrishnan received a Ph.D.
in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. Subsequently he was a Research
Scientist at Yahoo Labs Bangalore and an INSPIRE Faculty Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore. His contributions to robot soccer have received two Best Student Paper awards at the
annual RoboCup competitions. Kalyanakrishnan was a member of the first study panel of the
One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100), which in 2016 released its report titled
"Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030".

Prof. Ankur Kulkarni

Program Coordinator
Prof. Ankur Kulkarni is an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB). He
received his B.Tech. from IITB in 2006, M.S. in 2008 and Ph.D. in 2010, both from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research interests include game theory, stochastic
decision theory, information theory, optimization and operations research. He has made
fundamental contributions to game theory, team theory and issues of information in dynamic
decision-making. He was an Associate (from 2015–2018) of the Indian Academy of Sciences,
Bangalore. He is a recipient of the INSPIRE Faculty Award of the Department of Science and
Technology, Government of India, 2013; the best paper awards - the National Conference on
Communications, 2017, Indian Control Conference, 2018, and the International Conference on
Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) 2018; Excellence in Teaching Award 2018 at IITB
and the William A. Chittenden Award, 2008 at UIUC. He was a consultant to the Securities and
Exchange Board of India on regulation of high frequency trading and is presently a consultant to
HDFC Life Insurance Co. He has been a visiting faculty at MIT (USA), University of Cambridge (UK),
NUS (Singapore) and IISc Bangalore.

Prof. Preethi Jyothi

Faculty
Prof. Preethi Jyothi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at IIT Bombay. Her research interests include machine learning applied to speech
and language (with a focus on Indian languages) and multimodal learning applied to text and
videos. Before moving to IITB in 2016, she was a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and she obtained her Ph.D. in computer science in 2013 from The
Ohio State University where she was awarded a University Fellowship. She received a 2017
Google Faculty Research Award for research on accented speech recognition. Her work on
statistical learning methods for pronunciation models and probabilistic transcriptions received
Best Student Paper Awards at Interspeech 2012 and ICASSP 2016, respectively.

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Learning Outcomes
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
Look past jargon of AI and
ML and understand their
use and applications across
industries.
Use classification and
regression models to solve
problems.
Implement NLP to build
text classification systems
using both linear classifiers
and deep learning
methods.
Understand methods like
classification and regression,
optimization.
Improve the accuracy of
machine learning model
predictions.
Build AI using multi-agent
based models that run
search algorithms and
achieve their tasks.
Build predictive models
using neural networks and
decision trees.
Differentiate between
optimization techniques
and how they solve learning
problems across models,
minimize errors or maximize
rewards.
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Program Modules
This interactive, hands-on program will take place every Saturday for six
consecutive weekends. Each day of teaching would comprise of 5 hours of
lectures and 2 hours of lab work.

Week 1
Overview of ML & AI - Supervised Learning Module 2
- Introduction to AI/ML • Generalization
• Brief History • Overfitting
• Recent Surge, Topics and Applications • Cross-Validation
• Course Overview • Regularization
- Supervised Learning Module 1 • Non-linear Models
• Supervised Learning Problem - Guest Speaker # 1
• Linear Models for Classification and - Lab Session
Regression • Linear Models for Classification and
• Feature Design Regression

Week 2
Supervised Learning Module &
Optimization Module
- Supervised Learning Module 3
• Neural Networks
• Back Propagation Algorithm
- Supervised Learning Module 4
• Decision Trees
• Support Vector Machines
• Nearest Neighbour Method
- Optimization Module 1
• What is Optimization
• Elements of Optimization Problem
• Continuous and Discrete Variables
• Classifying and Specifying an Optimization Problem
- Guest Speaker # 2
- Lab Session
• Neural Networks
• Hyperparameter Tuning

Week 3
Optimization Module & Multi-Agent
System Module
- Optimization Module 2
• Linear Programming (LP)
• Standard Form
• Slack Variables
• Integer Linear Programming (ILP)
• Solving LPs and ILPs
- Optimization Module 3
• Convex Optimization
• Robust Optimization
• Minimax Optimization
• Data Driven Optimization and
Scenario Approach
-Multi-Agent System Module 1
• Game Theory
• Introduction to Basic Ideas
• Examples of Games, Prisoner's
Dilemma
• Coordination, Hawk Dove
- Guest Speaker # 3
- Lab Session
• Linear Programming (LP)
• Integer Linear Programming (ILP)
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Week 4
Agent-Based Models & Multi-Agent
System Module
- Agent-Based Models 1
• Introduction to Agent-Based Models (ABM)
• How to Build ABM
• Types of Agents
• Machine Learning and Adaptive Agents
- Agent-Based Models 2
• Financial Markets as ABMs
• Artificial Stock Markets
• The Santa Fe Artificial Stock Market
Multi-Agent System Module 2
• Minority Games and Financial Markets
• Using Game Theory for Decision Making
• Examples of Game Theory for Deployed
Systems
- Guest Speaker # 4
- Lab Session
• Building ABMs Using NetLogo

Week 5
Natural Language Processing - Online Learning
- Natural Language Processing Module 1 • Exploration and Multi-Armed Bandits
• What is NLP • Regret Minimization
• Feature Representations • Epsilon Greedy, UCB
• Introduction to Language Modeling • Thompson Sampling Algorithms
• Basic Text Classification Using Traditional
- Guest Speaker # 5
Methods and Deep Learning
- Lab Session
- Natural Language Processing Module 2
• Implementation of Text Classification
• Modern Tools for Word Embeddings
Using Linear Classifiers and Deep Learning
• Sentiment Analysis
• Sequence to Sequence Problems and General
Architectures to Solve Them

Week 6
Search Algorithms - Evolutionary Algorithms
- Search • Evolutionary Algorithms as an Instance of
• Depth First Search Local Search
• Breadth First Search • Cross-Entropy Method
• Uniform Cost Search • CMA-ES
• Heuristics • Applications
• Consistency - Reinforcement Learning
• A* Approach • Reinforcement Learning
- Guest Speaker # 6
- Lab Session
• Implementation of Search Algorithms

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Case Studies

How do websites select ads to show - How does GPS software find the shortest
to the users? route to a far-away destination?

- What is the technology behind AI-driven - Can we automatically classify tweets as

Chess and Go programs? being for or against a product?

- How can automatic speech recognition

and natural language processing help in
mobile banking?

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Program Structure
The program is taught on 6 consecutive Saturdays, from 09:30 AM - 6:00 PM.

Each day of teaching would include 5 hours of lectures and 2 hours of lab (hands-on) sessions.

Eligibility
The applicants should be graduate with at least a year of work experience.

Students must be comfortable with high-school probability and calculus. Participants are
required to have prior programming knowledge of Python. All lab sessions will be conducted in
Python.

Agent-based Models

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Certificate

Participants with requisite attendance will receive a certificate of

participation from IITB-CEP department.

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Program Fees

Instalment
I II
Details

Instalment Within 7 days of selection 10 days prior to the course

start date

(Early Bird 50% of the Program 50% of the Program

Discount till Fees + GST Fees + GST
7th Feb) INR 37500 + GST INR 37500 + GST

GST (currently @ 18%) will be charged extra on these components.

Instalment
I II
Details

Instalment Within 7 days of selection 10 days prior to the course

start date

50% of the Program 50% of the Program

(From 8th Feb Fees + GST Fees + GST
to 31st Mar) INR 42500 + GST INR 42500 + GST

GST (currently @ 18%) will be charged extra on these components.

Round-wise Round 1 – 7th Feb 2020

Application Round 2 – 6th Mar 2020
Dates Round 3 – 31st Mar 2020

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About IIT Bombay
Established in 1958, the second of its kind, IIT
Bombay was the first to be set up with foreign
assistance. The funds from UNESCO came as
Roubles from the then Soviet Union. In 1961
Parliament decreed the IITs as ‘Institutes of
National Importance'. Since then, IITB has
grown from strength to strength to emerge as
one of the top technical universities in the
world. The institute is recognised worldwide as
a leader in the field of engineering education
and research. Reputed for the outstanding
calibre of students graduating from its
undergraduate and postgraduate programs,
the institute attracts the best students from the
country for its bachelor's, master's and doctoral
programs. Research and academic programs at
IIT Bombay are driven by an outstanding
faculty, many of whom are reputed for their
research contributions internationally. IIT
Bombay also builds links with peer universities
and institutes, both at the national and the
international levels, to enhance research and
enrich its educational programs. The alumni
have distinguished themselves through their
achievements in and contributions to industry,
academics, research, business, government and
social domains. The institute continues to work
closely with the alumni to enhance its activities
through interactions in academic and research
programs as well as to mobilise financial
support. Over the years, the institute has
created a niche for its innovative short-term
courses through continuing education and
distance education programs. Members of the
faculty of the institute have won many
prestigious awards and recognitions, including
the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar and Padma
awards. Located in Powai, one of the northern
suburbs of Mumbai, the residents of the
institute reap the advantage of being in the
busy financial capital of India, while at the same
time enjoying the serenity of a campus known
for its natural beauty. A fully residential institute,
all its students are accommodated in its 15
hostels with in-house dining; the campus also
provides excellent amenities for sports and
other recreational facilities.
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