Post Graduate Program In

ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE AND
MACHINE LEARNING
CURRICULUM
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About the Program
The Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelli-
gence and Machine Learning (PGP-AIML) unique-
ly combines a comprehensive curriculum, cover-
ing the most widely-used tools and techniques in
the industry, with a hands-on learning approach.
A structured learning journey keeps you on track
Key Learning
throughout as you achieve your weekly learning Outcomes
milestones with your mentor and benefit from
their rich professional experience. On successful
completion, you are awarded a certificate from Build your expertise in
The University of Texas at Austin. the most widely-used
AI & ML tools and
technologies.

Program Pedagogy
Acquire the ability to
The 6-month online program blends pre-record- independently solve
ed content with live and interactive sessions business problems
every week. using AI & ML.

Master the skills

needed to build
machine learning and
Recorded Interactive deep learning models.
Video Lectures Mentor-Led Sessions

Develop know-how of
the applications of AI in
areas such as Computer
Vision & NLP.

10 Hands-on
Understand the possibil-
Projects
ities and implications of
AI in different industries.

Build a substantial body

of work and an indus-
try-ready portfolio in AI
Case Studies Quizzes & ML.
Module-Wise Curriculum
Module 1 Module 2

Python for AI Supervised Learning

Python is an essential program- The aim of Supervised Machine
ming language in the tool-kit of Learning is to build a model
an AI & ML professional. In this that makes predictions based
course, you will learn the essen- on evidence in the presence of
tials of Python and its packages uncertainty. In this course, you
for data analysis and computing,
- will learn about Supervised
including NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Learning algorithms of Linear
Seaborn and Matplotlib. Regression and Logistic
Regression.
Topics Covered
Topics Covered
• Introduction to Python
• NumPy, Pandas • Intro to Machine Learning
• Exploratory Data Analysis • Linear Regression
• Matplotlib, Seaborn • Logistic Regression
• Model Evaluation

Sample Project 1 Sample Project 2

Perform exploratory data analy- Build a model that will help to
sis to understand the popularity identify the customers of a bank
trends of movie genres and to who have a higher probability of
figure out the patterns in movie purchasing a loan.
viewership.

“I quite enjoy mentored learning sessions. The mentor is quite good and
continues to check-in with learners by asking questions.”

Jody Chilton, Chief Strategy Officer, OSN, UK

Module-Wise Curriculum
Module 3 Module 4

Ensemble Techniques Feature Engineering,

Model Selection
Ensemble methods help to
improve the predictive perfor- and Tuning
mance of Machine Learning Model building is an iterative
models. In this course, you will process. Employing Feature
learn about different Ensemble Engineering techniques along
methods that combine several- with a careful model selection
Machine Learning techniques exercise helps to improve the
into one predictive model in model. Further, tuning the model
order to decrease variance, bias is an important step to arrive at
or improve predictions. the best possible result. This
module talks about the steps and
Topics Covered processes around the same.
• Decision Trees
• Ensemble Methods Bagging, Topics Covered
Boosting and Stacking • Feature Engineering.
• Random Forest • Sampling and Smote,
Regularization
Sample Project 3 • Pipelining
• Model Performance Measures
Build a model that will help the
marketing team of a company to Sample Project 4
identify potential customers for
a term deposit subscription. Perform Feature Engineering
and Model Tuning on a model
designed to predict the strength
of construction material to
enhance accuracy.

“I am very satisfied with the programme and highly

recommend it.”
Diego Bettega, IPG Mediabrands (United Kingdom)
Module-Wise Curriculum
Module 5 Module 6

Unsupervised Learning Neural Networks

Unsupervised Learning finds Deep Learning carries out the
hidden patterns or intrinsic Machine Learning process using
structures in data. In this course, an ‘Artificial Neural Net’, which
you will learn about common- is composed of a number of
ly-used clustering techniques levels arranged in a hierarchy. In
like K-Means Clustering and - this course, you will learn about
Hierarchical Clustering along the basic building blocks of
with Dimension Reduction Artificial Neural Networks. You’ll
techniques like Principal learn how Deep Learning
Component Analysis. Networks can be successfully
applied to data for knowledge
discovery, knowledge
Topics Covered application, and knowledge-
• K-Means Clustering based prediction.
• Hierarchical Clustering
Topics Covered
• Basics
Sample Project 5 • Activation Function,
Identify different segments Loss Function
from a bank’s existing customer • Optimizers, Regularization
pool based on their spending -Drop-outs
patterns as well as past • TensorFlow
interactions with the bank. • Keras

Sample Project 6
Build an Image Classification
model to classify street view
house numbers using Neural
Networks.

“Overall it is a great course- good content, expert mentorship and

excellent support from the program office.”
Arun Kumar U, Sr. IT Analyst, Siemens Postal, Parcel and Airport Logistics (Germany)
Module-Wise Curriculum
Module 7 Module 8

Computer Vision Natural Language

Processing
The module will reflect on the
ability of a computer system to This module talks about yet
see and make sense of visuals another interesting implementa-
using CNN (Concurrent Neural tion of Neural Networks that
Networks). It will enable you to revolves around equipping
efficiently handle image data - computers to understand
-
for the purpose of feeding into human language. You will learn
CNNs and will discuss CNN to work with text data and
architectures. explore the interesting world of
RNNs and LSTMs.

Topics Covered
Topics Covered
• Business Applications of NLP
• Business Applications of • Text Extraction Techniques
Computer Vision and Text Preprocessing
• Working with Images • GLoVe, Word2Vec, Word
• Convolutions, VGGNet Embeddings, POS Tagging
• Transfer Learning • RNNs, LSTMs

Sample Project 7 Sample Project 8

Utilise Transfer Learning Detect sarcastic news headlines
technique to use a pre-trained using a Recurrent Neural
model for detecting and Network architecture on
identifying faces from a pool different news headlines
of facial data.

“The program is very enjoyable and I am very satisfied

by the program.”

Jaime Sanabria, Account Manager, GroupM (Spain)

Self-Paced Modules
Module 9 Module 10

Statistical Learning Recommendation

Systems
Statistical Learning is a branch
of applied statistics that deals A large number of companies
with Machine Learning, use recommender systems,
emphasizing statistical models which are software that select
and assessment of uncertainty. products to recommend to
This course on statistics will - individual customers. In this
-
work as a foundation for the course, you will learn how to
Artificial Intelligence and produce successful recom-
Machine Learning concepts mender systems that use past
learnt in this program. product purchase and satisfac-
tion data to make high-quality
personalized recommendations.
Topics Covered
• Descriptive Statistics Topics Covered
• Inferential Statistics • Popularity-based Model
• Probability & Conditional • Market Basket Analysis
Probability • Content-based Model
• Hypothesis Testing • Collaborative Filtering
• Chi-square & ANOVA • SVD Approach
• Hybrid Recommendation
Sample Project 9 Systems
Deep dive deep into an
insurance company data set to Sample Project 10
find valuable insights on Build your own recommendation
customer profiles based system for products on an
on several statistical tests. e-commerce website.
Why are Some Modules Self-paced?
The self-paced modules cater to skills that are complementary to those learnt in
guided modules. Since all learners do not need to/may not want to learn them,
they have been kept as part of self-paced modules.

All these modules have similar high-quality recorded video lectures by UT

Austin faculty, global academicians, and industry experts but do not have men-
torship sessions. You can learn them at your own pace and schedule, based on
your interests and the current and future demands of your role.

For all academic and non-academic questions in these modules, your Program
Manager will be there to assist you.

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