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IIT Roorkee Inks Mou With TSW To Launch PG Certificate Program In Data Science And Machine Learning

September 30, 2020: Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee soon will be launching a new course, Post Graduate Certificate Program in Data Science and Machine Learning which is specifically designed for working professionals with insights from academics and industry experts and will strike the right balance between rigor and practice. The course will be offered in collaboration with Times Profesional Learning (a part of The Times of India group).

Aspirants will be given three specialsiation options to choose from-

1. Computer vision and image recognition
2. Speech recognition
3. Data engineering

This comprehensive hands-on curriculum involves more than 184 hours of Live Training Sessions to be delivered by IIT Roorkee faculty and industry experts and has approximately 200 hours of self-learning content.

This 11-month certification course aims to train the learner for a career in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. No previous coding experience is required, although an engineering degree is required to qualify for the programme. The candidate must have a Bachelor's degree with a minimum aggregate of 50 per cent and a minimum of two years of work experience in the tech industry. Alumni of IIT Roorkee institute can also avail of a 15% waiver in the tuition fee.

On completion of the course, students will be entitled to complete industry mentorship and career support. TSW has reportedly collaborated with more than 250 leading organisations across the industry and in recent years more than 11,000 students have been actively placed with organisations of repute.

With a combination of 10 projects and real datasets, students would benefit from hands-on learning on diverse topics such as a recommendation system based on the dataset from Amazon, Auto-tagging photos uploaded by Yelp users on a review website, Classify the audio based on Google Audio set, Sentiment analysis on the live Twitter feed, Lung Cancer Detection, Satellite image classification, Covid-19 dataset analysis and Chatbot using Google Dialogflow.