IIT Roorkee Partners With Coursera To Bring Online Certificate Program in AI & Data Analytics

IIT Roorkee plans to launch high demand programs in partnership with Coursera. The courses will include advanced certification in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and certification in data science. The institute will, thus, offer online programmes for a global audience, IIT Roorkee informed.

About the course

The Advanced Certification in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning from IIT Roorkee will be a six months programme. It will be a mix of expert lectures, hands-on labs, tutorials, team projects, and workshops along with classes on coding. The course will build expertise in AI/ML besides equipping with classical ML techniques and algorithms, programming with TensorFlow for easy model building, robust ML production and powerful experimentation among others.

The certificate in Data Science programme is designed for professionals. It will focus on data science, ML, critical thinking, data collection, data visualisation, and data management. The course will develop programming skills in Python and SQL relevant, algorithms used in data analytics. Further, it will build knowledge about selected machine learning algorithms. These will include linear models, kNN, SVM, Trees, Random forest, and neural networks and much more. The programme will require no prior knowledge of coding in Python, R, or SQL.

Prof. Ajit K Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee, said:

“We are delighted to partner with Coursera to help fulfil the goal of inclusive education of the New Education Policy. Further, this partnership will help us reach out to a global audience of students and professionals aspiring for quality teaching in these sought after areas”.

Both courses from IIT Roorkee will be available on Coursera in early 2021.

The Education Ministry had earlier asked India's top 100 institutes to increase their online presence. It asked IITs, IIMs, institutes of eminence and national institutes to conduct online classes.

Further, Coursera had earlier collaborated with 150 Top Universities across the world. This includes Yale, University of Michigan, Stanford, and Imperial College of London. Coursera’s 67 million learners across 190 countries will now also be able to access IIT Roorkee’s highly sought-after and job-relevant programs.