International FDP: AI & Data Science
Enterprises, industries, organizations, societies, and countries are in the midst of an inevitable paradigm shift from ‘IT-enabled automation’ to ‘AI-enabled intelligence’. This manifests in the way our products, platforms, and services make billions of ‘decisions’ every day.This programme will help them understand the ‘AI transformation’ and evolve their ‘AI Thinking’ to the next level.
Mode: Live Online
Upcoming Sessions
Key Benefits
- Future skillsets for a data scientist
- Emerging trends in AI research
- Overview of AI and institutionalizing it for organizations
- Emerging trends in AI applications in industry
- Emerging trends in AI applications for social good
Who Should Attend?
The programme is ideal for mid-to-senior professionals who want to be part of the AI revolution and understand its implications on businesses, functions, and industries. It will also be beneficial for senior executives who are responsible for leading their organization’s transformative initiatives in digital, data and AI.
Programme Synopsis
Institutionalisation of AI
Session Description
- In this three part session we will explore AI from technology, process, architecture, and adoption perspectives. In the first part we will cover the philosophical and theoretical aspects of AI.
- In the second part we will understand a domain and data agnostic template for AI adoption across industrial and social use cases.
- In the third part we will explore the core paradigm shifts and examples of AI-first products of the next decade.
Speakers
Overview of current state of AI and introduction to the book ‘Artificial Intelligence: A modern approach’
Session Description
Focuses more on machine learning, deep learning, probabilistic programming, multiagent systems, and includes sections where the AI's utility function is uncertain, rather than certain.
Speakers
Emerging trends in AI research - Natural Language Processing
Session Description
- Two broad approaches to NLP are:
- Text analysis
- NLP for human-computer interaction and communication
- NLP for Communication enables machines to use language as a medium of communication and interaction with human beings. For this the machines should be able to :
a) Extract information,
b) understand and generate stories, and
c) have conversations/dialogue
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Emerging trends in AI research - Computer Vision
Session Description
- Computer Vision Applications:
- Satellite Imagery
- Retail AI
- Sports Analytics
- Self-supervised Learning Motivations
- How deep learning works ?
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Emerging trends in AI applications - Case Study in social sector
Session Description
- Case Study on Community Health Workers
- Case Study on Integrated Pest Management
- Case Study on Tuberculosis
Speakers
Building data science programme at University of Chicago
Session Description
- From “data poor” to “data rich”
- The rise of Data Science – Oceanography, Neuroscience, Agriculture
- The Data Science Lifecycle
Speakers
Emerging trends in Data Visualization
Session Description
- Where are we in the golden age?
- Threads of research
- Cross Filtering
- Changing of color scheme
- Transforming selection semantics
Speakers
Programme Leadership
Dr. Larry Birnbaum
Professor, Computer Science, Northwestern University, USA
Dr. Shailesh Kumar
Chief Data Scientist, Center of Excellence in AI/ML, Reliance Jio
Faculty and Advisors
Dr. Larry Birnbaum
Professor, Computer Science, Northwestern University, USA
Dr. Shailesh Kumar
Chief Data Scientist, Center of Excellence in AI/ML, Reliance Jio
Dr. Padmanabhan Anandan
Former CEO, Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, India | Researcher Emeritus, Microsoft Research India
Dr. Michael Franklin
Liew Family Chairman of Computer Science, Senior Advisor to the Provost for Computing and Data Science, The University of Chicago, USA
Dr. Arvind Satyanarayan
Assistant Professor, MIT, USA
Dr. Peter Norvig
Director of Research at Google | Distinguished Education Fellow at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI
Mr. Balakrishna Reddy
Vice President at Reliance AI-CoE