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 THE BITS PILANI EDGE
Excellence, Reimagined for You
This is where your future meets our legacy.

At BITS Pilani Digital, we’ve created a flexible, industry-led, online learning ecosystem, designed to fit
your life and match your potential.

Here’s what you achieve by joining us:

BITS Pilani Flexible Learning Industry Tools &

Credential from Anywhere Emerging Tech

A formal degree from a globally Attend live online classes, access Hands-on learning with Python,
respected Institution of recordings, and progress at your GenAI, SQL, Streamlit, MLOps,
Eminence own pace NLP, and more

Curriculum with PROPEL Portfolio IGNITE Cell &

Real-World Projects for Job Readiness Industry Support

Apply learning through Apex Projects Build a recruiter-ready portfolio Industry mentorship, career
every trimester with major Capstone with real apps, code, coaching, optional internships,
and Keystone projects in later years dashboards, and models and employability skills

Whether you’re exploring to pivot or looking to get ahead in your career, this is where academic
excellence meets flexibility and real-world preparation.

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THE FUTURE IS

DATA
Data Science and AI aren’t just
buzzwords, they’re at the heart of
every major shift in the world
around us.

3X demand for AI

DRIVEN.
professionals globally

Cross-domain use cases:

BFSI, healthcare, retail,
and more

THE AGE OF India emerging as a

AIhttpIS NOW.
GenAI hub

From detecting diseases to

streamlining how we work, AI is
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demand for skilled professionals is
only growing.
 What can AI do? AI IS ALREADY
DOING BIG THINGS -
Healthcare
Speed up diagnoses. Tailor treatments. Save lives. SAVING LIVES,
Finance
Prevent fraud. Predict markets. Power smarter decisions.
SOLVING PROBLEMS,
BUILDING SMARTER SYSTEMS.
Retail

NOW’S YOUR
Create personalized shopping. Streamline inventory.

Agriculture

CHANCE TO BE PART
Forecast yields. Reduce waste. Farm sustainably.

Transportation
From self-driving tech to smart logistics, AI makes it safer, faster,
OF THAT CHANGE, AND LEAD
and better.
IT INTO THE FUTURE.
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B.S. in Data
Science and AI
The Future is Intelligent. And It’s Hiring.

Who Should Apply

Those looking for a cutting-edge digital degree.

Those who missed BITSAT but still want the BITS advantage.
Those passionate about AI and future tech.
Those looking for flexibility with academic rigor.
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What makes BITS Pilani Digital work?

With top mentors, real-world skills and hands-on projects, our programs
are tailored to help you lead, innovate and thrive.

Curriculum co-designed with industry experts

Real-world projects with industry data

Capstone, Apex & Lab-based learning

Final-year optional Work-Study Internship

 What sets B.S. Degree in Data Science & AI apart?

Whether you’re exploring to leap forward in your career or looking to

lead the world into the future, BITS Pilani Digital is where academic
excellence meets flexibility and real-world preparation.

Tailored to Your Life Industry-Designed Projects Every

Self-paced learning. Curriculum Trimester
Weekend exams. Learn end-to-end Data Real datasets. Real
Science & AI: conceptual impact. From sandbox
foundations along with to Capstone.
industry practices, latest
tools & technologies.

Hands-On Tools PROPEL Career Optional Final-Year

TensorFlow, Spark, Portfolio Work-Study
AWS APIs, Python, NLP, Track your work. Show Put your learning to
MLOps. your progress. Impress work, before you
recruiters. graduate.
 PROGRAM CURRICULUM - YEAR 1
FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE, HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL MASTER:

TRIMESTER 1 TRIMESTER 2 TRIMESTER 3

Probability & Statistics Linear Algebra Optimisation

3 credits 2 credits 2 credits

Computer Programming Multivariable Calculus Principles of Economics

YEAR 1

3 credits 2 credits 3 credits

Writing Practice Fundamentals of Data Science Supervised Learning

2 credits and Engineering 3 credits
3 credits
Data and the World Unsupervised Learning
1 credits Data Structures for Data Science 3 credits
3 credits
Computing Systems Programming using Generative AI
3 credits Data Preprocessing 1 credits
3 credits
Apex Project II
Apex Project I 1 credits
1 credits
 PROGRAM CURRICULUM - YEAR 2
FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE, HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL MASTER:

TRIMESTER 4 TRIMESTER 5 TRIMESTER 6

Combinatorics Relational Databases and Querying Advanced Deep Learning

2 credits 3 credits 3 credits

Mobile and Web Application Deep Neural Networks NLP Applications

YEAR 2

Development 3 credits 2 credits

3 credits
Multimedia Processing Modern Databases
Classical AI 2 credits 3 credits
3 credits
Search Engines Environmental Studies
Data Visualisation 3 credits 3 credits
3 credits
Apex Project IV Apex Project V
Apex Project III 2 credits 2 credits
2 credits
 PROGRAM CURRICULUM - YEAR 3 & 4
FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE, HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL MASTER:

TRIMESTER 7 TRIMESTER 8 TRIMESTER 9

Discipline Elective I Capstone Project Discipline Elective V,

3 credits 12 credits Open Elective I, II, III

Discipline Elective II AND/OR

YEAR 3

3 credits
Internship
Discipline Elective III (up to 12 credits)
3 credits

Discipline Elective IV
3 credits

TRIMESTER 10 TRIMESTER 11 TRIMESTER 12

Foundations of Generative AI OR Open Elective IV Keystone Project

Generative AI Applications 3 credits 12 credits
3 credits
Open Elective V
YEAR 4

Big Data Analytics 3 credits

3 credits
Discipline Elective VI
Graphs and AI 3 credits
3 credits

Systems for Model Deployment

3 credits
Discipline Elective VII
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LIST OF ELECTIVES
Discipline Electives: ▪ Agentic AI 3 Credits Open Electives:
▪ Study Project 3 Credits ▪ Distributed Systems for 3 Credits ▪ Business Communication 3 Credits
(Model) Training
▪ Lab Project I 3 Credits ▪ Fundamentals of Finance & 3 Credits
▪ Reinforcement Learning 4 Credits Accounting
▪ Lab Project II 3 Credits
▪ ML on Edge 3 Credits ▪ Cross-Cultural Skills 3 Credits
▪ Design Project I 3 Credits
▪ Big Data Engineering 3 Credits ▪ Principles of Management 3 Credits
▪ Design Project II 3 Credits
▪ Cloud Services & Platforms 3 Credits ▪ Conversation and Presentation 3 Credits
▪ Healthcare Data Analytics 3 Credits Skills
▪ Robotics and AI 3 Credits
▪ Analytics for BFSI 3 Credits ▪ Introduction to Retailing 3 Credits
▪ ML for Data Streams 3 Credits
▪ Analytics for Retail & 3 Credits
eCommerce ▪ Multimedia Analytics 3 Credits

▪ Devices and Networks 3 Credits ▪ AI Application Deployment 3 Credits

▪ Application Deployment on 3 Credits ▪ Computer Vision 4 Credits

the Cloud
▪ Cloud-Native AI 3 Credits
▪ Introduction to Text Analytics 3 Credits

▪ Software Engineering and AI 3 Credits

▪ Governance in AI 3 Credits

▪ Data Warehousing and 3 Credits

Data Lakes Disclaimer: Elective offerings are subject to the
institution’s discretion and will depend on a
▪ Graph Algorithms 3 Credits
sufficient number of students opting for each
▪ Soft Computing 3 Credits course to form an optimal batch. The final
▪ Introduction to AR/VR 3 Credits decision on the availability and allocation of
electives rests solely with the institution.
LEARN BY APEX PROJECT
At the end of each trimester,
WORK STUDY INTERNSHIP
A structured, hands-on

DOING
tackle industry-grade Advanced experience designed to help you
Apex Projects. These practical connect classroom learning with
challenges help you apply what real industry practice. With this
you’ve learned to real-world internship, you’ll get to work on
domains like healthcare, BFSI, meaningful AI and Data Science
retail, and more. projects, applying your skills to
At the end of the B.S. in real challenges while hitting key
learning milestones.
Data Science & AI. You will
have done LAB & DESIGN PROJECTS
Select from lab experiments,
design simulations, or XR-driven
prototypes based on your
interest. These hands-on CAPSTONE PROJECT
experiences bring your learning In your eight trimester, dive deep
to life and help you build into a Capstone Project that
specialised, tech-first skills. reflects your specialisation. Solve
high-impact problems using real
data and tools like TensorFlow,
Apache Spark, and cloud-native
platforms. It’s your bridge from
student to AI professional.
WHERE THIS You’ll:

DEGREE ▪ Graduate with a portfolio that recruiters love

TAKES YOU
By the time you’re done,
▪ Understand real-world use cases across industries

▪ Have internship or project experience (via IGNITE)

you’ll know the tools, how to
use them and where it ▪ Be career-ready, globally relevant, and digitally confident
matters most.

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Ready for future-defining roles like

Data Scientist Machine Learning Engineer Data Analyst BI Analyst Big Data Engineer

Cloud Data Specialist Data Product Manager Research Scientist (AI & DS) Tech Entrepreneur
 MULTIPLE EXIT POINTS
Our programs are designed with exceptional flexibility, offering multiple exit options to suit your
evolving goals and life circumstances. Whether you're looking to upskill, pause, or transition at
any point, you can do so without compromising on quality or progress—empowering you to
learn at your own pace and define success on your own terms.

Certificate in Diploma in B.Sc.

Data Science Data Science (Data Science & AI)
If you choose to exit after Complete 6 trimesters Stay the full 9 trimesters
completing the first 3 (normally after 2 years), and (normally after 3 years), and
trimesters (normally after one you’ll receive a Diploma in Data you’ll graduate with a B.Sc.
year), you’ll earn a Certificate Science - a powerful proof of degree in Data Science & AI from
in Data Science - a strong first your expertise and readiness to BITS Pilani - a mark of excellence
credential that opens doors to take on more advanced, and a passport to leadership in
exciting foundational roles. applied roles in the industry. an AI-powered world.
TRANSPARENT.
FLEXIBLE. EMI options with

NO HIDDEN COSTS.
0% interest

Total Fee (including admission):

B.Sc. Degree in Data Science & AI B.S. Degree in Data Science & AI

₹3,11,505 ₹4,08,840 Pay-per-trimester model

Application Fee (one-time): ₹1,500

Admission Fee (one-time): ₹19,500
Trimester Fee: ₹32,445 per trimester
Total Due at Admission: ₹51,945 (Admission + 1st Trimester)

Trimester Drop Policy

- Take a break for a trimester or two
- Pay a continuity fee of ₹5,000 per trimester when you resume Fee may vary for
international applicants
Above fees is for the academic year 2025-26
 ELIGIBILITY: INDIAN APPLICANTS
Educational background Didn’t meet the Math criteria?
You must have completed Class 12 in any stream, No worries! You can still qualify through:
or hold a government recognized technical - Enroll in a preparatory bridge course and clear
diploma (10+3). it. Duration: 4 months
Fees: INR 8,000
Maths/Statistics requirement - On clearing this course, you will be eligible to
You need at least 60% marks in enrol in the program for the next admission
Maths/Statistics in Class 12 or in your Technical cycle.
Diploma.
OR English Proficiency: Since the program is
Clear an online Math Eligibility Test (up to 2 taught in English, you’ll need to be comfortable
attempts). with the language.
OR
Submit proof of enrollment in a STEM Age Requirement: There’s no age limit – we
undergraduate degree. believe, it’s never too early or too late to start
ORv learning.
Show you've qualified for the JEE Advanced.
Work Experience: Not required. This program
is designed for freshers and professionals alike.
ELIGIBILITY: INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS
Educational background Didn’t meet the Math criteria?
You must have completed Class 12 in any stream, No problem! There are other ways:
or hold a government recognized technical - Enrol in a preparatory bridge course and
diploma (10+3). clear it.
Duration: 4 months | Fees: USD 100
Maths/Statistics requirement - On clearing this course, you will be eligible
You need a minimum of 60% marks in to enrol in the program for the next
Maths/Statistics in your Class 12 (or admission cycle.
equivalent) examination.
OR English Proficiency: Since the program is
Take BITS Pilani’s preparatory Math course and taught in English, you’ll need to be comfortable
pass it. with the language.
OR
Show proof of enrolment in a STEM Age Requirement: There’s no age limit – we
undergraduate program. believe, it’s never too early or too late to start
OR learning.
Submit proof of a valid SAT score (920+) or
JEE Advanced qualification. Work Experience: Not required. This program
is designed for freshers and professionals alike.
 EXAMS: STUDENTS IN INDIA
Students residing in India will take their exams in person at one of BITS Pilani’s
officially designated examination centres.

Exam Format & Schedule

Trimester end exams for each course are typically scheduled on Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays. For each
course, students can choose between two available date and time options for trimester end exams—making it
easier to plan around personal and professional commitments.

Students must adhere to the published exam schedule, rules, and guidelines announced prior to each exam.

Designated Exam Centres

Choose from 24 centres spread across major cities in four zones:

SOUTH ZONE NORTH ZONE WEST ZONE EAST ZONE

Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Jaipur, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata,
Hyderabad, Pilani, Lucknow, Nagpur, Goa, Bhubaneswar, Patna,
Vijayawada, Dehradun, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad Ranchi, Jamshedpur,
Thiruvananthapuram Jammu, Srinagar Guwahati, Silchar

Students may update their preferred exam centre each trimester, subject to availability.
 EXAMS: STUDENTS OUTSIDE INDIA
Students residing outside India will take their exams in an online proctored format
from their country of residence.

Exam Format & Requirements

Students must ensure access to:

Exams are
conducted with A computer/laptop High-speed, A quiet, private
remote proctoring meeting prescribed stable internet space free from
to ensure academic specifications disruptions during
integrity. the exam period

All requirements and technical guidelines will be shared in advance to ensure readiness.
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Data and the World (1 Credits) Data Preprocessing (3 Credits) Mobile and Web Application
Development (3 Credits)
Data & datasets, usage of data in Feature Engineering (feature extraction,
everyday life, examples of real-world missing data, creating new features, Introduction to Mobile and Web
applications that use data, how data is encoding, feature selection), correlation Development; Platforms (Web, Mobile
made available, how data is used by matrices, Dimensionality Reduction: PCA platforms such as iOS/Android) and
applications, how not to use data. Case and SVD, Anomaly detection and outlier development environments; Frontend
Studies detection. Handling skewness, Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Normalization, Sampling basics; ; Front-end and Back-end
Frameworks; Basics of server-side
programming; RESTful API design and
Supervised Learning (3 Credits) development; Mobile App Development
Unsupervised Learning (3 Credits) Basics: Native vs Hybrid apps,
Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Integrating with Databases: Relational
Naive Bayes, Decision Trees, SVM, kNN; Introduction to Unsupervised Learning: databases (e.g. MySQL), NoSQL
Perceptron and ANN; Loss functions, Applications and Challenges; Clustering: databases (e.g. MongoDB);
optimizations, regularization, Partitioning-based Clustering, Authentication and Security using basic
hyperparameter tuning as applicable, Hierarchical Clustering, Density-based frameworks (e.g.OAuth, JWT, and
Model evaluation techniques. Clustering, Clustering using Gaussian session management; Hosting web apps
Mixture Models, Clustering Evaluation on platform (e.g. Heroku, AWS);
Metrics; Anomaly Detection Methods. Publishing mobile apps on App Store
Association Rule Learning: Apriori and and Google Play; Using public APIs like
Fundamentals of Data Science and FP-Growth algorithms, Market Basket Google Maps, Stripe, Spotify, Twilio, etc.
Engineering (3 Credits) Analysis. to build Apps; End-to-end development
of a mobile and/or web app.
Types of Data and Datasets, Data Quality
and Issues: An overview, Data Models,
Data Pipelines and patterns; Data
Pipeline Stages, Process Models, Data
Analysis with Statistical Tools (such as R).
Simple Statistical Models.
Data Structures for Data Science Optimization (2 Credits) Computer Programming (2 Credits)
(3 Credits)
Introduction to Optimization Formulation Introduction to Computing and
Introduction to time Complexity;
of linear programming problems, Computers; Introduction to
Introduction to fundamental data
Simplex method, Sensitivity analysis, Programming Languages; Flowcharts
structures and their usage: Arrays, Linked
Revised and Dual Simplex Methods. and Algorithms; Number System; Basics
Lists, Stacks, Queues, Priority Queues;
Introduction to Convex Optimization of Python: Syntax, variables and data
Dictionaries and Hashing: Hash Tables
types; Control Structures: Conditionals
and Bloom Filters, and Applications;
(if, elif, else) and loops (for, while);
Searching and Sorting; Binary Trees and
Functions: Defining, calling, arguments,
Binary Search Trees; Disk-based
Computing Systems (3 Credits) return values, and scope; Data
Structures; Nearest Neighbor Search and
Structures: Lists, tuples, sets, dictionaries,
Optimization using kd-trees; Data
Understanding of a Computing System and strings; File Handling: Reading from
Structures for Streaming: Sketching,
and Environment for day-to-day and writing to files; Modules and
Summarization and real-time processing;
programming activities. Generic Libraries: Importing and using standard
Tries for text processing. Compressed
structure of a computer. CPU (cache, libraries (e.g., math, random, os); Basic
Tries. Prefix and Suffix Trees
memory hierarchy, threads and Algorithms: Searching (linear, binary) and
multi-core processors), GPU (memory sorting (selection), Max, Average and
hierarchy, threading model), Isolation Median; Introduction to NumPy: Basic
(containers), Distributed Computing array manipulations
Linear Algebra (Credits)
(client-server, clusters, data partitioning),
Cloud (Virtualization, containers,
Vector and matrix algebra, systems of
scalability), Programming Environments
linear algebraic equations and their Multivariable Calculus (3 Credits)
(Code Repositories and Versioning
solutions; eigenvalues, eigenvectors and
Systems), Execution Environments (Shell
diagonalization of matrices, SVD Review of Limits, Continuity,
Commands, Scripting, profiling and
debugging) differentiation and integration,
introduction to multivariable calculus,
partial derivatives, Multiple Integrals.
Classical AI (3 Credits) Multimedia Processing (2 Credits) Deep Neural Networks (3 Credits)

Search Techniques for Problem Solving: Understanding of Multimedia Processing, Basic ANNs, Back Propagation and
Branch and Bound, Heuristic Search: Hill image/audio/video representation, Forward Propagation, RNNs and LSTMs,
Climbing, Simulated Annealing, A*; compression, transformation to feature CNNs, Segmentation (SAM, SAM2),
Knowledge Representation: First-Order vectors, Multimedia Analytics models for segmentation, Popular
Predicate Logic, Frames, Semantic Web; (segmentation, classification using KNN Architectures (Yolo, UNet)
Knowledge Graphs; Intelligent Agents and SVM for image and videos, and
HMM and GMM for audio data)

Modern Databases (3 Credits)

Combinatorics (2 Credits)
Data Visualization (3 Credits) NoSQL databases - Querying
Sets, Functions, and Relations. Counting unstructured and semi-structured data;
- Permutations and Combinations. The Visualization design objectives (charts, BASE model. Distributed Databases.
Pigeonhole Principle and its applications. graphs, hierarchical layouts, and Eventual Consistency and Chubby
Recurrence Relations and Basic Solution techniques for visualization of high Locking. Joins, Indexing, CAP Theorem
Approaches. dimensional data); Understanding the and database design, Analytics using
context for data presentations, 3-minute modern databases.
story, Effective Visuals, Gestalt principles
of visual perception, Visual Ordering,
Decluttering, Story Telling, Usage of
Search Engines (2 Credits)
Visualization Tools (e.g. Tableau, Relational Databases and Querying
PowerBI, and matplotlib), Dashboard (3 Credits)
Structure and components of Classic
and Stories.
Search Engines; Building a Crawler, Data Modelling - ER diagrams; ACID
Indexing of Text and Multimedia Data, properties, Functional Dependencies,
Retrieval, and Ranking; Web as a graph, Database Design - normalization and
Link analysis, Pagerank and HITS; normal forms; Querying - SQL, Joins,
Assembling a search engine end-to-end understanding of query performance,
given a crawler, Multilingual and cross manual optimization of queries; Analytics
lingual retrieval systems using relational databases
Healthcare Data Analytics (same as Analytics for Retail & eCommerce Application Deployment on the
in MSc) (3 Credits) (3 Credits) Cloud (3 Credits)
Types and characteristics of data in Introduction to retailing and Model inferencing, Basic deployment,
healthcare; EMR; EHR-understanding e-Commerce; Introduction to retail Containerization (e.g. Dockers),
data schema and representation; Health analytics; Demand estimation; Customer Orchestration of multiple containers (e.g.
Management Information Systems segmentation; Customer lifetime value; Kubernetes), deployment of data/ML
(Clinical Information Systems, e-Commerce analytics value chain; applications on the cloud, Serverless
Management Information Systems, Methods and techniques for e-Commerce deployment (e.g. AWS Lambda)
Decision Support Systems, EMR Systems, analytics; Analysing behavioral data
Health Information Exchange, Telehealth
Systems); Health statistics; EDA in
healthcare; Descriptive and predictive Capstone Project (12 Credits)
analytics in healthcare; Data ownership Devices and Networks (3 Credits)
and emerging data governance models An advanced project that students
in healthcare What is IoT; Key elements of an IoT typically complete at the end of the
system - sensors, actuators, academic programme or after
communication & networking, data completion of substantial part of the
storage, software application; IoT and big programme. It showcases their ability to
Analytics for BFSI (3 Credits) data; Benefits of integrating IoT with ML, apply what they've learned to a
examples from sectors such as industrial real-world problem or research topic
Digital economy, digital identity; Role of IoT, agriculture & healthcare; Trade-offs in
cloud computing, big data and end-to-end ML applications in IoT
blockchain in the fintech ecosystem; systems with examples
Financial services disruptions (asset Keystone Project (12 Credits)
servicing, capital markets, investment
management, insurance); Data sourcing An advanced project that students
for analytical models; AI applications in Apex Project (1 or 2 Credits) complete at the end of the academic
finance, machine learning in finance, text programme. It demonstrates their ability
mining, generative AI, financial market A high-level project that represents the to solve real-world problems as applied
analysis; Regulatory technology culmination of a student’s learning to specific business verticals or domain
(RegTech); Open banking, Bank 4.0; experience at the end of a trimester areas
Financial sector transformation
Introduction to Text Analytics Advanced Deep Learning (3 Credits) Software Engineering and AI
(3 Credits) (3 Credits)
Autoencoders, GANs, Transformers,
Introduction to text analytics; Text data: Diffusion Models, Hyper-parameter Agile processes, Software design, Code
structured vs unstructured; tuning, Introduction to LLMs, and VLMs. automation using GenAI, Software
pre-processing: tokenization, stemming, Overview of GenAI and applications. testing; Testing using GenAI; ML
lemmatization, and part-of-speech Techniques for Test Case Generation; ML
tagging. Representation techniques - Techniques for Code Coverage
Bag-of-Words, TF-IDF, Word2vec, GloVe,
etc; Hands-on with popular tools and
libraries; Solving NLP tasks on real
Data Warehousing and Data Lakes
datasets - text classification,
(3 Credits)
Graph Algorithms (3 Credits)
summarization, named entity Multidimensional Relational Data, Data
recognition, recommender systems, warehouses; Column-wise storage, ETL vs Konigsberg bridge problem; walk/paths,
topic mining. ELT, Common storage for structured and and isomorphism; Attributes/Properties:
unstructured data. Datastore for raw data. centrality - degree / betweeness /
Data Warehouse vs Data Lakes, Data eigenvector centrality / eccentricity,
Ingestion, Data Pipeline, Analytics using adjacency degree matrices, Laplacian,
Governance in AI (3 Credits) relational data warehouses and data lakes. spectral components; Graph traversal and
path finding methods: BFS, DFS,
Fairness & Inclusivity, Ethics,
Dijkstra's, Bellman–Ford, Floyd–Warshall;
Transparency, Explainability, Regulatory
Popularity Ranking: PageRank, HITS.
Compliance, Data Protection, Data
Big Data Analytics (3 Credits) Graph construction mechanisms: NN
Privacy, Anonymization. Case Studies;
similarity graphs, graph kernels, proximity
Solutions to address ethical issues for
Parallel and Distributed Architectures for graphs, Link Prediction-Jacard Coefficient,
government, corporations/organizations,
Big Data; Data Distribution Techniques; Adamic adar, Katz
research, public use of data, social
Resilience (Data + Compute) -
norms, and legal compliance; Case
MapReduce, In-Memory Distributed
studies. Data ethics in specific domains -
Processing and RDDs (e.g. Spark);
e.g. health care, finance, and social
Structured Big Data Systems and
studies/research.
Querying (e.g. BigTable) Stream
processing (e.g. Apache Storm)
Cloud Services & Platforms (3 Credits)

Introduction to Cloud Computing: History and evolution of cloud computing, Key characteristics and service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS),
Cloud deployment models (Public, Private, Hybrid, and Multi-cloud); Cloud Platforms: Overview of major cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft
Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Introduction to platform-specific tools and services; Virtualization and Networking: Concepts of
virtualization and virtual machines, Containers and orchestration with Kubernetes/docker, Software-defined networking (SDN) and virtual
private clouds (VPCs); Cloud Storage and Databases: Types of cloud storage: Object, Block, and File storage, Managed database services:
Relational and NoSQL databases, HDFS; Backup, recovery, and disaster recovery in the cloud; Cloud Security and Compliance: Identity and
Access Management (IAM), Encryption and data protection strategies, Compliance standards: GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, Threat detection
and response; DevOps and Automation in the Cloud: Introduction to DevOps and its importance in cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines
and deployment automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.

Soft Computing (3 Credits) Distributed Systems for (Model) Graphs and AI (3 Credits)
Training (3 Credits)
Fuzzy Logic - Membership Functions, Many-to-Many Relations, Graph Data
Fuzzification, and Defuzzification, Fuzzy Overview of Distributed Systems and Stores and Graph databases, (e.g.
Reasoning. Fuzzy Classification. Expert Clusters; Data Transfer / Communication Neo4j), Querying Graph Databases.
Systems; Evolutionary Algorithms; Performance and Constraints; Data Graph clustering and Graph
Genetic Algorithms- Chromosomes, Parallelism vs. Task Parallelism; Classification. Knowledge Graphs and
Fitness Functions, and Selection Distributed SGD - Performance issues Applications. Querying Knowledge
mechanisms, Crossover and Mutation; and solutions; Data Distribution Graphs. Ontologies. Semantic
Genetic Programming; Other related techniques; Distributed Machine Entailment. Graph Analytics. Knowledge
approaches such as Ant Colony Learning Platforms and Architectures Graph Embeddings
Optimization, Swarm Intelligence (e.g. TensorFlow, Apache Spark)
Algorithms.
ML on Edge (3 Credits) Big Data Engineering (3 Credits) Robotics and AI (3 Credits)

Overview of Distributed AI and ML; ML Basic performance measurement and Fundamentals of robotics, Mapping and
on IoT Networks; Data distribution for analysis using python profiler; localization algorithms, path planning
ML models and inference on IoT; ML on Measuring impact of Locality, caching, algorithms, Instance-based learning,
Small Form Factor devices - Constraints, IO latency, bandwidth, network latency; demonstration-based path planning
Compressed Models; Tradeoffs between Optimizing performance and Handling using reinforcement learning, deep
ML performance and System Big Data; Data movement, Memory learning and reinforcement learning
Performance; Federated Learning Latency, and GPUs, Leveraging GPUs, based mapping, navigation and control
Leveraging Distributed Systems., Data of mobile robots.
Partitioning;

ML for Data Streams (3 Credits)

Robotics and AI (3 Credits)
Stream Processing – abstractions,
platforms, and programming interfaces
Generative AI Applications
(3 Credits) Fundamentals of robotics, Mapping and
used for processing streams, windowing localization algorithms, path planning
/ micro-batching techniques. Case Prompt Engineering and Coding algorithms, Instance-based learning,
studies and applications. Stream Prompts; Building Applications using demonstration-based path planning
Processing Platforms (e.g. Kafka, Apache Generative AI; Retrieval Assisted using reinforcement learning, deep
Flume, Spark and Storm); Platform Generation (RAG); KV Caching and learning and reinforcement learning
architectures (such as Alpha and Kappa Content Assisted Generation (CAG); based mapping, navigation and control
Architectures) for Mixed Processing. Evals and Domain Fitting; Design and of mobile robots.
development of industry solutions using
agents-powered Generative models; in
single and multi-agents environments
Multimedia Analytics (3 Credits) (e.g. CrewAI, AutoGen, LangGraph, AI Application Deployment
Open AI Swarm); Application Case (3 Credits)
Multi-modal Search, Recommendation, Studies - Chatbots and Virtual Assistants,
Domain Specific Applications, image Tutoring Systems, Game Development, DevOps & CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, Github
annotations; 3d image content analysis- AR/VR; Actions); Scripting; Data pipelines and
traffic analysis, human action recognition, workflow automation; Unique challenges
in data science and AI projects; MLOps
Cloud-Native AI (3 Credits) NLP Applications (2 Credits)

Introduction to Microservices; Software Sentiment Analysis, Grammar and

Design using Microservices; Cloud Spelling Checkers, POS Tagging,
Platforms and APIs for AI/ML (e.g. AWS Question answering and Chatbots,
and Azure APIs), AIML Applications on Information Extraction (named entity
Cloud Platforms using Native APIs (e.g. recognition, relation extraction)
AWS and Azure)

Programming using Generative AI

Foundations of Generative AI (1Credits)
(3 Credits)
GenAI based Programming Tools; Code
Mathematical background- Probability Completion and Code Generation using
Distributions, Discrete and Continuous LLMs; Debugging Generated Code;
modelling; Generative vs Discriminative Fixing errors and Testing Generated
models; Evolution of Gen AI models- Code
Bayesian networks, Autoregressive
Models, Autoencoders and Variational
Autoencoders, GANs, Deep generative
models; Understanding of different types
of deep generative models with
applications- Large language models,
visual language models and graph
language models,
Applications-Adversarial training,
Synthetic data generation, AI-Generated
Music/Avatars, visual Q&A task etc.;
Latest research trends in generative AI;
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