IIT Kharagpur Offers Free Online Course on Machine Learning
DATAQUEST (June 13, 2021)
IIT Kharagpur Offers Free Online Course on Machine Learning That Can Be Completed in 8 Weeks
IIT Kharagpur has invited applications for a free online course on introduction to machine learning this time on the SWAYAM NPTEL platform. The 8-week long course will be conducted from 26 July to 17 September 2021. While the course is free to take, to get a certificate from IIT Kharagpur and NPTEL, participants will have to pay Rs 1000 and take an examination on 26 September 2021. The course also carries two credit points, which can be beneficial for engineering students.
The course will be conducted by professor Sudeshna Sarkar who is a professor and currently the head in the department of computer science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. The professor completed her BTech in 1989 from IIT Kharagpur, MS from University of California, Berkeley, and PhD from IIT Kharagpur in 1995, and her research interests are machine learning, natural language processing, data and text mining. (Read More)