IIT Guwahati invites application for free course on "Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence" via NPTEL

IIT Guwahati has organised this course while keeping in mind the growing usage of AI in every industry. "What does automatic scheduling or autonomous driving have in common with web search, speech recognition, and machine translation? These are complex real-world problems that span across various practices of engineering! Aim of artificial intelligence (AI) is to tackle these problems with rigorous mathematical tools," says IIT Guwahati.

The objective of this course is to present an overview of the principles and practices of AI to address such complex real-world problems. The course is designed to develop a basic understanding of problem-solving, knowledge representation, reasoning and learning methods of AI.

Who can enrol in the course?

This is a Postgraduate Mechanical Engineering level course. But anyone can enrol in the course. The only prerequisite is you should know school level science and Basic Probability and Linear Algebra. You also should have the desire to expand the horizon of your knowledge.

Moreover, this course is a must-take for people in the Robotics Industry, Neuroscientists, Psychologists, Research scholars in the field of AI.

Timeline of the course

This Elective course has a duration of 12 weeks. It will start from 14 September 2020 and end on 4 December 2020. If you want the certificate, you have to give a proctored exam on 19 December 2020. The last date to enrol is 21 September 2020.

Who will teach this AI course?

Prof. Shyamanta M Hazarika will lead the course. He is a Professor at the Dept of Mechanical Engineering IIT-G. Also, he has an MTech in Robotics from IIT Kanpur; and PhD from School of Computing, University of Leeds, England.  His primary research interest is in Rehabilitation Robotics and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. This translates into interest in bio-mimetic prosthetics; cognition and cognitive vision.

What will the course teach?

This is a 12-week-long course. Here's the itinerary for the course.

W1: AI and Problem Solving by Search
W2: Problem Solving by Search
W3: Problem Solving by Search
W4: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
W5: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
W6: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
W7: Reasoning under Uncertainty
W8: Planning
W9: Planning and Decision Making
W10: Machine Learning
W11: Machine Learning
W12: Machine Learning

How to obtain a certificate from IIT Guwahati?

The course is free to enrol and learn. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the optional proctored exam. The fee for this exam is ₹ 1000. Also, the successful completion of the exam does not guarantee a certificate. To get a certificate, you need to get 25% from the assignments and 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100.

Final score = Average assignment score (>10/25) + Exam score (>30/75). If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score > 40/100.

This printable certificate will carry the stamp from both NPTEL and IIT Guwahati.

Further, enrol in the course here.