IIT Kharagpur Offers 8-week FREE online course on 'Machine Learning'

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 September 26, 2021.

IIT Kharagpur Admissions 2021: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur commenced the admission application process for the free online course on introduction to machine learning this time on the SWAYAM NPTEL platform. The free online course offered by IIT Kharagpur is 8-week long and will be conducted from July 26 to September 17, 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 September 26, 2021. The course also carries two credit points, which can be beneficial for engineering students. While IIT Kharagpur has kept the course open to all participants, it could be most beneficial for students and professionals belonging to Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Programming and Robotics. It also serves as an elective course for undergraduate, postgraduate, BE, ME, MS, MSc and PhD students.

Professor Sudeshna Sarkar will be conducting the course. The professor is currently the head of 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.

The course will introduce participants to the basics of computational learning theory, and the various issues related to the application of machine learning algorithms will also be discussed. Furthermore, the course will be accompanied by hands-on problem solving with programming in Python and some tutorial sessions.

How to enroll for the IIT Kharagpur Free Online Course on Machine Learning?

Interested participants are required to enroll in the course by clicking on the Join button available on the official website before August 2, 2021. Participants are advised to first sign into the SWAYAM NPTEL platform using their Microsoft, Facebook or Google accounts, or simply login using the SWAYAM account.

In order to create a SWAYAM account, candidates have to register with the platform by entering the username, password, email address, and then verifying the account. As far as the certificate for the course is concerned, announcements will be made when the registration form is open for submission, and the online registration form has to be then filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid.

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