Postgraduate Diploma in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (E-Learning)

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Course Dates

STARTS ON

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Course Duration

DURATION

9 months, online
6-8 hours per week

Course Fee

PROGRAM FEE

Apply before Month Date, Year and avail an early bird tuition assistance of US$400. Use code DIP400EBTA during payment.

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In collaboration with Columbia Engineering Executive Education

Diploma Prerequisites

The diploma requires an undergraduate knowledge of statistics, (descriptive statistics, regression, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, interval estimation, etc.) calculus, linear algebra (vectors, matrices, derivatives), and probability.

The admission process will involve a short eligibility test on the above topics to assess participant readiness for the diploma.

Participants are required to possess an intermediate knowledge of Python since all assignments/application projects will be done using the Python programming language. Emeritus offers a complimentary Python for Data Analytics certificate course to meet this prerequisite. Participants who successfully complete this certificate course will receive a digital certificate of completion from Emeritus.

Why Enroll For Postgraduate Diploma in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (E-Learning)?

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms are transforming systems, experiences, processes, and entire industries. It’s no wonder that business leaders see these data-driven technologies as fundamental for the future—and that practitioners fluent in both fields are in high demand.

We are fascinated by their world-changing potential, and we’ve created the Postgraduate Diploma in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (E-Learning), to help students understand the fundamentals of AI and machine learning and how to apply them to solve complex, real-world problems.

  • FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE Master Al and machine learning essentials.
  • EXPERT-LED INSTRUCTION Learn from industry leaders and world-class faculty from renowned universities.
  • PRACTICAL, HANDS-ON LEARNING Advance your projects and solve complex, real-world problems.
  • CAREER DEVELOPMENT Keep your skills and your organization ahead of the Al curve.
  • GLOBAL CONNECTIONS Connect with your peers around the world via a collaborative, engaging learning experience.

The average Teacher-Student ratio in the program is 1:300.

Your Learning Journey

Video Lectures

Video Lectures

Discussions

Discussions

Assignments / Application Projects

Assignments / Application Projects

Capstone Project

Capstone Project

Live Online Teaching Sessions

Live Online Teaching Sessions

Syllabus

  • SUPERVISED LEARNING

    • Regression
    • Bayesian Methods
    • Foundational Classification Algorithms
    • Refinements to Classification
    • Intermediate Classification Algorithms

    UNSUPERVISED LEARNING

    • Clustering Methods
    • Recommendation Systems
    • Sequential Data Models
    • Association Analysis
    • Clustering Methods - II
    • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
    • Intelligent Agents and Uninformed Search
    • Heuristic Search
    • Adversarial Search and Games
    • Constraint Satisfaction Problems
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • Logical Agents
    • AI applications: Natural Language Processing
    • AI Applications and Course Review

Application Assignments

The diploma requires learners to work on application assignments, which require learners to apply the concepts they have learned to datasets and derive inferences. These assignments are intentionally made to be challenging and we expect learners to spend substantial time and effort solving them. At the end of the diploma, we expect learners to be able to apply the concepts to solve many of the business problems they face at their workplace.

Movie Recommendation Engine

Movie Recommendation Engine

You will build a movie recommendation engine by applying collaborative filtering and topic modelling techniques. You use a dataset which contains 20 million viewer ratings of 27,000 movies.

House Price Prediction

House Price Prediction

You will write code to predict house prices based on several parameters available in the Ames City dataset compiled by Dean De Cock using least squares linear regression and Bayesian linear regression.

Human Activity Recognition

Human Activity Recognition

You will predict the human activity (walking, sitting, standing) that corresponds to the accelerometer and gyroscope measurements by applying the nearest neighbours technique.

Credit Card Fraud Detection

Credit Card Fraud Detection

You will detect potential frauds using credit card transaction data. You will apply the random forest method to identify fraudulent transactions.

Market Segmentation

Market Segmentation

You will create market segments using the US Census dataset and by applying the k-means clustering method.

Search Algorithms

Search Algorithms

Apply advanced search techniques from Grid Search and Random Search to A* to identify parameters appropriate.

Adversarial Search and Games

Adversarial Search and Games

Apply decision making across voting election data (online voting data for US elections)

Machine Learning

Machine Learning

Apply the Data Science workflow to a classic e-commerce dataset to predict retention and customer sales over time (Amazon sales dataset)

Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Implement constraint optimization techniques in TensorFlow for Loan Approvals dataset

Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning

Apply OpenAI Gym, TensorFlow, and PyTorch to train systems such as Stanford Question Answering Dataset

Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing

Explore text analysis, text mining, sentiment analysis with classic text data sets (i.e. Twitter, Yelp, Wikipedia) and packages such as SpaCy and NLTK

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Program Faculty

Faculty Member John W. Paisley

John W. Paisley

Columbia University Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Affiliated Member, Data Sciences Institute

John has a PhD from Duke and has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science departments at Princeton University and UC Berkeley... More info

Faculty Member Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi

Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi

Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

Ansaf received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Orleans, France.... More info

Course Leaders

Faculty Member Carleton Smith

Carleton Smith

Course Leader, Emeritus

Faculty Member Jacob Koehler

Jacob Koehler

Course Leader, Emeritus

Certificate

Example image of certificate that will be awarded after successful completion of this program

Certificate

Upon successful completion of the diploma, participants will receive a verified digital diploma from Emeritus Institute of Management.

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Emeritus Network Benefits

On successful completion of this program, join a community of learners on the Emeritus Network. The Emeritus Network is your platform to connect to a global network of individuals. Benefits of the Emeritus Network include:

  • Tuition Assistance
  • Global network that includes over 400 CEOs, presidents, vice presidents, directors, founders, and managing directors
  • Start-up corner to help connect, collaborate, raise capital, invest, or identify talent

Pre-admission Requirements

Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and will be required to submit:

  • A completed application form
  • Minimal educational requirement of a Bachelor Degree certificate or official transcript in any discipline
  • An updated CV/resume

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENT

All candidates who have received their bachelor’s or other degree or diploma from an education institution where English is NOT the primary language of instruction are required to demonstrate English language proficiency through ANY ONE of the following methods

  • Obtain a TOEFL minimum score of 550 for the paper based test or its equivalent
  • Obtain an IELTS minimum score of 6.0
  • Obtain a Pearson Versant Test minimum score of 59
  • Obtain a Certificate of Completion for a Certificate course offered by Emeritus
  • Submit a document which shows that the candidate has, for the last 24 months or more, worked in ANY ONE of these countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
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