The course is priced at Rs 1,000; top performers will be invited to 'summer garage,' an AI residency programme at IIT Madras Research Park.
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Labs, a start-up founded by two faculty members of the Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) and incubated in the
institute, has launched an online self-paced course on foundations of
data science, at an affordable cost.
The
course, priced at Rs 1,000 for students and faculty members, has been
launched under the company's online school platform ‘PadhAI’,
which also means the path in Tamil. The start-Up has been founded by
Mitesh Khapra and Pratyush Kumar, Assistant Professors in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras.
While
there is rising demand for trained data scientists across the
manufacturing sector and in areas such as financial services,
healthcare, education, and IT, most courses are expensively priced,
ranging from tens of thousands to even lakhs of rupees. As a result,
there is a heavy premium on acquiring the skills needed to pursue
this lucrative career path, the company said.
The
founders said that the primary goal of the course is to ensure that
every college student in the country in engineering, science, or
commerce disciplines has access to a foundational understanding of
data science, which is an essential skill for the future.
Every
year, the top-performing students from PadhAI
will be invited to ‘summer garage,’ an AI residency programme at
IIT Madras Research Park where they can work on research, tackle
problems of societal impact, or find solutions to commercial value.
Khapra
and Kumar also launched a platform, ‘AI4Bharat’, to build
artificial intelligence solutions to address India’s problems and
accelerate AI Innovation. It is a community of AI professionals,
students, domain experts, policy makers and academicians
collaborating on solving real-world challenges in Agriculture,
Healthcare, Smart Cities, Digital India and sustainability.
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