Build real projects you can showcase in interviews
Apply industry tools and workflows confidently
Understand core concepts through hands-on practice
Earn a certificate on successful completion
Course Curriculum
6 Modules • 15 Topics • 99 Subtopics
AI Concepts, Career Landscape & Data Foundations20h
AI landscape 2025 — real applications, career roles (Data Analyst → AI Engineer → AI Architect)
What is data? Structured, unstructured, semi-structured; data quality vs. quantity
Types of AI models — text-to-text, image-to-text, multimodal, audio
Dataset formats: JSONL, CSV, text files; train/validation/test splits
Types of datasets: labelled, unlabelled, instruction-output
AI ethics overview — bias, fairness, accountability, transparency
Lab / Hands-on: Map 10 real-world AI applications. Build a mind-map of 'AI Ecosystem & Career Paths'. Create a custom dataset using a dataset generator tool for a chosen domain.
Python for Data Science + Math & Statistics for AI20h
Python syntax, data structures, file handling, OOP
NumPy arrays, Pandas DataFrames, data transformations
Statistics: mean, median, variance, distributions, correlation vs. causation
Linear algebra: vectors, matrices — intuition and Python implementation
Probability basics, hypothesis testing, A/B testing
Data visualization with Matplotlib and Seaborn
Lab / Hands-on: Work through the Titanic and a custom domain dataset — compute statistics, handle missing values, visualize distributions, and export a clean dataset.
Data Preprocessing, Feature Engineering & ML Foundations16h
Data quality: missing values, outliers, noise handling
Lab / Hands-on: Full preprocessing and ML pipeline: clean a raw dataset, engineer features, train 3 different models, evaluate and compare. Deploy best model as a simple prediction script.
Build a complete ML solution for a real-world problem: customer churn prediction, loan default classification, medical diagnosis, or crop yield prediction. The solution must include full data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and a simple inference interface.
Hugging Face Hub: model discovery, versioning, and deployment
Responsible AI in LLMs: hallucinations, bias, safety red-teaming
Lab / Hands-on: Set up Hugging Face account. Download and run 3 SLMs locally. Design a domain evaluation benchmark. Compare model outputs on domain tasks.
SLM Fine-tuning at Project Scale20h
Custom dataset creation: web scraping, annotation, synthetic generation with LLMs
Dataset formats and quality checks for instruction tuning
Fine-tuning strategies: Full fine-tune vs. PEFT (LoRA, QLoRA, Adapters)
Training with Hugging Face Trainer API and TRL library
Evaluation: BLEU, ROUGE, perplexity, human evaluation rubric
Instruction tuning and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)
Model merging techniques: SLERP, TIES
Publishing models: Hugging Face Hub model cards
Lab / Hands-on: Full fine-tuning pipeline: build domain dataset → fine-tune Phi-3 Mini or TinyLlama with LoRA → evaluate vs. base model → publish to Hugging Face Hub.
PROJECT 2 — Domain-Specific Small Language Model4h
Fine-tune an SLM on a domain-specific dataset of your choice (Healthcare Q&A, Engineering Troubleshooting, Legal FAQ, Education Assistant, or Agriculture Advisory). Demonstrate measurable improvement over the base model on a custom evaluation set.
AI Agent Fundamentals + RAG Knowledge Systems20h
AI Agent architectures: ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, Reflexion
Tool use: web search, code execution, database query, external APIs
Prompt engineering for agents: few-shot, chain-of-thought, structured outputs
Lab / Hands-on: Build a research agent that reads and reasons over a document base using LangChain + your fine-tuned SLM. Implement a RAG system over a college or company knowledge base.
Responsible agentic AI — boundaries, permissions, transparency
Lab / Hands-on: Build a 3-agent pipeline using CrewAI: Research Agent + Analysis Agent + Report Generation Agent. Integrate human-in-the-loop approval at the analysis stage.
AI Dashboard Development20h
Streamlit for rapid AI application development — pages, state, file upload, forms
Gradio for model sharing and interactive demos
Plotly / Dash for data-heavy dashboards and analytics
UI/UX principles for AI applications — clarity, feedback, error handling
Integrating SLM inference, agent pipelines, and RAG into dashboard UI
Real-time streaming responses in Streamlit/Gradio
Lab / Hands-on: Build a multi-page Streamlit dashboard integrating your fine-tuned SLM + agent. Include a chat interface, document upload for RAG, and a model performance analytics page.
Full-Stack AI Applications & Deployment20h
FastAPI for AI backend development — REST endpoints, async, request validation
Model serving: batch inference, streaming, async queues
Frontend integration: connecting React / HTML+JS to a FastAPI backend
Deployment targets: Hugging Face Spaces, Render, AWS EC2 basics
CI/CD for AI: GitHub Actions — test, build, deploy pipeline
Lab / Hands-on: Build and deploy a full AI web application — FastAPI backend serving your SLM + agent, Streamlit/Gradio frontend, Dockerized, deployed to Hugging Face Spaces or Render.
MLOps, Responsible AI & Capstone Presentations20h
Model versioning with MLflow and DVC
Experiment tracking with Weights & Biases (W&B)
Monitoring in production: data drift, model drift, performance degradation
Responsible AI by Design: embedding ethical reasoning into system architecture
Responsible AI in Design: awareness of societal impact, fairness, accountability
AI Safety: prompt injection, adversarial inputs, jailbreaks and defenses
IP, licensing, and open-source model policies
Professional AI project presentation: GitHub, README, demo video, model card
Lab / Hands-on: Audit your own AI system for bias and safety issues. Set up MLflow experiment tracking. Configure a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline. Prepare and deliver Capstone presentation.
Production AI System2h
Each participant designs and delivers a complete production-ready AI system addressing a real-world problem. The system must include: a fine-tuned SLM or domain model, at least one AI agent with tool use, a deployed dashboard or web application, a REST API backend, and a CI/CD pipeline. Domains: Healthcare, Legal, Education, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Finance, or any socially impactful area.