West Bengal, India: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India and Virginia Tech, United States jointly organizes an online certification course in Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. The course will be spanning over nine months from May 30, 2022 to January 07, 2023. Both students and industry executives across the world can apply for this programme. About 100 applicants would be selected based on their academic background and working experience. This collaboration is a step towards addressing the challenges of intelligent computation and interpretation of data produced at the rate of 2.5 quintillion bytes every day. The certificate program prepares analytical talent for today’s market that demands an understanding of artificial intelligence and its applications in data analytics. With an interdisciplinary approach under NEP 2020, the program helps to identify the utility in data and develop innovative thinkers providing effective solutions that benefit the immediate community and the world with the ease of living in a data driven world. Virginia Tech inculcates transdisciplinary approach to prepare scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to more than 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students and manages a research portfolio of more than $556 million. The university fosters a collaborative environment that integrates technology into all disciplines.

Prof V K Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur remarked – “This collaboration in business analytics and AI will encourage future leaders of transformative technology and engage them to think entrepreneurially. Structured as well as unstructured data i.e, the Big Data is growing significantly faster in rows and columns. In the long term, the explainable artificial intelligence and automation will help in solving long pending legal cases.

For more information visit the link below:

https://erp.iitkgp.ac.in/InfoCellDetails/resources/external/cepdata?course_id=IIT/CEP/CFC/CFC/2022-2023/AL/15

Application Portal: https://erp.iitkgp.ac.in/CEP/courses.htm