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IHUB-DATA AT IIITHyderabad Launches Course On Machine Learning For Chemistry And Drug Design

IHUB-DATA AT IIITHyderabad Launches Course On Machine Learning For Chemistry And Drug Design
– 12-week certificate course with special emphasis on drug discovery

With AI/ML revolutionizing the field of natural and applied sciences, there is an increasing need for professionals with knowledge of both AI/ML as well as applied sciences. IHub-Data in collaboration with IIIT-Hyderabad, is offering a 12-week course on ‘Machine Learning for Chemistry and Drug Design’ with special emphasis on drug discovery. The course is slated to commence from 10 March 2022.

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Participation is open to students, researchers, professionals with background in sciences who wish to understand methods and applications of AI/ML in domains like Chemistry, Biology and Pharmaceutical Science. Students and professionals with background in Computer Science who wish to understand applications of AI/ML in other domains, would also find the course very stimulating.

The course offers fundamental theoretical and practical concepts in AI/ML and their application for Drug Discovery. There would be a series of lectures covering topics in both Sciences and AI/ML to help build a strong theoretical foundation. There will also be accompanying hands-on tutorial sessions to help the participants pick-up practical problem-solving abilities.

An understanding of mathematics at +2 level is deemed essential for participants. Knowledge of any programming language would be highly beneficial.

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Course outcomes include acquiring knowledge of modern machine learning and deep learning methods, understanding of important problems in drug discovery that AI can address, and acquiring hands-on experience on using various tools, libraries (such as Python, Pytorch, Scikit learn, Numpy and Pandas) towards building real-world solutions.

This is a one of its kind, 12-week certificate program, offered in collaboration with IIITH faculty, with a strong emphasis on applications of AI/ML in drug discovery. Participants get to learn from India’s finest researchers and eminent faculty in CS and also from natural/applied sciences. A few internships/research opportunities would be offered for top performing Master’s, Ph.D students. There would also be an opportunity to collaborate with ML experts for improving project/thesis of participants.

Participation fee for this 12-week course is Rs 7,500 for UG/Masters students, Rs 15,000 for Ph.D/Post Doc students and Rs 30,000 for industry professionals.

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