Office of Academic Research
Details of the Research Scholar
Name N.V. NEERAJA Register No. 22PHD0180
Programme PH.D School SITE Category INTERNAL
FULL TIME
Topic of Framework for upgrading the prediction accuracy of skin diseases through cooperative
Research coevolution
Details of Online Course
COURSE TITLE : DEEP LEARNING
CODE (If Any): Credit (Common to all L T P J C
Online Courses) 2 0 0 0 2
Name of the Instructor PROF. SUDARSHAN IYENGAR, PROF. SANATAN
SUKHIJA
Name of the Institution IIT Ropar, Mahindra University, Hyderabad
Name of the Online Platform NPTEL
Online Platform Web Link [Link]
Duration of the Course (Minimum 8 12WEEKS
Weeks)
Start Date JULY -2023 End Date OCTOBER-2023
About Instructor
Prof. Sudarshan Iyengar, Associate Professor at the CSE at IIT Ropar has a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of
Science (IISc). An exemplary teacher who has delivered over 350 popular science talks to students of high
school and advanced graduate programmes. Prof. Sudarshan has offered more than 100 hours of online
lectures with novel teaching methodologies that have reached lakhs of Students. His research interests
include Data Sciences, Social Computing, Social Networks, Collective Intelligence, Crowdsourced
Technologies and Secure Computation.
Prof. Sanatan Sukhija is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering at Mahindra University, Hyderabad. He earned his Doctorate from the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. Prior to joining Mahindra
University, his varied career includes stints at several industries and academic institutions, including,
Amazon, Intel, Siemens, HCL, Punjab Engineering College, and the NorthCap University.
Course Outline
Week 1: History of Deep Learning, Deep Learning Success Stories, McCulloch Pitts Neuron
Week 2: Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs), Representation Power of MLPs, Sigmoid Neurons, Gradient
Descent
Week 3: Feed Forward Neural Networks, Back propagation
Week 4: Gradient Descent (GD), Momentum Based GD, Nesterov Accelerated GD, Stochastic GD
Week 5: Principal Component Analysis and its interpretations, Singular Value Decomposition
Week 6: Auto encoders and relation to PCA, Regularization in auto encoders, Denoising auto encoders,
Sparse auto encoders
Week 7: Regularization: Bias Variance Tradeoff, L2 regularization, Early stopping, Dataset augmentation
Week 8: Greedy Layerwise Pre-training, Better activation functions, Better weight initialization methods,
Batch Normalization
Week 9: Learning Vectorial Representations of Words
Week 10: Convolutional Neural Networks, LeNet, AlexNet, ZF-Net, VGGNet, GoogLeNet, ResNet
Week 11: Recurrent Neural Networks, Back propagation through time (BPTT), Vanishing and Exploding
Gradients, Truncated BPTT, GRU, LSTMs
Week 12: Encoder Decoder Models, Attention Mechanism, Attention over images
References
1. The elements of Statistical Learning, by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome [Link].
2. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, by Christopher Bishop.
Approval
[Link] Name of the Member Role Signature
1 Convenor/ Associate
Dr. Dhinesh Babu .L.D
Dean, SITE
2
[Link] .S.N, External Member
3
Dr. S. JanakiRaman External Member
4
Dr. Vanmathi. C Internal Member
5
Dr. Kamalakannan. J Guide
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