Education · 2023–27

IIT Madras

BS in Data Science and Applications, an online degree taken alongside IIT Bombay.

Selected courses. All 19 are listed under Academics.

Data science and ML

The maths under machine learning: least squares, eigendecomposition, SVD and PCA, convex and constrained optimisation, and estimation with EM.

PCA and kernel PCA, clustering, mixture models, regression with regularisation, classifiers from k-NN to SVMs, and boosting.

The same methods in scikit-learn, end to end, from data preparation to tuned models.

Project: workspace rental price tier prediction

Neural networks, CNNs and sequence models, VAEs, GANs and diffusion models, and transformer language models, each with practice.

Project: industrial surface anomaly segmentation

Sourcing, cleaning, analysing and visualising data, and deploying the results.

Complexity, sorting and searching, graphs, union-find, heaps and search trees, greedy, divide and conquer, dynamic programming and network flows.

SQL, relational design and normal forms, storage, indexing, transactions, recovery and query optimisation.

Web applications end to end: HTML and CSS, models, controllers, REST APIs, security, testing and deployment.

Project: examination management portal

JavaScript and Vue front ends, state management, authentication, background jobs, messaging and performance.

Project: examination management portal, version 2

Working in GNU/Linux: packages, shell variables and scripts, redirection, AWK and make.

Linear algebra from vector spaces to orthogonality, multivariable calculus and optimisation.

Multiple random variables, estimation, Bayesian inference and hypothesis testing.

Regression, logistic regression and time series applied to business decisions.

Economics, accounting and financial statements, selling and negotiation, worked through Excel case studies.