IMPORTANT DATES CHIEF PATRON & CHAIRMAN TEQIP-III Sponsored Last date for registration: 19-02-2021 Prof. K. Umamaheshwar Rao Confirmation by E-mail: 20-02-2021 Director, NITK Five-Day Workshop on Workshop Dates: 22-02-2021 to 26-02-2021 PATRONS MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS VENUE / MODE Prof. Ravikiran Kadoli Online mode using Google Meet Coordinator, TEQIP-III 22-26 FEBRUARY 2021 NITK Surathkal PARTICIPANTS

• Faculties from TEQIP Institutions and AICTE recognized Prof. T. Laxminidhi Universities and Engineering Colleges. Head, Dept of ECE • Practitioners from industries, scientists from R&D NITK Surathkal laboratories. • Students at all levels (B.Tech/ M.Tech/ Ph.D) from COORDINATORS technical institutions. Dr. Raghavendra B.S. REGISTRATION AND CERTIFICATES Assistant Professor Department of ECE, NITK Surathkal • This is an online workshop, and there is no registration PO: Srinivasanagar, Mangaluru - 575025 fee. Registration is mandatory. Email: [email protected] • The brochure of the workshop can be downloaded from Phone: +91 824 247 3517 the Institute website www.nitk.ac.in. DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION • E-mail the scanned attested-copy of the registration-form Dr. A.V. Narasimhadhan ENGINEERING to [email protected] Assistant Professor • Maximum seats: ~50 (on a first-come first-served basis). Department of ECE, NITK Surathkal • Links for joining the online sessions will be emailed only to PO: Srinivasanagar, Mangaluru - 575025 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY the registered participants. Email: [email protected] SURATHKAL • E-Certificate will be issued only to the registered Phone: +91 824 247 3500 participants with full participation in the workshop. PO: Srinivasanagar, Surathkal EMAIL FOR CORRESPONDENCE Mangaluru - 575025, Dakshina REGISTRATION PORTAL Karnataka State, , www.nitk.ac.in [email protected] https://forms.gle/mcLqBcovc3mq6CKy8 ABOUT NITK SURATHKAL ABOUT THE WORKSHOP COURSE CONTENT NITK Surathkal is a premier institute mainly engaged in Machine Learning (ML) is becoming ubiquitous, imparting high-quality technological education and research, encompassing applications in a wide variety of domains • Introduction to machine learning and offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in and increasingly becoming popular and important. This • Matrix methods for machine learning Engineering, Science and Management. It is recognized as motivates us to understand the theory and practice of the • Probabilistic methods for machine learning an Institute of National Importance by the Government of domain to come up with engineering solutions for a wide • Machine learning as a pattern recognition problem India, and carries out research and consulting activities variety of application problems. The subject lies in the • Deep generative models mainly sponsored by the government agencies. The campus intersection of statistics, probability theory, computer • ML and Deep learning applications is located on the scenic shores of the Arabian Sea, on the science and algorithmic aspects. Consequently, it is • Hands on Python programming: Pandas, Numpy, National Highway 66, and about 20 km north of Mangaluru. It essential to understand theoretical principles of ML to build TensorFlow is well connected by road, rail and air, the nearest airport an intelligent application which may need learning from the • Hands on machine learning with scikit-learn and TensorFlow being (about 14 km from Surathkal) and the nearest data and finding hidden patterns and insights. railway station, Surathkal (about 3 km from the campus). RESOURCE PERSONS Having the vision to strive for excellence and to be globally Many of the time a minute-level technical details are competitive in technical education and to focus on knowledge abstracted away and hidden which leads to the situation Dr. Ashok Rao assimilation, generation, and dissemination, NITK is wherein a practitioner becomes unaware of the design Former Head, Network Project committed to enhancing the capabilities and potential of procedures which may limit the use of machine learning CEDT, IISc, Bengaluru human resources with the objective of transforming them into techniques. There is a necessity of having a thorough Currently Director, NIE-MC, Mysuru leaders in their chosen areas of interest. mathematical understanding of many of the concepts for a good grasp of the inner workings of the ML algorithms. The Dr. Arulalan Rajan ABOUT ECE DEPARTMENT workshop on Machine Learning and Applications aims at Formerly Asst Prof, ECE, NITK Surathkal giving a mathematical understanding of the principles and Faculty, Proficience, CCE, IISc Bengaluru Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) practical techniques for enthusiastic researchers and department, was established in the year 1979, offers BTech practitioners who are interested to learn more about the Dr. Prathosh A.P. in ECE, MTech in three domains (Signal Processing and theory and practice behind successful machine learning- Asst Prof. Dept of EE, IIT Delhi Machine Learning, VLSI design, and Communication based solution techniques. Engineering and Networks), and PhD program in the broad Dr. Sharath themes of signal processing, communication and networks, The workshop is intended to give an understanding of the Senior Researcher and VLSI design. The department has been actively involved foundational mathematical and algorithmic concepts of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bengaluru in high-quality teaching, research and consultancy services. machine learning which intern motivates their usefulness in Formerly Researcher, VSSC, ISRO The department possesses a core group of well-trained, giving a machine learning solution to a variety of Thiruvananthapuram competent and highly motivated faculty and staff who have engineering problems. imbibed and adopted the best academic practices being Dr. Sandesh Kamath followed around the world. The department has been REGISTRATION PORTAL Senior Researcher, CSE, IIT Hyderabad successfully conducting sponsored research projects from PhD, CMI Chennai DST, DRDO, AICTE, MoE and other research labs funded by https://forms.gle/mcLqBcovc3mq6CKy8 the Govt of INDIA.