Artificial Intelligence & Data Science (AI&DS)

The department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (AI&DS) is established during the academic year 2022-23 with an intake of 60.

Artificial Intelligence and Data Science is a new branch of study that deals with scientific methodologies, processes, and techniques drawn from different domains like statistics, cognitive science, and computing and information science to extract knowledge from structured data and unstructured data. This knowledge is applied in making various intelligent decisions in business applications. AI&DS focuses on collecting, categorizing, strategizing, analyzing and interpreting data. It is a specialized branch that deals with the development of data-driven solutions, data visualization tools and techniques to analyse big data. It also incorporates the concepts of machine learning and deep learning model building for solving various computational and real-world problems.

Artificial Intelligence

• Is a human-like intelligence provided to machines where machines act and think as humanly & solve problems faster than humans. Speech recognition, translation tools, etc., are the building areas of AI.
• Is the implementation of a predictive model to forecast future events and trends, Automation of the process & uses machine learning techniques 

Data Science

• Is a subset of Artificial Intelligence. Data science is a collection of data to analyze and make a decision. It uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and insights from many structural and unstructured data.
• Is a detailed process that mainly involves pre-processing analysis, visualization, and prediction with a high degree of scientific processing & extensive tools will be used to process the data uses the technique of data analysis and data analytics.

AI and Data science is the current trend, ruling the business world and it is highly paid career now.

AI&DS Course covers key concepts like

• Predictive Analytics using Data Visualization,
• Big Data Analytics 
• Natural Language Processing,
• Artificial Neural Network,
• Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality,
• Cognitive Computing,
• Deep Learning,
• Robotic Process Automation
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Through this course, the students will gain cross-disciplinary skills across fields such as statistics, Computer science, Machine learning, and logic, data scientists and may have career opportunities with exceptional prospective fields and challenging roles in a futuristic industry in the arena of healthcare, business, e-Commerce, social networking companies, climatology, biotechnology, genetics, and other important areas.The 4-year BE in AI&DS program presents exposure to hands-on technologies to create applications and solutions for

• Analytics in surveillance videos,
• Data Analytics on Social Media data,
• Drug Analysis,
• Predictive Analytics for cancer,
• Fraudulent data Analytics,
• Traffic data analytics

Using hands-on technologies to create applications and solutions in

• Python Pandas,
• Seaborn,
• Derivatives sklearn
• TF2, Keras Google Data Studio,
• Tensor flow,
• Sci-kit-learn,
• Kaffee, etc. tools used in data science.

AI&DS are amongst the hottest fields of the 21st century that will impact all segments of daily life by 2025, from transport and logistics to healthcare and customer service. Immense employment opportunities available for AI&DS engineers & have significantly increased worldwide in the past couple of years, with demand easily outstripping supply  in the field of

• Data Analyst,
• Product Analyst,
• Big Data Engineer,
• BI Analyst,
• Data Scientist,
• Data Journalist,
• Chief Strategy & Analytics Officer,
• Strategic Data Analytics Analyst,
• Data Architect Data Visualizers,
• TDM Architect, etc.

You will learn how to design, create and implement AI and DS based software solutions to solve actual business problems. This course helps to explore concepts such as AI, Data Analytics, Data visualization, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, semantic web and social network analytics, Blockchain Technologies, and Data Security and Privacy.

AI&DS department provides opportunities for the students to participate in Project showcase, Hackathons, Ideathons, Competitions, Startup & Entrepreneurial activities, Social activities etc.,

The department will have the best infrastructure with the latest high-end computing facilities to cater  the academic needs of the VTU prescribed syllabus and provide a real-time experience to the students. The department will have renowned faculty members with long academic experience and experts from industries in India and abroad.