DRDO comes up with brief online courses in AI & ML and Cyber Security

Defence Institute of Advanced Technology which falls under the Department of Defence Research and Development under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has come up with two short-term online programmes on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and Cyber security. There will be daily online sessions for two hours on five days a week.

The candidates who are interested will have to undergo an entrance tests for the course they wish to pursue. Any graduate candidate with a degree in any stream will be eligible for the entrance tests. The entrance tests will be free of cost but the course fee will be Rs 15,00 each which will have to be paid after qualifying the entrance exam.

The registration for the entrance tests will start from January 28 at the official website diat.ac.in. last date of registration is February 15. The candidates who will qualify the entrance test will have to pay the admission fee by February 26 to confirm their admission.

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) programme is a 12 weeks certification course which will cover subjects like Probability theory, Pattern recognition, Big data analytics, Computer vision, Natural language processing, Augmented reality, Deep learning and related subjects.

The entrance test will be conducted on February 20, 2021. The candidates must prepare following topics for the entrance exam-- Knowledge of any programming language, basics of algorithms, basics of databases, data structures, modular mathematics, statistics, and probability theory. The result will be declared on February 22, 2021.

The Cyber Security programme is also a 12 weeks online certification course which will include fundamentals of cyber security and advanced topics such as forensic and incident response, system programming, reverse engineering and malware analysis, basic and advanced vulnerability analysis, exploit mitigation and penetration testing followed by the tools and techniques for Cyber Security professionals.

The entrance test will be conducted on February 21, 2021. The candidates must prepare following topics for the entrance exam-- Fundamentals of Operating system, networking, system software, data structures and knowledge of programming languages. The result will be declared on February 22, 20221.