• Program Duration

    6 months
  • Learning Format

    Live, Online, Interactive

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    Earn an Elite Certificate

    Receive a program completion certificate from IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation and Simplilearn

    Receive a program completion certificate from IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation and Simplilearn

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    Hands-On AI Mastery

    Build and deploy 18+ projects using GenAI, ML, and control systems tools

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    Join the exclusive IITM Pravartak academic masterclass on Intelligent Control Systems

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    Get AI-powered resume creation, profile optimization, mock interviews, and custom job opportunities

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Intelligent Control Systems Course Overview

This 6-month practitioner program in Generative AI, ML, and Intelligent Control Systems immerses you in expert-led virtual learning with 18+ hands-on projects, including 3 capstones. Master 25+ industry tools, and 30+ AI/ML skills across GenAI, NLP, MLOps, deep learning, and intelligent control systems.

Intelligent Control Systems Course Advantage

Accelerate your AI and automation career with cutting-edge hands-on learning, immersive projects, and a completion certificate, empowering you to lead technological innovation in tomorrow’s industries.

  • Program Certificate

    Partnering With IITM Pravartak

    • Earn a program certificate directly from IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation within 90 days of program completion
    • Become eligible for a 2-day campus immersion at IIT Madras Research Park

Intelligent Control Systems Details

The curriculum blends foundational theory with real-world, hands-on learning across AI, ML, GenAI, agentic AI, MLOps, NLP, and domain-specific solutions in intelligent control systems, building deep expertise and practical skills directly aligned with in-demand industry roles.

Learning Path

  • Begin your journey with a comprehensive introduction to the program. You’ll explore key objectives, learning outcomes, and get an overview of the curriculum. This induction sets the stage for mastering GenAI, ML & intelligent control systems, while helping you build a strong foundation for a successful career in this rapidly evolving field.

    • Foundational Python programming, OOP, file handling, error handling
    • Python environments: VS Code and Google Colab practical demos
    • Code optimization, automation, and documentation using AI tools
    • Debugging AI-generated code and improving script efficacy
    • Ethical and legal aspects: AI code ownership, compliance, licensing
    •  Data science basics and multidisciplinary application
    •  Data visualization (Matplotlib, Seaborn) for EDA
    •  Pandas: DataFrames, querying, and transformations
    •  Data wrangling, handling missing values, duplicates/outliers
    •  Feature engineering: scaling, encoding, feature transformations
    •  Applied exercises and workflow knowledge checks
    • ML concepts, including supervised and unsupervised 
    • Supervised algorithms: linear and logistic regression, SVM, random forest, decision trees
    • Regression analysis, regularization, tuning (Lasso, Ridge)
    • Model validation: MSE, RMSE, cross-validation
    • Hyperparameter optimization: grid and random search
    • Neural networks, CNNs (ResNet, pooling, filters), deep learning frameworks
    • Sequence modeling (time series, NLP applications, LSTM/RNNs)
    • Introduction to Generative AI model 
    • Optimization: SGD, Adam, RMSProp
    • Avoiding vanishing and exploding gradients
    • Generative AI foundations: GANs, VAEs, transformers, GPT
    • Prompt engineering with practical demos
    • Hugging Face Spaces, open-source GenAI tools
    • Responsible AI: bias, security, compliance
    • Emerging trends: edge AI, explainable AI, agentic AI
    • GenAI business impacts: engineering, marketing, support
    • Advanced content generation architectures and model fine-tuning
    • Transfer learning, multi-modal generative AI
    • Controlling generative output, reducing hallucinations
    • Robustness and emerging technology research
    • Industry-relevant hands-on projects
    • Sensors and actuators fundamentals and industrial automation
    • Sensor data acquisition, calibration, embedded systems
    • Actuator types: electric/hydraulic/pneumatic
    • PID and MPC control theory; feedback loops
    • AI for anomaly detection, maintenance, and time-series analysis
    •  Real-world projects integrating concepts learned across all the courses
    •  Involves solving real-world business use cases
    •  Design AI solutions from data to deployment
    •  Portfolio-ready projects, mentored by experts
Electives:
    •  MLOps foundations, lifecycle stages
    •  Data/retraining pipelines, feature engineering, automation
    •  CI/CD for machine learning; model testing/monitoring
    •  Model registry, deployment, tracking, and challenges
    • NLP basics: tokenization, preprocessing, text classification
    • Sentiment analysis, NLTK, social media data
    • Audio analytics: feature extraction, MFCC, GANs for music
    • Deep learning for speech recognition, sequence models
    • Machine translation and metrics
    • Core agentic AI: planning, reasoning, autonomy
    • Explore the emerging landscape of agentic AI and autonomous systems
    • Understand how AI agents plan and act across complex workflows
    • Gain skills aligned with industries embracing automation
    • Stay ahead in a future driven by autonomous, self-directing AI systems
    • Applied AI for manufacturing, insurance, telecom, and retail
    • Real-world projects: CNC failure, risk classification, and load forecasting
    • End-to-end workflow: data, modeling, and business deployment
    • Industry-led, hands-on implementation
    • Advanced sensors, actuators, and AI-integrated control systems
    • Adaptive/predictive control strategies, embedded intelligence
    • Sensor data acquisition, signal processing, and actuator control integration
    • Industrial control applications across manufacturing and smart infrastructure

20+ Skills Covered

  • Large Language Models
  • Generative AI
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Vector Embedding
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • NumPy Operations
  • Machine Learning Models
  • Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
  • Model Training and Optimization
  • Model Evaluation and Metrics
  • Time Series Modeling and Forecasting
  • Deep Learning Modeling
  • Neural Network Architectures
  • Bounding Box Localization
  • Transfer Learning
  • Predictive Analytics
  • AI for Control and Actuation
  • Adaptive Control Systems
  • Edge Computing Concepts
  • Model Integration and Deployment

28+ Tools Covered

AIML_PytorchAIML_TensorFlowAIML_GradioAIML_ChromaAIML_DockerAIML_Dall-E 2AIML_DVCAIML_GitAIML_FastAPIAIML_GitHub CopilotAIML_GrafanaAIML_Hugging FaceAIML_KerasAIML_LangChainAIML_MatplotlibAIML_MLflowAIML_NLTKAIML_NumPyAIML_OpenAIAIML_PandasAIML_PythonAIML_SciKitAIML_SciPyAIML_SeabornAIML_SymPyAIML_TerraformAIML_VScodeAIML_Google Colab

Industry Projects

  • Project 1

    Analyzing Customer Orders Using Python

    Analyze real-world customer order data using Python to derive insights through wrangling, statistics, and visualizations for better business decisions

  • Project 2

    Python Adventure Game With Copilot

    Develop a text-based adventure game by leveraging AI-assisted coding through GitHub Copilot, focusing on efficient code structure, logic, and testing

  • Project 3

    Sales Analysis

    Analyze Q4 sales data across Australian states to uncover insights that support data-driven decisions for the company's strategy in the upcoming year

  • Project 4

    Marketing Campaigns

    Evaluate comprehensive marketing datasets to measure campaign efficiency, attribution, and design A/B testing strategies for maximum ROI on digital campaigns

  • Project 5

    Employee Turnover Analytics

    Deploy machine learning techniques to analyze workforce-related data and predict employee attrition risks, supporting proactive HR strategies

  • Project 6

    Creating Cohorts of Songs

    Leverage unsupervised learning and clustering algorithms to group songs by musical attributes and user preferences for recommendation systems

  • Project 7

    Home Loan Data Analysis

    Conduct multi-dimensional data analysis and predictive modeling to assess loan risk, improve approvals, and optimize lending policy

  • Project 8

    Lending Club Loan Data Analysis

    Apply classification algorithms to real-world lending data to detect fraud, evaluate borrower profiles, and predict default probability

  • Project 9

    Crafting an AI Powered HR Assistant

    Design and implement a conversational AI assistant to automate HR document search and response, integrating advanced NLP and retrieval-augmented generation

  • Project 10

    Creating Designs by Leveraging OpenAI and Gradio UI

    Utilize OpenAI’s generative models and low-code Gradio UI to build creative design prototypes and rapid visual concepts in multiple formats

  • Project 11

    Build or simulate a sensor actuator AI loop and present findings

    Create an integrated AI system that combines sensor data with ML models to drive automated actuator responses, reflecting real-world industrial applications

  • Project 12

    Predict CNC Machine Tool Failures With Regression Models

    Implement regression-based predictive maintenance to anticipate equipment failures, reducing downtime and service costs

  • Project 13

    Classify Insurance Risks With Supervised Learning

    Deploy supervised machine learning algorithms to analyze and classify insurance policy risk levels for industry compliance

  • Project 14

    Detect Retail Shelf Compliance Using CNN Based Image Recognition

    Build a computer vision solution with convolutional neural networks to monitor retail shelf standards in real time

  • Project 15

    Forecast Telecom Network Loads With LSTM Models

    Apply LSTM-based recurrent neural networks for forecasting dynamic network loads and optimizing telecom infrastructure performance

  • Project 16

    MLOps Lifecycle Predictive Modeling and Deployment

    Establish a full MLOps pipeline from model development through CI/CD deployment and ongoing model monitoring for reliable production AI

Disclaimer - The projects have been built leveraging real publicly available datasets from organizations.

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An Immersive Learning Experience

Learn from Industry Experts

Learn from instructors focused to equip you with hands-on skills and industry first curriculum.

Flexi Learn

Missed a class? Access recordings to always maintain learning progress and keep up with your cohort.

Mentoring session(s)

Expert guidance sessions from mentors for doubt clarifications, project assistance, and learning support.

Learning Support

Get a dedicated Cohort Manager for all your queries and help you succeed at every learning step.

Learn from Industry Experts
Learn from instructors focused to equip you with hands-on skills and industry first curriculum.
Flexi Learn
Mentoring session(s)
Learning Support

Program Advisors and Trainers

Program Advisors

  • Madhusudhanan Baskaran

    Madhusudhanan Baskaran

    IITM Pravartak - Principal Faculty

    Dr. Baskaran, with 31 years of experience in AI/ML and a Ph.D. in AI, is a Principal Faculty at IITM Pravartak, has expertise spanning Deep Learning, NLP, IoT, and Generative AI, and noted contributions in multimodal AI systems, drone data analytics, and AI-driven healthcare solutions.

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Program Trainers

  • Phani Karnati

    Phani Karnati

    15+ years of experience

    Head of AI & ML – VHaVe.ai

  • Prashant Nair

    Prashant Nair

    15+ years of experience

    AI Quantum Researcher

  • Amit Yadav

    Amit Yadav

    10+ years of experience

    Module Lead

  • Dr Darshan Ingle

    Dr Darshan Ingle

    14+ years of experience

    Principal Consultant

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Industry Trends

Businesses are racing to deploy AI-driven automation, increasing the need for professionals who can make systems think and self-correct. Mastering GenAI and ML puts you at the center of smarter products, faster growth, and premium careers.

Job Icon$2.6–$4.4 trillion

Projected annual global economic contribution from generative AI

Source: McKinsey & Company
Job IconBy 2030

39% of existing worker skill sets will be transformed or become outdated

Source: World Economic Forum
Job Icon$378B

Projected market growth for industrial automation and control systems

Source: Grand View Research

Batch Profile

This program caters to working professionals from a variety of industries and backgrounds; the diversity of our students adds richness to class discussions and interactions.

  • The class consists of learners from excellent organizations and diverse industries
    Industry
    Information Technology - 45.1%Manufacturing - 19.2%Software & Product - 13.9%BFSI - 12.6%Healthcare & Biotech - 3.8%Others - 5.4%
    Companies
    Accenture
    Cognizant
    Siemens
    Bosch
    Amazon
    JP Morgan Chase
    American Express
    Wells Fargo
    SAP
    Microsoft

Admission Details

Application Process

The application process consists of three simple steps. Selected candidates will receive an offer of admission and can secure their seat by paying the admission fee.

STEP 1

Submit Application

Complete the application by providing the required details about yourself

STEP 2

Reserve Your Seat

Complete the program fee payment via the Secure Your Seat option

STEP 3

Start Learning

Begin your learning journey on the designated cohort start date

Eligibility Criteria

For admission to this Professional Certificate Program, candidates should have:

Have 2+ years of work experience (preferred but not mandatory)
Have a bachelor’s degree with an average of 50% or higher marks
Have a basic understanding of programming concepts and mathematics

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Program Benefits

  • Certificate from IITM Pravartak and Simplilearn
  • Attend 2-day campus immersion at IIT Madras Research Park
  • Apply learning through 18+ hands-on industry projects
  • Gain career support and interview preparation
  • Build a portfolio in advanced AI, ML, and GenAI skills
  • Acknowledgement
  • PMP, PMI, PMBOK, CAPM, PgMP, PfMP, ACP, PBA, RMP, SP, OPM3 and the PMI ATP seal are the registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
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  • Career Impact Results vary based on experience and numerous factors.