Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

PG Program · 6 Months

PG Certification in ML & AI

Go from Python and statistics to production ML systems — recommendation engines, fraud models, deployed neural networks — with an optional Generative AI & Agentic AI module, mentored by practitioners in the field.

Live + Recorded (Weekend) 140+ Hours 30+ Tools 10+ Industry Projects

4,200+

Learners Trained

82%

Avg. Salary Hike

139+

Hiring Partners

Starting at₹1,35,000

Admissions close 16 Aug · Program starts 22 Aug 2026 ·
Phase 1 closes 30 Jul — 14 seats reserved so far

The Numbers Behind the Promise

Not a pitch — just what this program actually adds up to, so far.

4,200+

Learners
Trained

139+

Hiring
Partners

82%

Avg. Salary
Hike

140+

Hours of
Content

30+

Tools &
Frameworks

10+

Industry
Projects

Where Most People Get Stuck — And How This Program Is Built Around It

"I can call the OpenAI API, but I don't actually understand what's happening underneath it."

You'll build classical ML models from scratch before you ever touch a pre-built API — so when something breaks in production, you'll know why.

"Every ML tutorial I've followed uses the same clean, pre-processed dataset."

You'll work with the same messy, real-world data — fraud logs, product catalogs, streaming events — that ML engineers actually clean up before a model ever sees it.

"I don't know if I should be learning classical ML or jumping straight to LLMs and agents."

You'll learn both, in order — classical ML first, because it's still what most production systems run on, then GenAI as a genuine extension once the fundamentals are solid.

"Every 'AI portfolio project' I see online is a toy chatbot that doesn't say much about my actual skills."

Your projects are recommendation engines, fraud models, and deployed systems — the kind of work that shows up in an actual ML engineering job, not a weekend demo.

Tools You'll Actually Use

A few of the 30+ tools and frameworks covered across the program.

Languages & Data

PythonPyPython
SQL
SQL
NumPyNpNumPy
PandasPdPandas

Classical ML

Scikit-learnSkScikit-learn
XG
XGBoost

Deep Learning & NLP

TensorFlowTFTensorFlow
PyTorchPTPyTorch
Hugging FaceHFHugging Face

Cloud & Deployment

Amazon AWSAWSAmazon AWS
Microsoft AzureAzMicrosoft Azure
Google CloudGCGoogle Cloud

GenAI & Agentic AI Optional Module

OpenAIAIOpenAI / LLM APIs
LC
LangChain
VDB
Vector Databases

Curriculum Built for Job-Ready Impact

Six modules, 140+ hours, 30+ tools — classical ML first, because that's still what most production systems run on, with an optional Generative AI & Agentic AI module once the fundamentals are solid. Tap any module to see what's inside.

Python & Math Foundations for ML

Module 13 weeksFoundations

The mathematical and programming base every ML model rests on — not generic Python 101, built specifically for the workflows you'll use later.

  • Python for ML: NumPy, Pandas, and scripting for data workflows
  • Probability, linear algebra, and calculus — the parts ML actually uses, like gradient descent and loss functions
  • SQL for pulling and shaping training data

Data Analysis & Exploration

Module 23 weeksCore Concepts

Before you can model data, you have to actually understand what's in it.

  • Exploratory data analysis and data visualization
  • Inferential statistics and hypothesis testing
  • Data cleaning and preprocessing pipelines

Machine Learning Foundations

Module 35 weeksClassical ML

Where you stop reading about machine learning and start actually building it.

  • Linear and logistic regression, KNN, decision trees, and ensembles
  • Clustering and unsupervised learning
  • Model evaluation, regularization, and hyperparameter tuning

Deep Learning & NLP

Module 45 weeksNeural Networks

Neural networks, and the language and vision systems built on top of them.

  • Neural network fundamentals, CNNs, and RNNs
  • NLP: text processing, sentiment analysis, and transformer-based models like BERT
  • Computer vision fundamentals

ML Systems in Production

Module 54 weeksReal-World Systems

The unglamorous, high-value work that most ML engineering jobs actually are.

  • Recommendation and ranking systems
  • Fraud and anomaly detection on real-world, imbalanced data
  • Model deployment basics and monitoring

GenAI & Agentic AI

Optional Module
Module 64 weeksWhere the Field Is Headed

Optional, and worth taking — this is the fastest-growing corner of the field, once the fundamentals underneath it are solid.

  • Prompt engineering and working with LLM APIs
  • RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation): embeddings, vector databases, grounded generation
  • Building single- and multi-agent AI systems

Taught by People Currently Doing the Work

A model is only as good as the data pipeline feeding it — so this program is taught jointly by ML/AI and data engineering practitioners, not one person covering both badly.

Lead
Devesh Pandey

Devesh Pandey

Senior Tech Lead PayTM

ML/AI & GenAI Leader

Dipanshu Shekhar

Dipanshu Shekhar

Data Engineering Manager Mastercard

Builds the pipelines your models will train on

Amit Mishra

Amit Mishra

Lead Data Engineering Trainer

Big Data & Cloud Leader

Ashok Padmanabhan

Ashok Padmanabhan

Corporate Consultant & Trainer

ETL & Data Architecture Expert

Why ML & AI, Right Now

This isn't a hype cycle — the hiring data and the pay data both point the same direction, and have for two straight years.

1.3M

New AI-specific jobs created globally in the last two years — confirmed as net-new roles, not replacements.

LinkedIn / World Economic Forum, Jan 2026

70%+

Salary premium senior AI specialists command over non-AI peers at comparable seniority.

PwC / Acceler8 Talent, 2025–26

1.5M+

Data and AI job openings India is projected to have by 2026 — and hiring hasn't caught up yet.

NASSCOM, 2026

₹9L–29L

Salary range for AI/ML professionals in India across experience levels — entry to senior.

Industry Compensation Data, 2026

How SkilD Compares

Not a knock on anyone specific — just what tends to be true across most ML & AI programs, and where we've deliberately built differently.

SkilD This Program
Most Other Programs
Curriculum Sequence
Classical ML fundamentals first, GenAI as a genuine extension
Often jump straight to GenAI hype, skip the fundamentals
Class Format
Live weekend classes + recordings
Often recordings only
Instructors
Practitioners currently at PayTM, Mastercard
Often career trainers
Projects
Recommendation engines, fraud models — real systems
Often toy datasets or isolated tutorials
Pricing
Shown upfront, no sales call required
Often gated behind a sales call
SkilD PG Certification in ML & AI — sample certificate

On Completion

Finish With a Certificate Worth Showing

Add it to your resume, share it on LinkedIn, or bring it to your next interview — a straightforward record that you built real ML systems, not just followed along with a tutorial.

  • Awarded on completing all program requirements — modules, projects, and the capstone
  • Carries the SkilD name and program details, ready for your resume
  • Shareable directly to LinkedIn the moment you're certified

Hear It From Learners Like You

Students, working professionals, career switchers — real people, in their own words.

Building an actual fraud detection model — not a toy dataset — was the moment this stopped feeling like a course and started feeling like real work I could talk about in interviews.

Aditya Kulkarni

Aditya Kulkarni

NIIT

What stood out was how practical every session was — real examples, not just slides, and doubts actually got resolved instead of piling up.

Sneha Verma

Sneha Verma

Developer

Going from regression basics to actually fine-tuning a model felt like a huge jump on paper, but the mentors broke it down step by step until it wasn't intimidating anymore.

Akhil Ranjan

Akhil Ranjan

NIT Trichy

Balancing this with a full-time role at TCS was the real test, and the live-plus-recorded format made that possible — I never had to choose between a session and a work deadline.

MI

Megha Iyer

Software Developer, TCS

Included With Every Enrollment

SkilD Membership

The parts of this program that don't come with an expiry date.

Career Support That Doesn't Expire

Resume reviews, mock interviews, and real guidance whenever you need your next move — not just in the weeks right after graduation.

A Network That Stays Reachable

The hiring partners and alumni already connected to this program don't disappear the day your batch ends.

A Program That Updates Itself

As the tools and the field shift, what you have access to shifts with it — you're not frozen at the syllabus from enrollment day.

What It Costs, and How You Get Started

Straightforward pricing, and exactly what happens after you apply — no surprises either way.

Total Program Fee

₹1,35,000

Incl. taxes

EMI available from ₹[X]/month*

*Final EMI terms confirmed at enrollment

What's Included

  • Cloud & Compute Access
  • Interview Prep & Placement Support Case studies, mock interviews, 3 sessions
  • SkilD Membership
Pay in FullOne-time payment, no added charges
Pay via EMISplit the fee into monthly installments

Secure payments via Razorpay, PayU, Stripe & PayPal (for international learners)

How Enrollment Works

1

Apply

Fill out the enrollment form with your background and course preference.

2

Talk to an Advisor

A short call to check this program actually fits where you're headed — not a sales pitch.

3

Confirm Your Seat

Secure your spot within your admission phase — pay in full or set up EMI.

4

Start Learning

Get platform access and join your first live session on commencement day.

Questions You're Probably Asking

Organized by what's actually on your mind, not by what's easiest for us to answer.

No — the first two modules build the Python, math, and data foundations before you build a single model. Nothing is assumed going in.
Yes — your coding background actually accelerates the early modules. The real learning curve here is thinking in models and probabilities, not syntax, and that's what the program is built around.
The GenAI module is genuinely optional, but we'd push back gently — most production GenAI systems still lean on classical ML underneath (retrieval, ranking, evaluation), and skipping straight there tends to produce a shallower understanding.
Analytics describes what already happened. This program is about building models that predict what happens next — a genuinely different skill, even though the early data-handling work will feel familiar.
Genuinely optional. Your certificate and core outcomes don't depend on it — it's there for learners who want to go further once the fundamentals are solid.
Live sessions run on weekends, with recorded content and assignments during the week — built for people balancing a full-time job, not a full-time student schedule.
Free tutorials teach a technique in isolation, usually on a clean dataset. This program is sequenced, builds toward real systems on messy data, and puts a live mentor in front of you when you're stuck.
Devesh Pandey, Senior Tech Lead at PayTM, leads the ML/AI and GenAI content — supported by the data engineering faculty for everything upstream of the model.
Cohorts run live specifically so mentors can engage with questions in real time — this isn't a self-paced video library where you're on your own.
A full refund is available within 7 days of enrolling or before your batch starts — whichever comes first — as long as you haven't accessed more than 10% of the recorded content. Full details are in our Refund Policy.
This depends on your enrollment stage — the advisor you speak with during Step 2 of enrollment can walk you through what's possible for your specific case.
Admissions are rolling across phases leading up to commencement — if one closes, you can apply for the next phase or the following batch.
Real placement assistance — resume support, mock interviews, case-study practice. What we don't do is promise a guaranteed job or salary; no program honestly can.
It isn't a university degree or an accredited diploma, and we won't claim it is. The capstone project and skills behind it tend to matter more in interviews.
A PG Certification in ML & AI, hands-on experience across classical ML through deep learning, real systems you can defend in an interview, and — if you took it — a genuine GenAI & Agentic AI foundation.

Talk to Us

Not Ready to Enroll Yet? Let's Talk First.

Book a free consultation with our placement experts, or join a live webinar to see the program and job outcomes before committing. These aren't your typical sales calls — just a real conversation about whether this is the right next step for you.

Admissions close 16 Aug · Program starts 22 Aug 2026

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