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Director’s Message
It gives me immense joy to welcome you to the Quality Improvement Program (QIP), the new
academic unit in the IIT Patna system. QIP aims to combine technology and management
to prepare students to explore a future of possibilities. QIP plays a crucial role in upgrading
and enhancing the capabilities and skill sets of pursuing graduates/ graduates and working
professionals in technology & management education. With its industry-oriented future-centric
curriculum, exceptional faculty, and strong international footprint, QIP has the right ingredients
to achieve a leadership position among its peers in the time to come.

IIT Patna will undertake the following activities under QIP: Faculty Development Programme
(FDP), Short Term Courses, Knowledge Dissemination Programme, National Summer & Winter
Term and Internship (NSWTI), International Summer & Winter Term and Internship (ISWTI),
Certificate Programmes, Online Courses and Training Programme for the School Students,
Certificate Programmes, Executive Programmes.

I wish QIP and all its stakeholders a purposeful and joyful journey ahead and felicitate all its endeavours. I invite you to be part of this
exciting journey and participate in the success of QIP at IIT Patna.

I welcome you to become a part of our story and to form a long-lasting association with the institute.

Prof. T.N. Singh

Director, Chief Academic Mentor, QIP, Indian Institute of Technology Patna
 Associate Dean (Resource) & Professor In-Charge
Quality Improvement Program (QIP)
Dr. Asif Ekbal
Associate Dean (Resource)
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
IIT Patna, Bihar

Asif Ekbal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
at IIT Patna. He has been working in the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
and Natural Language Processing since the last 18 years. His research is supported by
various Govt bodies (MeitY, SERB etc) and Industries (e.g. Flipkart, Samsung Research, Wipro,
Accenture etc). He has been listed in the top 2% scientists published by Stanford University, and
is an awardee of Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellowship (YFRF), Govt of India; JSPS
Invitation Fellowship from the Govt of Japan, and Innovative Project Award from the Indian
National Academy of Engineering.

Advisory Board Members

Dr. Ravi P. Singh

Secretary General, Quality Council of India (September 2014-till date)

UG and PG from BHU, Varanasi, Ph.D and Postdoctoral experience in University of Western Ontario at
London, CANADA. Dr Singh has experience in research, teaching and administration for the past more than
18 years in Professor Scale or above.
Past Positions:
Director, Regional Services Division (RSD), IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068 (2011-12); Founder-VC,
Sharda University (2009-11); Dean, Punjab Technical University (2004-09); Associate Dean, PTU, (2003-04);
Deputy Director, AICTE (2001-03); Regional Officer of AICTE, Kanpur (1996- 99) and Kolkata (2000-2001);
Assistant Director, AICTE (1996-01).

Education:
Ph.D (1994) and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physics from Canada (1994-95), Gold Medal from BHU
in MSc (1989), NET-CSIR qualified (1989) and Topper of Honors Program in Physics (1987).

Prof. Rajeev Srivastava

Professor CSE & Dean (Resource and Alumni Affairs)
IIT (BHU), Varanasi
Prof. Rajeev Srivastava is currently working as a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engineering, Head
of the Centre for Computing and Information Services (CCIS) and the Dean (Resource and Alumni Affairs),
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. He also served as Head of the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering during August’2017-December’2020. He holds the degrees of B.E., M.E., and PhD
all in Computer Science& Engineering and possess 23+ years of teaching and research experience. He is a
Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) (FIE), Institution of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers
(FIETE), Senior Member IEEE USA, and Member ACM USA. He has published around 165+ research papers
in reputed international journals andconferences, 04research reference books, and 18 book chapters and a
patent. He had been the Principal Investigator of research projects funded by MoE, Govt. of India and DRDO,
Govt. of India.He has produced 13 PhDs, and 3 PhD thesis submitted and 04 PhDs are ongoing under his
Supervision.He serves as Expert Member on different panels of NBA, UGC, UPSC, DRDO, UPPSC, reputed
Institute and Universities of the Govt. of India. His research interests lies in the areas of Artificial Intelligence
(AI), Machine Learning, Deep learning, Image and Video Processing, Computer Vision, and Computational
Bioinformatics.
Advisory Board Members

Prof. H.P. Mathur

Dean and Head
Faculty of Management Studies (Institute Of Management Studies)
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Current Affiliation:
Dean and Head, Institute of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University (FMS-BHU)
Chairman, International Centre, Banaras Hindu University
Chairman, Investment Committee, Banaras Hindu University
Chairman, Placements and Corporate Affairs, Institute of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University
(FMS-BHU)
Promoter Director, Atal Incubation Centre- Mahamana Foundation for Innovation and Entrepreneurship-
Institute of Management Studies (Supported by Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Government of India
Director/Chairman (Non-Executive), Utkarsh Welfare Foundation
Member, Board of Governors, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun
Member, Departmental Advisory Board, National Council of Educational Research and Training
Positions (Held):
Coordinator, Placement Coordination Cell, Banaras Hindu University
Chief, University Employment and Information Guidance Bureau, Banaras Hindu University
Coordinator, International Centre, Banaras Hindu University

Industry Advisors
Rajiv Singh
Founder CEO – Quant Samurai (A Global Cybersecurity Entity)
Advisory Board of The Center For Innovation Commercialization, USA
Advisory Board of School of CyberPeace, India
Entrepreneur Experience: www.quantsamurai.com
Founder CEO of IndiCash (A TATA Group Venture), India
Founder CEO of ACCPAC (A Computer Associates Venture), USA
Leadership Experience:
Global Head – Cyber security - Tech Mahindra Increase your Cyber
Quotient
Managing Director - Entrust Datacard, USA
President – TATA Communications Banking Infra Solutions Ltd.
Managing Director - Diebold, USA
Managing Director - Computer Associates (CA), USA
Trusted Security Advisor to Governments, Law Enforcement, Military, and Enterprises across
Global Markets. Experience with Military grade Cybersecurity Technologies & Services.
Expertise in Innovative US Dept of Defense approved Cyber technologies, Silicon Valley &
Israel Start-ups.
NextGen Advanced Cyber Defence, Cyber Upskilling, National Security, and Zero-Trust Se-
curity Strategy.

Dr. Shourya Roy

Senior Research Director, Flipkart

Dr. Shourya Roy is a seasoned technology leader with specialization in Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning. Over the past two decades, he has led data science, data product,
and data analytics teams with IBM, Xerox, American Express, and Flipkart. His past work in-
cludes a range of foundational and applied research, strategic innovation, product manage-
ment, and building local and global teams. A thought leader and author of about a hundred
peer-reviewed papers in premier journals and conferences and over 30 granted patents.
 Upcoming Industry Leaders*

TANYA RAJHANS SHUBHESH ANAND

Incoming Intern @Google’22 @LinkedIn’22 | Incoming SDE Intern, Microsoft, Hyderabad Jun’22
Rashmi Pandey Aditya
Specialist @Codeforces | Twitter DevelopHER’21 |
Flutter Developer | Internship Coordinator
Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon, Bangalore Team Leader Senior Consultant
@NIT-A ECE’23 | Mentor @CodXCrypt

Top Notch of Companies Our Alumni are Working With*

Advance Certificate Program In

Data Science Engineering

Eligibility: Pursuing Graduation

PROGRAM DELIVERY

• The program will be delivered in two-way video/ • Lectures will be delivered on weekend
audio interactive mode
• Sessions will be delivered from studio via Online • Duration per Lecture: 2 hrs (three sessions of 30
Platform minutes each, with 5 minutes of break in between the
• Students will attend the lectures on their own sessions + 15 min Q&A at the end)
devices (Laptop/Desktop/Tablet/Mobile)
• Students will have access to a Learning Manage- EVALUATION CRITERIA
ment System for referring to the content
• Live online instructor-led sessions by top IIT
Patna faculty and industry experts 1. Attendance 5%
2. Quizzes 10%
3. Project (Capstone) 25%
Executive Alumni Status
4. Assignments 10%

3 Days Campus Immersion 5. Online Test Via Digital Platform 50%

COURSE CURRICULUM
The course curriculum will be delivered through a combination of eLearning resources,
digital lectures, community based digital classrooms as applicable.

PRE-WORK (40 Hours) IoT CLOUD PROCESSING & ANALYTICS (40 Hours)
(4 Quizzes, 1 Project)
• Python Foundations
• SQL Foundations • AWS IoT
• Cloud Computing Foundations • IoT Stream Processing
• Data Structures & Algorithms • Batch Processing
• IoT Analytics
SOFTWARE & DATABASE DESIGN (40 Hours) (4 • Connecting the Dots
Quizzes, 1 Project)
CLOUD MANAGED SERVICES AND DOCKER
• Program Design CONTAINERS (40 Hours) (5 Quizzes, 1 Project)
• Software Design
• Relational Databases • Cloud Essentials
• NoSQL Databases • AWS Managed Services
• Transactions • AWS Monitoring Services
• Serverless Computing
Computing Systems for Data Processing (40 hours) • Docker and Containers
• AWS Elastic Container Services (ECS)
Introduction to Data, Features
Feature selection algorithms CLOUD DEVOPS – INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE (40
Supervised algorithms Hours) (3 Quizzes, 1 Project)
Unsupervised Algorithms
Association rule mining • DevOps on AWS
• Automated CI/CD Pipeline, AWS Tools
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (40 Hours) (4 Quizzes, 1 • AWS Cloud Formation, Terraform
Project)
BLOCKCHAIN FUNDAMENTALS & BITCOIN (40
• Distributed System Architecture Hours) (4 Quizzes, 1 Project)
• Concurrency Control
• Distributed Commit Protocols • Introduction to Block chain
• Distributed Times tamping Protocols • Transactions and Blocks
• Leader Election • Mining and Consensus
• Consensus Algorithms • Connecting the Dots
• Smart Contracts
IoT DEVICES & NETWORKING (40 Hours) (4
Quizzes, 1 Project) BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPMENT-ETHEREUM (40
Hours) (4 Quizzes, 1 Project)
• IoT Introduction and Architectures
• IoT Things • Block chain Development on Ethereum
• IoT Networking Protocols & Applications • Creating a Block
• IoT Edge Computing • Adding the Hash Function to the Block
• Creating Smart Contract
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Dear Students,

I welcome you all to the family of learners in Microtek Group of Institutions. Our Institution as Society
viz. Microtek Educational Society was established in year 2000 as an Institution of excellence in the
field of Information Technology/Computer Science, Management Studies, Commerce, Science & Bio
Technology. Microtek has spread its strong and deep roots in the world of education and industry.

“ Our aim is very simple: we strive to create high-impact, hands-on experiences that prepare learners
for an aspirational career and empower them to be the industry leaders of tomorrow.”

DR. PANKAJ RAJHANS I extend a heartily welcome to join the IIT Patna Digital Learning Programs of Institutions family and
President & Executive Director wish you all the success in your future learning endeavours!
Ph.D in Computer Science
(IIT Delhi Alumnus) MCA, MBA, PGCM
pankaj@microtek.ac.in

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