IISc Bangalore Deep Learning Course 2025: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, in collaboration with SWAYAM, is offering a free online course on Deep Learning, and registrations are currently open. The course, Foundations of Deep Learning: Concepts and Applications, is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students with no prior background in the subject. It begins with fundamental questions often asked by beginners-such as the difference between machine learning and deep learning-and gradually moves to advanced topics including Gradient Descent (GD), Backpropagation (MSE), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), along with weekly hands-on exercises.
The course will run for three months- from January 19 to April 10, 2026. It will be taught by Professor Sriram Ganapathy, Professor Ashwini Kodipalli and Professor Baishali Garai from IISc, Bangalore. While the course does not require prior knowledge of the subject, having basic familiarity with Python programming is recommended for a better understanding of the concepts.
What Does The Course Covers?
The course includes:
- History and Evolution of Deep Learning with computational efficiency
- Fundamentals of Image representation and Image preprocessing and Data augmentation
- Hands-on on building a simple CNN model for binary and multiclass classification.
- Hands-on on transfer learning and building an ensemble model.
- Introduction to XAI: Algorithms and its working mechanism
- Evaluation metrics for segmentation, CNN based segmentation algorithms: UNet
- Introduction to Long-short term memory (LSTM) architecture and its necessity, Bidirectional LSTM, Stacked LSTMs
- Transformer architectures, Large Language Models and more.
Course Certificate
Learners who wish to receive a certificate must register for the exam scheduled on April 25, 2026, which will be conducted in two sessions - 9:30 am to 12:30 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm. The exam fee is Rs 1,000 and it will be a proctored, in-person test at designated exam centres.
How To Apply For IISc Bengaluru's Deep Learning Course?
- Visit the official website link - IISc Bengaluru's Deep Learning Course.
- Click on "Join" and login with your gmail or microsoft ID.
- Enter the required details and you will be successfully registered for the course.
