For Professor Mitesh Khapra's Deep Learning Course - CS6910
I was working at Impact Analytics as a data scientist and was one of the few engineers who were fast-tracked to senior data scientist.
During that time, I realized that while it was a great company and I got to work on cutting-edge work, I did not understand how the cutting-edge work worked.
ie. We were using many libraries but I had no clue what made the libraries work.
While searching for online courses which could help me bridge this gap, I came across a startup called onefourthlabs/padhai which was offering a deep learning course by IITM professors.
I had looked at many such courses but was never satisfied.
This course was different. The syllabus was carefully planned to extensively cover deep learning concepts - both breadth and depth wise.
Unfortunately they had not opened the course for enrollment yet.
My quest to bridge my gap in knowledge found me an opportunity at Mindgrove - a deeptech startup based out of the IITM research park, led by some great minds. I jumped on the opportunity, quit my job, and joined the company. Luckily, this opportunity came up with the option to pursue courses at IIT Madras. I had to wait three months but when the spring semester started, I wrote a mail to ask Professor Mitesh Khapra if I could join his Deep Learning course. He was kind to say yes. Incidentally he was the one offering the padhai online course.
I enrolled for his on-campus course and have been attending his lectures for the past two months.
Till date, I have always been early to his lecture - independent of the amount of work I have that day.
The main reason - it is one of the best classes that I have been to, and Professor Mitesh Khapra is as great a communicator as he is renowned as a researcher.
Why did I tell you this?
Cause whether you are interested in deep learning or not, I want you to find some way, hook or crook, to sit in his class someday.
And if you cannot find that way, enroll in his online course. It's Rs 5K - which is a steal. (Courses usually cost Rs 50K on campus). As a big believer of affordable education (note: not free education), I confidently tell you that this is one of the most affordable courses you can ever find.
And what a bang it's worth!