SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Title: AI and Careers in AI

Expert: Mr. Dilip Kumar Kola, Software Developer and Staff Engineer at RudderStack.

Date:  25^th February 2023

Timing: 10:00 a.m.                

Faculty Programme Co-ordinators: Dr. Arpana Prasad, Mr. GovindaRaj M

Convenor: Dr. V. Asha

Participants : MCA Students (MCA)

No. of participants: 120

BRIEF PROFILE OF THE EXPERT

 Dilip Kumar Kola, Software Developer, is a Staff Engineer at RudderStack.  He is an alumni of IIT Kanpur. He did his CSE Engineering from IIT Kanpur . He had a rank of less than 100 in IIT JEE. He has been a founder of two startups and now an advisor for startups. AWS certified Clod and Application Architect who architected and implemented complex software solution for customers across globe.

OBJECTIVE

The main learning objectives of the session is to: Identify problems where artificial intelligence techniques are applicable. Apply selected basic AI techniques.

CONTENT

• What is AI?
• Applications of AI.
• Privacy in AI
• Careers in AI
• Fact Based Analysis
• How AI systems are operating?
• Understanding the complexity of AI system.

Questions from students

1. I wish to know; do I need to be very good in Mathematical Knowledge to learn skills in AI.
2. How much risk we as programmers are facing from the advances in AI?
3. Is it mandatory to have sound knowledge of Statistics to have a good career in AI.
4. As a beginner if I want to learn few skills in a period of say 6 months , which languages and what tools should I learn.

Outcome:
The first-year students of MCA understood the requirements of developing an AI system and importance of a knowledge base. The students could judge the requirements in career in AI.