In the first and second technical session of the first day of the program, Dr. Sridhar Swaminathan from Bennett University, Greater Noida spoke on Large Scale Text Analytics. This session focused on the basics of the neural architecture and deep neural models followed by Hands-on sessions.

The second day of the program was focused on Image Classification and Segmentation using Convolutional Neural Network and its variants. The session was handled by Dr. V Ananatha Natarajan, Associate Professor Dept of CSE, SVEC. The participants were given hands-on practice session on Azure Notebook (cloud environment). On the third day of the program, Dr. S Jothilakshmi Professor, Dept. of IT, Annamalai University delivered a lecture on the Machine Learning algorithms and programming in Python language. The participants practiced solving classification and regression problems using Machine Learning algorithms in Python language. The technical sessions of the fourth day were handled by Mr. I Reddy Sekhar Reddy and Mr. S Bavaji and on advanced Data Structure (TRIE Data structure) and algorithms. On the last day of the program Dr. Asadi Srinivasulu Professor, Dept. of IT, SVEC gave a lecture on Spark Programming with Python.

The import aspect of the event was that more than 50% of the total time spent during the program was devoted to the hands-on sessions and demonstration. Participant’s feedback also revealed that the program was a perfect blend of technical knowledge on the advances in python programming and its allied technologies. This Faculty Development Programme (FDP) fulfills its prime objectives to bring the faculties of different engineering departments on a single platform to update with the latest advances in the Python Programming and its applications for conducting effective research and teaching-learning practices.