RI Curriculum 2027

From Python foundations to advanced research methodology—120 mentor-led sessions, 240 structured hours, and a deliberate progression toward research readiness.

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120Live sessions

240Structured hours

10Research modules

18Module-break days

11 JanProgramme begins

28 MayTraining concludes

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138 schedule entries

Session	Date	Day	Module	Topic
1	11-Jan-2027	Monday	Module 1: Python for ML	NumPy for Numerical Computation & Vectorization
2	12-Jan-2027	Tuesday	Module 1: Python for ML	Pandas for Data Wrangling & Manipulation
3	13-Jan-2027	Wednesday	Module 1: Python for ML	Matplotlib Seaborn & Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
4	14-Jan-2027	Thursday	Module 1: Python for ML	Scikit-learn Pipeline & Model Selection Basics
—	15-Jan-2027	Friday	Module Break (after Module 1: Python for ML)	Holiday
—	16-Jan-2027	Saturday	Module Break (after Module 1: Python for ML)	Holiday
5	17-Jan-2027	Sunday	Module 2: Mathematics for ML	Linear Algebra (Vectors Matrices Tensors Eigenvalues)
6	18-Jan-2027	Monday	Module 2: Mathematics for ML	Calculus for ML (Derivatives Gradients Chain Rule)
7	19-Jan-2027	Tuesday	Module 2: Mathematics for ML	Probability & Statistics (Distributions Bayes Theorem)
8	20-Jan-2027	Wednesday	Module 2: Mathematics for ML	Optimization Algorithms (Gradient Descent AdamW)
9	21-Jan-2027	Thursday	Module 2: Mathematics for ML	Information Theory (Cross-Entropy KL Divergence)
10	22-Jan-2027	Friday	Module 2: Mathematics for ML	Statistical Significance (p-values t-tests CI for Research)
—	23-Jan-2027	Saturday	Module Break (after Module 2: Mathematics for ML)	Holiday
—	24-Jan-2027	Sunday	Module Break (after Module 2: Mathematics for ML)	Holiday
11	25-Jan-2027	Monday	Module 3: ML & DL	Supervised Learning (Regression & Classification)
12	26-Jan-2027	Tuesday	Module 3: ML & DL	Unsupervised Learning (Clustering & Dimensionality Reduction)
13	27-Jan-2027	Wednesday	Module 3: ML & DL	Model Evaluation & Cross-Validation (Handling Imbalanced Data)
14	28-Jan-2027	Thursday	Module 3: ML & DL	Ensemble Methods & Hyperparameter Tuning (Optuna)
15	29-Jan-2027	Friday	Module 3: ML & DL	Explainable AI (XAI) for ML (SHAP LIME)
16	30-Jan-2027	Saturday	Module 3: ML & DL	Intro to Deep Learning & Neural Networks (PyTorch/TensorFlow)
17	31-Jan-2027	Sunday	Module 3: ML & DL	Training Deep Networks (Batch Norm Dropout Optimizers)
18	01-Feb-2027	Monday	Module 3: ML & DL	Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) Fundamentals
19	02-Feb-2027	Tuesday	Module 3: ML & DL	Advanced CNN Architectures (ResNet EfficientNet)
20	03-Feb-2027	Wednesday	Module 3: ML & DL	Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) & LSTMs
21	04-Feb-2027	Thursday	Module 3: ML & DL	Sequence Modeling & Time Series Forecasting
22	05-Feb-2027	Friday	Module 3: ML & DL	Autoencoders & Variational Autoencoders (VAEs)
23	06-Feb-2027	Saturday	Module 3: ML & DL	Transfer Learning & Fine-Tuning in Deep Learning
24	07-Feb-2027	Sunday	Module 3: ML & DL	DL Mini-Project: End-to-End Pipeline (Part 1)
25	08-Feb-2027	Monday	Module 3: ML & DL	DL Mini-Project: End-to-End Pipeline (Part 2)
26	09-Feb-2027	Tuesday	Module 3: ML & DL	DL Mini-Project: End-to-End Pipeline (Part 3)
—	10-Feb-2027	Wednesday	Module Break (after Module 3: ML & DL)	Holiday
—	11-Feb-2027	Thursday	Module Break (after Module 3: ML & DL)	Holiday
27	12-Feb-2027	Friday	Module 4: NLP	Text Preprocessing & Tokenization Techniques
28	13-Feb-2027	Saturday	Module 4: NLP	Feature Engineering for Text (TF-IDF BoW)
29	14-Feb-2027	Sunday	Module 4: NLP	Word Embeddings (Word2Vec GloVe)
30	15-Feb-2027	Monday	Module 4: NLP	Named Entity Recognition (NER) & POS Tagging
31	16-Feb-2027	Tuesday	Module 4: NLP	Text Classification & Sentiment Analysis Basics
32	17-Feb-2027	Wednesday	Module 4: NLP	Seq2Seq Models
33	18-Feb-2027	Thursday	Module 4: NLP	Attention Mechanism Introduction
34	19-Feb-2027	Friday	Module 4: NLP	NLP Mini-Project (Text Classification Pipeline)
—	20-Feb-2027	Saturday	Module Break (after Module 4: NLP)	Holiday
—	21-Feb-2027	Sunday	Module Break (after Module 4: NLP)	Holiday
35	22-Feb-2027	Monday	Module 5: CV	Image Preprocessing & Data Augmentation (Albumentations)
36	23-Feb-2027	Tuesday	Module 5: CV	Feature Detection & Keypoint Matching
37	24-Feb-2027	Wednesday	Module 5: CV	Advanced CNN Architectures for Vision
38	25-Feb-2027	Thursday	Module 5: CV	Object Detection Fundamentals (YOLO SSD)
39	26-Feb-2027	Friday	Module 5: CV	Model Evaluation for CV (IoU mAP Dice Coefficient)
40	27-Feb-2027	Saturday	Module 5: CV	Image Segmentation (Semantic vs. Instance)
41	28-Feb-2027	Sunday	Module 5: CV	Generative Models in CV (GANs)
42	01-Mar-2027	Monday	Module 5: CV	3D Vision & Video Processing Basics
43	02-Mar-2027	Tuesday	Module 5: CV	Edge AI & Model Optimization (ONNX TensorRT)
44	03-Mar-2027	Wednesday	Module 5: CV	CV Mini-Project (Object Detection/Segmentation)
—	04-Mar-2027	Thursday	Module Break (after Module 5: CV)	Holiday
—	05-Mar-2027	Friday	Module Break (after Module 5: CV)	Holiday
45	06-Mar-2027	Saturday	Module 6: Transformers	Understanding Self-Attention & Multi-Head Attention
46	07-Mar-2027	Sunday	Module 6: Transformers	BERT Architecture & Masked Language Modeling
47	08-Mar-2027	Monday	Module 6: Transformers	GPT Architecture & Causal Language Modeling
48	09-Mar-2027	Tuesday	Module 6: Transformers	Vision Transformers (ViT) & Image Patching
49	10-Mar-2027	Wednesday	Module 6: Transformers	CLIP & Contrastive Vision-Language Learning
50	11-Mar-2027	Thursday	Module 6: Transformers	Swin Transformers & Hierarchical Vision Models
51	12-Mar-2027	Friday	Module 6: Transformers	Transformer Optimization (Flash Attention KV Cache)
52	13-Mar-2027	Saturday	Module 6: Transformers	Transformer Mini-Project (NLP)
53	14-Mar-2027	Sunday	Module 6: Transformers	Transformer Mini-Project (Vision)
54	15-Mar-2027	Monday	Module 6: Transformers	Transformer Mini-Project (Multimodal)
—	16-Mar-2027	Tuesday	Module Break (after Module 6: Transformers)	Holiday
—	17-Mar-2027	Wednesday	Module Break (after Module 6: Transformers)	Holiday
55	18-Mar-2027	Thursday	Module 7: Gen AI	Hugging Face Ecosystem (Transformers Datasets Spaces) - Part 1
56	19-Mar-2027	Friday	Module 7: Gen AI	Hugging Face Ecosystem (Transformers Datasets Spaces) - Part 2
57	20-Mar-2027	Saturday	Module 7: Gen AI	Hugging Face Ecosystem (Transformers Datasets Spaces) - Part 3
58	21-Mar-2027	Sunday	Module 7: Gen AI	Prompt Engineering & In-Context Learning
59	22-Mar-2027	Monday	Module 7: Gen AI	Chain-of-Thought & Advanced Prompting
60	23-Mar-2027	Tuesday	Module 7: Gen AI	Prompt Engineering Mini-Lab
61	24-Mar-2027	Wednesday	Module 7: Gen AI	Small Language Models (SLMs) - Phi Gemma
62	25-Mar-2027	Thursday	Module 7: Gen AI	SLM Edge Deployment
63	26-Mar-2027	Friday	Module 7: Gen AI	SLM Hands-on Lab
64	27-Mar-2027	Saturday	Module 7: Gen AI	Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) - LoRA
65	28-Mar-2027	Sunday	Module 7: Gen AI	Advanced PEFT - QLoRA
66	29-Mar-2027	Monday	Module 7: Gen AI	Fine-Tuning Mini-Lab
67	30-Mar-2027	Tuesday	Module 7: Gen AI	Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Basics
68	31-Mar-2027	Wednesday	Module 7: Gen AI	Vector Databases & Semantic Search
69	01-Apr-2027	Thursday	Module 7: Gen AI	Advanced RAG Pipelines
70	02-Apr-2027	Friday	Module 7: Gen AI	Vision-Language Models (VLMs) - LLaVA BLIP-3
71	03-Apr-2027	Saturday	Module 7: Gen AI	VLM Applications
72	04-Apr-2027	Sunday	Module 7: Gen AI	VLM Hands-on Lab
73	05-Apr-2027	Monday	Module 7: Gen AI	Diffusion Models for Image Generation
74	06-Apr-2027	Tuesday	Module 7: Gen AI	Diffusion Models for Video Generation
—	07-Apr-2027	Wednesday	Module Break (after Module 7: Gen AI)	Holiday
—	08-Apr-2027	Thursday	Module Break (after Module 7: Gen AI)	Holiday
75	09-Apr-2027	Friday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Intro to Agentic AI & Openclaw Framework Architecture
76	10-Apr-2027	Saturday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Tool Calling & Function Calling
77	11-Apr-2027	Sunday	Module 8: Agentic AI	API Integration for Agents
78	12-Apr-2027	Monday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Memory Management & Statefulness
79	13-Apr-2027	Tuesday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Advanced Statefulness & Long-term Memory
80	14-Apr-2027	Wednesday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Multi-Agent Collaboration
81	15-Apr-2027	Thursday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Task Delegation & Orchestration
82	16-Apr-2027	Friday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Building Autonomous Research Assistants - Part 1
83	17-Apr-2027	Saturday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Building Autonomous Research Assistants - Part 2
84	18-Apr-2027	Sunday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Building Autonomous Research Assistants - Part 3
85	19-Apr-2027	Monday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Agent Evaluation & Metrics
86	20-Apr-2027	Tuesday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Agent Safety & Guardrails
87	21-Apr-2027	Wednesday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Agentic AI Capstone Project Implementation - Part 1
88	22-Apr-2027	Thursday	Module 8: Agentic AI	Agentic AI Capstone Project Implementation - Part 2
—	23-Apr-2027	Friday	Module Break (after Module 8: Agentic AI)	Holiday
—	24-Apr-2027	Saturday	Module Break (after Module 8: Agentic AI)	Holiday
89	25-Apr-2027	Sunday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Experiment Tracking (Weights & Biases MLflow) - Part 1
90	26-Apr-2027	Monday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Experiment Tracking - Part 2
91	27-Apr-2027	Tuesday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Environment Management (Conda)
92	28-Apr-2027	Wednesday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Containerization (Docker) - Part 1
93	29-Apr-2027	Thursday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Containerization (Docker) - Part 2
94	30-Apr-2027	Friday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Building APIs for Models (FastAPI) - Part 1
95	01-May-2027	Saturday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Building APIs (ONNX Runtime) - Part 2
96	02-May-2027	Sunday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Version Control for Data & Models (DVC) - Part 1
97	03-May-2027	Monday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Version Control (Hugging Face Hub) - Part 2
98	04-May-2027	Tuesday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	HPC & GPU Optimization (CUDA basics) - Part 1
99	05-May-2027	Wednesday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	HPC & GPU Optimization - Part 2
100	06-May-2027	Thursday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Research Tools Implementation - Part 1
101	07-May-2027	Friday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Research Tools Implementation - Part 2
102	08-May-2027	Saturday	Module 9: Adv Research Tools	Capstone Integration
—	09-May-2027	Sunday	Module Break (after Module 9: Adv Research Tools)	Holiday
—	10-May-2027	Monday	Module Break (after Module 9: Adv Research Tools)	Holiday
103	11-May-2027	Tuesday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Fundamentals of Research
104	12-May-2027	Wednesday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Problem Identification
105	13-May-2027	Thursday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Literature Review Techniques
106	14-May-2027	Friday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Systematic Mapping
107	15-May-2027	Saturday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Research Design
108	16-May-2027	Sunday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Ablation Studies (Crucial for ML)
109	17-May-2027	Monday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Baseline Establishment
110	18-May-2027	Tuesday	Module 10: Research Methodology	SOTA Comparison Methods
111	19-May-2027	Wednesday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Data Collection & Analysis
112	20-May-2027	Thursday	Module 10: Research Methodology	IMRaD Structure: Intro & Methods
113	21-May-2027	Friday	Module 10: Research Methodology	IMRaD Structure: Results & Discussion
114	22-May-2027	Saturday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Paper Formatting (LaTeX)
115	23-May-2027	Sunday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Citation & Publishing Ethics
116	24-May-2027	Monday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Peer Review Process
117	25-May-2027	Tuesday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Conference Submissions
118	26-May-2027	Wednesday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Student Paper Presentations - Part 1
119	27-May-2027	Thursday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Student Paper Presentations - Part 2
120	28-May-2027	Friday	Module 10: Research Methodology	Final Peer Review Simulation & Closing

Each numbered session is two hours. Module-break rows are included to preserve the complete programme calendar.

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