Karthik Subramanian
Program Director — Agentic Systems
Builds agentic platforms for enterprise automation; leads HIGAET's MCP work.
AI & Generative AI · Career Track
Agentic Systems & MCP Engineering
Build agentic workforces: multi-agent orchestration, MCP servers, and eval-driven reliability.
Duration
10 months
Format
Hybrid
Fee
₹2,95,000
Next start
Next cohort: 9 November 2026
Curriculum
A 10 months arc, term by term.
- Term 1 · Foundations (10 weeks)
Agent fundamentals
- ReAct & planning
- Tool use and function calling
- Memory, state, and long-running workflows
- Term 2 · Systems (10 weeks)
MCP & orchestration
- MCP servers: contracts and auth
- Multi-agent patterns (orchestrator, handoff, debate)
- Recovery, idempotency, and human gates
- Term 3 · Production (10 weeks)
Evaluation & operations
- Trajectory evals and reward signals
- Agent observability and cost
- Safety, guardrails, and incident drills
- Term 4 · Capstone (10 weeks)
Agentic workforce capstone
- Live brief: automate a real ops workflow
- Architecture & safety review
- Production deployment
- Industry jury defense
Eligibility
Who this program is for
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or quantitative discipline
- Working Python and API fluency (JSON, REST, auth)
- Completed Prompt Engineering or equivalent familiarity with LLM behaviour
Fees & financing
Transparent pricing
- Total fee
- ₹2,95,000
- EMI from
- ₹8,900/mo
- Scholarships
- Up to 60% via HAT
Outcomes
What you'll be able to do.
- Ship multi-agent systems that plan, delegate, and recover with verification loops
- Build MCP servers and function-calling contracts that survive production traffic
- Evaluate agentic trajectories with groundedness, tool-use accuracy, and cost
- Own the agentic platform: observability, safety gates, and human-in-the-loop
Faculty
Practitioners, not lecturers.
Neel Iyer
Lead Faculty — Orchestration
Ships multi-agent systems at SaaS scale; specialises in planning and recovery.
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Next cohort: 9 November 2026