Dr. Anika Rao
Program Director
Former staff ML engineer with 12 years across applied research and production AI at global SaaS companies.
AI & Generative AI · Career Track
Generative AI Engineering
Ship production LLM systems — RAG, agents, evals, and inference at scale.
Duration
11 months
Format
Hybrid
Fee
₹3,25,000
Next start
Next cohort: 14 September 2026
Curriculum
A 11 months arc, term by term.
- Term 1 · Foundations (10 weeks)
Engineering for AI
- Modern Python & typing
- Linear algebra you actually need
- Probability & statistics
- Data engineering with Polars/DuckDB
- Term 2 · Core (12 weeks)
LLMs in practice
- Transformer internals
- Prompting & structured outputs
- RAG architectures
- Vector stores & retrieval evals
- Term 3 · Systems (10 weeks)
Production AI systems
- Agents & tool use
- Observability for LLMs
- Cost & latency engineering
- Safety, red-teaming, governance
- Term 4 · Capstone (12 weeks)
Enterprise capstone
- Live brief from a hiring partner
- Architecture review
- Production deployment
- Industry jury defense
Eligibility
Who this program is for
- Bachelor's degree in any engineering, science, or quantitative discipline
- Working knowledge of Python (functions, classes, virtualenvs)
- Minimum 50% in undergraduate (relaxed for working professionals)
- Conversational English proficiency
Fees & financing
Transparent pricing
- Total fee
- ₹3,25,000
- EMI from
- ₹9,800/mo
- Scholarships
- Up to 60% via HAT
Outcomes
What you'll be able to do.
- Build and deploy multi-agent RAG systems on production infrastructure
- Run rigorous LLM evaluations (offline + online) with measurable guardrails
- Fine-tune and serve open-weight models with cost-aware inference
- Lead AI projects end-to-end: problem framing, architecture, rollout, governance
Faculty
Practitioners, not lecturers.
Vikram Iyer
Lead Faculty — Systems
Builds large-scale inference platforms; mentors HIGAET cohorts on serving and observability.
Priya Menon
Industry Mentor
Head of AI at a fintech unicorn; reviews capstone projects and runs mock interviews.
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Next cohort: 14 September 2026