Revealing the secrets of TCS iON with ITM, Dehradun

It has facilitated the development of an atmosphere for bringing industry relevant curriculum to ensure strong outcomes in all learning programs. The passion is to help the students and the institution to look for an ecosystem where one can easily visualize the transformation in Higher Education of putting on significant jobs quite before they get their degrees.

Domains selected for the courses are- AI & ML, Data Science, Cyber Security and Cloud Computing with four sub modules in each course. Design Thinking -Practitioner’s perspective with Innovation and entrepreneurship shall be the pares in each course in the beginning and end semester. Sub-modules under AI and ML shall be- Statistics using R and Python, Artificial Intelligence for Real world application, Machine learning for real world application, Applications of Deep learning and Neural Networks while Data analysis with Excel, Data Mining and Warehousing, Data Modeling and Visualization and Data Analytics and Reporting shall form the part of Course on Data Science. In Cyber Security the sub modules shall be- Information Security-Practitioner’s Perspective, Practical approach to Cyber Security, Advanced Cyber Security- An application approach and Cryptography while Information Security-Practitioner’s approach, Applied Cloud Computing, Big Data on Cloud and Cloud Development are the sub-modules.

The faculty members to teach students from TCS iON side are from Academia as well as from the industry. Some of the Academic mentors are- Dr. Sachin Tripathi, Associate Professor, IIT Dhanbad; Dr. Gaurav Harit, Associate Professor, IIT Jodhpur; Dr.AsifEkabal, Associate Professor, IIT Patna; Dr. Pawan Goyal, Assistant Professor, IIT Kharagpur; Dr. Srpama Saha, Associate Professor, IIT Patna; Dr. Yashaswi Verma, Assistant Professor, Jodhpur; Dr. Ramesh Sharma, Directorate of Commonwealth Education Media Centre for Asia; Prof. Annappa B, Professor NITK; Dr. Priti S Aggarwal, Joint Director-IIBF while the names of Dr. Lipika Dey, Chief Scientist TCS; MrSangmeshwar Patil, TRDDC Pune; Mr. Anantha Sekar, Global Head; Dr. Harshad Khadilkar, Senior Scientist; Mr Anjul Pathak, Consultant; Mt. Shayne Dsouza, Unity and XR Developer at Parallax Labs; Mr. Chandradip Rana, Creative Director at the DJ interactive solutions; Mr. Guruprasad Kambaloor, Enterprise Architect; Mr. Prince Komal Boonila, Founder & Director, Synergy systems; Mr. Tarun Kumar Kushwaha, CTO Energy Systems; MrSandipo Das, Business Analytics, TCS and Mr. Arindam Gupta, Domain Consultant etc. to mention only a few can be taken in the category of some of the industry mentors.

The vision behind the program is the creation of the largest pool of employable youth. Necessary steps taken to achieve the objective are-

• Industry relevant courses to be delivered in a ‘phygital’ model: on skills, domains and technologies as per industry’s current and futuristic requirements with designed by the academia and the industry, focused on building application-oriented knowledge and skills.
• Industry Endorsed Certification: accepted and recognized by the industry.
• Industry Linkages for Employability through talent visibility amongst recruiters and connecting right talent with the right opportunity.