IIT-KANPUR INTRODUCES TWO NEW PROGRAMS IN STATISTICS, DATA SCIENCE

LUCKNOW : Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, (IIT-K) on Monday announced new fouryear Bachelor of Science (BS) and five-year Bachelor of Science-Master of Science (BS-MS) degree programs in “Statistics and Data Science” to be offered from 2021-22 session by its department of mathematics and statistics.

Prof Abhay Karandikar, director, IIT-K, said, “The admissions to the programs will be through Joint Entrance Examination -Advanced. The program will be tailor-made for students interested in the study and analysis of data. The academic senate and the board of the institute have approved both the courses.”

“The program will focus on areas of fundamental statistical and mathematical, computational and data science application courses with students having opportunity to do elective courses from the department of computer science and engineering and electrical engineering,” he said. “The programs will prepare and arm students with skills relevant to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of big data analytics. The graduates of the programs could build flourishing careers in data science industry and also pursue higher studies in classical and modern statistics, and data science,” prof Karandikar added.

“Students undergoing the BS and BS-MS programs in statistics and data science will be exposed to various types of structured and unstructured data with applications in solving real world problems. This would include data related to health, biomedicine, bioinformatics and digital health, retail, banking and financial data; image processing data; seismological data; social media and social network analysis; energy sector, transportation, agriculture etc. In collaboration with the proposed school of medical research and technology (SMRT), students would also work on health-related data and digital health to give a much-needed boost to research and analytics in this important emerging area,” he said.