AI & Data Science
A career-focused, hands-on program: build strong Python, SQL, statistics and machine learning foundations, then specialise in deep learning, LLMs and agentic analytics — shipping models and AI features with MLOps, evaluation and monitoring, using the AI-assisted data tools employers now expect.
What is the AI & Data Science program?
A data scientist turns data into decisions and models into products — framing the question, engineering the data, training and validating models, and now building the LLM and agent features that sit on top of them. Most data science courses end at a notebook. This program ends only when you have shipped a model to production with MLOps and monitoring, built an LLM-powered analytics feature with evals, and presented the business result to stakeholders.
- •Business question, hypothesis & success metric
- •SQL, pandas & Polars data engineering
- •EDA, statistics & experiment design
- •Feature engineering & data quality
- •Supervised & unsupervised learning
- •Deep learning, NLP & computer vision
- •LLMs, RAG & agentic analytics
- •Validation, explainability & fairness
- •MLflow, serving & feature stores
- •Evals, drift & monitoring
- •Dashboards, storytelling & A/B tests
- •AI-assisted workflows with Claude Code & Cursor
Notebooks got agents. Data science became AI product work.
What this means for your career: data science roles now ask for LLM and agent skills, MLOps and business communication alongside statistics and ML — the differentiator is a deployed model and an evaluated AI feature with a measured business result, not a folder of notebooks.
Built for people moving into data science and applied AI.
Prior experience: none required — Python, SQL and statistics are taught from scratch. The program builds data foundations before machine learning, deep learning, LLMs and MLOps.
Build the model — and ship the decision.
Twelve sections. 53 modules. Python → SQL → Statistics → ML → Deep learning → LLMs → Ship.
Fundamentals of Data & AI
Python for Data Science
SQL & Data Engineering Essentials
Statistics & Experimentation
Machine Learning
Deep Learning & Computer Vision
NLP & Large Language Models
Agentic Analytics & Data Agents
MLOps & Model Deployment
Analytics, BI & Data Storytelling
Responsible AI, Governance & Privacy
Capstone, Portfolio & Career
32+ ML, DL & AI tools, one production project.
You don't watch videos. You ship software.
Three full-production projects, each threaded through the entire curriculum. By the project, you've built the whole stack around them.
Production ML system: train → serve → monitor
Build an end-to-end production ML pipeline — reproducible training, model serving, drift monitoring, and an LLM augmentation layer that explains predictions and answers analyst questions.
NLP & LLM fine-tuning
Train a domain-tuned transformer end-to-end — Hugging Face PEFT/LoRA fine-tuning, evaluation on golden datasets, ONNX export, served via Triton with token-level latency dashboards.
Real-time recommendation system
Build a candidate-generation + re-ranking recommender on Spark + Feast feature store, served on SageMaker / BentoML, with online evaluation and Evidently drift monitoring.
Your ML system in a controlled project environment.
Pick a real partner ML problem. Deploy a production system end-to-end — feature store, training pipeline, model serving, drift monitoring, LLM explanation layer — into a partner team that's running it for real users.
Taught by engineers who shipped agentic AI to production.
Manikanta is the founder of Edify Nuva and brings 15 years of applied AI & data science from AT&T, Salesforce, Cox Communications, and Broadcom — where he led recommendation, fraud, forecasting, NLP and computer-vision systems for Fortune-500 banks, telcos, and insurers. Most recently he architected production ML pipelines that pair classical and deep models with an LLM augmentation layer that explains predictions to business stakeholders.
His classes get you two things other programs don't give you: a founding architect who still ships production ML, and a curriculum rewritten every quarter to match what hiring managers actually ask about — credentials like AWS Machine Learning Specialty, Azure AI Engineer, Databricks ML Associate, TensorFlow Developer, and Pragmatic AI Engineer included. M.S. in Engineering, Purdue University.
Ravi is Chief Technologist at Edify Nuva, where he leads the ML engineering and MLOps practice. After 8 years building and running production ML pipelines, he stepped into the Chief Technologist seat to wire MLflow, Triton, Evidently, and Hugging Face into the way ML teams actually work — feature stores that stay accurate through retrains, drift monitoring that filters noise before it hits humans, and serving stacks that on-call engineers don't fight with.
His MLOps modules are built from real production post-mortems, not slide decks. Expect to leave with working training pipelines, model serving on Triton/BentoML, drift dashboards in Evidently, and an LLM fine-tuning workflow you can stake an SLA on. Ten years at Edify Nuva, eight of them shipping production ML — Hyderabad-based, hands-on, and known for the unglamorous parts of data science that everyone else skips.
What ML & data science employers say about Edify Nuva grads.
Real feedback from data and ML leaders at AI-first companies and the firms hiring our AI & Data Science graduates.
An Agent‑Ready credential, not a participation trophy.
READY
2026
Roles this program prepares you for.
What employers should see in your portfolio: that you can take a business question to a shipped answer — engineer the data in SQL and Python, model it with validated ML or deep learning, add an evaluated LLM or agent feature, deploy with MLOps and monitoring, and present the measured business result.
Your first AI/Data Science offer isn't a lottery ticket. It's a built process.
A portfolio, not a graveyard.
Guidance on building a portfolio that showcases your training pipeline, model server, drift dashboard, LLM augmentation layer, and a public verification URL — reviewed 1:1, not via template.
Rewrite, don't proofread.
A one-page resume rebuilt around the ML systems you shipped (training pipelines, model serving, drift monitoring), the partner-org project, and the business outcome. Reviewed by ML engineers who've read 10,000+ resumes.
Where most opportunities actually live.
Profile tuning plus direct warm introductions into AI labs and ML-heavy product orgs — Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI partners, Hugging Face, Databricks, Snowflake, Scale AI, NVIDIA, Stripe, Razorpay, plus services that staff data science teams (Deloitte, Accenture, Cognizant, TCS). You leave with recruiter contacts, not a generic "good luck."
Hundreds of ML & data science careers launched — here are eight.
Come chat with us — over coffee, or over Zoom.
One flagship campus in Hyderabad, plus online Principal ML Engineer classes running on Indian and US timezones.
Questions we actually get — answered honestly.
Straight answers on prerequisites, the ML/DL stack, certifications, and placement. If something's missing, book a 20-minute advisor call — no slides, no pitch.
Do I need a CS or stats background?
Will I actually ship production ML, or only do notebooks?
Which frameworks and tools will I use?
Will I prep for AIPMM AI/Data Scientist and Pragmatic Principal ML Engineer certs?
How is the learning workload structured?
Is placement support really 1:1, and which companies hire data scientists / ML engineers?
Online, weekend, or on-campus?
What if I fall behind, or can't continue mid-class?
Still have a question? Talk to an advisor — no slides, no pitch.
One million AI‑native professionals by 2027.
Let's put you in that number.
Book a 20‑minute advisor call. We'll map your current role to the right program, talk honestly about timelines, and walk you through a real class's project.








