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Dr. Daya Shankar
Dean, Woxsen University | Founder, VaidyaAI | Applying AI to Solve Clinical Challenges in Diagnostics & Documentation | HealthTech Innovator
Leading expert in AI applications for healthcare, with extensive experience in deep learning, clinical diagnostics, and educational innovation. Passionate about bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI research and practical healthcare solutions.

๐Ÿง  Deep Learning Mastery

Prof. Dr. Daya Shankar
๐Ÿ† Dean

Prof. Dr. Daya Shankar

Dean, School of Sciences | Woxsen University

Founder & AI Innovator | VaidyaAI Healthcare Solutions

๐Ÿง  AI Research Excellence

Deep Learning โ€ข Computer Vision โ€ข NLP

๐Ÿฅ HealthTech Innovation

Medical AI โ€ข Clinical Decision Support

๐ŸŽ“ Academic Leadership

Leading 5 Departments โ€ข 500+ Students

๐ŸŒŸ About the Instructor

Prof. Dr. Daya Shankar serves as the Dean of School of Sciences at Woxsen University, overseeing five departments: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biotechnology, Computer Science, and AI & Data Science. With a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, he specializes in applying rigorous quantitative analysis to solve complex data challenges.

As the founder of VaidyaAI, he's revolutionizing healthcare through artificial intelligence, creating medical intelligence systems that transform complex medical data into actionable insights for clinicians and patients. His work bridges the gap between cutting-edge AI research and practical healthcare applications.

Dr. Shankar's educational philosophy centers on making complex AI concepts accessible through interactive, hands-on learning experiences. This course represents months of careful preparation, combining theoretical rigor with practical application to create the ultimate deep learning educational resource.

๐ŸŒ Connect & Explore

๐ŸŒ Personal Website ๐Ÿฅ VaidyaAI Platform ๐ŸŽ“ Woxsen University ๐Ÿ’ผ LinkedIn Profile
๐Ÿ’ญ Philosophy

"Transforming complex AI concepts into intuitive, interactive learning experiences that empower the next generation of practitioners to solve humanity's greatest challenges."

Comprehensive 45-Lecture Interactive Course
Master deep neural networks from fundamental concepts to cutting-edge applications. This comprehensive course covers theory, implementation, and real-world applications with hands-on interactive lectures designed for undergraduate and graduate students.
45
Interactive Lectures
45+
Hours Content
12
Lab Experiments
4
Credits
100+
Interactive Demos

๐Ÿ“š Module I: Deep Learning Foundations

12 Lectures โ€ข 12 Hours

Master the fundamental concepts, mathematics, and core techniques that form the backbone of deep learning

Progress: 7/12 lectures available 58% Complete
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Lecture 1
๐Ÿ›๏ธ History & Evolution of AI
Journey through AI history from early concepts to modern breakthroughs. Understand key milestones and the evolution of neural networks.
AI Timeline Neural Network History Key Breakthroughs
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
๐Ÿš€ Start Journey
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Lecture 2
๐Ÿ“ Mathematical Foundations
Essential mathematics for deep learning: linear algebra, calculus, probability, and statistics with interactive visualizations.
Linear Algebra Calculus Probability Statistics
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
๐Ÿš€ Learn Math
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Lecture 3
๐Ÿงฎ Perceptron & Neural Basics
Understanding the building blocks: perceptrons, neurons, weights, biases, and basic neural network architecture.
Perceptron Weights & Biases Activation Functions
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
๐Ÿš€ Build Neurons
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Lecture 4
โžก๏ธ Forward Propagation
Deep dive into how neural networks process information through layers with step-by-step matrix operations.
Matrix Operations Layer Computation Information Flow
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
๐Ÿš€ Process Forward
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Lecture 5
โฌ…๏ธ Backward Propagation
Master the heart of learning: gradient computation, chain rule, and how networks learn from mistakes.
Chain Rule Gradients Weight Updates
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
๐Ÿš€ Learn Backprop
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Lecture 6
โฌ‡๏ธ Gradient Descent Fundamentals
Understand optimization basics: vanilla gradient descent, learning rates, and convergence properties.
Optimization Learning Rate Convergence
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
๐Ÿš€ Optimize
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Lecture 7
โšก Mini-batch & Stochastic GD
Efficient training with mini-batch gradient descent and stochastic optimization techniques.
Mini-batch SGD Efficiency
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
๐Ÿš€ Batch Process
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Lecture 8
๐Ÿš€ Advanced Optimizers
Modern optimization algorithms: Momentum, RMSprop, Adam, and adaptive learning rate methods.
Momentum Adam RMSprop
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
Optimizers
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Lecture 9
๐ŸŽฏ Hyperparameter Tuning
Systematic approaches to configure networks: learning rates, architectures, and optimization strategies.
Parameter Tuning Grid Search Validation
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
Hyperparameter
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Lecture 10
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Regularization Techniques
Prevent overfitting with dropout, L1/L2 regularization, early stopping, and data augmentation.
Dropout L1/L2 Early Stopping
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
Regularization
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Lecture 11
๐Ÿ“Š Batch Normalization
Accelerate training and improve stability with normalization techniques and advanced training methods.
BatchNorm LayerNorm Stability
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Lecture 12
๐ŸŽฒ Loss Functions & Metrics
Comprehensive guide to loss functions, evaluation metrics, and performance assessment techniques.
Loss Functions Metrics Evaluation
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Module II: Convolutional Neural Networks

12 Lectures โ€ข 12 Hours

Master computer vision with CNNs, from basic convolutions to state-of-the-art architectures

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Lecture 13
๐Ÿ” Introduction to Computer Vision
Foundations of computer vision: image representation, pixels, channels, and basic image processing.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 14
๐ŸŒŠ Convolution Operations
Deep dive into convolution: kernels, filters, feature maps, and convolution mathematics.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 15
๐ŸŠ Pooling & Subsampling
Reduce spatial dimensions with pooling layers: max pooling, average pooling, and modern alternatives.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 16
๐Ÿ—๏ธ CNN Architecture Design
Building complete CNN architectures: layer stacking, feature hierarchies, and architectural principles.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 17
๐Ÿš€ LeNet & AlexNet
Historical CNN architectures: LeNet-5 and the revolutionary AlexNet that started the deep learning boom.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 18
๐Ÿ“ˆ VGG & Network Depth
Going deeper with VGG networks: understanding the impact of network depth and small filter design.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 19
๐Ÿ’Ž ResNet & Skip Connections
Revolutionary residual connections: solving vanishing gradients and enabling ultra-deep networks.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 20
๐ŸŒŸ Inception Networks
Multi-scale feature extraction with Inception modules and efficient network design principles.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 21
๐ŸŽฏ Object Detection Basics
From classification to detection: bounding boxes, IoU, and object localization fundamentals.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 22
๐Ÿ“ฆ R-CNN Family
Region-based detection: R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, and Faster R-CNN architectures and improvements.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 23
โšก YOLO & Real-time Detection
You Only Look Once: real-time object detection with single-shot detection methods.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 24
๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Semantic Segmentation
Pixel-level understanding: FCN, U-Net, and semantic segmentation architectures.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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๐Ÿ”„ Module III: Recurrent Networks & Sequences

11 Lectures โ€ข 11 Hours

Master sequential data processing with RNNs, LSTMs, GRUs, and modern attention mechanisms

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Lecture 25
๐Ÿ“ Introduction to Sequential Data
Understanding time series, text, speech, and sequential patterns in data.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 26
๐Ÿ”„ Vanilla RNN Fundamentals
Basic recurrent neural networks: hidden states, unfolding, and simple sequence modeling.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 27
โšก RNN Training & Challenges
Backpropagation through time, vanishing/exploding gradients, and training difficulties.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 28
๐Ÿง  LSTM Architecture
Long Short-Term Memory: gates, cell states, and solving long-term dependencies.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 29
๐ŸŽ›๏ธ GRU & Modern RNNs
Gated Recurrent Units: simplified gating mechanisms and modern RNN variants.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 30
๐Ÿ”€ Bidirectional RNNs
Processing sequences in both directions: bidirectional architectures and applications.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 31
๐ŸŽฏ Attention Mechanisms
Revolutionary attention: focusing on relevant parts of sequences and solving alignment problems.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 32
๐Ÿ”ฎ Transformer Architecture
Self-attention and transformers: the architecture that revolutionized NLP and beyond.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 33
๐Ÿ“š BERT & Language Models
Bidirectional transformers: BERT, pre-training, fine-tuning, and modern language understanding.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 34
๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ Text Generation & GPT
Generative language models: GPT architecture, autoregressive generation, and large language models.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 35
๐Ÿ“ˆ Sequence-to-Sequence Applications
Real-world applications: machine translation, summarization, question answering, and chatbots.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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๐Ÿš€ Module IV: Advanced Deep Learning

10 Lectures โ€ข 10 Hours

Explore cutting-edge topics: GANs, Transfer Learning, Reinforcement Learning, PINNs, and emerging architectures

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Lecture 36
๐Ÿ”„ Transfer Learning & Fine-tuning
Leveraging pre-trained models: transfer learning strategies, fine-tuning, and domain adaptation.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 37
๐Ÿงฌ Autoencoders & Representation Learning
Unsupervised learning: encoders, decoders, dimensionality reduction, and feature learning.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 38
๐ŸŽญ Generative Adversarial Networks
GANs fundamentals: generator-discriminator dynamics, training challenges, and basic GAN architectures.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 39
๐ŸŽจ Advanced GANs & Applications
StyleGAN, DCGAN, conditional GANs, and creative applications of generative models.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 40
๐ŸŽฎ Deep Reinforcement Learning
RL fundamentals: Q-learning, policy gradients, and deep Q-networks for intelligent agents.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 41
๐Ÿ† Advanced RL Algorithms
Actor-critic methods, PPO, A3C, and modern reinforcement learning algorithms.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 42
โš—๏ธ Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Cutting-edge fusion of physics and AI: solving PDEs, enforcing physical constraints, and scientific computing.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 43
๐Ÿ‘๏ธ Vision Transformers & Modern Architectures
Transformers for vision: ViT, DETR, and the latest architectural innovations across domains.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 44
๐Ÿฉบ AI in Healthcare Applications
Deep learning for medical imaging, diagnostics, drug discovery, and clinical decision support systems.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Lecture 45
๐ŸŒ Future of Deep Learning
Emerging trends, ethical considerations, interpretability, and the future landscape of AI research.
โฑ๏ธ 60 minutes
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Interactive Laboratory Sessions

15 Hands-On Labs โ€ข Google Colab Ready โ€ข Progressive Difficulty โ€ข Real Neural Networks

๐Ÿš€ Lab Experience

Transform theory into practice! Our interactive labs let you build neural networks from scratch, solve real AI problems, and see the math come alive through hands-on coding.

โœ… Available Now

๐Ÿ Lab 1: Python & Environment Setup

Your journey into AI starts here. Master the tools of the trade.

2 Hours
Duration
5 Exercises
Hands-On
Beginner
Level

๐ŸŽฏ You'll Build: Complete Python & Environment Setup, NumPy operations, Pandas and Matplotlib

๐Ÿšง Coming Soon

๐Ÿงฎ Lab 2: Mathematical Foundations in Code

Advanced optimization techniques, gradient descent variants, and mathematical deep dives with interactive Python implementations.

2.5 Hours
Duration
6 Exercises
Advanced Math
Intermediate
Level

๐ŸŽฏ You'll Build: Optimization algorithms, derivative calculators, advanced gradient descent

๐Ÿ“‹ Planned

๐Ÿ—๏ธ Lab 3: Building Deep Neural Networks

Multi-layer perceptrons, activation functions, and advanced architectures for complex pattern recognition and real-world applications.

๐ŸŽฏ You'll Build: Deep networks, CNN basics, activation comparisons

๐ŸŽ“ How to Use the Labs

๐Ÿš€
1. Quick Start

Click "Open in Colab" โ†’ Save copy to Drive โ†’ Enable GPU โ†’ Start coding!

๐Ÿ“š
2. Learn by Doing

Complete exercises step-by-step, run code, see immediate results, build understanding.

๐Ÿง 
3. Build Neural Networks

Create AI from scratch, solve real problems, understand how deep learning works.

๐Ÿ’ก Pro Tip: Complete each lab after finishing the corresponding lectures for maximum learning impact!

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