Professional Diploma in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Nine months from working engineer to AI practitioner who ships.
- Duration
- 36 weeks
- Format
- Hybrid · Evenings and Saturdays
- Tuition
- Rs 495,000
- Intake
- January and September cohorts
Overview
The Professional Diploma is built around one conviction: competence in AI is demonstrated by systems, not certificates. Over nine months you move through four studios — foundations, deep learning, language systems and production — each ending in a defended project reviewed by faculty and an industry examiner.
Cohorts are capped at forty. Evening lectures happen on campus in Lahore or live online; Saturday studios are hands-on and in person for hybrid learners. Every participant is paired with a faculty mentor for the capstone, which is scoped with a partner organisation whenever possible.
Graduates join an alumni network that includes engineers at fintechs, telecoms, hospitals and public-sector agencies across Pakistan and the Gulf.
Outcomes
- Design, train and evaluate supervised, unsupervised and deep learning models with rigorous validation.
- Build retrieval-augmented and agentic systems on large language models, with evaluation harnesses you can defend.
- Deploy and monitor models with reproducible pipelines, cost budgets and incident playbooks.
- Communicate model behaviour, risk and limitations to non-technical decision makers.
Curriculum
- 01
Studio I · Foundations (8 weeks)
- Python for AI engineers
- Foundations of machine learning
- Statistics for practitioners
- Project: tabular risk model with documented validation
- 02
Studio II · Deep learning (10 weeks)
- Deep learning in practice
- Computer vision systems
- Optimisation and hardware awareness
- Project: perception pipeline on a partner dataset
- 03
Studio III · Language systems (10 weeks)
- NLP with transformers
- LLM engineering and evaluation
- Retrieval, tools and agents
- Project: evaluated assistant for a domain corpus
- 04
Studio IV · Production (8 weeks)
- MLOps and production systems
- AI safety, alignment and governance
- Capstone with partner organisation
- Public defence and portfolio review
Courses in this program
Deep Learning in Practice
Neural networks, trained with discipline
NLP with Transformers
How language models actually work
Computer Vision Systems
From pixels to decisions in the field
MLOps & Production Systems
Ship models that keep working