Course Schedule

Certificate Course on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Health Sciences

Date	Day	Time Slot (IST)	Programme / Topic	Resource Person
28th March 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Inauguration Inaugural Lecture: Introduction to AI in Healthcare	Prof. Huiru (Jane) Zheng Ulster University (Ireland)
29th March 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Introduction to AI in Healthcare	Prof. Shandar Ahmad (JNU)
04th April 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Introduction to Bioinformatics and Multiomics Overview of genomics, transcriptomics (RNA-seq), proteomics, metabolomics Differential gene expression (DEG) analysis: RNA-seq & microarray Pathway and gene ontology (GO) analysis	Prof. Daman Saluja (DU)
05th April 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Introduction to Bioinformatics and Multiomics Lab Session GEO data retrieval and alignment using GeoR GO and KEGG pathway enrichment	Prof. Daman Saluja (DU)
11th April 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Introduction to Bioinformatics and Multiomics Protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks Hub gene identification Multi-omics integration strategies	Dr. Ashwani Kumar Ray (DU)
12th April 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Introduction to Bioinformatics and Multiomics Lab Session Cytoscape for hub gene extraction (via STRING) Volcano and heatmap plotting	Dr. Ashwani Kumar Ray (DU)
18th April 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Introduction to Bioinformatics and Multiomics Survival analysis Prognostic biomarker discovery Lab Session Kaplan-Meier plot generation for survival analysis	Prof. Daman Saluja (DU) / Dr. Ashwani Kumar Ray (DU)
19th April 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Machine Learning Foundations in Medical Sciences Overview: Supervised learning Unsupervised learning Reinforcement learning Case study with real-time healthcare use cases	Dr. Abhishek Subramanian (IIT Hyderabad)
25th April 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Machine Learning Foundations in Medical Sciences Feature engineering Missing data imputation Handling imbalanced datasets (SMOTE)	Prof. Yasha Hasija (DTU)
26th April 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Machine Learning Foundations in Medical Sciences Introduction to Neural Networks Deep Learning Lab Session Model building using Scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch	Prof. Rahul Siddharthan (IMSc, India)
02nd May 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Machine Learning Foundations in Medical Sciences Evaluation Metrics: ROC AUC PR Curve Confusion Matrix F1-Score Calibration	Dr. Unmesh Shukla (DU)
03rd May 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Machine Learning Foundations in Medical Sciences Lab Session Classification of cancer subtypes using TCGA dataset Model evaluation	Dr. Ankit Rajpal (DU)
09th May 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Medical Imaging and Data Handling Imaging modalities such as : Ultra sound X - Ray Histopathology Mammography Image formats and standards: DICOM PNG TIFF Lab Session Image loading Metadata inspection (DICOM tags)	Dr. Bapu Koundinya Desiraju M.B.B.S., Ph.D. (Principal Scientist-I, BRIC - Translational Health Science and Technology Institute NCR-Biotech Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone Faridabad-Gurugram Expressway)
10th May 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Annotation tools ITK-SNAP LabelMe PACS systems and metadata extraction Lab Session Manual annotation exercise Image augmentation Denoising Resizing Normalization	Dr. Bapu Koundinya Desiraju M.B.B.S., Ph.D. (Principal Scientist-I, BRIC - Translational Health Science and Technology Institute NCR-Biotech Science Cluster, 3rd Milestone Faridabad-Gurugram Expressway)
16th May 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Deep Learning and CNNs for Medical Image Analysis CNN building blocks: Convolution Pooling Padding Filters Lab Session Image classification using CNNs	Dr. Ankit Rajpal (DU)
17th May 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Deep Learning and CNNs for Medical Image Analysis 2D vs 3D CNNs for volumetric data (MRI / CT) U-Net and variants for segmentation Lab Session Medical image segmentation using U-Net	Dr. Sangeeta Yadav (DU)
23rd May 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	AI in Radiology (MRI/ CT) Classification Segmentation Anomaly detection	Dr. Virendra Kumar (Professor, Department of NMR All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi) Dr Devasenathipathy K. (Professor, Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi )
24th May 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	AI in Pathology Digital histopathology Disease classification Transfer learning: ResNet EfficientNet Real-world use cases: Diabetic retinopathy Skin lesion classification Tumor segmentation	Dr. Virendra Kumar (Professor, Department of NMR All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi) Dr. Varun Surya (Assistant Professor, Oral Pathology, Microbiology , All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi ) Dr Amar Ranjan (Assistant Professor, Lab Oncology, Cancer Institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi )
30th May 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	AI in Drug Discovery and Cheminformatics Introduction to molecular docking Structure-based drug discovery	Dr. Areejit Samal (IMSc)
31st May 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	AI in Drug Discovery and Cheminformatics Ligand-based drug discovery Introduction to scoring functions	Prof. Sonika Bhatnagar (NSUT)
6th June 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	AI in Drug Discovery and Cheminformatics Molecular docking Scoring functions Lab Session RDKit DeepChem Compound featurization	Prof. Madhu Chopra (DU)
7th June 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	AI in Drug Discovery and Cheminformatics ADMET prediction using AI Lab Session Protein-ligand docking demo	Prof. Madhu Chopra (DU)
13th June 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	AI in Drug Discovery and Cheminformatics Virtual screening Compound ranking Lab Session AI models for drug-target interaction prediction	Prof. Madhu Chopra (DU)
14th June 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Deep generative models in drug design Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)	Prof. Madhu Chopra (DU)
20th June 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Introduction to GSEA and ULCAN and lab session	Prof. Daman Saluja (DU)
21st June 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Explanable AI in Healthcare	Dr. Ankit Rajpal (DU)
27th June 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	NLP in Healthcare	Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi (IIIT-Delhi)
28th June 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	NLP in Healthcare	Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi (IIIT-Delhi)
4th July 2026	Saturday	5 p.m. – 7 p.m.	Ethics, Regulation and Future of AI in Medicine	Prof. Naveen Kumar (DU)
5th July 2026	Sunday	10 a.m. – 12 p.m.	Ethics, Regulation and Future of AI in Medicine	Prof. Sanjeev Singh (DU)