Machine Learning Specialization

I recently completed a 16-week Machine Learning Specialization training program, and I am thrilled to share my experience. This comprehensive program provided me with an in-depth understanding of various machine-learning techniques and their real-world applications. I dived into fundamental Data Science principles, explored Machine Learning algorithms, delved into Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing, and gained insights into ML in Production and Research.

The highlight of this specialization was the capstone project, where I took on the challenging task of intracranial hemorrhage segmentation. Utilizing the U-Net architecture, I developed a cutting-edge machine-learning model that showcased impressive performance. the model demonstrated strong overall performance. While there were some challenges in accurately segmenting the object of interest, I thoroughly evaluated the model's performance using various metrics such as the IoU score, confusion matrix, and classification report, identifying areas for improvement and learning valuable insights.

In addition, I also developed another model with a unique architecture. This model achieved even better performance, boasting higher AUC and IoU scores. The precision, recall, and F1 scores were exceptional, highlighting the model's capabilities.

The completion of this Machine Learning Specialization and the successful execution of these projects have significantly enhanced my expertise in machine learning and deepened my understanding of its practical applications. The program's comprehensive curriculum and hands-on projects have prepared me to tackle real-world challenges.

I must also mention the outstanding support and resources provided throughout the program. The instructors were knowledgeable and responsive, ensuring a rich learning experience. The online platform was user-friendly and facilitated seamless interaction with peers and mentors. The program's emphasis on practical skills and industry relevance was invaluable.

Overall, I highly recommend this Machine Learning Specialization to anyone looking to master the concepts and techniques of machine learning. The program equips you with the skills necessary to excel in the field, and the capstone projects offer an opportunity to apply your knowledge to challenging problems.

To review and share experiences, and I encourage others to explore this specialization and witness the impressive outcomes it delivers.Marwan ALHawat.

Zaka AI certificate is designed by experts in the field, and they are taught by passionate and experienced instructors. Zaka.ai is committed to helping you succeed, and they offer a variety of resources to support your learning, including clear and easy-to-understand lessons, weekly challenges, and a fast-responding support team.

A very friendly course that takes you from zero to someone who has enough knowledge in the data science field to know where he stands and where to look and go. I recommend it for each one who do not know what really AI and data science are and wants to dive into this domain.

This course is concerned with many details, starting from the method of explanation, the required tasks, the tests by which they assess the level, and the live sessions they constantly review and help in solving problems, and also the assistants are always available to help.

I decided to join the ZAKA program after applying for many online AI platforms and found myself only watching videos without real interaction with the instructors. my Goal was to follow a clear curriculum from A to Z with details and follow-up.the most Topic I liked most in this Bootcamp was the live session and the dissertation of the assignment which make a deep understanding of the why and what of each nuts and bolts of DL. The new topics that were very special in this program were the presentation on new topics like the latest cutting edge on many AI topics (GPT, Transformers..etc) with many experts worldwide and the real experience with the tech people.Moreover, the capstone project (Roofinder) was an opportunity to apply my expertise in a real case project using ML in production. A career fair was also beneficial as it gave us the chance to meet new companies working in this domain.ZAKA program will help me in my career as it can broaden my expertise to build new solutions that will be an added value to my daily tasks at work.As for the future, I am looking forward to making a merger between AI and my career to provide a smarter output that can smooth some of my daily tasks.ZAKA is NOT only an AI platform, it is a world of AI that teaches all students (DL, ML, and DS) interactively. Many things qualify ZAKA as the TOP 1 platform: having the weekly assignments and workload deadlines, interaction with the instructor on slack (24/7), emails, daily live sessions, homework assessment, and correction, live Q&A...etcALL in all, with ZAKA you feel your AI school in your pocket at any time, and you can grant your success: doing by practicing.ZAKA is highly recommended for beginners and for other practitioners to widen their PR in the world of AI.THANK YOU ZAKA TEAM for giving us these opportunities during these 16 weeks of Bootcamp.

After deciding to go through the AI path we found the Zaka Academy bootcamp while our company was motivating us to take some trainings to benefit and advance in our career. Actually I was totally new to this kind of programs, so getting used to it and learn was the kind of the newest part for me.My future plans are based on trying to advance in that field.

Inclusive Curriculum, Great Supportive Team, Theoretical + Practical Sessions, Weekly Challenges!Exceptional Experience that gives you all you need to start your journey in ML.Starting from data analysis and visualization, then practicing on ML algorithms and deep neural network algorithms including Computer Vision and NLP.You will be introduced to all main concepts which will allow you to continue your studies by yourself.P.S: The program includes meeting with experts and entrepreneurs in the AI field. 

 It’s only been a few days since graduation and I already miss Zaka | زكا, and how not? When it’s one of the best, if not the best certification program I’ve enrolled in so far.The Artificial Intelligence Certification program provided by Zaka | زكا is a 16-week intensive training program designed to equip you with the necessary knowledge, tools, and know-how for market-ready skills. The program is rich with educational and practical content, weekly office hours, hands-on sessions, and challenges that cover everything from ML and DS fundamentals to Deep Learning and MLOps.This was my favorite part as it provided a way for me to practice and implement all the knowledge acquired each week.The last 3 weeks of the program were the most challenging, each person had to form a team of 2-3, pick a capstone project to work on, and successfully deploy during those weeks. My teammates were Hussein Bashir and Habib Mrad, and our project is called RooFinder. The project aims to develop one or multiple combined Machine Learning models that can automatically identify rooftops and detect rooftop features like obstacles, material, slopes, and area from high-resolution satellite imagery using ML and DeepLearning Techniques Like Instance segmentation, Image classification, and Image Processing.I’d like to thank the Zaka | زكا team and especially Christophe Zoghbi and Reem Mahmoud who provided us with the weekly AI content, Fouad A. TRAD and Amanda Hachem who were always supporting us through the weekly office hours and Hands-on live sessions, Mrad Sleiman who was my team’s instructor during the capstone project, Dr. Elizabeth Kassab Sfeir who provided us with the right soft skills needed in our work environment, Laurene Abdallah our guarding angel who always makes sure we’re on track during the week through her daily reminders, and last but not least, Larissa Abi Nakhle the very first person I met from Zaka and the one who’s always cheerful and energetic.I’m honored to be guided and supported by such great hearts and minds, and I’m happy to announce that I’ve #graduated from this program with recognition of distinction and I’m officially a market-ready Machine Learning Engineer.I highly recommend this program to anyone interested in Machine Learning and Data Science regardless of the level of experience or background he/she has.Needless to say, this is not the end of my journey in the AI world, It’s only the beginning as I’m well aware of the rapid growth in this field, but at least I can now say that I’ve successfully stepped foot in this wondrous world...
 

I was always interested in Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning and I did not have the opportunity to take it as a course in university. So I decided to join this bootcamp. The topic I liked the most is the NLP in the machine learning. It is something I want to get into in the future and this bootcamp was a great introduction to this topic. The topics that were new to me were computer vision. Its so fascinating learning how face detection and object detection works in an image. This program was a great way to introduce me to the field. I learned how to create my own models and many other concepts. And I have made many projects. After this bootcamp, I want to delve further into Artificial Intelligence. Since I have learned the basics in this bootcamp, I can now expend my knowledge and put them into practice. 

I'm an AI enthusiast, and I was looking for a place to start, but all the programs I've been involved in have been just an introduction to AI. But by chance, I belonged to Zaka, and it was the place I was looking forward to starting my career.Zaka is one of the most wonderful platforms, and one the most wonderful teams, as they care about the smallest details, and every week there is something new and new project, until the end of the program we throw ourselves in front of the graduation project, which is a beautiful experience. I advise everyone to join this program cz it is the only place where you tire yourself and benefit from practice, explanation, soft skills and everything.Thank you Zaka. 

I actually had alot in my mind about ML, but this program helped me organizing them and learning some ML stuffs from scratch. Since the program was interesting and organized for me, I was looking forward to learn more from it. Thanks to the program, I was able to work on the first project of mine and my teammates in ML which answers the question: "Does a sentiment analysis done on an ML generated summary reflects the real sentiment of the original text?" which is a combination of NLP (my favorite domain) and a classification task. The career fair was also a great experience communicating with different companies from different regions that work in ML and DS domains. It was a great online experience that I will always recommend it.

I decided to join this program, as it would be a great opportunity to go deeper in the world of Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Statistics, I would understand the basics of it, and how they do work. The topics that I like the most, were the new topics to me, some deep diving into the world of deep learning. As a data science graduate, I got to go over the basics just working on ANN model, and some theory about the other Neural Networks. With Zaka, I was able to learn a lot more and practice these models. The project was kind of a challenge, due to time restrictions and working hours difference between my teammate and I, but we were able to get to a solution and do a good project overall. This program helped me with task prioritization, time management and most of all knowledge. Due to being a master student and working a part-time job as a tutor, I had a tight schedule, but I was able to achieve the program in a very good way and with a lot of knowledge. Everyone was awesome, understanding and very helpful from Zaka's team to the mates in the certification program. If only I had more time, I would have enjoyed interacting more with the amazing, funny people in the chat group.For the future, I hope that I will be able to go into research in the field of AI, especially computer vision in the medical field.

A well prepared and organised boot camp. Instructors are knowledgeable and more than great, always there to assist and help. The material  was up to date and was well prepared. The environment was very motivational and supportive. In addition, the boot camp didn’t only focus on building our technical skills , weekly sessions was done to enhance our social skills and building our own resume. A lot of hard work and love was put into this program . Highly recommend, and it is an opportunity that no one should miss. Never regretted being apart of this program. 

the Zaka Machine Learning Certification MLC program is one of my top of the top investments I have ever did for myself.Zaka is itself a game changing school. I have started by taking their 3 weeks boot camp and which was an eye opener for me into the world of AI. then I found that it is important for me to join the 16 weeks MLC program which takes you right from the start like the 3 weeks boot camp and then digs way deeper than any course I have taken for the last 3 years. the MLC's strength lays on the following : - the very detailed videos that explains every single detail needed by the newbie -  the live weekly office hours with the mentors and peers- the weekly workshops that contains even non  AI related topics that are important for the graduates- the weekly challenges- the Communitythe experience itself is like if it mimics a masters degree in through the work, time management and even the last project which in my case was to solve a problem for a real AI company . never forget to mention how the Zaka Management puts their graduate on the track of finding a real job in AI. they held a live virtual expo where students can interact with AI companies who are building current AI solutions for big names like BMW. also it's a chance for students to show up and show their projects and CVs for them. the companies already (most of them) want to hire fresh new blood into their crew with a good knowledge of AI. this knowledge is accessed by zaka's MLC program.if Zaka comes with another higher program in AI, i'll definitely sign up without a thought ,because understanding the importance of learning AI is crucial and essential to "EXIST" in future markets ... and the future is already NOW

It was a great experience, instructors are passionate about seeing their students succeed. 

I joined this program as a junior ML Engineer willing to build the core expertise required in this field.I'm impressed by the well-structured path followed to gradually build our skills required to design, develop, and deploy ML models through weekly projects supported by direct guidance from expert instructors in a friendly and exciting environment. Zaka also focused on building our non-technical skills and organized a career fair to meet other AI enthusiasts and recruiters.My graduation project combined segmentation and classification models with image processing to detect and qualify rooftops. It was a great project that showcased my skills and helped me kick off my journey and start applying AI to various fields.It's a great program that turned me from a newbie to an experienced market-ready ML Engineer!

The MLC program contains the best road map to start learning Artificial intelligent, Machine learning and Data science. The instructors are very helpful and responsive as they response immediately to all your questions and inquiries. 

It's Hisham I'm a data scientist, this certificate help me in my career and I got a better opportunity. The program was 16 insightful weeks we passed through all ML life cycles from collecting data to production. After every week a challenge covers all information and pushes you to go back if you miss something.It was a great experience with a supportive team, adding to the technical information, I learned ways of thinking, how to present myself, and upgrade my resume.I did my own project in the end and I continue updating it.A big thanks to all the team :).

"AI is the future", well I always thought so and always wanted to know more and more, and here is how I began my journey with Zaka. I'm a computer science student and at my university, I took an AI course where we took some algorithms but I was curious and took the AI BootCamp at Zaka, It was also an amazing experience but I was more curious. Also, another course that was available at the university is machine learning which was interesting, I liked it a lot and I was really interested in reinforcement learning since I was responsible to study and make a small project about it. I also got a lot curious and here I found the tech for inclusivity program which includes the machine learning certification, and that's how I dived deeper into everything related to machine learning in all details. What I liked the most is computer vision, well simply because we all like images and take pictures and those pictures are pixelized into the computer, so letting the computer understand features and extract them, generate captions, or even analyze facial expressions was really exciting to me! I liked this topic a lot to the point that now I want to be a professional in Computer Vision no matter what and I figured out how will this help me with my future goals: I want to work at NASA and analyze space pictures in order to make it easier for the scientists to understand space species and maybe discover new chemicals, this topic clarified and make my goal easier since now I can analyze images and I can extract features and I even can deploy my work!!! Another topic that I liked is reinforcement learning since it lets the AI understand like humans and learn from their mistakes, also I am interested in gaming and I like good boss fights😅 and I know that reinforcement learning is the best algorithm to apply when it comes to game bosses since they are robots with higher strength and capabilities. I was surprised when I studied Time Series Analysis, it was totally new to me and it got my attention, we were able to learn about how to predict an aspect or more based on previous data, so here we are not only analyzing data, but we are taking into consideration the sequence of actions that led to this specific prediction and that was all new to me! At the end of the program, I made a project called space geeks that matches captions with images, and all images are related to space, this project for me is a big first step toward my goal and I am going to always try and change, add or even do new algorithms to make this project better and the most advanced possible! As I said before, the program has helped me achieve a big step forward in my future goal, It also added a lot of value to me since I'm a fresh graduate so now I have 2 certificates at the same time rather than 1, I have now new approaches to solving problems and I can be faced to another kind of problems that I usually get faced to, I have a huge knowledge of new websites, new resources and I can understand how to get the info and search properly about the things I need in new projects, I also have enhanced my python programming skills which I got introduced to in uni for the image processing course, and lastly but not least I am now more independent than ever when it comes to many things: make new projects, design algorithms, deploy new models and also I'm more confident when it comes to write my CV, make interviews and work on my LinkedIn since we got many talks about that stuff. In the future, I'm planning to become a computer vision professional and with Zaka's help, I'm going to achieve this goal! 

Hello I am Zeina Fneish, Management Information Systems bachelor graduate, I come from a different background than AI/ML. I decided to begin my journey in Artificial Intelligence and to be honest I had tough searching for courses and learning by myself, until one day a friend recommended Zaka's course (MLC), and the story begins. It's really an amazing course that's full with all source of information, you don't just learn the algorithms and so on, NO! you get to work and hands-on exercise that allows to understand more how the code is done, and also weekly coding challenges that boosts your learning. The team at Zaka is supportive and helpful and the mentors are great, they help you, mentor you, and answer all sort of questions you have.