Secure and Private AI

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Facebook via Udacity

Join the Secure & Private AI online course by Udacity & explore how to extend PyTorch with various tool crucial in training AI models that maintain user privacy

Mode

Online

Quick Facts

particular details
Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study, Virtual Classroom
Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based

Course overview

With the need for accessing personal data increasing, it is essential for you to excel in protecting user privacy. While there are umpteen privacy use cases unsolved, in recent years, privacy-preserving technologies have developed. The Secure and Private AI certification course introduces you to three groundbreaking privacy-preserving technologies, including differential privacy, federated learning, and encrypted computation.

You will also master the usage of OpenMined's PySyft and deep learning tools such as PyTorch. These offer distributed and cryptographic technologies for safely training Artificial Intelligence (AI) based models on distributed private data. You can also participate in Facebook’s Secure and Private AI Scholarship Challenge. It will help you enrol in the Secure and Private AI training and win the Deep Learning or Computer Vision Nanodegree programme scholarship.

Secure and Private AI programme from Facebook is an advanced-level free course. It runs for nearly two months and provides rich learning content, interactive quizzes, a self-paced learning approach, and industry professionals’ mentorship. Besides, you will learn by doing exercises.  

The highlights

  • Exercises
  • Interactive quizzes
  • Training from Facebook
  • Instructor videos
  • Self-paced
  • Rich learning content
  • Taught by industry professionals
  • Secure and Private AI Scholarship Challenge opportunity

Program offerings

  • Exercises
  • Advanced level course
  • Rich learning content
  • Interactive quizzes
  • Self-paced
  • Taught by industry professionals
  • Secure and private ai scholarship challenge opportunity
  • Two-month-long programme (approx)
  • Training from facebook

Course and certificate fees

certificate availability

No

Who it is for

Data scientists, start-ups, and enterprises utilising ML and Deep Learning to solve user problems and access user data while maintaining their privacy can opt for the Secure and Private AI programme.

Eligibility criteria

Secure and Private AI online course is an advanced-level study. To get the most out of your learning experience, you must have beginner-level expertise in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, any one of the Deep Learning frameworks (like PyTorch), and Python.

However, no academic or professional background in advanced mathematics or cryptography is required.

What you will learn

Knowledge of artificial intelligence

As you complete the Secure and Private AI syllabus, you will learn:

  • Exploring the mathematical definition of privacy
  • Differential Privacy
  • Training AI models in PyTorch for accessing public information from private datasets
  • Training on data, highly distributed across data centres and organisations using PySyft and PyTorch
  • Federated Learning
  • Aggregating gradients by utilising a trusted aggregator
  • Performing arithmetic on encrypted numbers
  • Encrypted Computation
  • Utilising cryptography for sharing ownership over a number through Secret Sharing
  • Leveraging Additive Secret Sharing for federated learning (encrypted)

The syllabus

Lesson 1: Introducing Differential Privacy

Lesson 2: Evaluating the Privacy of a Function

Lesson 3: Introducing Local and Global Differential Privacy

Lesson 4: Differential Privacy for Deep Learning

Lesson 5: Federated Learning

Lesson 6: Securing Federated Learning

Lesson 7: Encrypted Deep Learning

Admission details

Step 1 – Go to access the Secure and Private AI official course page.

Step 2 – Now press on ‘START FREE COURSE’. It will lead you to a signup page. 

Step 3 – Here, sign up/sign in using your Facebook or Google ID. Or provide your first & last name, password, and email address to create an Udacity profile. You can log in with your existing Udacity credentials as well. If you have an organisation email address, proceed to sign in with that by clicking on ‘Sign in with your organisation’. This concludes your enrollment.


Filling the form

Secure and Private AI online programmes have no application form. A Udacity signup page requests your name (first and last), email ID, and password for signing up. Signing in requires your Udacity credentials- an email ID and password.

How it helps

Over the past few years, private data usage has increased significantly, posing a challenge for data scientists and enterprises to protect and maintain users' privacy. The Secure and Private AI course will equip you with expertise in privacy-preserving technologies of differential privacy, federated learning, and encrypted computation. Your skills will enable you to create smarter and socially responsible AI models.

Instructors

Mr Andrew Trask
Research Scientist
Freelancer

Ph.D

FAQs

What does the Secure and Private AI syllabus cover?

The curriculum focuses on differential privacy, federated learning, and encrypted computation.

What are the Secure and Private AI course prerequisites?

You must possess beginner-level expertise in Python, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and any Deep Learning framework like PyTorch.

Is knowledge in advanced mathematics and cryptography required?

The Secure and Private AI course doesn’t require prior know-how in advanced mathematics and cryptography.

How long is the Secure and Private AI training?

The course takes roughly two months to complete. It follows a self-paced training approach. 

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