Patna: IIT-Patna will start a series of guest lectures next month in which students will be guided by foreign faculty members from prestigious universities across the world.

The lecture series will be a part of the Global Initiative of Academic Networks that aims to enable interaction of students and faculty with academic and industry experts. The lectures will continue till April next year.

Arijit Mondal, assistant professor, computer science engineering, said: "Students will be provided short-term courses on different engineering topics. These courses will be for a week or 10 days, and will be guided by foreign faculty from prestigious universities and assisted by IIT faculty members."

He added the sessions would be open to engineering students from other institutes as well.

One of the courses to be offered will be "Machine learning and its role in the Internet of things analytics" from December 4-8.

Ramakrishna "Ramki" Thurimella from the University of Denver in Colorado, US, will administer the course.

Mondal said: "The course is open to executives, engineers and researchers from manufacturing, service and government organisations."