AI & ML Mastery Roadmap (Beginner to Pro) – 5 Semester Plan

Visual Timeline with Resources & Weekly Study Schedule

Suggested
Courses &
Semester Focus Area Skills & Topics Projects Weekly
Resources
Schedule

Python, Numpy,
Python for
Pandas, Mon-Fri: 2
Everybody
Matplotlib, Linear Predict hrs Python, 1
(Coursera, free
Algebra, student hr Math; Sat:
audit) Link, IBM
Probability, grades, Iris Project work
SkillsBuild Data
4th Foundations Statistics, Data dataset 3 hrs; Sun:
Science
Handling, Basic classification, Review &
Foundations
ML (Linear & Data Kaggle
Link, Google ML
Logistic visualization exploration 2
Crash Course
Regression, K- hrs
Link
Means)

Mon/Wed/
Fri: 2 hrs ML
DeepLearning.AI theory, 1 hr
Decision Trees,
TensorFlow MNIST digit Python
Random Forest,
Developer recognition, practice;
SVM, Naive Bayes,
(Coursera, free Titanic Tue/Thu:
Intermediate Feature
5th audit) Link, survival Kaggle
AI & ML Engineering,
Kaggle Micro- prediction, exercises 2
Neural Networks
Courses Link, Sentiment hrs; Sat:
(basics), Git &
CS50 AI Harvard analysis Project 3-4
GitHub
Link hrs; Sun:
Review &
reading 2 hrs

1
 Suggested
Courses &
Semester Focus Area Skills & Topics Projects Weekly
Resources
Schedule

Mon/Wed: 2
hrs DL
theory +
PyTorch
coding; Tue/
CNN, RNN/LSTM, Chatbot Thu: NLP
Fast.ai Practical
NLP basics, using NLP, experiments
Deep Learning
Transformers, Image 2 hrs; Fri:
Advanced AI Link, Stanford
6th Computer Vision, classification Deployment
& ML CS224N NLP
Model with CNN, practice 2
Link, PyTorch
Deployment Time-series hrs; Sat:
Tutorials Link
(Flask/Django) prediction Projects 4
hrs; Sun:
Review &
Kaggle
practice 2
hrs

Reinforcement Mon-Fri: 1.5

Learning, Research- hrs RL/NLP
Advanced Deep style mini coding, 1 hr
Transformers Reinforcement project, research
Research & (BERT/GPT), Learning Workshop/ reading; Sat:
7th
Specialization Hyperparameter (Udacity) Link, undergrad Research
Tuning, GPU HuggingFace paper, Kaggle project 4 hrs;
acceleration, AI/ Tutorials Link competitions Sun: Kaggle
ML Research (top 20–30%) competition
Methods 2 hrs

Advanced ML Mon-Fri: 2
systems, hrs
End-to-end
Generative AI advanced
ML product,
(GANs/Diffusion), ML/GAN
GAN image
AI Ethics, Optional: Cloud coding, 1 hr
Pro & generation,
Explainable AI, AI & GAN reading; Sat:
8th Industry Multi-modal
Real-world courses, GAN End-to-end
Readiness AI, Advanced
applications tutorials Link project 4-5
Kaggle
(Autonomous hrs; Sun:
competitions
systems/ Portfolio
(top 10–20%)
Recommendation updating &
systems) Kaggle 2 hrs

2
Tips: - Consistency: 2–3 hours daily coding/projects - GitHub portfolio for every project - Participate in
competitions: Kaggle, AI hackathons - Write blogs about AI/ML projects - Network: Reddit r/
MachineLearning, LinkedIn AI groups, GitHub communities