# Education & Certifications

> Academic degrees, peer-reviewed publication and professional AI and cloud certifications held by Satish K C, including AWS Certified AI Practitioner and Google Cloud MLOps.

**Degrees, peer-reviewed publication and professional certifications**

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Academic record, peer-reviewed publication and professional certifications, presented as a dated timeline.

Satish K C holds an MS in Data Science with a Machine Learning and AI specialization from the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky, completed between 2023 and 2025 with a 4.0 out of 4.0 GPA. He also holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University in Nepal, completed between 2017 and 2021 with 80 percent and a distinction award.

His peer-reviewed publication, An Empirical Study and Performance Analysis of Multi-Server Queuing Models, appears in the International Journal of Education and Management Engineering under DOI 10.5815/ijeme.2020.03.03.

Professional certifications include AWS Certified AI Practitioner earned in February 2026, IBM Dev Day AI Demystified covering IBM WatsonX and generative AI in February 2026, AWS Introduction to Cloud 101 from AWS Educate in October 2025, MLOps Getting Started from Google Cloud in May 2025, Transformer Models and BERT Model from Google Cloud in May 2025, Encoder-Decoder Architecture from Google Cloud in October 2024, SQL for Data Analytics in September 2024, and Machine Learning A-Z covering AI, Python and R in January 2024.

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