Program
Program
The Master 2 year consists of two semesters and allows you to earn 60 ECTS (European Credits Transfer System).
The first semester consists of core and optional modules. In addition, each student must complete a Personal Project in one of the partner institutions (I3S or INRIA) for a total of 6 ECTS credits (equivalent to around 120 hrs fo work).
Semester 1, Mid-September to February (30 ECTS)
UE1 (6 ECTS)
Graph Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization | 2 ECTS |
Machine learning: Theory and algorithms | 2 ECTS |
An Algorithmic Approach to Distributed Systems | 2 ECTS |
UE2 (6 ECTS)
Evolving Internet | 2 ECTS |
Full Stack Software Engineering for IoT | 2 ECTS |
Virtualized infrastructure in cloud computing | 2 ECTS |
UE3 (Project) (6 ECTS)
Personal Project (see link for examples of Personal Projects) | 5+1/3 ECTS |
French or English course | 2/3 ECTS |
Personal project
From November to January:
- 3 half-day per week
- 2 weeks dedicated in November/December
Optional UEs - 12 ECTS in total
There are two cases to obtain the 12 credits:
Case 1: 6 courses picked in the following list
Internet Measurements and New Architectures | 2 ECTS |
Performance Evaluation of Networks | 2 ECTS |
Blockchain and Privacy | 2 ECTS |
Algorithms for Telecommunications | 2 ECTS |
Introduction to Security | 2 ECTS |
Data Mining for Networks: Algorithms and Architectures | 2 ECTS |
Multimedia Networking | 2 ECTS |
Model-Based Design for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things | 2 ECTS |
Large scale distributed systems | 2 ECTS |
Case 2:
- 1 EUR courses (Automn/Winter) proposed here (3 ECTS). A tentative list for 2021-2022 is:
- Deep Tech Entrepreneurship
- Digital Strategy
- ICT and Environment
- Introduction to Machine Learning
- Quantum Computing and Networking
- Quantum Technologies
- Sensor and Network devices
- Technological challenges in the IoT domain
- Web Technologies
- Anthropology and ethics of technics
- Innovation and Design Thinking
- Innovation and Creativity
- Introduction to scientific research
- Organize your activity in project mode
- Tools2Communicate
- Website creation workshop
- The "Initiation to Research" course (1 ECTS)
- + 4 courses from the list of case 1 (8 ETCS)
Semester 2, March to August (30 ECTS)
Internship
A 6 month paid fulltime internship in one of the research teams Diana (INRIA), Neo (INRIA), Kairos (INRIA/I3S), Coati (INRIA/I3S), Scale (I3S), SigNet (I3S), Modalis (I3S) Rainbow (I3S), Indes (INRIA), etc… or with one of the companies with a branch in Sophia Antipolis: Orange Labs, SAP, THALES, AMADEUS, etc…
Examples of internships proposed at I3S and INRIA can be found here.