The first year of the program is made of two core semesters of broad-spectrum Informatics classes. It gives students the necessary skills to tackle in-depths subjects in the second year of the program.

The specialty PLS aims to provide students with the basic elements allowing them to work in the computer business or start research in a laboratory or a company. The training provides the basic techniques related to software applications (development methodology and design, programming tools, safety, including in a web environment) while studying the basic concepts necessary (logics and interaction, automata, software specification).

Program overview

The cornerstone of this Master's program in Informatics lays on a tight link bridging the university's research and teaching vocations. This strong connection is realized through elective orientation and discovery classes allowing students to define their professional goals. In the second year of the Master's program, part of the third semester offers several concentrations each with their specific curriculum, while still keeping a common core of foundational, discovery and cultural “TUs” (Teaching Units). The fourth semester is devoted to an internship specific to each concentration and that can focus on either research careers or engineering careers.

Performance assessment

•    Year-long tests and final exams
•    M1 (first year) thesis and M2 (second year) internship: written report and oral defense.

Admission requirements

•    M1: students can be admitted into the first year (M1) or second year (M2) of the program. In general however, admission is selective into the first year to any student holding a Bachelor's degree in informatics.

•    M2: to be admitted in the second year of the Master's program, students must pass the first year of a Master's degree in IT. Admission is granted by the president of the University upon the recommendation of the program's director. The program's director requests the opinion of a jury on each student's ability to perform in the second year of the program. For students coming from other Master's programs (mathematics and IT, statistics, Applied IT for Business Management…), admission may be granted upon review of the applicant's background in Informatics.

Career placement

•    Jobs: graduates from the Master's degree in Informatics generally find employment as:
•    Fields: in high-tech areas of Aeronautics, Automotive, Telecommunications, Automatisms, Robotics, Energy, Laboratories, Banks, Insurance companies, service and applications IT, Retail.

Further education

After graduating from the Master's program, students can get into PhD programs with research teams within the LIPN and within other partnering labs such as the LAMSADE (Université Paris 9), the LIP6 (Sorbonne Université), the LRI and the LIMSI (Université Paris-Saclay) or any other university or industry lab, as well as with the IFSTTAR, INRIA, INRA, CENAGREF, IRD and IGN. Funding opportunities for PhD research are available with Cifre scholarships.

M1: Semester 1 (S1)

First week: Review (10 h of Algebra and 10 h of Analysis)

Foundational TU (1)

•    Advanced data structure (4 ECTS credits)
•    Fundamentals of programming (5 ECTS credits)
•    Database engineering (5 ECTS credits)

3 Discovery TUs

•    Algorithmic geometry (4 ECTS)
•    Dynamic systems specification (4 ECTS credits)
•    Exploratory data analysis (4 ECTS credits)
•    IT networks (4 ECTS credits)
•    Knowledge representation (4 ECTS credits)
•    Security and information theory (4 ECTS)
•    Transition systems & model checking (4 ECTS credits)

Transversal TU

•    English (2 ECTS credits)
•    Communication and Writing Techniques (2 ECTS credits)
•    Free (Sport, International Mobility, Associative Activity) (Bonus)

M1: Semester 2 (S2)

Foundational TU (2)

•    Compilation (5 ECTS credits)
•    Distributed Java programing (5 ECTS credits)

3 Orientation TUs

•    Algorithmics on words (4 ECTS credits)
•    Constraint programming (4 ECTS credits)
•    Distributed systems (4 ECTS credits)
•    Internet of Things (4 ECTS)
•    Matrix factorization methods for data mining (4 ECTS credits)
•    Operational research (4 ECTS credits)
•    Research initiation (4 ECTS)
•    System administration (4 ECTS credits)

Transversal TUs

•    English (2 ECTS credits)
•    Communication and Writing Techniques (2 ECTS credits)
•    Project leading and managing (4 ECTS credits)
•    Free (Sport, International Mobility, Associative Activity) (Bonus)

M2: Semester 3 (S3)

Module (SSS): Specification, Safety and Security

•    Programs and Proofs (3 ECTS)
•    High Level Petri Nets (3 ECTS)
•    Complex Systems Spécification (3 ECTS)
•    Safety and Security (3 ECTS) (3 ECTS)

Module (PLE): Programming, Languages and Environments

•    Advanced and ubiquitous JavaScript (3 ECTS)
•    Open Development Environments (3 ECTS)
•    Advanced languages and environments (3 ECTS)
•    Modular and resilient programming (3 ECTS)

Transversal TU

•    English (2 ECTS credits)
•    Innovation (2 ECTS credits)
•    Soft skills (2 ECTS)
•    Free (Sport, International Mobility, Associative Activity) (Bonus)

M2: Semester 4

2 Deepening TUs

•    Abstraction and refinement (3 ECTS)
•    Data flow and programming (3 ECTS)
•    Decision-making support (3 ECTS)
•    Grids and cloud computing (3 ECTS)
•    Human-Machine Interaction (3 ECTS)
•    Infinite, timed and hybrid systems (3 ECTS)
•    Learning visual representations (3 ECTS)
•    Learning, constraints, planning (3 ECTS)
•    Quantum computing (3 ECTS)
•    Social network analysis (3 ECTS)
•    Speech analytics (3 ECTS)
•    Textual data processing (3 ECTS)
•    User eXperience design (3 ECTS)

Internship

The fourth semester is targeted to the writing of a dissertation during an internship in either a laboratory or a company.
•    Industry/Laboratory internship (24 ECTS credits)