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    Master of Science in

    Credits
    DATA SCIENCE
    Core courses (min. 30 credits)
    2-year program - 120ECTS Advanced algorithms 7
    Applied data analysis 6
    Foundations of data science 6
    Information security and privacy 6
    Master’s thesis Core courses Machine learning 7
    30 ECTS and options Optimization for machine learning 5
    72 ECTS
    Statistics for data science 6
    Systems for data science 6

    Project in
    social and
    human
    sciences Options
    6 ECTS Advanced cryptography 4
    Advanced probability and applications 6
    Semester Advanced topics on privacy enhancing technologies 7
    project
    Applied biostatistics 5
    12 ECTS
    Artificial neural networks 5
    Automatic speech processing 3
    Biological modeling of neural networks 4
    Computational linear algebra 5
    Computational complexity 4
    Computational photography 5
    Computer vision 4
    Concurrent algorithms 5
    Cryptography and security 7
    Data visualization 4
    Deep learning 4
    Digital education & learning analytics 4
    The program includes a compulsory 8-week internship which Distributed algorithms 6
    can be extended to 6 months and combined with the Master’s Distributed information systems 4
    thesis. Distributed intelligent systems 5
    Formal verification 6
    Students may choose a 30 ECTS minor included in the Graph theory 5
    120 ECTS. Recommended minors with this program: Image analysis and pattern recognition 4
    • Biocomputing
    Information theory and coding 7
    • Biomedical technologies
    Intelligent agents 6
    • Computational science and engineering
    Interaction design 4
    • Management, technology and entrepreneurship
    • Space technologies Introduction to natural language processing 4
    Lab in data science 4
    Instead of a minor, students may opt for a Teaching Learning theory 4
    specialization (30 ECTS at the Haute école pédagogique du Linear models 5
    canton de Vaud). Machine learning for behavioral data 4
    Markov chains and algorithmic applications 4

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    Mathematical foundations of signal processing 6

    Career prospects Mathematics of data: from theory to computation


    Networks out of control
    4
    4
    Optional project in data science 8
    The EPFL Innovation Park, literally two steps away, is home
    Performance evaluation 7
    to numerous R&D laboratories from international companies
    Risk, rare events and extremes 5
    such as Cisco, Logitech, Credit Suisse or Nitto Denko. Such
    Robust and nonparametric statistics 5
    companies closely collaborate with the researchers from the
    School of Computer and Communication Sciences IC. Software security 6
    The EPFL Innovation Park is the springboard for plenty of Statistical mechanics and Gibbs measures 5
    start-ups, most of them stemming from the IC School. Statistical theory 5
    Student seminar : security protocols and applications 3
    It only takes an average of 10 weeks to find one’s first job in Sublinear algorithms for big data analysis 4
    the field of Information and Communication Technologies Technology ventures in IC 4
    (ICT). Moreover, many graduates in the ICT field receive a job Time Series 5
    offer during the last semester of their training. Companies like Topics in theoretical computer science 4
    Facebook, Google and Microsoft have even begun recruiting Virtual reality 4
    directly on campus.

    School of Computer and Communication Sciences


    go.epfl.ch/master-data-science
    contact: sylviane.dalmas@epfl.ch

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