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Data and Decision Sciences🔗

The Data and Decision Sciences program is a Master-level specialization in Data Science, modern Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support at ISAE-SUPAERO.

Syllabus🔗

The program is composed of the following modules:

  • Fundamentals of Decision Making (FSD310)
    47 hours on data engineering fundamentals, statistics, and optimisation

  • Machine Learning (FSD311)
    77 hours on supervised, unsupervised, deep, and reinforcement learning

  • Data Engineering (FSD312)
    60 hours on data storage, computation, and distribution

  • Applied Data Science (FSD313)
    55 hours on data privacy and ethics, the digital economy, and applications of data science

  • Seminars (FSD319)
    Seminars from professional experts, training sessions, and challenges

This program is complemented by a 6 months internship in data science.

Courses details🔗

Fundamentals of Decision Making (FSD310)🔗

Course title Coordinator Volume Content
Data Engineering Fundamentals Christophe Huet 10h Capture the Flag: Linux, Git, SSH, Python and NumPy
Statistical Models for Decision Making Benjamin Bobbia, Laurent Risser 24h Descriptive Statistics, Probability, Linear Models, Regression Analysis, Mixed-Effects Models
Optimisation for Decision Making Zoé Krug 13h combinatorial, stochastic, and continuous optimisation, with automatic differentiation

Machine Learning (FSD311)🔗

Course title Coordinator Volume Content
Unsupervised and Supervised Learning Algorithms Jonathan Sprauel 23h SVM, Bayesian classification, Gaussian Processes, Decision Trees, Boosting, Bagging, Anomaly Detection
Deep Learning Axel Carlier 39h ANN, CNN, RNN, Transformers, LLM, RAG
Reinforcement Learning Valentin Guillet 15h MDP, Bellman equation, Value function, Deep Q-Learning, Actor-Critic

Data Engineering (FSD312)🔗


Course title Coordinator Volume Content
GPGPU Laurent Risser 6h
Data Storage Hugues Larat 12h SQL, PostGreSQL, ETL
Data Security Marina Dehez-Clementi 9h
Cloud Systems Axel Carlier 18h Cloud computing, GCP, virtualization, containerization, Docker
Cloud Data Engineering Guillaume Eynard-Bontemps 21h MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, Orchestration, Kubernetes, Dask

Applied Data Science (FSD313)🔗

Course title Coordinator Volume Content
AI, Law and Ethics Ronan Pons 9h Data privacy, GDPR, European AI Act
AI Business models Lionel Rigaud 10h SQL, PostGreSQL, ETL
Hackathon Axel Carlier 21h
In-depths Axel Carlier 15h computer vision, business intelligence, and reinforcement learning

Seminars (FSD319)🔗

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Seminars given throughout the year on data science topics by academics and professional experts, challenges like Kaggle competitions, and more.