Description
The MPI master’s program is oriented towards the realization of scalable complex software architectures, with a high degree of availability, also ensuring cyber security requirements. Students obtain technical skills – for the development of distributed applications, including Cloud and IoT, Big Data processing, data protection through blockchain technologies – but also management and entrepreneurship skills.
Relevance to the job market
Management and protection of information are essential nowadays for the digitalization of the business environment and public institutions. Graduates of this programme can find jobs in prestigious IT companies, can continue with PhD studies and capitalize on their management skills.
Required knowledge
Typical knowledge from technical bachelor studies: programming languages, hardware / software architectures, computer networks, operating systems, linear algebra.
Competences and skills acquired
- The design of high-availability scalable architectures, to ensure efficient processing and access to information.
- Information search techniques based on data mining and machine learning.
- Distributed information management through domain-specific languages, Cloud and IoT architectures.
- Ensuring the protection of information in decentralized and secure storage and encryption systems.
- Analysis and auditing of IT system security.
- Risk management and decision support.
- Innovation management and entrepreneurship.
Courses
Year I, semester I
| Course 1: | Security of Information Systems |
| Course 2: | Information Search and Retrieval Techniques |
| Course 3: | Information Management through Domain Specific Languages |
| Course 4: | Scientific Research 1 |
| Course 5 (elective): | Activity and Data Flow Modeling Information Systems for Knowledge Management |
| Facultative course: | Design and Management of Educational Programs |
Year I, semester II
| Course 1: | High Performance Computing Equipment |
| Course 2: | Cryptography and Cryptanalysis |
| Course 3: | Reliability and Maintenance of Information Systems |
| Course 4: | Scientific Research 2 |
| Course 5 (elective) : | High Security Audio-Video Information Coding Software Testing and Quality Assurance |
| Facultative courses: | Adolescent, Youth and Adult Psycho-pedagogy Counseling and Guidance Strategic and Risk Management |
Year II, semester I
| Course 1: | Information Protection in E-systems |
| Course 2: | Distributed information management through Cloud and IoT architectures |
| Course 3: | Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property Protection and Research Dissemination |
| Course 4: | Scientific Research 3 |
| Course 5 (elective): | Safety in the Operation of Software Systems Management of Research and Innovation Projects |
| Facultative courses: | Adolescent, Youth and Adult Psycho-pedagogy Counseling and guidance |
Year II, semester II
| Course 1: | Scientific research, Practice and Dissertation Project |
| Course 2: | Ethics and Academic Integrity |
Research Topics
- Intelligent applications for emergency situations support
- Automatic scaling of web application infrastructure based on artificial intelligence
- Encryption and cryptanalysis system
- Document management systems
- Intelligent systems for traffic decongestion
- Integration of non-homogeneous data sources in a BI/DW system
- Big Data
- Development of Business Intelligence systems
- ERP systems
- Massive data processing techniques
- Hybrid Cloud solutions
- Intrusion prevention and detection systems
- Automatic test generation systems
- Design of fault tolerant systems
- Security of web services
- Modern and efficient automatic testing solutions
- Encryption of Modbus messages in industrial installations
- Security problems in mobile banking applications
- Autonomous protection/attack system for IT applications
- Data protection systems using steganography
- Facial recognition
- Authentication in web applications
- Consolidation of data warehouses
- Semantic analysis
- Implementation of distributed computing algorithms (map, reduce)
Programming languages and technologies
Programming : C, C++, .net, Java, JavaScript, Python, R, SQL, XML;
System security : RedHat Linux / CentOS / Kali Linux;
Blockchain technologies : Ethereum / MOdex BCDB / BigchainDB;
Data mining and machine learning : Orange / WEKA;
Cloud platforms : IBM Cloud, IBM ISDM;
Testing : JUNIT / Jest;
Modeling and metamodeling : UML, BPMN, Generic Modeling Environment
Other information
Teaching language : Romanian
Partner companies : Oracle, IBM, 4psa, ASTI, IPA, Qnet Internaţional, Modex