Specialty – Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences (IAD)
The aim of the IAD program is to train engineering students in the techniques and methods that relate to Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in the broadest sense. The fields covered are knowledge engineering, learning, data engineering and decision-making methods.
Course contents
The course focuses on three main areas: building and structuring databases or data warehouses, from occasionally heterogeneous sources or systems; data exploitation, using data analysis (data mining) and machine learning tools; and knowledge management.
Engineers graduating from the IAD program will acquire skills in:
- databases, data warehouses, data distribution and calculations (CC NF26),
- data analysis and machine learning: factor analysis, automatic classification, segmentation, discriminant analysis, decision trees, artificial neural networks, etc.(CCs SY09 and SY19),

- knowledge management: knowledge extraction and management, knowledge capitalization, indexing and information retrieval, rule- and model-based reasoning, reactive and cognitive agents, etc. (CCs IA03, IA04 and LO17).

Pedagogical team
The teaching team is made up of members of the CID team of the CNRS UTC Heudiasyc UMR7253 research laboratory. The research activities of the team are related to AI (artificial intelligence). The team's research activities are in the field of artificial intelligence. CID's research focuses on statistical learning, uncertainty management and knowledge engineering, with applications to knowledge capitalization, path recommendation and the scripting of virtual environments.
Facilities and infrastructures
Teaching is implemented via supervised sessions and projects, on UTC based machines or on dedicated servers for certain courses.
Internships and industrial relations
In addition, conferences are organized each year to complement the courses and provide a different perspective on current issues. Finally, a pedagogical council brings together the teaching staff and external experts from industry and other educational establishments, to adapt content to developments in the field. Offers for internships are plentiful and varied.
International outreach
IAD students can spend a large number of semesters abroad (Canada, Sweden, Spain, USA, Japan…). They can also continue their training during their stays abroad, as partner institutions generally offer courses similar or even complementary to those in the UTC programme. A number of end-of-study projects involve international work.
Professional openings
Main career opportunities include:
- Data scientist. Design of learning and analysis methods, evaluation of methods, academic or industrial research, etc.
- Data engineer. Implementation of learning methods, pipeline design, data analysis, business intelligence, etc.
- Knowledge engineer. Knowledge extraction and management, business process modelling, knowledge capitalization, web programming, etc.
Our triple acumen in data science, data warehouse management and knowledge engineering is highly valued by companies and enables us to work in a wide variety of sectors:
- for companies specializing in information technology, in particular software publishers (Dassault, SAP, etc.);
- or companies or government agencies (banks, insurance companies, industrial production, distribution, telecommunications, etc.);
- within IT services and engineering companies (SSII).