Master’s Degree

Educational program: 122 “COMPUTER SCIENCES”

The main goal of the educational activities of NTU “KhPI” in the specialty 122 “Computer Sciences” at the educational qualification level of higher education “Master” is to provide professional training for specialists who are able to conduct theoretical and experimental research at an innovative level in the field of computer science, possessing modern methods, tools and technologies for the creation of algorithmic and software for information control systems, decision support systems, to design and develop artificial intelligence systems, data and knowledge consolidation, cognitive and service-oriented intelligent systems, with the protection and commercialization of digital intellectual property rights at early stages of development software products and information technologies.

Competition proposal: “COMPUTER SCIENCES” (study period 1.4 years, volume – 90 credits)

Educational and qualification level of graduates: Master

The main disciplines of general and vocational training in the specialty:
  • Fundamentals of Scientific Research
  • Data mining
  • Modern methods of mathematical and computer modeling
  • Data visualization

Curriculum for Master’s degree in “Computer Science”

Specializations of the department (Selective blocks):

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Main special educational disciplines:

  • Mathematical Foundations of Data and Process Analysis
  • Data and knowledge engineering
  • Machine learning
  • Distributed computing and databases
  • Service-oriented architecture and cloud technologies
  • Semantic Web

Specialization characteristics:

The object of training for specialization is software for the cognitive computing components of cloud services for information consolidation.

The subject of specialization training is architectural and software solutions of such services, which are planned, designed, modeled and implemented using methods, technologies and tools of Web programming, data and knowledge engineering to solve problems and satisfy the “digital” information needs of a particular clientele or social group, which otherwise are not able to efficiently and rationally access the consolidated information and acquired knowledge, since they are difficult to access in their original form and, as a rule, are obtained from many distributed information sources.

Intellectual Property in Software and Hardware Engineering

Main special educational disciplines:

  • Digital transformation of intellectual property
  • Commercialization of digital intellectual property: legal and economic aspects
  • Regulation and protection of digital intellectual property rights
  • Protecting confidential information

Specialization characteristics:

The object of training in specialization is objects of intellectual property rights, including software, digital multimedia content, inventions and utility models for software, system and circuitry solutions, industrial designs, trade secrets and know-how, signs for goods and services, computer programs, databases, websites, brand names and domain names, integrated circuit topologies and other “digital” intellectual property that identify ownership of the digital media for the consolidation of information in the data lifecycle and its content.

The subject of training in specialization is the legal mechanisms for regulating relations between subjects of intellectual property rights in the context of its digital transformation, legal and economic aspects of the commercialization of digital intellectual property, regulation, protection and management of digital intellectual property, protection of confidential information in computer and software engineering.

Programming languages and technologies studied at the department

Programming languages and technologies studied at the department

The competitive advantages of the department’s specializations are the combination of training with in-depth practical training, internship and professional training:

  • in general with the companies of the Kharkov IT cluster (http://it-kharkiv.com/) Information technology incubator «ІТ2»
  • at the Scientific and Educational Center “Digital Intellectual Property”, created at the department together with the Scientific Research Institute of Intellectual Property of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine (http://ndiiv.org.ua/ua/golovna/),
  • in the Academic Competence Center of the world leader of the IT industry, the company ІВМ, which works at the department and gives students the opportunity to take part in numerous international academic projects, competitions and internships in the leading ІВМ RnD centers (https://www.research.ibm.com/university/ )

Graduates of the department work as developers of software and databases as components of cloud services for information consolidation with in-depth competencies in the field of intellectual property, analysts and software testers, specialists in computer graphics (design), etc. in most of the companies of the Kharkov IT cluster, the founders and members of which are the Kharkov IT companies Altexsoft, INSART, Promodo, Videal and others, as well as at the enterprises of the leaders of the Ukrainian IT industry, members of the Association “Information and Technologies of Ukraine” (www.itukraine.org.ua), including EPAM Systems, SoftServe, GlobalLogic, Ciklum, NIX Solutions, DataArt, Oracle and others, which have thousands of current vacancies for employment (https://dou.ua/lenta/articles/top-50-winter-2021/)