Artificial Intelligence

Our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Master programme is oriented towards Hybrid intelligence, where AI systems and humans collaborate. The AI master programme has a human-centric approach to AI. It is aimed at providing students with solid underpinnings in the technical and algorithmic aspects of AI, combined with a thorough understanding of human functioning from human-oriented sciences.

Students approach the study of AI both from a technical perspective, focusing on the understanding, analysis and development of novel AI algorithms, and from a societal and human perspective, looking into questions such as “how can we develop and evaluate computer-based technology that exploits knowledge about human functioning?” and “how can human and AI-technology complement each other and collaborate with each other?”

The first year includes courses that focus on core AI topics, while the second year is devoted to the specialisation “Cognitive Science”, “AI for Health" or a coherent set of electives.

During the specialization phase, students can choose to follow the regular AI Master programme to deepen and broaden the knowledge of AI techniques by building up the knowledge obtained from the compulsory courses on the core AI topics. They can choose advanced elective courses in a more specialized AI topic (e.g. Learning Machines, Knowledge Representation on the Web), specific AI application area (e.g. support of people to have a healthy lifestyle and elderly care), or relevant scientific discipline (e.g. psychology, sociology, language, biomedical sciences. Another option is to continue in the specialisation “Cognitive Science” or “AI for Health", which require an additional set of compulsory courses.

Graduates from the Master in Artificial Intelligence typically move on to pursue a career such as Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, or AI specialist at leading ICT companies.