Master scholarships

Each year, the Labex DigiCosme offers about twenty scholarships to students who have a very good academic level and who wish to pursue a master’s degree in the field of computer science and telecommunications at the Université Paris-Saclay, with a view to pursuing a doctorate.

1 – Ongoing call

Only the master program manager can submit applications.

The submission procedures is on the site’s intranet on the page:
2022-2023 Master Scholarship Submission
Two sessions are organised per year. The first in march is open to first time entrance student in Paris Saclay area or in Université Paris Saclay. Second one organised in june is open for all students.

List of Partners participating in the “DigiCosme” LABEX and managing establishments
in which the master’s internship can be carried out without giving rise to suspension of the grant.

2 – History

3 – What are the conditions ?

Labex DigiCosme offers funding of 12 000€ per year.

• Apply for a first year master’s degree (M1), or second year (M2) in one of the following master’s degrees.
• If you enter the first year of a Master’s degree (M1), the scholarship is renewable for one year (subject to acceptance).
• It cannot be combined with another scholarship.
• DigiCosme will not cover the cost of transport and registration.
• The studies, including the internship, must take place in one of the member institutions of Paris Saclay University; the choice of an internship outside this scope entails the interruption of the scholarship.
• The student holding a grant is assigned a tutor from Labex DigiCosme community .

4 – Which are the targeted master program and how to apply  ?

To apply for the scholarship in one of the master’s courses of the Université Paris-Saclay the student must contact the person in charge of this course. The course managers are the only ones authorized to submit student applications, no direct application (from students) is possible.

2019 results

• 5 scholarships allocated at first session (first time entrance student in Paris Saclay area) split as below :
  • M2 MN : 2
  • M2 SAR : 2
  • M2 CCN:1
• 16 scholarships allocated at second session including:
  • 4 scholarships prolongation from M1 to M2
  • 3 news M1 scholarship (extension till 2020 if good results are achieved at M1)
  • 9 news M2 scholarship

The distribution of the new scholarships between the different training courses is as follows:

• M1 Herbrand : 1
• M1 Paris-Sud : 2
• M2 Datascale : 1
• M2 AIC : 2
• M2 AFP : 1
• M2 D&K : 2
• M2 DSBI : 1
• M2 IR : 1
• M2 MN : 1

More than excellence, the jury has looked at student motivation for doctoral study, as mentionned in file.

5 – Testimonials from scholarship holders

Khodor Hannoush

My name is Khodor Hannoush; I'm currently doing a Master 2 in Genomics Informatics and Mathematics for health and Environment at the University of Paris Saclay. I graduated in 2019 from the American University of Beirut (AUB) with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Then I continued with a one-year master's at AUB. During that year, I was an assistant instructor at AUB. Alongside I was a private tutor for high school and University students, teaching mainly Mathematics and Informatics.

Being interested in inter-disciplinary research, I decided to move toward Bioinformatics. As such, I applied to Paris-Saclay, and I was awarded the Digicosme scholarship 2020-2021 with a total amount of 12000 euros for twelve months.

Currently, I'm doing an internship at the IBISC laboratory (Informatique, bioinformatique Integrative et systèmes complexes). The research aims to predict non-coding RNA 3D structures by using deep learning techniques. The economic challenges that my country Lebanon is facing since 2019 and the coronavirus pandemic were obstacles to me, yet this scholarship helped me open the door for a fruitful future.

Khodor Hannoush, 2021.

Samuel Arsac

Je m'appelle Samuel Arsac. J'ai intégré l'ENS Paris-Saclay en informatique sur dossier en 2019 après une classe préparatoire. Après l'obtention de ma licence, j'ai commencé en 2020 le Master Parisien de Recherche en Informatique et ai obtenu une bourse DigiCosme d'un montant de 12 000 € pour 12 mois, reconductible pour l'année de M2. Je suis actuellement en stage de M1 à l'Université de Strathclyde, à Glasgow, au sein du Mathematically Structured Programming Group, sous la direction de Robert Atkey. Je travaille sur des systèmes de types dans le cadre du calcul réversible. Cette bourse me permet de suivre mes études sans aucune pression financière, et de m'assurer que je dispose du matériel me permettant d'étudier à distance dans les meilleures conditions. Samuel Arsac, 2021.

Mykola LIASHUHA

My name is Mykola Liashuha. I am currently a student at University Paris-Saclay, pursuing Artificial Intelligence Master's degree. I have graduated from Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv with Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering. My career started during the second year of my studies as Full-stack engineer, though I have drastically changed my specialization after an Erasmus+ exchange where I had discovered a field of Artificial Intelligence. Having already more than a year of experience as a Machine Learning/Computer Vision Engineer, I received Labex DigiCosme scholarship for 2020-2021 years with an amount of 12.000 euros for 12 months. Now I am finishing my first year at the university. I am more than delighted with a broad range of available courses at the university. The current program has brought me an opportunity to discover other fields of AI (such as NLP, etc.), dive deep into "old-school" Machine Learning approaches, and even organize my own challenge for other research fellows. As well, I am having an internship this summer at MICS Laboratory on the topic of Breas Cancer Detection using High-resolution images. This year of 2020-2021 has brought a lot of challenges due to pandemic situation. But despite this fact, this grant helped me to feel totally secure in terms of finances, and buy any essential equipment for remote workflow that I needed. As well as, DgicCosme also covers the payment for internship. Mykola LIASHUHA, 2021.

Serge DURAND

Je m'appelle Serge Durand. J'ai d'abord fait des études en Institut d’Études Politiques et j'ai commencé une première carrière dans l'industrie du tourisme. Plus intéressé par un parcours scientifique je me suis réorienté et j'ai repris les études en 2013 en commençant par une licence de mathématique avec une mineure informatique à l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie (maintenant partie de Sorbonne Université). J'ai ensuite poursuivi au Master Parisien de Recherche en Informatique (MPRI) à l'ENS Paris-Saclay et j'ai obtenu une Bourse DigiCosme en 2020 pour la dernière année de master (2020-2021) d'un montant mensuel de 1000 € pour 12 mois. Actuellement en dernière année de master j'effectue mon stage au CEA au sein de l'équipe travaillant sur l'IA de confiance sous la direction de M. Zakaria Chihani sur un sujet concernant la sécurité des algorithmes d'apprentissage profond et les réseaux de neurones. La bourse m'a été d'une grande aide pour finir mes études sans pression financière. En cette année de crise sanitaire j'ai pu notamment m'équiper en matériel indispensable pour travailler confortablement à distance sans faire de sacrifice d'autre part. Serge Durand, 2021.

Ihsan ULLAH

I am Ihsan ULLAH, M1 - Artificial Intelligence student at Université Paris-Saclay. I received Labex Digicosme's grant for my Masters in 2020. The grant amount is € 12000/year. This grant is very helpful for me to freely study without any worries about the finances. This scholarship contributes in my rent, food, university fee, health and other expenses. Through Digicosme, I have access to Digicosme partner laboratories, in which I will be doing my internships and later on my Ph.D. Ihsan ULLAH, 2021.