From Nigeria to Europe: An Erasmus Mundus Scholar’s Journey in EDISS

Motunrayo Ibiyo exemplifies the academic excellence, motivation, and global outlook fostered by EDISS. With a strong foundation in Computer Science and professional experience spanning web development, data engineering, IT support, and analytics, Motunrayo chose EDISS over multiple prestigious, partially funded offers because of its perfect alignment with her goal of building intelligent systems.

She highlights the programme’s supportive academic environment, approachable faculty, and outstanding guidance for international students across both Finland and Italy. Her journey underscores the importance of early preparation, clear motivation, and alignment with EDISS values — offering powerful inspiration and practical advice to future applicants seeking to join a world-class, fully funded international master’s programme in data-intensive intelligent software systems.

As part of her studies in the EDISS programme, Motunrayo published three scientific articles:

Motunrayo Osatohanmen IbiyoThinakone Louangdy, Phuong T. Nguyen, Claudio Di Sipio, and Davide Di Ruscio, “ Detecting Malicious Source Code in PyPI Packages with LLMs: Does RAG Come in Handy?”, EASE 2025, June 17-20, Istanbul, Türkiye. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.13769

Harry Hamjaya, Motunrayo Ibiyo, Shihabur Samrat, Puja Dhakal, Nicolas Leberruyer, Sébastien Lafond, Hergys Rexha, “ Industry 4.0: Automating Gearbox Sound Anomaly Detection Using Machine Learning”30th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Porto, 9-12 September 2025https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA65518.2025.11205565

Moamin Abughazala, Henry Muccini, and Motunrayo Osatohanmen Ibiyo“ Quality by Prompt: LLM-Powered Transformation of Data Quality Requirements into Great Expectations”, SEAA 2025, September 10-12, Salerno, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04190-6_9

In addition, her master’s thesis titled “Large Language Models based Multi-Agent Systems for Detecting Malicious PyPI Packages” was awarded the best Information Security Thesis by Tietoturva ry (the Finnish Information Security Association) in 2025.

Read Motunrayo’s full interview here: https://globalscholarships.com/scholarship-posts/motunrayo-ibiyo

Last updated on 7 December 2025

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