(http://phdict.disim.univaq.it)
offers 20 scholarships in the context of a graduate school of excellence
around
the major topics in Information and Communication Technology.
In particular, the available grants will be as follows:
* 6 grants funded by the University of L'Aquila: on all research topics
treated in the PhD Program in ICT
* 4 grants aimed at carrying out research concerning:
--> "Regional digital twin–civil protection", managed with Regione Abruzzo,
Agenzia Regionale di Protezione Civile (APC). Referring Professor: A. Di
Marco
--> "Regional digital twin–improving geographical information system",
managed with USRA – Ufficio Speciale per la Ricostruzione dell'Aquila -
Referring Professor: A. Di Marco
--> "Data collection and analysis system from a video surveillance system
of a network of municipalities of the 2009 earthquake crater" managed with
USRC – "Ufficio Speciale per la Ricostruzione dei Comuni del Cratere" -
Referring Professor: A. Di Marco
--> "Safe and smart villages: technological and digital innovation of
networks and services for citizens and economic operators for the
intelligent management of resources and the safe and sustainable
development of territorial capital", managed with USRC – "Ufficio Speciale
per la Ricostruzione dei Comuni del Cratere" - Referring Professor: F.
Graziosi
* 3 grants aimed at carrying out research concerning:
--> "Study of architectures and protocols for vehicular networks in
intelligent and cooperative transport systems (C-ITS)", managed with
Consorzio Università Industria Radiolabs - Roma. Referring Professor: P. Di
Marco
--> "Investigating the impact of software refactoring on performance and
energy" - Referring Professor: D. Di Pompeo
--> "Computational methods of analysis and synthesis of the auditory scene
to support immersive and connected extended reality services". Referring
Professor: F. Graziosi
* 1 grant aimed at carrying out research concerning "Generative AI
metaverse for the cultural heritage" - Referring Professor: H. Muccini
* 5 grants aimed at carrying out research concerning:
--> "Multi-user and multi-agent three-dimensional immersive environments",
managed with Armundia Group S.r.l. - L'Aquila - Referring Professor: G. De
Gasperis
--> "Integrated geospatial system for solar energy support", managed with
Rainbow Lab S.r.l. - Roma - Referring Professor: V. Cortellessa
--> "Architecture of a high throughput, low observability avionics
datalink", managed with Leonardo S.p.A. - Roma - Referring Professor: F.
Santucci
--> "Reliability and fault tolerance of electric propulsion systems for
industrial vehicles", managed with TEKNE S.r.l. - Ortona (CH) - Referring
Professor: C. Buccella
--> "Development of new duty cycle modeling and optimization techniques in
the context of semiconductor device manufacturing systems", managed with
Lfoundry S.r.l. - Avezzano - Referring Professor: A. D'Innocenzo
* 1 grant to work on "Development of modern strategies for cloud and high
performance computing integration", managed with CINECA. Referring
Professor: G. Di Stefano
The program is open to national and international students. The PhD Program
aims to provide a flexible and stimulating environment for enabling
effective connection/integration between academic curricula and industry
needs.
Applications for the grants funded by the University of L'Aquila are
invited from candidates interested in working in the following topics:
- Heterogeneous complex systems modeling and control
- Autonomous systems and intelligent agents
- Identification, learning and data enabled control
- Networked Control Systems
- Resiliency, robustness and security in cyber-physical systems
- Modeling and control in intelligent transportation systems, smart energy
systems, smart buildings, smart factory, biological systems
- Fiber-optic communications and photonics
- 5G and beyond-5G wireless communication systems
- Service-aware networking and cybersecurity
- Communication technologies for intelligent transport, smart cities, and
Industry 4.0
- Power Converters and intelligent energy systems for industrial
applications, e-transportation, smart grids and smart buildings
- Embedded systems
- Human-computer interaction
- Algorithmic game theory
- Algorithms and optimization for complex networks and applications
- Algorithm engineering
- Operations research models and methods
- Artificial Intelligence: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics,
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Neurosymbolic AI, Applications
- Autonomic computing and automated software synthesis
- Software engineering
- Model-driven engineering
- Machine learning
- Bioinformatics
- Data Science
This wide combination of topics stems from the richness of research
interests of faculties in our department (
http://www.disim.univaq.it/main/index.php), in the Center of Excellence
DEWS (http://www.dews.ing.univaq.it/index.php?id=dewshome), and in the
Center of Excellence EX_EMERGE (http://exemerge.disim.univaq.it/), which
combine Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics.
Our PhD program in ICT also offers opportunities to spend training periods
in world-wide renowned schools having a formal institutional agreement with
the University of l'Aquila, such as: University of California at Berkeley,
University of California at Los Angeles, Swedish Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH), ETH Zurich, University College London, Carnegie Mellon
University, University of Cambridge, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Tabriz, Tianjin
University, and Harbin Institute of Technology e University of Wuhan.
Our PhD students will also enjoy a wide choice of courses and a rich
schedule of seminars held by scientists of international reputation (
http://phdict.disim.univaq.it/courses-and-seminars)
You can find more information about our PhD program in ICT here:
http://phdict.disim.univaq.it
The call for applications is available at
https://www.univaq.it/en/include/utilities/blob.php?table=bando_dottorato&id=55&item=bando_en
(details related to the PhD in ICT positions are on pages 22-24)
Application procedure instructions are available at
https://www.univaq.it/en/include/utilities/blob.php?table=bando_dottorato&id=55&item=istruzioni_compilazione_domanda_en
The deadline to submit applications is 24 August 2023.
Prospective candidates can obtain further information by writing to the
contacts provided at http://phdict.disim.univaq.it/contacts/
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