The PhD Program in ICT at the University of L’Aquila (http://phdict.disim.univaq.it) offers 19 scholarships in the context of a graduate school of excellence around the major topics in Information and Communication Technology, with particular emphasis on “pervasive ICT infrastructures”. 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 X
  • 1 grant funded by Leonardo S.p.A on miniaturization of high-performance radiocommunication systems for UAV/UAM applications
  • 4 grants funded within the D.M. 351/2022 context:
    • “Regional Digital Twin”
    • “Spatially multiplexed optical communications”
    • “Reality-Virtuality continuum: study of a “phygital” platform for the physical-digital visit of a cultural asset”
    • “Smart villages: technological and digital innovation of networks and services for citizens and economic operators for the intelligent management of resources and the sustainable development of the territorial capital of the 2009 seismic cluster”
  • 8 grants for industrial PhDs, funded within the D.M. 352/2022 context and co-funded by:
    • Micron Technology: “AIOps for software performance engineering”
    • Radiolabs: “Study of architectures and protocols for vehicular networks in intelligent and cooperative transport systems”
    • Pure Power Control S.r.l.: “Hydrogen powered fuel cells for road vehicles, agricultural tractors, construction machinery and boats”
    • ATLANTE SRL: “Advanced optimization models and methods for managing eV charging stations”
    • Leonardo S.p.A: “Cloud Security – Experimentation and development of methodologies and technologies in the field of Cloud Security”
    • Leonardo S.p.A: “Cloud Security for Aerospace – Experimentation and development of methodologies and technologies in the Aerospace domain”
    • Leonardo S.p.A:  “Cloud Security for Automotive – Experimentation and development of methodologies and technologies in the Automotive domain”
    • Leonardo S.p.A:  “Open RAN Architectures – Analysis and vulnerability assessment of open radio access network architectures (O-RAN)”

The program is open to national and international students. The goal of the PhD Program is 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)

The call for applications is available at https://www.univaq.it/en/section.php?id=2163&lang_s=en

Applications can be submitted until 22nd August 2022 at 13.00 CEST