ICT International Doctoral School University of Trento
PhD Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Povo, Italy
PhD
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: ICT International Doctoral School, founded 2001, delivers PhD training in English to prepare researchers for academia, public bodies and industry. It trains students to design advanced information and telecommunication systems, develops entrepreneurial skills via internships, and supports transdisciplinary research, including a Computational Biology track with CIBIO. Areas: machine learning, computer vision, NLP, security, networks.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as academic researchers, R&D engineers, data scientists, AI researchers, systems engineers, security specialists, technical managers, or entrepreneurs in research institutes, universities, tech companies, startups, or consulting. The programme offers Ph.D. fellowships and prepares candidates for research, industry leadership, and entrepreneurship.
The doctoral program delivers the skills necessary to conduct advanced research at universities, public bodies, or private organizations for the purpose of advancing scientific and technological progress and creating a managerial class with a high-level professional culture and a corresponding international openness. The specific objective of the doctoral program is to train professionals able to develop high-quality and innovative information and telecommunication systems addressed to solving complex problems. It also pursues the goal of enhancing the doctoral students’ entrepreneurial abilities by furnishing specific training and opportunities to undertake internships.
The "ICT International Doctoral School" offers a doctoral program in some of the latest and most exciting research areas :
- Bioinformatics
- Computer Vision
- Data Analytics and Management
- Distributed Sensing Embedded Systems
- Formal Methods
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Knowledge Management
- Machine Learning Multimedia Analysis
- Natural Language Processing
- Pattern Recognition
- Remote Sensing and Radar
- Security
- Signal Processing
- Social Informatics
- Software Engineering Speech and Dialogue Systems and Networks Wireless Networking
The Doctoral Training Center - DTC is an innovation-oriented educational path, additional to the Doctoral School, offered by the University of Trento and EIT Digital and directed to Ph.D. students that have a passion for creativity and innovation.
The "ICT International Doctoral School" encourages transdisciplinary programs to pursue the promotion of cross-disciplinary research within the Ph.D. program, the training of Ph.D. students with cross-disciplinary skills, and the increase of collaborations with the other institutions. The Transdisciplinary Program in Computational Biology - in collaboration with the International Ph.D. Program in Biomolecular Sciences of the CIBIO of the University of Trento - aims at training Ph. D.s with complementary competencies in Computational Biology.
“ICT International Doctoral School” offers several Ph.D. fellowships in the following research areas:
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Speech and Dialogue
- Data Analytics and Management
- Distributed Sensing
- Embedded Systems
- Formal Methods
- Knowledge Management
- Multimedia analysis
- Remote Sensing and Radar
- Security
- Signal processing
- Social informatics
- Software Engineering
- Systems and Networks
- Wireless Networking
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