CALL FOR ADMISSION TO THE PH.D. IN EMERGING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES A.Y. 2020/21

Deadline for application submission: June, 3rd 2020 11:59 a.m. (CEST)

ONLINE APPLICATION

Assessment of submitted documentation: June 19th, 2020

Interview: July 2nd and July 3rd, 2020  

 

The Ph.D. Programme in Emerging Digital Technologies is a full-time, mandatory attendance three-year programme with an interdisciplinary approach, which provides an exhaustive training path with structured teaching and supervised research activities with a view to producing an original thesis to discuss in a public examination.

In line with the standards of excellence pursued by the School, the objective of the programme is to train a professional figure able to successfully integrate in both national and international public and private research facilities and in companies manufacturing products or service providers operating in the field of communication, information and perception technologies.

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Number of positions available

7 positions with scholarship, funded by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, 1 of which funded by the Project Dipartimenti di Eccellenza divided among the curricula as follows:

- curriculum Embedded Systems: at least 2 positions

- curriculum Photonic Technologies: at least 2 positions

- curriculum Perceptual Robotics: at least 2 positions

The one (1) position financed by the Project Dipartimenti di Eccellenza will be assigned considering also the relevance of the research plan to the Project Dipartimenti di Eccellenza topics.

1 additional position with scholarship funded by HITACHI Rail STS and reserved for candidates submitting a research project on: "Multi-sensor data fusion for precise train localization through deep learning".
The goal of the research is to investigate deep learning techniques to integrate different sensors, as IMU, LIDAR, cameras, odometers and GNSS, in order to predict the train position on a railway map.
The method should be validated on a 3D graphic simulator that needs to be developed to evaluate the system performance.

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PROJECT DIPARTIMENTI DI ECCELLENZA

The “Dipartimento di Eccellenza della Classe di Scienze Sperimentali e Applicate” deals with the study and the development of a new generation of connected robots that, by integrating the most recent developments in the Artificail Intelligence (AI) and Materials Science (MS) fields, can provide robots with augmented cognitive, sensorimotor, and physical capabilities.

The research plans related to the “Dipartimento di Eccellenza della Classe di Scienze Sperimentali e Applicate” can broadly involve all the Ph.D. curricula, proposing research topics such as:

• Artificial Intelligence systems, integration of algorithms in parallel computers, IoT techniques, machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning algorithms, to develop cognitive capabilities in autonomous robots;

• material physics/chemistry/technology for the development of novel sensors and actuators, specialised and miniaturized, and of multifunctional parts of machines and robots;

• development of innovative robots for application in Life Sciences, Industry 4.0, and Cyber-Security.

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Furthermore, before the beginning of the Course, on the basis of specific agreements following positions may be activated:

- positions dedicated to specific industrial research activities, in partnership with organisations and private companies;

- positions intended for apprenticeship contracts, pursuant to article 11 of Italian Ministerial Decree no. 45/2013 and article 5 of Italian Legislative Decree 167/2011 (High-level Apprenticeship PhD);

- positions reserved for employees of companies which perform research and development activities, pursuant to article 11 of Italian Ministerial Decree no. 45/2013 (Industrial PhD).

- positions reserved to foreign recipients of scholarship.

PhD positions mentioned above are reserved for eligible candidates under the provision of a grant or a scholarship, from a public or private sponsor, at least equal to the three years Sant’Anna scholarship (including canteen services, periods out of office and external research activities).

More information in attachments.

Contact: 

Tel:  +39.050.882.095
e-mail:  phdtecip@santannapisa.it