Call for application - 2023 - 1st call

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Admission requirements and topics

In order to be admitted in the School, applicants must be in possession of an Academic degree title which grants access to a third level education programme (PhD) in the country it has been issued.
Applications are also accepted from students who expect to complete their degree by 31 October 2023.

For admission requirements and application procedure please check the call in the "Downloads" area on the right. Only the Italian version of the PhD Call is legally binding.

Deadline: May 30, 2023, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) - THE CALL IS CLOSED

The application must be completed and submitted at: https://webapps.unitn.it/Apply/en/Web/Home/dott
The application is subject to €15 non-refundable fee.

It is strongly recommended not to wait until the last few days prior to the deadline to submit your application.
After completing and sending the application, please make sure to receive an email notification confirming the definitive completion of the application procedure.

The list below provides a short non-exhaustive summary of what to upload on the application:
♦ scanned copy of the applicant's ID or passport
♦ M.Sc/M.A. degree transcript of records and diploma
♦ Curriculum Vitae
♦ Motivation letter
♦ Research Proposal
♦ Certificate attesting the knowledge of English language at B2 level

During the filling out of the online application, applicants must choose which research area and no more than two project-specific grants (reserved topic scholarships) within the Area they are interested to apply for.
Applicants may also opt for additional scholarships or positions reserved to applicants who are granted scholarships by foreign countries, which will be available AFTER the publication of this call and published on the selection website.

PLEASE NOTE:
The applicants who will have the application open after the publication of additional scholarships or positions reserved to applicants who are granted scholarships by foreign countries can apply for those scholarships or positions by using the entry “Other” in the proper section of the online application.
The applicants who will have already closed and sent the application before the publication of additional scholarships or positions reserved to applicants who are granted scholarships by foreign countries can apply for those scholarships or positions by an additional application which will be available soon after the closing of the main application. All applicants will receive all instructions about the additional application.

Open positions

Area A (Curriculum 1: Computer Science)

Deep and Structured Machine Learning
Language Speech and Interaction

no. 1 scholarship - University of Trento

no. 3 scholarships on reserved topic - DISI Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science:

A1 - Cross-modal understanding and generation of visual and textual contents (poject PRIN 2020 "CREATIVE", CUP no. E63C22000380001, Prot. no. 2020ZSL9F9) » details
A2 - Foundation models for fake news analysis (project HE RIA AI4TRUST - GA no. 101070190, CUP no. E63C22003900006) » details
A3 - Multimodal content analysis and synthesis for deep-fakes detection (project HE RIA AI4TRUST - GA no. 101070190, CUP no. E63C22003900006) » details

no. 5 scholarships on reserved topics - FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler:

A4 - Integrative Machine Translation » details
A5 - Planning Specialization via Reinforcement Learning » details
A6 - Social and Cooperative AI Systems » details
A7 - Strategies for improving Neural Dialogue Models generation » details
A8 -TinyML for learning and inference in resource-constrained networked devices » details

no. 1 additional position supported by a scholarship under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) Mission 4, component 2:

A9 - High Performance Artificial Intelligence for climate change research at extreme-scale (CN1 - National centre for HPC, SPOKE 4, CN0000013 – CUP no. E63C22000970007) » details

Area B (Curriculum 1: Computer Science)

Cyber Security
Embedded Intelligence and Robotics Systems
Systems and Networks

no. 1 scholarshis on reserved topics - DISI Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science:

B1 - Low-power wireless networking and localization for the Internet of Things » details

no. 2 scholarships on reserved topic - FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler:

B2 - In-Network Computing for System Security » details
B3 - On-chip fully digital architectures for real-time data processing in CMOS SPAD array sensors » details

no. 2 additional positions supported by a scholarship under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) Mission 4, component 2:

B4 - Provenance and Computational Reproducibility for climate change research at scale (CN1 - National centre for HPC, SPOKE 4, CN0000013 – CUP no. E63C22000970007) » details
B5 - Systems, signal processing algorithms, and communication protocols for networking, localization and security in underwater acoustic networks (iNEST - Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem, SPOKE 8, CUP no. E63C22001030007)
» details

no. 1 Position reserved to applicants who are granted scholarships by foreign countries

Area C (Curriculum 1: Computer Science)

Data Intelligence
Social Informatics
Software Engineering and Formal Methods

no. 1 scholarship - University of Trento

no. 7 scholarships on reserved topic - FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler:

C1 -AI-based techniques for personalized and playful education » details
C2 - Data Spaces and Data Governance for Agriculture 4.0: Interoperable Platforms for AgriDataSpaces » details
C3 -Formal methods for embedded software » details
C4 -Formal methods for hybrid systems » details
C5 - Formal methods for industry » details
C6 - Planning and Scheduling for Applications » details
C7 -Study of the interplay between semantic and interaction patterns in online social media » details

no. 1 additional positions supported by a scholarship under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) Mission 4, component 2:

C8 - Integrated Natural language and computer vision system (FAIR - Future Artificial Intelligence Research, PE0000013 – CUP no. E63C22002110007) » details

Area D (Curriculum 2: Telecommunications)

Artificial intelligence and machine learning for data analysis
Earth observation and planetary exploration
Medical ultrasound imaging
Remote and Distributed Sensing
Signal Processing and Recognition

no. 2 scholarships - University of Trento

no. 3 scholarships on reserved topics - DISI Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science:

D1 - Development of methodologies based on machine learning and artificial intelligence for the automatic analysis of hyperspectral and multispectral satellite remote sensing images (CUP no. F33C22000260005) » details
D2 - Machine learnig and artificial intelligence methodologies for the automatic analysis of data acquired by planetary radars (CUP no. F65F21000950005) » details
D3 - Radar sounder for the analysis of the sub-surface of planetary bodies (CUP no. F63C22000650005) » details

no. 5 scholarships on reserved topic - FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler:

D4 - Artificial intelligence for remote sensing time series analysis » details
D5 - Artificial intelligence methods for radar sounder data processing (project ASI EnVision ph.B1 – CUP no. F63C22000650005) » details
D6 - On-device processing for conversational speech recognition in dinner party scenarios » details
D7 - Real-Time Monitoring of Civil Infrastructures using IoT, 3D Metrology and Blockchain Technologies » details
D8 - Robotics and IoT for Intelligent Digital Agriculture: Deep Learning-based IoT Data Analysis » details