Computer Engineering
Professors working in the Scientific Disciplinary Sector of Information Processing Systems constitute the Computer Engineering Section of the Engineering Department.
The Computer Engineering Section coagulates the research and the interests of the operators and it is a reference point for the students of the undergraduate and graduate courses related to Computer Engineering.
The Computer Engineering Section is a driving force and a cultural and scientific reference center in the Sicilian Region, where a steady growth in computer engineering is expected as a strategic sector of new entrepreneurship.
The research lines of the Computer Engineering Section concern: innovative computer architectures; Artificial Intelligence; autonomous robotics; robot programming; machine consciousness; expert systems and knowledge representation; decision support systems; computer vision and image processing; man-machine interaction; cyber-security; distributed systems and computer networks; multimedia and hypertext systems; agent systems; software engineering; machine learning and deep learning; genetic algorithms; soft-computing techniques; big data analysis.
The research groups of the Computer Engineering Section have continuous relationships and collaboration with Italian and foreign Universities, where often doctoral students and research fellows carry out a period of study, and with organizations and institutions of the Sicilian territory through study agreements with purpose applications.
Keywords: Computer Engineering, Information Processing
The Computer Engineering Section Coordinator is prof. Giuseppe Lo Re, has 16 professors and 1 Scientific Disciplinary Sector: