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RESEARCH TOPICS

In the following we present a non-exhaustive list of possible research themes related to the PhD Program on ICT, which also takes into account some of the research projects involving the professors of the Doctoral Board.

Artificial intelligence and Big Data

Artificial intelligence
AI for Health
NLP for sentiment analysis and opinion mining in social media
Big Data architectures in support of innovative Machine Learning paradigms
Big Data Analytics and AI for Precision Medicine
Digital Advertising
Human-robot teaming interaction
ROBOT consciousness
Computer Vision based on Deep Learning for Surveillance and Profiling Applications
Computer Vision Techniques for the Analysis of Images and Videos
Big Data for Smart Urbanism and healthcare

Network technologies and protocols, Distributed systems, Cybersecurity
Wireless software defined networks
Emerging Wireless Technologies and Beyond 5G
Internet of Things
Distributed and Mobile Edge Computing
Information-Theoretic Analysis of Complex Systems and Dynamical Networks Blockchains and smart contracts
Cybersecurity

Materials, Processes and Devices
Biomaterials and biomedical applications
Advanced control systems for process optimization
Development of advanced computational tools for process engineering
Model-based design and optimization of sustainable industrial processes
Development of biodegradable microfluidic chips from Poly-lactic acid for clinical point-of-care applications Advanced light management for high efficiency solar cells
Growth of Materials in Nanostructured Form for Optoelectronics Applications
Hybrid organic-inorganic white light-emitting diodes (HWLEDs)
Materials and Devices with Memristive Properties
Design and development of W-Band Traveling Wave Tube for New 5G/6G High-Capacity Networks Design of high current density cathodes
Novel Nanoplasmonic Devices for Spectroscopy and Nonlinear Optics
Design and development of nanosensors based on plasmonic nanoantennas
Energy autonomous wireless smart systems based on energy harvesting and wireless power transfer.
Wide bandgap semiconductor devices in modern Power Electronics Development of advanced computational tools for process engineering Devices based on 2D/Layered materials
Microwave Antennas
Plasmonic nanoantennas Radar

Quantum Science and Technologies
Quantum resources of open quantum systems for applications in quantum information Terahertz quantum cryptography
Quantum metrology protocols and quantum radar
Optical source for the generation of quantum cluster states

Sensors and signal processing for industrial and biomedical applications
Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT
Multivariate Time series Analysis for the Assessment of Healthy and diseased Physiological States Computational Neuroscience and Neural Signal Processing
Multisensor acquisition system for assessment of cardiovascular parameters
Advanced bio-electromagnetic numerical modelling and ICT for human brain research
Microwave sensors for Health Applications
Design and development of nanosensors based on plasmonic nanoantennas

Unmanned vehicles and control
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/ Unmanned Ground Vehicles cooperation for object manipulation Guidance, Navigation and Control system of Unmanned Air Vehicles
Control Strategies for Nonlinear Systems subject to Constraints

ICT for energy and environmental monitoring
ICT for smart cities based on connection of information, resources and cycles for a new intelligent urban metabolism
Building as element of the smart city/smart grid networks

Mathematical modelling of dynamical systems
Analysis of the dynamics of micro- and macroscopic systems using functional analysis, operator theory, and quantum mechanical approaches
Effective Hamiltonians and quantum systems
Soliton propagation of heat signal