Available Research Topics for XLII Cycle (Nov 2026 - Oct 2029)

This page lists all the topics currently under research in the ICT school, divided in areas

Note that the topics are in alphabetical order (by tutor surname).

• Tutor: Davide Barater
  • Electrical drives for Multi-Harmonic Power Injection Strategies [Cotutors: Stefano Nuzzo]
• Tutor: Maurizio Casoni
  • SDN and IoT for Industry 5.0 [Cotutors: Carlo Augusto Grazia]
• Tutor: Alessandro Chini
  • TCAD modeling of WBG and UWBG power devices for their optimization and system-level performance evaluation
• Tutor: Carlo Augusto Grazia
  • End-to-End Latency Decomposition and Modeling in Cooperative ITS and V2X Systems
• Tutor: Pierpaolo Palestri
  • Alternative architectures and materials for nanoelectronic devices [Cotutors: Luca Selmi]
• Tutor: Francesco Maria Puglisi
  • Neuromorphic Computing Hardware for Low-Power Edge-AI
• Tutor: Luigi Rovati
  • Advanced Flexible Electronic Platforms for Wearable Biochemical Sensing and Implantable Ocular Diagnostics and Therapeutics
• Tutor: Luca Selmi
  • Label free biosensing with nano-electronic devices and circuits [Cotutors: Jacopo Nicolini]
• Tutor: Giorgio Matteo Vitetta
  • High-mobility target tracking in distributed ISAC systems [Cotutors: Pasquale Di Viesti]
• Tutor: Nicolò Zagni
  • Characterization and modelling of advanced semiconductor devices

• Tutor: Lorenzo Baraldi
  • Next-Generation Foundation Models: Architectures, Reasoning, and Predictive World Modeling [Cotutors: Marcella Cornia]
• Tutor: Domenico Beneventano
  • Trustworthy Natural Language Interfaces to Structured Data: LLM-based Text-to-SQL, Entity Resolution and Agentic Data Management [Cotutors: Luca Sala]
• Tutor: Federico Bolelli
  • Reproducible and Trustworthy AI for Advanced Medical Imaging and Healthcare Applications
• Tutor: Elisa Ficarra
  • Modelli di Intelligenza Artificiale per la modellazione dell’eterogeneità tumorale nella medicina di precisione [Cotutors: Simone Calderara]
• Tutor: Riccardo Lancellotti
  • Edge computing platforms for the support of complex applications
• Tutor: Mirco Marchetti
  • Innovating cybersecurity through the application of AI
• Tutor: Laura Po
  • From Raw News to Smarter Forecasts: LLM-Driven Event Extraction and Integration for Real-World Time Series Prediction [Cotutors: Federica Rollo]
• Tutor: Giovanni Simonini
  • Context-Efficient AI Agents for Scalable Data-Centric Reasoning
• Tutor: Dario Stabili
  • Cybersecurity for Cyber-Physical systems
• Tutor: Roberto Vezzani
  • TinyML and Deep Learning for IoT
• Tutor: Franco Zambonelli
  • Modular AI foundation models [Cotutors: Simone Calderara, Andrea Passarella]

• Tutor: Lorenzo Baraldi
  • Multimodal World Models for Embodied AI - Grant by AMD [Cotutors: Pier Luigi Dovesi]
  • Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal LLMs for Industrial Applications - Grant by Asotech
  • Large-Scale and Trustworthy Multimodal Foundation Models [Cotutors: Marcella Cornia]
• Tutor: Simone Calderara
  • Modular and Adaptive Multimodal Foundation Models - Grant by Villanova [Cotutors: Lorenzo Baraldi, Andrea Zugarini; Marcello Pellacani]
  • Modular AI foundation models - Grant by Axyon [Cotutors: Angelo Porrello, Jacopo Credi]
  • Modular AI and World Models for Simulation and Control - Grant by Ducati [Cotutors: Angelo Porrello, David Attisano]
  • Modular and task arithmetic for foundation models on multi sensory and multi source data - Grant by LEITHA [Cotutors: Angelo Porrello, Filippo della Casa; Nicola Ghirardi]
  • Modularity and task arithmetic in Multimodal vision AI systems - Grant by SPAL [Cotutors: Angelo Porrello, Gianluca Maugeri]
• Tutor: Marcella Cornia
  • Multimodal Reasoning and Understanding for Technical Diagrams and Complex Documents - Grant by [Cotutors: Lorenzo Baraldi, Gabriele Valvano; Mauro Vitale]
• Tutor: Vittorio Cuculo
  • Human-Inspired Memory Mechanisms for World Models - Grant by Takeda [Cotutors: Lorenzo Baraldi]
• Tutor: Elisa Ficarra
  • Intelligenza Artificiale spiegabile per l’analisi e l’ottimizzazione dell’appropriatezza prescrittiva attraverso dati clinici e dati medici multimodali
• Tutor: Carlo Augusto Grazia
  • Advanced Multi-Interface 5G Standalone Networks for V2X Communications and Experimental Vehicular Applications - Grant by ASK [Cotutors: Filippo Manghi]
• Tutor: Stefano Nuzzo
  • High performance control of electric drives in traction application [Cotutors: Davide Nuzzo]
  • Design of high power density electrical machines for transport applications - Grant by Blue Matter [Cotutors: Davide Barater]
  • Experimental Characterization of Advanced Soft and Hard Magnetic Materials for Traction Electrical Machines - Grant by Ferrari [Cotutors: Giampaolo Devito; Stefano Pasquale]
  • Design and control of high-performance electric machines for cryogenic applications - Grant by Nottingham [Cotutors: Gregorio Cutuli; Chris Gerada]
  • Design and Control of Electric Machines for Hydraulic Applications of the Electric Power Take Off Type (ePTO) - Grant by SPIN [Cotutors: Davide Barater, Luigi Rizzi]
• Tutor: Giovanni Simonini
  • Analysis of Multidimensional and Heterogeneous Data Integrated with Local Language Models for Advanced Operational Support Systems in Industrial Contexts - Grant by SPAL [Cotutors: Angelo Mozzillo]
  • Multidimensional Time Series Analysis Integrated with Local Language Models for Advanced Operational Support Systems - Position reserved to company employee of SPAL [Cotutors: Alberto Ballabeni]
• Tutor: Giorgio Matteo Vitetta
  • Sparse MIMO-SAR signal processing for compact mmWave/sub-THz imaging radars - Grant by Deep Radars [Cotutors: Pasquale Di Viesti]