PhD position announcement

One PhD position with scholarship for the PhD Programme in ICT on "Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for the enhancement of energy virtuosity".

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IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON METROLOGY FOR AUTOMOTIVE

All PhD students of the ICT school are qualified to follow the tutorials and Plenary Sessions of the IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON METROLOGY FOR AUTOMOTIVE without registration.
At the link https://weconf.eu/ieee-metroautomotive-2021/schedule, it is possible to see the entire program of the event and access the sessions of interest.

18 PhD positions on ICT at the Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari” - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - UNIMORE (Italy)

We are glad to announce that 18 PhD positions are available for the PhD Course in "Information and Communication Technologies" - ICT (www.ict.unimore.it) at the Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - UNIMORE (Italy) on advanced research topics in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Telecommunications and Automation Control.

We are looking for motivated candidates will to undertake challenging but rewarding research projects. The minimum duration of the course is three years and the call for applicants is available at https://www.unimore.it/didattica/doctorates.html The deadline for applications is 06/07/2021, 1:00 PM (Italian time, CEST).

The programme is organized in three curricula: Computer engineering and science; Electronics and telecommunications; Industrial Applications of ICT. The latter is part of the Doctoral School E4E - "Engineering for Economics - Economics for Engineering". Research areas and topics are described at www.ict.unimore.it/ResearchTopics.asp

The PhD course avails itself of a board of prestigious international advisors. The activity entails a minimum four months stage in laboratories of foreign research institutions or Universities. Please take a look at our site (www.ict.unimore.it) and the testimonials of our PhDs who have acquired prestigious academic and working positions.
Scholarships have a minimum annual amount of euro 15343. Additional benefits such as for instance accommodation facilities and subsidies are available. Details are available in the articles no. 9 and 10 of the call for applications.
Feel free to forward this email and information to colleagues and potential applicants.

Prof. Sonia Bergamaschi
ICT Doctorate Coordinator

Prof.Jaccheri, Innovitalia and the Oda prize

On june 2nd, for the national Italian festa della repubblica, the Diplomacy scientific Portal from the Italian ministry of foreign affairs INNOVITALIA has cited prof. Letizia Jaccheri (member of our international committee) regarding the topic Women and science. The article cited the fact that she was the winner of a prestigious Norwegian prize for her work on gender equality in the technology industry.

Letizia Jaccheri on May 6thm 2021 won the Norwegian Oda Award on gender equality in science.

Among the reasons for the award: "Through her work in academia and computer science Letizia inspires young technology enthusiasts. She is known for supporting and helping women to seize the best opportunities and lead change".

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Congrats!

Congratulazioni a Luca Bergamini, Matteo Fabbri, Matteo Paganelli, Nicolo Parmeggiani, Giulio Salierno e Nicolo'Zagni che hanno conseguito il Titolo di Dottore di Ricerca (via streaming)!

Tommaso Zanotti is awarded the Travel Award 2021 by the Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications

One of the students of the International Ph.D. school in ICT, Eng. Tommaso Zanotti, has been awarded the "Travel Award 2021" by the international open access "Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications" for his research results on innovative energy-efficient neuromorphic and Logic-in-Memory computing architectures based on emerging non-volatile memories, performed under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Maria Puglisi.

Designazione rappresentanti degli studenti nel collegio ICT

Esito designazione rappresentanti degli studenti nel collegio ICT: Stefanini Matteo (CSE) XXIV ciclo eletto a maggioranza (10 voti su 11); Luca Lusvarghi (ET) XXXV ciclo eletto a maggioranza (5 su 9 voti); Del Buono( IAI) eletto a maggioranza (10 su 14 voti). Benvenuti!

Tommaso Zanotti is awarded the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE IIRW 2020

One of the students of the International Ph.D. school in ICT, Eng. Tommaso Zanotti, has been awarded the "Best Student Paper Award" at the international conference IEEE IIRW 2020 for his paper entitled "Circuit Reliability Analysis of In-Memory Inference in Binarized Neural Networks", under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Maria Puglisi.

Graduatorie del corso di dottorato in “Information and communication technologies (ICT)".

Sono state pubblicate le quattro graduatorie del corso di dottorato in “Information and communication technologies (ICT)".

I candidati possono visionarle selezionando la voce "Graduatoria ammessi” dalla pagina web del corso in italiano:
https://www.unimore.it/didattica/dottorato.html?ID=1071
oppure selezionando la voce “Final ranking” dalla pagina web del corso in inglese:
https://www.unimore.it/didattica/doctorate.html?ID=1071

Termine dell’immatricolazione: 28 settembre 2020 ore 15,30.

Congrats!

Congratulazioni ai dottorandi Davide Abati, Giovanni Apruzzese, Federico Bolelli, Elena Cipressi, Marcella Cornia, Lucio Fanton, Luca Gagliardelli, Fabio Giovanardi, Andrea Palazzi, Dario Stabili che hanno conseguito il Titolo di Dottori di Ricerca (via streaming).

DDay 2020 rinviato a data da definirsi

In considerazione dell’evoluzione dell’infezione coronavirus COVID-19, in accordo con il Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, con la Regione Emilia-Romagna e le altre Università della Regione, al fine di ridurre le possibilità di contagio e agevolare gli studenti e il personale che abbiano difficoltà di spostamento, Unimore ha disposto la sospensione delle attività didattiche (lezioni, esami di profitto e sedute di lauree) da lunedì 24 febbraio a sabato 29 febbraio 2020 compresi, presso tutte le sedi dell’Ateneo, con la garanzia che date e scadenze del calendario accademico saranno adeguate di conseguenza.

Pertanto, anche il DDay 2020 programmato per venerdì 28 febbraio viene rimandato a data da definirsi.

Maggiori informazioni sulla news pubblicata sul sito di Ateneo.

Apply for Next Heidelberg Laureate Forum. Applications Due February 14 2020

As ACM appointed Review Committee member for the Computer Science section I solicit master students and ICT phd students to apply to HFL. HLF brings together recipients of the Turing Award, the ACM Prize in Computing, the Fields Medal, Abel Prize, and the Nevanlinna Prize to meet with 200 young researchers for a week in Heidelberg, Germany. The week is a mix of presentations by the laureates, young researcher posters and workshops, as well as social events. I am always impressed with all the laureates who so eagerly talk with the young researchers to discuss research and share stories. Prof. Sonia Bergamaschi

Admission to the PhD Courses of the XXXV cycle

The selection announcement for admission to the PhD Courses of the XXXV cycle with administrative headquarters at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia has been published on the University website (deadline 20 June 2019 at 1 p.m.

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StartCup 2019

Riparte la competizione tra progetti innovativi dell’Emilia-Romagna con tantissime novità!

La nuova edizione della Start Cup sarà dedicata alle idee ad alto contenuto tecnologico in ambito legate al mondo della ricerca, si concentrerà sullo sviluppo di sinergie con altri programmi sul territorio e vedrà la collaborazione di grandi aziende del territorio in un’ottica di open innovation.

Il bando chiude alle ore 13.00 del 15 maggio 2019.

Apply for Next Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 22-27, 2019: Applications Due February 15

As ACM appointed Review Committee member for the Computer Science section I solicit master students and ICT phd students to apply to HFL. HLF brings together recipients of the Turing Award, the ACM Prize in Computing, the Fields Medal, Abel Prize, and the Nevanlinna Prize to meet with 200 young researchers for a week in Heidelberg, Germany. The week is a mix of presentations by the laureates, young researcher posters and workshops, as well as social events. I am always impressed with all the laureates who so eagerly talk with the young researchers to discuss research and share stories. Prof. Sonia Bergamaschi

Nuovo bando Eni Award 2019 - Premio Giovane Ricercatore dell'Anno.

E' stato pubblicato il nuovo bando Eni Award 2019 - Premio Giovane Ricercatore dell'Anno.
Il Premio Giovane Ricercatore dell'Anno è un Premio destinato a dottorandi e dottori di ricerca che abbiano conseguito o conseguiranno il loro titolo di studio in un ateneo italiano nel corso del 2017 o del 2018, e che le candidature presentate devono riguardare temi relativi ai settori energetico e ambientale.

Bando aggiuntivo di selezione per l’ammissione ai Corsi di Dottorato di ricerca del XXXIV

Si comunica che è stato pubblicato, sul sito web di Ateneo, il bando di selezione per l’ammissione ai Corsi di Dottorato di ricerca del XXXIV ciclo con sede amministrativa presso l’Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia per posti, su tematiche specifiche, finanziati con borse di studio relativamente all’iniziativa di cui in oggetto. Il bando è reperibile alla pagina web http://www.unimore.it/didattica/dottorati.html alla voce “Bandi e graduatorie - Bandi di ammissione ai Corsi di Dottorato”. La pagina è raggiungibile collegandosi al sito web www.unimore.it e seguendo il percorso “Didattica”, “Dottorati di ricerca”.

Application Invitation

Dear Students, if you are expecting to complete your Italian second level degree, or equivalent qualification obtained abroad, in October 2018, in the areas of Information and Communication technology, you are warmly invited to apply for a three years PhD course at the International Doctorate School in "Information and Communication Technologies" - ICT (www.ict.unimore.it) of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia- UNIMORE (Italy) promoted by the department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" (http://www.ingmo.unimore.it/site/en/home.html).

RTSI 2018 and IEEE Young Professional Competition

The 4th RTSI forum (http://rtsi2018.ieeesezioneitalia.it/), bringing together leading representatives from politics, industry and academia to foster technological innovation and excellence in all the fields of primary interest for IEEE, including power systems, electronics, informatics, automation, and computer engineering, offers a great opportunity to YP to be on the stage showing advancements in their fields. Hence, the RTSI’18 forum includes a YP competition that consists of presenting a Poster and a Demo related to the YP research activities. This competition can be considered as a forum for showcasing the state of the art in a broad range of fields that include all the themes belonging to RTSI. Demos can be considered as real, practical, and interactive proof of the presenters’ research ideas and scientific or engineering contributions, with the goal of offering YP the opportunity to discuss systems, applications, prototypes, or proofs-of-concept with Senior researchers and people from industry.

New PhDs of the ICT doctorate

The ICT phd students of the XXX cycle: Lorenzo Baraldi, Stefano Alletto, Song Zhu, Marco Lasagni, Francesca Facchini, Emilio Sirignano, Fabrizio Balducci successfully defended their PHD thesis on on February 13th at 10 a.m. at the First Floor meeting room - DIEF - building 27, street P Vivarelli n.10. To them go the congratulations of the coordinator and of the doctorate council. We wait them and all the ICT Phd students for the D-Day on February the 19th to show their research activities. Prof. Sonia Bergamaschi

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Student selected for the 1st ASCENT PhD Accelerator Programme

On November 20th 2017 imec hosted the very first ASCENT PhD Accelerator workshop. Various topics were covered addressing reliability and failure mechanisms in state-of-the art microelectronic devices. This gave the opportunity to 6 international students, selected by the 3 institutes from a pool of ~40 applicants interested to step in the ASCENT project, to get insights in dielectric breakdown, self-heating, back-end reliability, etc.
One of the 6 selected students is Nicolò Zagni of the International Doctorate in ICT, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

TACC Training for Automotive Companies Creation

Lo scorso 29 novembre è stato pubblicato il bando per le candidature al progetto TACC Training for Automotive Companies Creation, percorso sperimentale e innovativo di orientamento e formazione all'imprenditorialità del settore automotive, in contesto interdisciplinare.
Il progetto è dedicato agli studenti delle lauree magistrali e ai dottorandi di UniMoRe e può rappresentare una interessante opportunità per acquisire competenze e soft skills in tema di innovazione e imprenditività, utili nel mondo del lavoro.
E' possibile scaricare presentazione sintetica , manifesto e call for applications.
Fino al 9 gennaio sarà possibile candidarsi per partecipare al progetto e l'inizio delle attività è previsto a marzo 2018. Ulteriori info al link automotiveacademy.unimore.it/tacc.

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Thesis Award

Thesis Award
Giovanni Simonini received the Award for the best PhD Thesis defended in an Italian University in 2016 from the IEEE Computer Society Italy Section Chapter Computer Science and Engineering with his PhD dissertaion titled "Loosely Schema-aware Techniques for Big Data Integration".
Giovanni obtained is PhD in the 2016 from the ICT International Doctorate of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (XXVIII cycle) under the supervision of Prof. Sonia Bergmaschi
The prize was awarded at the 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (http://rtsi2017.ieeesezioneitalia.it)

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Demo Award

Demo Award
Luca Gagliardelli (XXXII cycle) received the 2nd prize ex aequo at the IEEE Young Professional Event (demo competition) for his demo "SparkER: an Entity Resolution framework for Apache Spark".
The prize was awarded at the 3rd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (http://rtsi2017.ieeesezioneitalia.it)

Ranking and Admission

The ranking of the Doctoral Program in ICT has been published; go to http://www.ict.unimore.it/Admission.asp for more information on what to do to get enrolled - deadline October 2th

Avviso - tasse

Coloro che partecipano alle procedure selettive di ammissione ai Dottorati di ricerca del XXXIII ciclo (anno accademico 2017/2018) e coloro che devono iscriversi al secondo o terzo anno dei Dottorati di ricerca per l'anno accademico 2017/2018 sono pregati di leggere attentamente quanto indicato nell'avviso riportato e nel relativo allegato.

Applications

The deadline for the submission of candidates' applications will be July 13, 2017 (13:00). The admission is reserved to students who will be obtain their degree before October 31, 2017. The admission commettee will consider documents produced by the candidates within the deadline mentioned above. The new call for applications has been released and is available through the following link.

Si comunica che la scadenza del termine per la presentazione delle domande dei candidati sarà il 13 Luglio 2017 (ore 13:00) e che ai concorsi di ammissione potranno partecipare coloro che alla data del 31 ottobre 2017 saranno in possesso del titolo accademico previsto. Saranno oggetto di valutazione da parte delle Commissioni giudicatrici i soli documenti prodotti dai candidati entro la scadenza sopra citata. Il bando e la documentazione sono scaricabili al seguente link.