Phd in INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT)

The Advanced courses (with final evaluation) are programmed for the first year of the PhD course.
In addition to the specialized master-level courses, a number of PhD Advanced courses are offered to the PhD in ICT students by professors of the PhD Board, other Sapienza professors, as well as external professors or researchers. The list of the PhD Advanced courses offered in the present academic year is reported in the following Table.  

A more detailed description, including the specific lecture dates is available in the section “Courses”.

Notice that the total specific offer of the PhD in ICT course sums up to a total of 42 CFU.
 

The first-year PhD students (as well as the second-year PhD students, in case they have not been able to fulfill completely the first-year Advanced courses duties) can choose, among the available Master-level courses and the Advanced courses in this Table, a set of courses that sums up to 12 CFU.

Seminars and laboratory activities must be included by the PhD students for 6 CFU during each of the three years of the course.  The 6 CFU can be subdivided among the seminars and laboratory activities, as desired by the student and planned in his/her Doctoral Program Form.

The PhD in ICT course offers a wide set of seminars to the PhD students. The global offer takes advantage by all possible opportunities to have distinguished speakers, there including visiting professors and researchers, scientific collaborations of the PhD Board members, as well as selected ad hoc invited fellows.
 
For this reason, it is not possible to provide in advance a full list of available seminars. In contrast, the individual seminars are announced through the news web-site on a short term basis and their listing is made available in the “Seminar” section.

The laboratory activities consists of hands-on experience on projects and experimental research setups that are available for specific projects or research efforts. The PhD student can be involved with the practical activity to support the ongoing activity, in order to increase his/her experience and acquire the capability to operate in an experimental environment.
 
The set of Laboratories that concur to the PhD in ICT offer is reported in the Table below.

The research activity carried out inside the PhD in ICT course is devoted to specific topics inside the ICT area, where the doctoral students, under the guidance of their PhD Advisors, can provide significant innovation with respect to the state of the art.

The specific research activity carried out by the students during the academic year 2019-2020 is reported in the table below, which also includes the Curriculum.

As from the Programmed Study Plan, each PhD student is assigned an Advisor (typically under his/her request, subject to the agreement of the whole PhD Board) for the PhD course to be a continuous reference for the student. The PhD Board assigns also a PhD Advisory committee to each PhD student to monitor the progresses and provide suggestions during the three-years of the course.

The PhD Advisory committee members assigned to the individual students, together with the PhD Advisor, are reported in the Table below.

The additional independent research and formation activities can be freely selected by the PhD student, in agreement with his/her Advisor. Since the purpose is to avoid an extreme focusing of all the student’s energies on the very specific topic of the PhD Thesis, every student can exploit these CFUs on the offered Courses or Seminars, or increase the Laboratory experience, or attend external Tutorial lectures or Summer/winter schools. Also research activities, that are not in the same line of the main stream of research of the PhD Thesis can find place among these type of activities.