Program Overview

Program Overview

The PhD Course in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) aims to train scientists and engineers to design and develop innovative methodologies towards the design of systems, data processing, modeling, and applications, in the fields of electronic engineering, remote sensing, applied electromagnetics, information and communication engineering, and to conduct original research in these areas.

Program Details

• ID: 26761
• Course type: Dottorato
• Academic year: 2025/2026
• Positions: 9
• Grant numbers: 5 + 3 (after the publication of the call, 2 additional scholarships were financed by the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, and 1 by the School of Aerospace Engineering)
• Number of scholarships financed by institutions: 0
• Number of scholarships financed by consortiums: 4

Educational Goals

The program supports students with supervisors, members of the Program Board, and scientific experts, performing highly and internationally recognized state-of-the-art research on the topics of the PhD Program. Students are individually assigned a specific research topic to be developed during the three-year course. The research carried out in the laboratories of the Department is supported by lectures and educational seminars, taught by Italian and foreign experts.

Curriculum

The PhD Program Board strongly encourages traveling to attend schools, conferences, and workshops, disseminate results of the Doctoral research, and carry out research in Universities and research centers. The program includes the following curricula:

• Applied Electromagnetism: enabling students to acquire innovative tools and methodologies aimed at the conception, development, and creation of devices, circuits, and systems that are capable of operating in the frequency range between industrial and optical frequencies.
• Electronic Engineering: ensuring that the doctoral student achieves a high level of qualification in the conception, modeling, design, and creation of innovative electronic components and systems, in the related measurement techniques and quality control methodologies.
• Information and Communication Engineering: training researchers and engineers capable of mastering methodologies for the development of both wired and wireless telecommunications infrastructures, signal and multimedia content processing systems, algorithms (including those based on machine learning), and efficient, reliable, low environmental impact telecommunications.
• Radar and Remote Sensing: training researchers and engineers capable of conceiving and developing innovative methodologies for the design of active and passive remote sensing systems, complex radiolocalisation and navigation systems, information processing collected by such sensors and systems with particular reference to Earth observation and planetary exploration.

Evaluation and Exams

• Exam - Oral: scheduled for July 14, 2025, at 08:30, in the Sala lettura del II piano del Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni (DIET), Edificio RM032, Università di Roma Sapienza.
• Tests - Evaluation of qualifications: scheduled for July 1, 2025.

Department and Staff

• Department: Ingegneria dell'informazione, elettronica e telecomunicazioni
• Coordinator: Andrea Baiocchi
• Staff: Giuseppe Giannini
• School: ICT