In memory of our dear Kosari Kooshyar, a generous and sensitive soul who left us too soon. His brilliant spirit and significant contributions will be forever cherished within our academic community.

Ciclo/Cycle XXXVII

Avviso PON - Green
Avviso PON - Innovation

Call for Applications

Italian[Expired] English[Expired] Website-PhDs[Expired]

PON - Deadline for the application: 15/10/21 Call for applications PON [IT]

Call for applications PON [EN]

Criteri di Valutazione-Evaluation criteria

Ammessi - Admitted list XXXVII-PON

Avviso - Communication

Voti Colloqui PON

Graduatoria Finale PON

Grants

• 4 UNICT Grants
• 1 Grant Financed by Associazione Italiana Assistenza agli Spastici – Sezione di Acireale (CT)
• 1 Grant Financed by Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
• 2 other positions are available without scholarship

PON Grants

TEMATICHE DELL'INNOVAZIONE (AZIONE IV.4)

• 1 In partnership with IInformatica srl . Topic: Models for the generation of synthetic virtual data for machine learning.
• 1 In partnership with AC2 srl. Topic: Combining Machine Learning and Metaheuristics for Structural Damage Detection.
• 1 In partnership with iCTLAb srl. Topic: Study and development of unsupervised or semi supervised techniques for the detection of fake multimedia content (Deepfake, FakeNews, etc.) in the social field.
• 1 In partnership with CY4GATE SPA. Topic: Near real time audio analysis in homeland security.
• 1 In partnership with NexTVision srl. Topic: Long Range Video Understanding.

Tematiche GREEN (Azione 1.5)

• 1 In partnership with M2D Technologies srl. Topic: Data analysis technologies for predictive and prescriptive maintenance on photovoltaic systems.
• 1 In partnership with EnelX. Topic: Study and development of multi-agent algorithms for the optimization of distributed generation based on electrical energy storage and photovoltaic production systems.
• 1 In partnership with Xenia Progetti srl. Topic: Ambient Aware Wearable Vision for Energy Saving in Industrial Sites.
• 1 In partnership with NeoDataLab. Topic: Green and Smart Technologies for monitoring Climate Change: Artificial Intelligence to contrast Public Health threats.
• 1 In partnership with RESINTEGRA . Topic: Study of intelligent systems for preventive analysis of the vulnerabilities of industrial and infrastructural assets caused by extreme climatic events by means of drones and / or advanced sensors.

Students

Students PON

Professor members of the University of Catania

• Sebastiano Battiato [scholar] [scopus] - Multimedia, Computer Vision, Information Forensics and Security, Multimedia Forensics
• Dario Catalano [scholar] [scopus] - Cryptography
• Domenico Cantone [scholar] [scopus] - Computational Logic, Algorithms
• Francesca Faraci [scopus] - Mathematics, Decision Sciences, Computer Science
• Giuseppe Pappalardo [scopus] - Distributed Systems, IoT, Computer Science
• Simone Faro [scholar] [scopus] - Computer Science, Algorithms on Strings, Natural Language Processing
• Marina Madonia - Formal Languages
• Fabrizio Messina [scholar] [scopus] – Cloud computing, IoT, Intelligent systems, Parallel and distributed computing, Trust and Reputation
• Corrado Santoro [scholar] [scopus] - Computer Science
• Emiliano Tramontana [scopus] - Refactoring, Design Pattern, Architetture Software, Big Data
• Salvatore Leonardi [scholar] [scopus] - Elliptic and Parabolic PDE
• Giovanni Maria Farinella [scholar] [scopus] - Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition
• Orazio Muscato [scholar] [scopus] - Applied Mathematics, Direct Simulation Monte Carlo, Semiconductors
• Alessandro Ortis [scholar] [scopus] - Computer Vision, Multimedia, Image Processing, Sentiment Analysis, Machine Learning
• Rita Cirmi [scholar] [scopus] - Mathematical Analysis, Functional Analysis, Elliptic Equations
• Antonino Furnari [scholar] [scopus] - Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Machine Learning, with focus on First Person Vision
• Salvatore Ingrassia [scholar] [scopus] - Mixture models, Model-Based Clustering, Neural Networks
• Giovanni Gallo [scholar] [scopus] - Image Processing, Computer Graphics, Pattern Recognition
• Giulia Russo [scholar] [scopus] - Computational biology, Systems biology, Precision medicine

• Professor members of external institutions

• Arcangelo Bruna - ST Microelectronics [scholar] [scopus] - Computer Vision, Image Processing, Image Analytics
• Rosario Gennaro - University of New York [scholar] [scopus] - Cryptography, Network Security, Theoretical Computer Science
• Oliver Giudice - UNICT/iCTLAB srl [scholar] [scopus] - Computer vision, Data mining, Pattern recognition, Digital forensics
• Marco Leo - CNR-ISASI [scholar] [scopus] - Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, image and signal processing, Assistive Technologies
• Salvatore Livatino - University of Hertfordshire [scopus] - 3D Visualization & Computer Graphics, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Mobile Robotics, Computer Games & Interactive Visual Interfaces
• Iosif Mporas - University of Hertfordshire [scholar] [scopus] - Applied machine learning, speech and audio processing, text mining, natural language processing, spoken and multimodal human-machine interaction (HMI), healthcare informatics