Ciclo/Cycle XXXVIII

List of proposed candidates

2 UNICT Grants
3 DM 351 PNRR Grants
1 Grant Financed by da CNR INSTC – Topic: "Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Graphs for Human-centered AI"
1 Grant Financed by Huwaei Technologies France Grenoble - Topic: "Motion Invariant Camera and Deblurring Techniques from Multiple Image Fusion"
1 Grant Financed by (DM 352) and Leonardo spa - Topic: "Tools and Methods for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence"
1 Grant Financed by (DM 352) and Leonardo spa - Topic: "Evaluating the forefront of data protection in healthcare"
1 Grant Financed by (DM 352) and Triscele - Topic: "Algoritmi di Machine Learning per il Forecasting"
1 Grant Financed by (DM 352) and M2D Technologies - Topic: "AI modules for industrial applications"
1 Grant Financed by (DM 352) and Intrapresa - Topic: "Ontology-inspired offensive security"
1 Grant Financed by Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania - Topic: "Efficient Cloud and HPC approaches for investigating complex Astrophysical phenomena"
2 other positions are available without scholarship

Student	Grant	Research Project	Supervisor	Co-Supervisor	Start Ph.D.
Dott. Daniele Marletta	UNICT	Blockchain and Distributed Systems	Prof. E. Tramontana		31/10/2022
Dott.ssa Claudia Bonanno	UNICT	Computer Vision	Prof. G. M. Farinella	Prof. A. Furnari	31/10/2022
Dott. Mattia Litrico	PNRR DM 351/2022	Digital and Environmental Transitions	Prof. S. Battiato		31/10/2022
Dott. Arslan Manzoon	PNRR DM 351/2022	Digital and Environmental Transitions	Prof. S. Battiato		31/10/2022
Dott. Francesco Migliaro	PNRR DM 351/2022	Public Administration	Prof. S. Faro		31/10/2022
Dott.ssa Luana Bulla	CNR ISTC	NLP	Dr. M. Mongiovi		31/10/2022
Dott. André Vartore	Huawei	Video Deblurring	Prof. S. Battiato	Prof. A. Ortis	31/10/2022
Dott.ssa Susanna Saitta	PNRR DM 352/2022 – Triscele	Data Analysis	Prof. G. M. Farinella		31/10/2022
Dott. Nicola Tuccari di San Carlo	INAF	GPU - HPC	Prof. E. Tramontana		31/10/2022
Dott. Gianpietro Castiglione	PNRR DM 352/2022 – Intrapresa	Ontology-inspired offensive security	Prof. G. Bella		31/10/2022
Dott. Valentino Merlino	Without scolarship		Prof. D. Allegra		31/10/2022

Sebastiano Battiato [scholar] [scopus] - Multimedia, Computer Vision, Information Forensics and Security, Multimedia Forensics
Dario Allegra [scholar] [scopus] - Image processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition
Domenico Cantone [scholar] [scopus] - Computational Logic, Algorithms
Dario Catalano [scholar] [scopus] - Cryptography
Rita Cirmi [scholar] [scopus] - Mathematical Analysis, Functional Analysis, Elliptic Equations
Giovanni Maria Farinella [scholar] [scopus] - Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition
Simone Faro [scholar] [scopus] - Computer Science, Algorithms on Strings, Natural Language Processing
Giovanni Gallo [scholar] [scopus] - Image Processing, Computer Graphics, Pattern Recognition
Salvatore Ingrassia [scholar] [scopus] - Mixture models, Model-Based Clustering, Neural Networks
Salvatore Leonardi [scholar] [scopus] - Elliptic and Parabolic PDE
Maria Madonia [scopus]- Formal Languages
Fabrizio Messina [scholar] [scopus] – Cloud computing, IoT, Intelligent systems, Parallel and distributed computing, Trust and Reputation
Giuseppe Pappalardo [scopus] - Distributed Systems, IoT, Computer Science
Corrado Santoro [scholar] [scopus] - Computer Science
Emiliano Tramontana [scopus] - Refactoring, Design Pattern, Architetture Software, Big Data

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
Misael Mongiovì - ISTC CNR [scopus] - data science, network analysis, graph mining
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
Francesco Rundo - STMicroelectronics [scopus] - Mathematical modeling, Machine Learning for industrial/automotive/healthcare applications, Medical Imaging, Machine Learning