PhD Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

ICT International Doctoral School University of Trento

Language		English is the official language of the Doctorate Programme of the ICT International Doctoral School. Courses, written and oral examinations, as well as the thesis, are in English. English is the language of the Academic everyday life.
Duration		3 years
Academic year		from November to October

The doctoral program delivers the skills necessary to conduct advanced research at universities, public bodies, or private organizations for the purpose of advancing scientific and technological progress and creating a managerial class with a high-level professional culture and a corresponding international openness. The specific objective of the doctoral program is to train professionals able to develop high-quality and innovative information and telecommunication systems addressed to solving complex problems. It also pursues the goal of enhancing the doctoral students’ entrepreneurial abilities by furnishing specific training and opportunities to undertake internships.

The "ICT International Doctoral School" offers a doctoral program in some of the latest and most exciting research areas :

Bioinformatics
Computer Vision
Data Analytics and Management
Distributed Sensing Embedded Systems
Formal Methods
Human-Computer Interaction
Knowledge Management
Machine Learning Multimedia Analysis
Natural Language Processing
Pattern Recognition
Remote Sensing and Radar
Security
Signal Processing
Social Informatics
Software Engineering Speech and Dialogue Systems and Networks Wireless Networking

The Doctoral Training Center - DTC is an innovation-oriented educational path, additional to the Doctoral School, offered by the University of Trento and EIT Digital and directed to Ph.D. students that have a passion for creativity and innovation.

The "ICT International Doctoral School" encourages transdisciplinary programs to pursue the promotion of cross-disciplinary research within the Ph.D. program, the training of Ph.D. students with cross-disciplinary skills and the increase of collaborations with the other institutions. The Transdisciplinary Program in Computational Biology - in collaboration with the International Ph.D. Program in Biomolecular Sciences of the CIBIO of the University of Trento - aims at training Ph.D.s with complementary competencies in Computational Biology.

“ICT International Doctoral School” offers several Ph.D. fellowships in the following research areas: