Computer Science,
Control and
Geoinformation Doctorate

Overview

The PhD program in Computer Science, Control and GeoInformation offers opportunities for highly interdisciplinary advanced education and research. The topics dealt with in this program are very wide and range from theory to practice in the areas of hardware and software systems (HPC, mobile applications, operating systems, parallel and distributed systems, software engineering, IT security, big data management and modeling methodologies), control systems and robotics, operations research, optimization, machine learning, geospatial analysis and geomatics, remote sensing, electromagnetics and earth sciences, as well as data science, health and human security, 5G, Internet of Things, and Industry 4.0.

The objectives of this PhD program are to let students acquire knowledge on advanced methodologies in the above cited fields, and to enable them to perform fundamental and applied research targeting some of the aforementioned topics and related challenging applications.

The program also promotes cross fertilization by the means of resource sharing (labs, instrumentation etc.) and the organization of open lectures and seminars by international well-known researchers. Students can also benefit from the wide networks of international collaborations set up by the PhD board members.

A rigorous approach is taken to follow and assess the activities of each individual student, which is based on appointing supervisors along the early phase of the students’ activities within the program, and on periodic checkpoints involving all the members of the PhD board.

The excellence of this program is also witnessed by the fact that many of our alumni hold prestigious positions in academia, research centers, and industry.