[I-RIM ML] Call for Applications to the Italian National PhD in Artificial Intelligence

[Francesco Fuggitti]

Dear all,

Enclosed please find the Call for Applications to the Italian National PhD
in Artificial Intelligence, which comprises the following 5 PhD consortia
and 61 universities in total.

Best,
  Giuseppe De Giacomo

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[apologies for multiple posting]


Calls for admission to the National PhD in Artificial Intelligence
(PhD-AI.it) are now open!

Deadline for applications July 23, 2021

The Italian National PhD Program in Artificial Intelligence is made of 5
federated PhD consortia, with a reference university and in collaboration
with the National Research Council CNR. Globally the 5 consortia bring
together 61 universities and research institutions leading in AI. The 5 PhD
consortia share a common basis in the foundations and developments of AI,
and in addition each consortium has an area of specialization in a
strategic sector:

   -

   Health and life sciences
   <https://www.phd-ai.it/en/ai-health-and-life-sciences/>, Università
   Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 44 fully-funded positions for a.a. 2021-2022,
   Call: <
   https://www.unicampus.it/didattica/offerta-formativa/dottorati-di-ricerca/bandi-di-concorso/bandi-di-concorso/115601-bando-dottorato-nazionale-in-intelligenza-artificiale-area-salute-e-scienze-della-vita-xxxvii-ciclo-a-a-2021-2022
   >
   -

   Agrifood and environment
   <https://www.phd-ai.it/en/ai-agriculture-agrifood-and-environment/>,
   Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 17 fully-funded positions
   for a.a. 2021-2022, Call: <
   http://www.unina.it/didattica/post-laurea/dottorati-di-ricerca/bandi-di-ammissione
   >
   -

   Security and cybersecurity
   <https://www.phd-ai.it/en/ai-security-and-cybersecurity/>, Sapienza
   Università di Roma, 30 fully-funded positions for a.a. 2021-2022,  Call:
   <https://phd.uniroma1.it/phd-AI>
   -

   Industry 4.0 <https://www.phd-ai.it/en/ai-industry-4-0/>, Politecnico di
   Torino, 41 fully-funded positions for a.a. 2021-2022, Call: <
   http://dottorato.polito.it/en/artificial_intelligence>
   -

   Society <https://www.phd-ai.it/en/ai-society/>, Università di Pisa,
44 fully-funded
   positions for a.a. 2021-2022, Call: <
   https://dottorato.unipi.it/index.php/en/application-process-for-the-academic-year-2021-2022/item/577.html
   >

Applications are welcome from students who are interested in AI
foundational topics, as well as students who are more interested in the
application of AI in one of the strategic sectors outlined above. The
deadline for applications to all PhD consortia is July 23, 2021.

Shared courses will be provided to all PhD students, on all AI disciplines,
such as:

   -

   Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems
   -

   Computational Intelligence
   -

   Constraints and Satisfiability
   -

   Human Aspects in AI
   -

   Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
   -

   Machine Learning
   -

   Natural Language Processing
   -

   Planning
   -

   AI in Robotics
   -

   Semantic Technologies
   -

   Vision
   -

   etc.

as well as on emerging topics related to the Trustworthy, Human-centric AI
focus that characterizes the EU strategy for AI, such as, for example,
courses on methods for Explainable AI, Ethics and Law of AI, Safety and
Robustness, Fairness, Equity, and Justice of AI systems, Distributed AI,
Sustainable AI (in the double meaning of sustainable AI technologies and AI
systems that help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN
Agenda 2030), Social acceptability and adoption of AI.

The national PhD program in AI will train researchers, innovators and
professionals, both with specialisations in the cutting-edge topics of
Artificial Intelligence and in important application sectors, but ensuring
an integrated and “complex” vision of the ecosystem of AI technologies and
solutions, able to address problems with a systemic and multi-disciplinary
approach.

PhD students will participate in common training experiences and
activities, both foundational and specialized, offered by the 5 PhD
consortia. The program covers costs for PhD student’s mobility at national
and international level.

Objectives of PhD-AI.it

– Build a community of young and diverse AI researchers and innovators,
able to boost research as well as industrial and social innovation.

– Promote the exchange of multi-disciplinary competences among the nodes of
the network through the educational and research mobility of PhD students.

– Integrate and strengthen the Italian network of AI research centres, also
in relation to the European initiatives of the ICT-48-H2020 programme “Towards
a vibrant European network of AI excellence centres”, in which several
PhD-AI.it centres participate: Humane-AI <https://www.humane-ai.eu/>, TAILOR
<https://tailor-network.eu/>, AI4MEDIA <https://www.ai4media.eu/>, ELISE
<https://www.elise-ai.eu/>, AI4EU <https://www.ai4eu.eu/>.
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