PhD program on "Brain, Mind, and Computer Science" Announcement
The University of Padova has 6 PhD positions for the new
interdisciplinary PhD program on "Brain, Mind, and Computer Science".
The aim of this PhD program is to prepare young researchers at the
intersection of cognitive and computer sciences, in a way that they
will be able to successfully face the challenges of the society of
the future, where people, software agents, and things will all be
interconnected. More information about this PhD program may be found
at http://hit.psy.unipd.it/phd-bmcs
We encourage brilliant students who plan to get a master degree by
October 2014 to apply to this program. The call for applications is at
http://www.unipd.it/en/node/1053 and the deadline is July 10.
The PhD program has two curricula:
-- Neuroscience, Technology and Society (1 scholarship)
-- Computer Science for Societal Challenges and Innovation (5
scholarships, of which 3 with a specific theme)
The themes of the 3 scholarships are as follows.
Feel free to get in touch with the contact person if you are
interested in any of these scholarships.
1. Theme: Smart and assistive technology
Contact person: Francesca Rossi, [email protected]
Funded by Fondazione Bruno Kessler.
Main topic: Modeling & aggregating preferences in collective systems
Description:
Collective systems comprise a large number of social and technical
entities which are autonomous in terms of their goals and actions, but
whose individual behaviors influence each other and define the overall
performance of the system. An example is integrated urban mobility,
where urban policies, available services and infrastructures, and
individual citizens' behaviors all impact the overall performance.
Decision making in collective systems is highly distributed and
multi-level, and requires the capability to model and aggregate the
preferences of all the encompassed entities. This topic investigates
methods and tools for modeling and processing individual and
aggregated preferences in the scope of collective systems.
2. Theme: Cloud computing
Contact person: Tulio Vardanega, [email protected]
Main topic: Service design in the Cloud
Description:
The research challenge addressed by this grant is the exploration of
the design principles and implementation solutions capable of
delivering low-latency low-footprint elastic capacity to application
services deployed on the Cloud. The work work will be carried out from
the angle of the logical (PaaS) and physical (IaaS) infrastructure
underneath the application delivery service, with the intent of
allowing flexible and opportunistic federation of selected elements of
heterogeneous vertical solutions.
3. Theme: Bioinformatics for Personal Genomics
Contact person: Alessandro Sperduti, [email protected]
Main topic: Development and application of machine learning procedures
for analysis of genomic data from patients with monogenic and
oligogenic diseases.
Description:
The general aim is to develop suitable and flexible machine learning
based methods and software tools for the characterization and
classification of genetic data of individuals affected by a particular
disease. The PhD student will work in a highly interdisciplinary
research environment at the intersection among Computer, Biology,
Medical and Cognitive Sciences. High performance computing facilities,
as well as state-of-the-art genetic and medical data, will be
available to the PhD candidate for the development of the targeted
research activity.
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