Courses 2023-24

Several types of courses are offered to our PhD students.

PhD courses at the University of Cagliari

Advanced Concepts in Electronic Biosensors. Instructor: Stefano Lai. Discipline: IBIO-01/A (Bioengineering Electronic and Computer Engineering). Hours: 12. Credits: 2. Spring semester, annuale. In English.
Deep Learning and Computer Vision with PyTorch. Instructor: Maura Pintor. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Hours: 20. Credits: 2.5. September, every year. In English.
Hybrid Systems. Instructor: Alessandro Giua. Discipline: IINF-04/A (Automatic Control). Hours: 24. Credits: 3. Spring semester, every two years. In English.
Laboratory of image processing for computer vision. Instructor: Gianluca Marcialis. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Hours: 12 + project. Credits: 2. Spring semester, every year. In Italian.
Quality of Experience Assessment and Management. Instructors: Alessandro Floris. Discipline: IINF-03/A (Communications). Hours: 20. Credits: 2.5. Spring semester, every year. In English.
Reverse Engineering and Low-Level Program Analysis. Instructor: Davide Maiorca. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Hours: 24. Credits: 3. Spring semester, every year. In English.
Smart Building. Instructor: Virginia Pilloni. Discipline: IINF-03/A (Communications). Hours: 20. Credits: 2.5. Fall semester, every year. In English.
Software Security and Protection. Instructor: Leonardo Regano. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Hours: 24. Credits: 3.Spring Semester, yearly (July). In English.
Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Technology. Instructor: Maurizio Bozzi. Discipline: IINF-02/A (Electromagnetic Engineering). Hours: 8. Credits: 1. January-February, every year. In English.
Technologies for Information Security: a learning-by-doing approach. Instructor: Giulia Orrù. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Hours: 16. Credits: 2. January-February, every year. In English.
Trust Management in the Internet of Things. Instructor: Claudio Marche. Discipline: IINF-03/A (Communications). Hours: 20. Credits: 2.5. Fall semester, every year. In English.
Wi-Fi device tracking in heterogeneous wireless networks. Instructor: Matteo Anedda. Discipline: IINF-03/A (Communications). Hours: 20. Credits: 2.5. Fall semester, every year. In English.

PhD seminar courses and seminars

Secret Protection in Discrete Event Systems. Instructor: Ziyue MA. Discipline: IINF-04/A (Automatic Control). Hours: 4. Credits: 0.5. May 28-30 2024. In English.
Finite-State Dynamical Systems. Instructor: Kuize Zhang. Discipline: IINF-04/A (Automatic Control). Hours: 20. Credits: 2.5. June 2024. In English.
Intro to 5G&Beyond Cellular Networks: from theory to practice. Instructor: Filippo Malandra. Discipline: IINF-03/A (Communications). Hours: 20. Credits: 2.5. 24-28 June 2024. In English.
An introduction to the PyTorch deep learning framework. Instructor: Daniele Angioni. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Hours: 20. Credits: 2.5. 1-5 July 2024. In English.
Microelectronics for Wireless Communications and Sensing. Instructor: Corrado Carta. Discipline: IINF-02/A (Electromagnetic Engineering). Hours: 9. Credits: 1. 9-11 July 2024. In English.
Introductory seminar on Computer Vision. Instructor: Sara Concas. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Hours: 15. Credits:1.5. 2-6 September 2024. In English.
Formal Verification and Synthesis for Dynamical Systems: A Temporal-Logic-Based Approach. Instructor: Xiang YIN. Discipline: IINF-04/A (Automatic Control). Hours: 4. Credits: 0.5. Sep 9-10 2024. In English.
New frontiers of breast imaging based on the use of millimeter waves: presentation of the design steps and practical course on phantom development. Instructor: Simona Di Meo. Discipline: IINF-02/A (Electromagnetic Engineering). Hours: 10. Credits: 1. Oct 21-24, 2024. In English.
Near-field focusing, Bessel beams and localized pulses: fundamentals and engineering applications.. Instructor: Santi Concetto Pavone. Discipline: IINF-02/A (Electromagnetic Engineering). Hours: 10. Credits: 1. Feb 10-14, 2025. In English.

Courses for Master's students at the University of Cagliari

PhD students can take the following courses offered in the Master's programs.

Advanced networking. Instructor: Luigi Atzori. Discipline: IINF-03/A (Communications). Credits: 6. Spring semester, every year. In italian.
Analysis and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems. Instructor: Alessandro Giua. Discipline: IINF-04/A (Automatic Control). Credits: 6. Spring semester, every year. In English.
Artificial Intelligence. Instructor: Giorgio Fumera. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Credits: 6. Fall semester, every year. In English.
Biometric Technologies and Behavioural Security. Instructor: Gianluca Marcialis. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Credits: 3. Spring semester, every year. In italian.
Cybersecurity Technologies and Risk Management. Instructor: Giorgio Gacinto. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Credits: 10. Spring semester, every year. In English.
Machine Learning Security. Instructor: Battista Biggio. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Credits: 5. Fall semester, every year. In English.
Machine Learning. Instructor: Battista Biggio. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Credits: 5. Spring semester, every year. In English.
Industrial Software Development. Instructors: Luca Didaci, Battista Biggio. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Credits: 8. Fall semester, every year. In English.
Internet of Things. Instructor: Michele Nitti. Discipline: IINF-03/A (Communications). Credits: 6. Autumn semester, every year. In English.
Networked Control Systems and Security. Instructor: Mauro Franceschelli. Discipline: IINF-04/A (Automatic Control). Credits: 6. Spring semester, every year. In English.
Pervasive wireless systems. Instructors: Giuseppe Mazzarella. Discipline: IINF-02/A (Electromagnetic Engineering). Credits: 5. Spring semester, every year. In italian.

Past seminar courses and seminars

Seminar courses

Laboratory of image processing for computer vision. Instructor: Gian Luca Marcialis. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Hours: 12 + project. Credits: 2. July 2023. In English.
Robust machine learning for Cybersecurity. Instructor: Fabio Pierazzi. Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Hours: 20. Credits: 2.5. June 2023. In English.
Effective Habits and Skills for Successful Young Scientists. Instructor: Fabio Roli. Discipline: transversal. Hours: 12. Credits: 1.5. June 2023. In English.
Nonstationary biorhythm analysis with modern signal processing techniques. Instructor: Hau-Tieng Wu. Discipline: IBIO-01/A (Bioengineering Electronic and Computer Engineering). Hours: 17. Credits: 2. May 2023. In English.
Finanziare la propria ricerca attaverso i bandi dei programmi quadro della Comunit Europea. Instructor: Luigi Raffo. Discipline: transversal. Hours: 20. Credits: 2. May 2023. In Italian.
New business models in the electric power sector. Instructor: Fereidoon Sioshansi. Discipline: transversal. Hours: 20. Credits: 2.5. February 2023. In English.
Adversarial Machine Learning. Instructor: Fabio Roli. Discipline: ING-INF/05 (Computer Engineering). Hours: 12. Credits: 1.5. June 2022. In English.
Scattering models for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar measurements: from data to information. Instructor: Andrea Buono. Discipline: ING-INF/02 (Electromagnetic Engineering). Credits: 4. April 2022. In English.
Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Technology. Instructor: Maurizio Bozzi. Discipline: ING-INF/02 (Electromagnetic Engineering). Credits: 1. March 2022. In English.
Development of medical devices: from idea to a clinically testable product. Instructor: Max Ortiz-Catalan. Discipline: ING-INF/01 (Electronics). Hours: 10. Credits: 1. February 2022. In English.

Seminars

The power of inhibition in collective decision making in living and robotic systems. Seminar. Speaker: Andreagiovanni Reina, IRIDIA, Universti Libre de Bruxelles. 25 Ottobre 2022. In English.

Schools organized by the Italian national research groups

Most of Italian national research groups yearly organize PhD schools

IAPR Summer School on Machine and Vision Intelligence (VISMAC). Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering). Organized by Computer Vision, Pattern recognition and machine Learning Italian Association (CVPL), affiliated to International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The school is held every two years.
Italian PhD School on Automatic Control. Discipline: IINF-04/A (Automatic Control). Organized by SIDRA: Italian Association of Researches in Automatic Control.

International schools

These are courses on advanced research topics organized by Universities and international research centers.

5G PhD School. IINF-03/A (Communications). Organizzata da CNIT: Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni.
International Graduate School on Control. Discipline: IINF-04/A (Automatic Control). Organized by EECI: European Embedded Control Institute.
International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS). Discipline: IINF-05/A (Computer Engineering).
The International Ph.D. School "Italo Gorini 2023. Discipline: IMIS-01/B-ING-IND/12 (Measurements and Mechanical and thermal measurements).