PhD in Information Engineering

18-19 November 2020, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH),Live Web Course Technological and scientific development in the field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Computer Vision and Deep Learning has led to the use of drones in various applications that was previously unthinkable. In the field of media production (cinema movies, documentaries, news coverage and sport events), […]

In these days we have had the first PhD defense held on line as a consequence of the restrictions caused by the Covid-19 emergency. Even in this really strange and dramatic situation, with everybody (candidates, committee, friends and parents) remotely connected on the web, it was a great great emotion and satisfaction to hear Leonardo […]

Lucca: Complexity 72 hrs. The excitement of this marvellous workshop, as hinted by the name, is that you get to complete a research paper in 72 hrs. The tag-line and the panel of supervisor for the 6 to 7 projects were enough for me to decide that I wanted to see what this had to […]

I really would like to share my experience at the Connected Health Summer School (CHSS) “Smart Homes for Healthy Ageing” that took place from the 24th to the 27th of June 2019 in Artimino, Florence (Italy). More than 30 participants from all over the world followed the 4 days lectures by international experts from different […]

From June to September 2019, I attended four conferences. These conferences were related to microwave/radar applications. I presented  some works related to advanced technique for monitoring infrastructures. In Rome (Piers conference), a paper related to the comparison of the performances between MIMO and Compressive Sensing MIMO was presented. A novel geophone system for a stand-alone […]

Period abroad at NaXys, Namur Institute for Complex Systems, University of Namur, Sara Nicoletti – June-August 2019 I spent three months of my PhD in Belgium at the University of Namur. I collaborated with Professor Timoteo Carletti, member of the scientific board of NaXys, research institute for Complex Systems (www.naxys.be). Professor Carletti is my coauthor […]

Today we had the official ceremony for the PhD XXXI cycle. We have been really glad to participate to this important event, which took place at the Maggio Musicale Opera theater in Florence.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7lcYZwF8r8 An important day for the university of Florence and for all of our PhD students. In particular for those of […]

Today it is my turn to tell something concerning my mission out from Florence. I have been for the whole week to the very nice ancient town of Veroli, 100km from Rome. Veroli is really an interesting place, an ancient town, with many interesting things to see, very good food, really nice people, ….  But […]

From June 2nd to June 7th I have been in mission to Athens in Greece at The Fifteenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, ICAS 2019. In this conference I presented an article about my research project. In particular in the presentation I showed “DART”, a small UAV prototype able to use the vision […]