RESEARCH AREAS:
The Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra offers Ph.D. programs in the following research areas:
COGNITIVE AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
- Cognition and Computation (Research Group: SPECS - Responsible faculty: Dr. Paul Verschure
- Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Computer Science (Research Group: AI - Responsible faculty: Dr. Hector Geffner)
- Natural Language Processing (Research Group: TALN - Responsible faculty: Dr. Leo Wanner)
- Ubiquitous Computing (Faculty: Rafael Pous: rafael.pous at upf.edu)
- Information Retrieval and Data Mining (Research Group WRG- Responsible faculty: Dr. Ricardo Baeza)
- Cognitive Multimedia Technologies (Research Group: CMTECH - Responsible faculty: Dr. Xavier Binefa)
AUDIOVISUAL TECHNOLOGIES
- Image Processing and Computer Vision (Research Group: GPI- Responsible faculty: Dr. Vicent Caselles and Individual Faculty: Marcelo Bertalmío)
- Sound and Music Computing (Research Group: MTG - Responsible faculty: Dr. Xavier Serra)
- Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Educational Technologies (Researcg Group: GTI - Responsible faculty: Dr. Josep Blat)
NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
- Technologies and Protocols for Wireless Networks (Research Group: NETS- Responsible faculty: Dr. Miquel Oliver)
- Wireless Communications (Research Group: WICOM- Responsible faculty: Dr. Angel Lozano)
- Fixed Networks (Responsible faculty: Dra. Dolors Sala)
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS
- Computational Neuroscience (Research Group: CNS - Responsible faculty: Dr. Gustavo Deco)
- Instrumentation and Biomedical Signals (Faculty: Antoni Ivorra)
- Computational Imaging and Computational Physiology (Research Group: CISTIB- Responsible faculty: Dr. Alejandro Frangi)
- Analysis of Biomedical Data (Faculty: Bart Bijnens: bart.bijnens at upf.edu)
If the applicant's background in the selected research line is not strong enough, he/she should concurrently apply to one of the Master programs offered by the Department (Masters of the DTIC). In addition, the Graduate Studies Committee of the Department or the Ph.D. supervisor may request that a student enrolls in specific Master courses.
The Ph.D. program includes attendance to a research seminar series with weekly talks featuring invited speakers and dealing with topics of interest to the aforementioned research lines.
REQUIRED COURSESAll first-year Ph.D. students must enroll and pass these two mandatory courses:
Research seminars. Year-long series of weekly technical talks.
Presentation of the Ph.D. Thesis Proposal. It consists of a public examination where the student presents his/her thesis proposal to a committee of faculty from the department. While not strictly a course, the student is expected to work on the proposal for the entire year. The examination takes place at the end of the 3rd trimester.
Once these courses have been passed, the student is expected to work full-time on his/her thesis.
TIME LIMITATIONS
Once the thesis proposal has been approved, full-time Ph.D. students have three years to finish their thesis. Part-time students have 5 years to present their thesis, but they are not eligible for most scholarships.
GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE PhD PROGRAM:
Admission, Quality control, Thesis Defence, etc.
FURTHER INFORMATION