Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTICUPF) Areas of research: Cognitive & Intelligent Systems, Audiovisual Technologies, Networks & Communications, Computational Biomedicine Location: Madrid Website: www.upf.edu/etic/; www.upf.edu/mdm-dtic; Contact: aurelio.ruiz@upf.edu
The Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC), founded in 1999, belongs to Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), recognized as International Campus of Excellence and ranking in a leading position among Spanish universities. The DTIC actively trains future talent in Communication and Information Technologies (ICTs) through undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate studies. DTIC faculty participates in six research master’s degrees and one PhD Programme, all fully in English, with a significant internationalization of both students and teaching staff (over 60%). The DTIC also offers undergraduate degrees in Data Science, Computer Science, Telematics, Audiovisual Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. The DTIC has consolidated a highly interdisciplinary environment around four main areas with close relations and interaction among them, reflecting the interdisciplinary reality of cutting-edge research in ICTs: Cognitive and Intelligent Systems; Audiovisual Technologies; Networks and Communications; Computational Biology and Biomedical Systems. The strategic alliances with other centres (local and international universities and hospitals, research facilities, companies) strengthen its capacity to pursue its scientific goals. The DTIC is a highly competitive department in international programmes. It is to highlight that it is the university department have achieved the highest number of grants from the European Research Council (16), the instrument to support top research in Europe. The DTIC has been also one of the very few Spanish institutions funded by several international renowned sources such as the McDonnell Foundation, the Google Research Awards or the Intel Research Awards The DTIC has distinguished itself within the Spanish university system for its recruiting mechanisms. A process on recruitment and evaluation based on international quality standards has resulted in a community of 50 faculty members with significant previous experience at leading public and private labs (Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford, EPFL, Imperial College, European Space Agency, Bell Labs, IBM Thomas J. Watson, just to mention a
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