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The Engineering School initiated its activities in 1999, with the launch of an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at UPF. Since then, the School has grown, offering new programmes in Telecommunications Network, Audiovisual Systems, Biomedical Engineering and Mathematical Engineering in Data Science
Despite its short history, the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) is already recognized for its high-quality research output and international impact. From the outset, it has emphasized scientific excellence in all its activities. This is clear in the CVs of the teaching staff. DTIC is leader in both the number of researchers contracted through the Catalan government’s ICREA programme and the number of grants received from the European Research Council (ERC). It is also the department that contributes the most to make UPF the top Spanish university in terms of ICT R&D funding from European funds (see “Key figures”
Thesebelow).and other achievements have helped to position DTIC within the top 100 departments of its kind in the world, according to the prestigious Shanghai ranking (see Section 4 on rankings below).
2 Data refer to the 2015-2021 period.
— ICREA research professors:4 10
— International teaching staff:3 46%
4 The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) offers permanent tenured positions at Catalan host institutions to top researchers from around the world.
It also offers several master’s degrees, including the new Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence, and a PhD programme.
Key figures
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*Lower than usual because of the pandemic.
1 Data refer to the 2014-2020 period only. They include individual and consortia projects.
TEACHING RESEARCH
— 22 industrial PhD projects funded by the regional government (20132021)
— Horizon 2020:1 €32 million / 70 —projects13ERC grants
— 64% of official master’s students are international (2021-2022)
— 23% of graduates have studied abroad (2020-2021)*
— 20 Marie Curie actions
— Internship agreements with nearly 170 companies and institutions, such as Acció, EY, Seat, Worldline Iberia, Nokia Bell Lab, Huawei and Philips
— Spanish R&D and Innovation Plan:2 €4.6 million / 44 projects
— Theses defended in English: 100% (2020-2021)
The University encourages research transfer and innovation
3 Data as of January 2022.
— 59% of doctoral students are international (2021-2022)
— Computational Biology and Biomedical Systems
— Natural Language Processing (TALN)
— Cognitive TechnologiesMultimedia(CMTECH)
— Network Technologies and Strategies (NeTS)
— Multisensory Research Group (MRG)
The University has redesigned its spaces and turned them into multipurpose rooms capable of hosting all types of events (tutorials, group work, talks, co-working spaces, etc.) to cater for the needs of digital natives
— The Ubiquitous Computing Applications Laboratory (UbiCA Lab)
— Interactive Technologies Group (ITG)
Research areas
— Brain and Cognition
— Wireless and CommunicationsSecure(WICOM)
DTIC’s research groups currently include:
— Sensing in Physiology and Biomedicine (PHYSENSE)
— Nonlinear Time Series Analysis (NTSA)
— Language and Comparative Cognition (LCC)
— Speech Acquisition and Perception (SAP)
— Networks and Communications
— Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI&ML)
— Biomedical Electronics Research Group (BERG)
DTIC is also home to the Center for Brain and Cognition (CBC), which is made up of the following research groups:
— Interactive and Distributed Technologies for Education (TIDE)
Centres
— Music Technology Group (MTG)
— Wireless Networking (WN)
In the last decade, research in the field of ICT has become increasingly interdisciplinary DTIC’s research landscape reflects this trend insofar as its research groups increasingly collaborate with each other and with external institutions on both Spanish and European research initiatives
— Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience (TCN)
— Computational and Intelligent Systems
DTIC offers well-established modern facilities to enable topquality research and scientific output. It is currently home to many research groups spanning a wide range of areas in the field of ICT that can be grouped into five broad categories:
— Multimedia Technologies
— Simulation, Imaging and Modelling for Biomedical Systems (SIMBioSys)
— Reasoning and Infant Cognition (RICO)
— Web Science and Social Computing (WSSC)
— Computational Neuroscience (CNS)
— Neuronal Dynamics Group
— Information Theory and Coding (ITC)
— Intelligent Multimodal Vision Analysis (IMVA)
Research groups
— 167th in the world in neuroscience and behavior (U.S. News & World Report, 2022)
— 1st Spanish university, 156th worldwide and 69th in Europe (Times Higher Education ranking, 2022)
GLOBAL RANKINGS AND RESULTS BY SUBJECT 4
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At the undergraduate level, the Engineering School is committed to training comprehensively skilled professionals in the field and endowing its students with a passion for research. Global competence is assured by a wide range of courses offered in English, being actually possible to follow a full bachelor degree in English and complemented by a rich choice of mobility opportunities, including internships abroad and international exchanges.
— Tecnológico de Monterrey
— 1st university in Spain and 4th in Europe (U- Multirank, 2022)
— Politecnico de Milano (Italy)
— Among the top 100 universities in the world in biotechnology (Shanghai ranking, 2021)
UPF appears on some of the most influential global rankings:
— Among the top 150 universities in the world in psychology (Shanghai ranking, 2021)
The University also ranks high in engineering and ICT:
The School has signed international exchange agreements with 51 partner universities in 26 countries. Some of UPF’s main partners in the field of ICT include the following
— Among the top 200 universities in the world in environmental science & engineering (Shanghai ranking, 2021)
— Among the top 200 universities in the world in medical technology (Shanghai ranking, 2021)
In addition to a highly international community, the DTIC’s international profile extends to its External Advisory Board, which includes members from various outstanding institutions around the world, such as MIT, Purdue, Rice, McGill, Oxford or the Weizmann Institute of Science. The Board is tasked with helping the Department achieve excellence in teaching, research, and socially oriented activities, improve its organizational structures and their operation, and increase its international recognition.
—universities:Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Tubingen (Germany)
— Sogang University (Corea)
— Grenoble, Bretagne and CY Cergy Paris Université Tech (France)
The(Mexico)Department’s international reputation for research also attracts junior researchers to UPF. In this regard, 52% of its PhD candidates are international, mainly from elsewhere in Europe (30%), but also increasingly from Asia (13%) and the USA (5%). As a result of its selective recruitment policy, there are a promising pipeline and solid foundations to further internationalize both the Department’s research and training activities.
— Essex (United Kingdom)
— Karlstad (Sweden)
— Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and University of Technology in Sydney (Australia)
— 16th university in the world among universities aged 50 and under (Times Higher Education Young Universities Ranking, 2022)
AGREEMENTSINTERNATIONAL
systems. All students will spend their first semester in UPF (Barcelona), and continue in any of the other consortium member universities (Italy, Netherlands, or Slovenia). The students will be offered to specialize in one of the four offered strands: intelligent decision making in Spain, robotics in Italy, cybersecurity in The Netherlands, and data science in Slovenia. As Erasmus Mundus this program offers full scholarships that covers tuition fees and a monthly allowance during all the program.
— The master’s degree in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media focuses on three main fields of knowledge: interactive technology, cognitive sciences and interactive media.
— The Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters (EMJM) in Artificial Intelligence is scheduled to start during the academic year 2023-2024. It is organized by UPF in collaboration with the universities of Sapienza, Radboud and Ljubljana. This new joint masters degree will give the students the foundational knowledge needed to explore both key contextual areas and complex technical applications of Artificial Intelligence (Al)
— The master’s degree in Brain and Cognition will guide students through the latest and most exciting findings brought about by the interaction between cognitive research and brain research.
— The Engineering School offers four main bachelor’s degree programmes: Audiovisual Systems EngineeringTelecommunicationsComputerEngineering,Science,Network and Mathematical Engineering in Data Science The four programmes are highly integrated and share many first-year and several second-year subjects. It is thus possible for students on one programme to earn a second bachelor’s degree in optimal time by completing the other two programmes’ compulsory subjects as optional subjects for their original degree.
— The bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering places a great deal of emphasis on computational, physiological and biological modelling and thus features optional tracks focused on systems biology, neuroscience, the cardiovascular system and the musculoskeletal system.
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— PhD programme in ICT
— The master’s degree in Sound and Music Computing is aimed at students with a technical background and some knowledge of music seeking to hone their research skills in the field of sound and music computing.
The UPF education model includes active and participative methodologies that place students at the centre of the teachinglearning process
— The technologies of tomorrow will provide both interactivity and intelligence. The master’s degree in Intelligent Interactive Systems addresses both trends, focusing on the design, analysis and development of agents and robots able to interact intelligently with humans and other agents, i.e., agents that can perceive, plan, act, learn and communicate.
— The master’s degree in Computational Biomedical Engineering is focused on the study of computational techniques in the field of biomedical engineering, including both the quantitative analysis of biomedical images and signals and the modelling of living organisms and healthrelated products.
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