[visionlist] [Jobs] OPEN PHD CALL at the ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - AI for GOOD research line - Deadline July 9, 2026

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PHD POSITIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MACHINE LEARNING AT IIT – AIGO, IN COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF GENOA, ITALY
The Italian Institute of Technology – IIT,  www.iit.it – in collaboration with University of Genoa, https://unige.it/en – funds PhD scholarships on Computational Vision, Automatic Recognition and Learning.

Research and training activities are jointly conducted between the DITEN Department of University of Genova http://phd-stiet.diten.unige.it/ and IIT infrastructures in Genoa, at the AIGO – AI for Good - https://aigo.iit.it, led by prof. Vittorio Murino.
 
RESEARCH TOPICS
AIGO Themes range from A to M:
Theme A: Multimodal scene understanding
Theme B: Continual generalized category discovery, incremental learning
Theme C: Multimodal Learning and Vision Language Model Adaptation for Temporal Medical Data Analysis
Theme D: Reinforcement Learning with Curriculum Strategies in Multimodal Healthcare Data
Theme E: Artificial Intelligence for Physical, Natural and Life Sciences
Theme F: Discovery and mitigate bias in deep neural networks
Theme G: Federated Learning by multimodal generative modeling Tema H: Biomedical imaging & Neuroimaging Tema I: Computer vision into the wild
Theme L: Few-Shot and Zero-Shot Deepfake Detection in the Era of Foundation Models
Theme M: Controlling Image Generation in Multimodal Models via Internal Representation

More detailed information on the specific themes and indication of supervisors, at
https://aigo.iit.it/documents/7137692/10960077/ResearchTopicsPhD2026_IIT-AIGO.pdf

AIGO is a recently born research unit focusing on activities related to the analysis and understanding of images, videos and patterns in general, also in collaboration with other research groups at IIT.
AIGO main focus is the learning with imperfect data, meaning in unsupervised, semi-supervised and self-supervised scenarios, noisy labeling, biased data and imbalanced classes.
AIGO staff has a wide expertise in computer vision and pattern recognition, machine and deep learning, image processing, and related applications, especially, but not limited to, of biomedical/biological nature. Multimodal and generative learning are other keywords characterizing AIGO activities.
For more information, you can also browse prof. Murino webpage, to see his activities and research.

WHERE
The PhD program on the listed topics will take place at the research line of IIT located in Genova, Italy ([www.iit.it]www.iit.it)
Successful candidates will be part of an exciting and international working environment and will work in brand new laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation.
Excellent communication skills in English, as well as ability to interact effectively with members of the research teams, are mandatory.

HOW TO APPLY
Full information, official call and course description are available at 
ITALIAN https://unige.it/dottorati-di-ricerca
ENGLISH https://unige.it/en/students/phd-programmes

Official call: https://unige.it/sites/unige.it/files/2026-06/Notice%20of%20competition%20DR%202458_5.06.2026.pdf
Course: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR ELECTRONIC AND TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
Curriculum: COMPUTATIONAL VISION, AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION AND LEARNING (CODE 11254)
Annex A: https://unige.it/sites/unige.it/files/2026-06/Annex%20A.pdf
The candidate can easily find the right curriculum to apply by searching the word "Murino" in the Annex A pdf document

Apply for the position:
https://unige.it/en/students/phd-programmes
(follow Step 3)

WHAT TO SUBMIT
A detailed CV, a research proposal under one or more topics chosen among those above indicated, reference letters, and any other formal document concerning the degrees earned.
Notice that these documents are mandatory in order to consider valid the application.
Refer also to the indications stated in the course description document, above mentioned.

IMPORTANT: In order to apply, candidates must prepare the research proposal based on the research topics above mentioned.
Please, follow these indications to prepare it: https://pavisdata.iit.it/data/phd/ResearchProjectTemplate.pdf


For FURTHER INFORMATION on the research topics contact Vittorio Murino at vittorio.murino at iit.it


DEADLINE
Deadline for application is July 9, 2025 at 12 PM (noon, Italian time/CEST)
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