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Doctoral Program in Computer Engineering

General Aims
Doctorate Structure
Number of Postgraduates Enrolled
Lines of Research
Doctoral Thesis Directors
Admission
Contact
Departament

General Aims of the Doctorate

The main aim of the doctorate is to produce doctors for high quality and advanced research. To this end, the general aims of the course are the following:

To incorporate the students into a research group.
To broaden their skills so that they can specialize in different aspects of the lines of research set out in the programme.
To strengthen students' initiative in developing research projects with a methodology and scientific principles appropriate to their field of research.
To foster general individual and team working abilities, participation in research projects, bibliographical database management, etc.
To produce a doctoral thesis.

Structure of Doctorate

The formation period of the doctorate programme is linked to the following Master's degree introduced on the University (in order to the RD 1393/2007):

Computer security and intelligent systems

Artificial intelligence

Number of Postgraduate Students Enrolled

Academic Year 2006-2007: 0 postgraduate students
Academic Year 2007-2008: 5 postgraduate students
Academic year 2008-2009: 7 postgraduate students

Research Lines and Directors of Doctoral Theses

Cryptography and Cryptographic Applications, Secure Electronic Commerce, Protection of Privacy and Intellectual Property

Dr. Josep Domingo Ferrer

Dr. Francesc Sebé Feixas

Dr. Josep M. Mateo Sanz (DEQ)

Dr. Antoni Martínez Ballesté

Dr. Jordi Castellà Roca

Dra. María Bras Amorós

Dr. Agustí Solanas Gómez

Intelligent Artificial Vision, Exploration Robotics and Cooperative Robotics

Dr. Miguel Ángel García García

Dr. Domènec Puig Valls

Dr. Albert Oller Pujol (DEEEA)

Artificial Intelligence and Agents

Dr. David Riaño Ramos

Dr. Antonio Moreno Ribas

Dra. Aïda Valls Mateu

Dra. Karina Gibert Olivera (UPC)

Dr. Vicenç Torra Reventós (CSIC)

Dr. David Sánchez Ruenes

Neural and Evolutionary Computation

Dr. Alejandro Arenas Moreno

Dr. Sergio Gómez Jiménez

Dr. Robert Rallo Moya

Telematic, Advanced Information and Mobile Architectures

Dr. Pedro García López

Dr. Carlos Molina Clemente

Intelligent Visualization

Dra. Maria Ferré Bergadà

Computer vision and object recognition

Dr. Francesc Serratosa Casanelles

Intel·ligent processing of the sensorial information

Dr. René Alquézar (UPC)

Admission

Maximum number of students: 20
Criteria for admission and selection:

The fulfilment of the established conditions, as a requirement of admission in the 19th article and 4th addicional order of the RD 1393/2007, is necessary to be able to entry at the Doctorate Program while its research mode.
The specific criteria of admission and selection for this official doctoral programme are the following:

Personal motivation letter
Academic transcript, if the student is from another university

Coordinator
Dr. Francesc Serratosa Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics (School of Chemical Engineering) 977 55 8507 francesc.serratosa(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat