The 2023 edition of the Colloquia Doctoralia of the Ph.D. programme in Information Technology will be held on December 1^st at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering - Politecnico di Milano. The event will be preceded by a welcoming ceremony addressed to students in the Ph.D. programmes in Information Technology, Bioengineering, Data Analytics & Decision Sciences, Technology, and Policy for Sustainable Change who have enrolled this year.

Colloquia Doctoralia are held every year to give Ph.D. students the opportunity to publicly present the results of their research, verifying its scientific and technological value and its possible impact on the industrial world. On the other hand, the Colloquia also represent an opportunity for companies to get acquainted with the research activities that Ph.D. students carry out at the Department in their respective areas (Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, and Telecommunications).

This year’s edition, besides the traditional “pitch presentations” by Ph.D. students and the awarding of prizes for the best doctoral theses discussed in 2023, also includes a plenary lecture by Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (UC Berkeley) on the topic “Machine Learning for CPS and Chip Design: Hype or Reality?” at 2.00 pm.

During the lecture, Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli will discuss his vision for the future based on his personal experience:
“When I graduated from PoliMi in 1971, programs were still being written in assembly on punch cards, and computers barely had the capacity to perform a few hundred thousand operations per second. Integrated circuits had only a few dozen transistors and implemented basic logic. From Milan to Berkeley in 1975: a journey into the unknown of Silicon Valley, armed with goodwill and a lot of fear... Fifty years later... Now we are capable of designing integrated systems with over 20 billion transistors, largely due to the use of algorithms and automatic design systems, developed mostly at Berkeley in the '75-'90s, now optimized and sold worldwide by Cadence and Synopsys. These companies have recently reached a combined valuation of $160 billion on the NASDAQ. These integrated systems and increasingly sophisticated software can support the calculations needed to recognize and use natural language. But is all that shines really gold?”.

Register here to attend the event: https://forms.office.com/e/0atr7WJ1jW.