The Department of Information Engineering (DII) at the University of Pisa is a center of excellence for research and education in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Robotics, and Bioengineering.
The department has 95 faculty members and 50 post-doc researchers. The main research areas include Electronics, Applied Electromagnetism, Communication Systems, Information Engineering, Robotics and Automation, and Biomedical Engineering.
In addition to the founding of Cubit, the DII has promoted the creation of 6 spinoffs and collaborates with public and private institutions to provide innovative solutions in key areas of ICT, bridging the gap between academic and industrial research.
The Department is involved in approximately 20 European projects (about 50 in the last three years), with 6 coordinated by DII faculty members, 3 ERC Grants, and 25 regional projects. In addition, there are about 25 commercial projects with companies and nearly 700 collaborations with companies such as Microsoft, Intel, StarCore, ST Microelectronics, Selex Sistemi Integrati, Selex Elsag, Selex Galileo, Tim, Piaggio, Nokia, Marconi, CISCO. As a result of research activities, there are approximately 400 publications each year in specialized journals and international conference proceedings, as well as 64 patents co-authored by faculty members of the Department.
Educational activities are aimed at approximately 4,000 students and 100 doctoral candidates. The Department organizes the Master’s program in Cybersecurity and Summer Schools “Open Medical Device Design“ e “Enabling Technologies for the Internet of Things“.
The Department hosts a unit of the Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT) of the National Research Council (CNR), a research unit of CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications), a joint Research and Development unit with ST Microelectronics-University of Pisa, and a common University-CNR laboratory focused on pervasive computing systems (PERLAB).
In 2018, the DII received the “Department of Excellence” designation from the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research (MIUR) for the CrossLab project. This project aims to support the Industry 4.0 revolution in Italy through interdisciplinary laboratories open to large, small, and medium-sized enterprises.
