CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO THE PhD in Data Science for the 2026/2027 academic year (deadline Sept. 28, 2026):
The PhD in Data Science (Ph.D. in Data Science) is a joint national initiative promoted by the National Data Science Laboratory of the National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics (CINI) and the Italian Statistical Society (SIS), with the aim of creating a unified, interdisciplinary doctoral training program with a national scope, capable of permanently integrating the expertise of the computer science, statistics, mathematics, and engineering communities.
The establishment of the program responds to the growing centrality of data in decision-making, production, and scientific processes, and to the need to train highly qualified professionals capable of addressing the challenges related to the management, analysis, interpretation, and valorization of large volumes of heterogeneous data. The evolution of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Big Data infrastructures requires advanced and interdisciplinary skills, which are increasingly in demand both in the research system and in the national and international industrial and institutional sectors.
The PhD program is organized in an associated form and includes the following universities:
University of Cagliari
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
University of Messina
University of Naples Federico II
University of Pavia
University of Salento
Doctoral Board
H.V. JAGADISH (U. of Michigan)
J.S. RAO (U. of Minnesota)
C. ARDAGNA (uniMI – CINI)
S. ARIMA (uniSalento)
M. ATZORI (uniCA, Vice Coordinatore)
A. BALZANELLA (uniVANVITELLI)
M. CHIODI (uniPA – SIS)
C. CONVERSANO (uniCA, Coordinatore)
S. DISTEFANO (uniME)
L. FRIGAU (uniCA)
P. GIUDICI (uniPV)
A. IODICE D’ENZA (uniNA)
A. LONGO (uniSALENTO)
F. MOLA (uniCA)
M. MUSIO (uniCA)
R. PIRRONE (uniPA)
E. RAFFINETTI (uniPV)
R. SCATENI (uniCA)
G. SPERLI’ (uniNA)
R. VERDE (uniVANVITELLI)
Advisory Board
Tommaso Aste (UCL, UK)
Angela Bonifati (Lyon 1 University, France)
Francisco De Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) – to be confirmed
Arnoldo Frigessi (The Norwegian centre of knowledge-driven Machine Learning, Oslo, Norway)
Georgia Koutrika, (Athena Research Center, Greece)
W. Nejdl (Institute for Data Science, Leibniz Univ, Germany)
J. Randon-Furling (Centre Borelli, ENS Paris-Saclay, France)
N. Ravishanker (Dept. of Statistics, univ. of Connecticut, USA)
Chen Ying (Dept. of Mathematics, National univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
Bin Yu (UC Berkely, USA)