MArtificial Intelligence and automation engineering
Italy, Siena
| Study location | Italy, Siena, San Niccolò, via Roma, 56 - email: didattica.diism@unisi.it |
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| Academic field | Computer Sciences (JACS I000) |
| Type | Master's Degree, full-time |
| Nominal duration | 2 years (120 ECTS) |
| Study language | English |
| Awards | M (LM-32 Second cycle degree in Computer Systems Engineering) |
| Application fee | €40 per program You will receive an e-mail with the payment instructions. |
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| Entry qualification | Bachelor/Undergraduate diploma (or higher) After you have applied, an Enrolment Committee will assess your competencies and skills against the requirements of the Master’s Degree Programme. Admission criteria The competences required to be admitted to the Master’s Degree in engineering are: After the evaluation In case of a large number of applications, students who pass the selection based on the submitted documents will also be invited to take part in a remote written test, possibly followed by an interview. The dates of the remote written test will be communicated to the admitted students via email. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian. Schools and universities usually provide documentation translated into English. If this is not available, an official translation will be required, along with certification of the authenticity of the original documents. Review the documents required for the admission application at this link: admission.unisi.it/?p=1193 Review the documents required for enrollment (upon admission) at the link admission.unisi.it/?p=1193 Upload copies on the application |
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| Territory requirements | Applications are accepted from the following territories (based on citizenship): World. |
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| Language requirements | English Check the English requirements at the following link admission.unisi.it/?p=1944 |
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| Other requirements | A statement of purpose must be added to your application. |
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Overview
The MSc in Artificial Intelligence and automation engineering aims at providing high-level competences for the design, management, development and innovation in the fields of advanced hardware and software architectures, and of control systems and robotics. In particular, the program is focused on human-machine interaction in a wide sense, spanning topics such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, high performance processing of massive data collections, human-robot interfaces, and systems for production automation.
Curricula available:
- Intelligent systems
- Robotics and automation
Objectives
This is a 2-year graduate programme taught entirely in English, offered to both national and international students.
The program provides advanced competences in the area of computer and automation engineering, with courses covering topics such as: engineering tools for the design, evaluation and programming of high-performance and parallel computer architectures; artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques needed to implement intelligent systems; design patterns and methodologies for the implementation of complex software systems and distributed applications; advanced interfaces for the interaction with robots, such as vision systems and haptic interfaces; techniques for the analysis and design of discrete event systems and of multivariable and nonlinear control systems, with applications to robot control, path planning and multi-agent systems; mathematical and algorithmic tools for optimization over networks.
Students can complete the program by focusing either on information systems design or on robotics and automation. In particular, the students can choose courses covering the design issues for advanced database systems, such as search engine technologies and information retrieval; the theory of formal languages and the technological aspects of language parsers and natural language processing tools; the applications of bioinformatics and information systems for biological databases; the algorithms for image processing; the techniques for the modelling, analysis and simulation of complex dynamic systems; the principles of estimation theory applied to system identification and filtering; the modern paradigms of uncertainty representation and the main techniques for analysis and design of uncertain systems; the competences for the design of advanced sensor systems.
Program structure
Curricula available:
- Intelligent systems
- Robotics and automation
MUR degree class: LM-32 Second cycle degree in Computer Systems Engineering
Duration in years: 2
Credits: 120
Language: English
Career opportunities
Internship and international opportunities
The Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics has a long record of collaborations at both academic and industrial level. This provides the students with the opportunity of spending one semester either in qualified universities and research institutions, within student exchange programmes, or doing an internship at companies or research labs in the area of Computer and Automation Engineering.
Career opportunities
The graduate in Artificial Intelligence and Automation Engineering can find jobs within industries, public companies, financial institutions and research centers, whose R&D divisions carry out activities in the fields of information systems incorporating intelligence, industrial automation and robotics. Furthermore, the MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Automation Engineering allows the students to access PhD programmes in the areas of Information Engineering. More specifically, the jobs which are more suitable to the specialist in Artificial Intelligence and Automation Engineering are those requiring advanced competences and skills in: industrial automation and process control; robotic systems; modelling and simulation of dynamical systems; data analysis; information systems including artificial intelligence; design of hardware/software integrated systems; man-machine interfaces exploiting natural language; human-robot interfaces; design and management of biological databases. The graduate in Artificial Intelligence and Automation Engineering can join the Italian professional society of engineers, within the section Information Engineering.