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SCHOLARSHIP 
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RESEARCH THEME 
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 Training Research and Activities Report (TRAR) 
Year End Presentation   (YEP) 
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 AMITRANO 
 Danilo  
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 PNRR - DM 117 
Missione 4 - Componente 2 - Investimento 3.3 Dottorati innovativi 
CUP: E66E23000580003 
Azienda partner: MASIFRAN s.r.l. 
Nr. of months in company: 6 
Host institution abroad: University of Cadiz 
Nr. of months abroad: 6 
  
  
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BOCCIA Maurizio | 
 SALONGA Karrel Rofel (Masifran s.r.l.) 
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 Optimization and data science techniques supporting logistics problems  
  
Research period abroad at: University of Cadiz (Spain) 
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
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 ANTONIONE Andrea   
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DE TOMMASI Gianmaria  | 
CARANNANTE Giuseppe (ITER)  | 
Development of the control system for gyrotrons of the ITER Electron Cyclotron (EC) system  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
TRAR-Year2 
YEP-Year2 
  
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 CAPUOZZO 
Andrea   
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 PNRR 
Centro Nazionale CN5 
National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC) 
  
  
 
 
 
 
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LIPPIELLO Vincenzo | 
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Control of hybrid aerial-amphibious drones capable of flying and navigating  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
TRAR-Year2 
YEP-Year2
  
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| 4 | 
   
  
  
  
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 CARELLA 
Emanuele   
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SANTINI Stefania | 
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Modeling for ADAS applications in virtual driving environments  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
TRAR-Year2 
YEP-Year2 
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| 5 | 
    
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 CASALE 
Mirko   
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 - 
  
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 SANTINI Stefania 
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ADAS virtual prototyping via component-based and model-based toolchains  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
TRAR-Year2 
YEP-Year2 
  
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| 6 | 
   
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 CASORIA 
Pellegrino   
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ROMANO Simon Pietro | 
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Advanced security methodologies for proactive simulation, detection and response to targeted attacks  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
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 CICCARELLI 
Eros   
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 PNRR 
Partenariato Esteso PE14 
"RESTART - RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smART" 
CUP: E63C22002040007 
  
  
 
 
 
 
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CAPOZZOLI Amedeo | 
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 Analysis and Design of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces 
  
  
Research period abroad at: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)  
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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|  8 | 
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 CINOTTI 
Eliana   
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 PNRR  
Partenariato Esteso PE14 
 "RESTART - RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smART"  
CUP: E63C22002040007 
  
  
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BIFULCO Paolo | 
ANDREOZZI Emilio  | 
 Innovative sensors and telecommunications for telemedicine 
  
  
Research period abroad at: Aston University (Birmingham, UK)  
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 CORSARO 
Emanuele  
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 DIETI PRIN  
  
  
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FORESTIERE Carlo | 
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 Inverse design of multiscale metalenses  
  
Research period abroad at: City University of New York (USA) 
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  (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 CUFINO 
Francesco  
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 PNRR - DM 118/2023 
Mis.: I.3.4 Dottorati Transizione Digitale 
CUP: E66E23001030002 
  
  
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RUGGIERO Fabio | 
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Servizi di mobilità intelligenti, sicuri e sostenibili per veicoli connessi | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
TRAR-Year2 
YEP-Year2 
  
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 D'ISANTO 
Roberto   
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 PNRR - DM 117/2023 
Missione 4 - Componente 2 - Investimento 3.3 Dottorati innovativi 
CUP: E66E23000580003 
Azienda partner: FEV Italia s.r.l. 
(no fellowship from the second year) 
  
  
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ROMANO Simon Pietro | 
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Analisi e sviluppo degli aspetti di cybersecurity legati alle tecnologie V2X (Vehicle To Everything) e relative ripercussioni sui sistemi a guida autonoma  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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| 12 | 
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 DE ANGELIS 
Domenico Francesco   
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FASOLINO Anna Rita | 
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Exploiting Binary Analysis Techniques for assessing and validating refactored code in Safety Critical contexts | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 DE LUCA 
Roberta   
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 PNRR - DM 118/2023 
Mis. 4.1: Dottorati generici 
CUP: E66E23001040002 
Host institution abroad: University of Coimbra 
Nr. of months abroad: 9 
  
  
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COTRONEO Domenico | 
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 Securing Automated Software Development: Trustworthiness of AI Code Generators  
  
Research period abroad at: University of Coimbra (Portugal) 
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 EMMANUELE 
Antonio   
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 UNINA 
  
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BARBARESCHI Mario | 
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Sviluppo di tecniche di sicurezza per dispositivi embedded basate su Physical Unclonable Functions  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 ESPOSITO MOCERINO 
Gennaro 
  
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  - 
  
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BOTTA Alessio | 
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 Understanding and Addressing the Human Factor in Cyber Security  
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 (End date: 31/10/2026)  
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 FERRANDINO 
Filippo  
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 PNRR - DM 117/2023 
Missione 4 - Componente 2 - Investimento 3.3 Dottorati innovativi 
CUP: E66E23000580003 
Azienda partner: C.I.R.A. (Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali) S.C.p.A. 
Nr. of months in company: 12 
Host institution abroad: École Centrale de Lyon 
Nr. of months abroad: 6 
  
  
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CILARDO Alessandro | 
GIGANTE Gabriella (CIRA)  | 
Technologies for Environmental Control and Safety in Automatic Take-Off, Landing and Taxiing 
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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| 17 | 
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 FERRARA 
Massimiliano  
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 ENEA 
(Accordo di programma MiTE - ENEA PNRR Missione 2 Componente 2 Investimento 3.5 POR "Ricerca e sviluppo di tecnologie per la filiera dell'idrogeno")  
  
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 PROTO Daniela 
MOTTOLA Fabio 
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RICCA Antonio (ENEA) 
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Sviluppo di modelli e programmazione di logiche di controllo per l’integrazione di apparati di generazione, accumulo e utilizzo di idrogeno nelle reti elettriche in presenza di risorse distribuite 
  
Research period abroad at: Haute École d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud (Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland) 
 
 
 
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 FRANZESE 
Marianna  
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CNR IREA | 
DE MAIO Antonio | 
DE LUCA Claudio (CNR IREA)  | 
Sviluppo di algoritmi per la elaborazione di dati SAR acquisiti in banda L | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026)  
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 GIORDANO ORSINI 
Luigi Maria   
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 PNRR - DM 118/2023 
Mis. 4.1: Dottorati Pubblica Amministrazione 
CUP: E66E23001050002 
PA partner: Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte 
Nr. of months in PA: 6 
Host institution abroad: University of Haifa 
Nr. of months abroad: 6 
  
  
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CUTUGNO Francesco  | 
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Metodologie spiegabili per l’iniezione di conoscenza linguistica e big-data processing all’interno di modelli d’intelligenza artificiale per applicazioni museali | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 GRAGNANIELLO 
Maria 
  
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 PNRR - DM 118/2023 
Mis. 4.1: Dottorati generici 
CUP: E66E23001040002 
  
  
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RICCIO Michele | 
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Sviluppo e Ottimizzazione di Tecniche di Edge-AI per Applicazioni di Elettronica per la Salute nella Pubblica Amministrazione | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 21 
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 GRASSO 
Francesco   
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 PNRR - DM 118/2023 
Mis.: I.3.4 Dottorati Transizione Digitale 
CUP: E66E23001030002 
  
  
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COTRONEO Domenico | 
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Binary Analysis for Vulnerability Detection and Mitigation | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 KIRICI 
Zeynep Sena   
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 PNRR  
Partenariato Esteso PE14 
"RESTART - RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smART"  
Spoke 8 
CUP: E63C22002040007 
  
  
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TULINO Antonia | 
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Semantic Communication for application-aware next generation networks | 
  (End date: 31/10/2026) 
- withdrawn - 
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 LONGOBARDI 
Francesco  
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 PNRR - DM 118/2023 
Mis.: I.4.1 Dottorati generici 
CUP: E66E23001040002 
  
   
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RICCIO Daniel | 
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 Visione computerizzata per l'analisi delle dinamiche di folle di persone 
  
Research period abroad at: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) 
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 MAMMERI 
Mohamed  
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 PNRR - DM 117 
Missione 4 - Componente 2 - Investimento 3.3 Dottorati innovativi 
CUP: E66E23000580003 
Azienda partner: Open Fiber S.p.A. (*)  
Nr. of months in company: 10
  
  
  
(*) La borsa di studio cofinanziata da Open Fiber è intitolata alla memoria dell'ing. Salvatore Nigrelli 
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DELLA CORTE Francesco Giuseppe | 
 PARASECOLO Francesca, GRADASSI Fabrizio (Open Fiber S.p.A.) 
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Circuiti fotonici integrati per reti ottiche passive 
 
 
 
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 MARRONE 
Ferdinando  
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 - 
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AVALLONE Stefano | 
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Enhancing wireless technologies to support Time Sensitive Networking | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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| 25 | 
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 MAURO 
Alessandro  
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 PNRR  
Partenariato Esteso PE14  
"RESTART - RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smART"  
Spoke 4 
CUP: E63C22002040007 
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TULINO Antonia | 
LLORCA Jaime (University of Trento)  | 
E2E service optimization in programmable networks | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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| 26 | 
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 MONTELLA  
Luisa  
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 PNRR - DM 117 
Missione 4 - Componente 2 - Investimento 3.3 Dottorati innovativi 
CUP: E66E23000580003 
Azienda partner: Grimaldi Euromed S.p.A. 
Nr. of months in company: 15 
Host institution abroad: Universidade de Coimbra 
Nr. of months abroad: 6 
  
  
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SANTINI Stefania | 
 MURINO Teresa (DII, UNINA) 
BOCCHETTI Dario (Grimaldi Euromed S.p.A.) 
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Sustainable transition towards greener and cleaner Maritime Transport  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
TRAR-Year2 
YEP-Year2 
  
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| 27 | 
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 MUSICO' 
Emanuele  
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 PNRR - DM 118/2023 
Mis. 4.1: Dottorati Pubblica Amministrazione 
CUP: E66E23001050002 
PA partner: CNR STEMS, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie per l’Energia e la Mobilità Sostenibile 
Nr. of months in PA: 6 
Host institution abroad: University Politecnica de Catalunya 
Nr. of months abroad: 6 
  
  
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LO IUDICE Francesco | 
 DI BERNARDO Mario 
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 Controllo distribuito di sistemi complessi e multiagente  
  
Research period abroad at: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) 
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
TRAR-Year2 
YEP-Year2 
  
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 NOIOSO 
Mario   
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 - 
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SANTINI Stefania | 
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Vehicle-to-X (V2X) data fusion for cooperative or collective perception (CP) in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
TRAR-Year2 
YEP-Year2 
  
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 NOLI 
Fabio   
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 - 
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RINALDI Antonio Maria | 
VEROLINO Luigi | 
Artificial Intelligence and Big data technologies for digital forensics | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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| 30 | 
   
  
  
  
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 PARLATO 
Salvatore  
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UNINA | 
BIFULCO Paolo | 
ANDREOZZI Emilio   | 
 Innovative devices and methods for cardio-mechanical monitoring 
  
  
  
Research period abroad at: Aston University (Birmingham, UK) 
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 PENTA 
Marco   
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PNRR 
Centro Nazionale CN4 
Sustainable Mobility Center (MOST) 
CUP: E63C22000930007 
  
  
 
 
 
 
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DEL PIZZO Andrea | 
IANNUZZI Diego  | 
Prognostica e propulsione ibrida di veicoli ferroviari  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 PIANESE 
Luciano   
  
Rappresentante degli studenti 
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 PNRR - DM 117/2023 
Missione 4 - Componente 2 - Investimento 3.3 Dottorati innovativi 
CUP: E66E23000580003 
Azienda partner: DigitalPlatforms S.p.A. 
Nr. of months in company: 12 
Host institution abroad: University of Luxembourg 
Nr. of months abroad: 6 
  
  
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NATELLA Roberto | 
BRACCIOLI Marco (DigitalPlatforms S.p.A.) 
 
 
 
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Nuove tecniche di machine learning (e deep neural network) per il reverse engineering di codice binario dai dispositivi (firmware) IoT e la successiva analisi e mitigazione di vulnerabilità 
 
 
 
  
Research period abroad at: University of Luxembourg 
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 RAUSO 
Giuseppe   
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 PNRR 
Partenariato Esteso PE15  
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana 
Tematica 15  
SpaceItUp 
  
  
 
 
 
 
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FINZI Alberto | 
LIPPIELLO Vincenzo | 
Learning methods for exploration robotics  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
TRAR-Year2 
YEP-Year2 
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| 34 | 
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 RUSSO 
Debora   
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 PNRR  
Partenariato Esteso PE14  
"RESTART - RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smART"  
Spoke 7 "Green and Smart Environments" 
CUP: E63C22002040007 
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MAZZOCCA Nicola | 
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Intelligent and Reconfigurable Computer Networks for Smart Cities Applications  | 
 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 VARLESE 
Mario   
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 PNRR - DM 118/2023 
Mis. 4.1: Dottorati Pubblica Amministrazione 
CUP: E66E23001050002  
PA partner: DNA 
Nr. of months in PA: 6 
Host institution abroad: Imperial College London 
Nr. of months abroad: 6 
  
  
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ROMANO Simon Pietro | 
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 Tecniche ‘offensive’ per migliorare la sicurezza informatica delle pubbliche amministrazioni 
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 (End date: 31/10/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 CIANO 
Claudio 
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AMATO Flora  | 
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Methodologies and applications of Large Language Models in space engineering  | 
(*) 
(Start date: 29/12/2023  
End date: 28/12/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
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 MADDALUNO 
Manuel  
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PNRR
 Centro Nazionale CN1 
National Center for High-Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing  
  
Spoke: Future HPC 
 
CUP: E63C22000980007 
  
  
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CILARDO Alessandro | 
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Next-generation High-Performance Computing architectures and programming methodologies  | 
 
(*)  
(Start date: 29/12/2023  
End date: 28/12/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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 NAPOLITANO 
Manfredi   
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PNRR - DM 118/2023
 Mis.: I.3.4 Dottorati Transizione Digitale 
CUP: E66E23001030002 
  
  
  
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MAZZOCCA Nicola  | 
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Digital Twins for Smart Cities and Digital Societies   | 
 
 (*)  
(Start date: 29/12/2023  
End date: 2812/2026) 
TRAR-Year1 
  
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