Data science

The Ph.D. in Data Science leverages a critical mass of faculty, laboratories and pioneering projects accumulated in the Pisa area since the early 2000’s. As a consortium across the University of Pisa, the ISTI and IIT institutes of the CNR, and the Scuola Normale, Scuola Sant’Anna and IMT (Lucca), the Ph.D. is distinctly poised to support interdisciplinary, data-driven research and innovation within an ethical framework of transparency, privacy and responsibility. The program is unique in its kind; it will train a new generation of researchers combining domain competences (e.g., in the social, physical and life sciences) with Data Science skills – including methods and technologies for harvesting, mining, analyzing, visualizing and narrating data, a deep understanding of their legal and ethical implications, and of the social impact of Data Science.