Industrial and Information Engineering PhD Programme

The PhD Conference is an annual event organized by the PhD Programme in Industrial and Information Engineering. It is designed as an opportunity for PhD students to present the progress of their research to fellow students, alumni, faculty members, and representatives of local industry. The conference opens with a plenary session featuring a keynote lecture delivered by one of our alumni.
Following the keynote, first-year PhD students introduce themselves and summarize the preliminary study carried out during the first months of the PhD programme, and outline their plan for future research activities.
The plenary session is followed by four parallel thematic sessions in which second- and third-year PhD students present their work.
Second-year PhD students summarize the scientific activity carried out in the middle stage of the doctorate and present a detailed plan of the studies and experiments required to advance their research programme.
Third-year PhD students focus on the original contributions of their research, and present the proposed structure of their thesis together with a writing plan for the final months of the PhD programme.

When: 21/05/2026 –  h: 09:00

Where: Biblioteca Rizzi – Via Fausto Schiavi 44 – 33100 Udine UD

Registration link (registration is free but mandatory)

Conference Program

The conference opens with a keynote lecture by  Federica Arrigoni,  alumna of the XXX cycle, titled: “3D reconstruction and the viewing graph“.

Federica Arrigoni is Associate Professor with the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) of the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). She received her MS degree in Mathematics from the University of Milan (Italy) in 2013, and the PhD degree in Industrial and Information Engineering from the University of Udine (Italy) in 2018. Her PhD thesis titled Synchronization Problems in Computer Vision” was awarded from the Italian Association for Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (CVPL) in 2018 and from the University of Udine in 2019. From 2018 to 2020 she was a junior researcher with the Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic), from 2020 to 2022 she worked as an assistant professor (RTD-A) with the University of Trento (Italy), while from 2022 to 2024she was a tenure-track assistant professor (RTD-B) with the Politecnico di Milano (Italy). She is associate editor of CVIU, she regularly serves as reviewer for CVPR, ECCV and ICCV, and she was acknowledged as an outstanding reviewer at CVPR 2021. She co-organized workshops and tutorials at CVPR 2020, ICCV 2021, CVPR 2022 and ECCV 2024. She is the main author of the paper entitled “Viewing Graph Solvability via Cycle Consistency” that won the Best Paper Honorable Mention at ICCV 2021 (corresponding to top-5 papers out of 1612 accepted papers). The follow-up paper entitled “Viewing graph solvability in practice” was shortlisted among best paper candidates at ICCV 2023 (corresponding to top 17 papers out of 2161 accepted papers). Her research focuses on geometric problems in 3D Computer Vision.

The full conference programme is shown below [pdf version]