The document summarizes the research areas, people, training programs, and companies associated with the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at an unnamed university. The department conducts research in areas such as cognitive and intelligent systems, audiovisual technologies, communications and networks, and computational biology. It has over 800 undergraduate students, 175 graduate students, and 31 tenured faculty members. The department obtains significant research funding and offers various degree and training programs in information and communication technologies.

1. Department of Information and
Communication Technologies
January 2015

2. Research
COGNITIVE AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Cognition and Computation and Robotics
Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Computer Science
Natural Language Processing
Ubiquitous Computing
Information Retrieval and Data Mining
Cognitive Multimedia Technologies
AUDIOVISUAL TECHNOLOGIES
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Image Processing for Enhanced Cinematography
Sound and Music Computing
Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Educational
Technologies
COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
Network Technologies and Strategies
Wireless Communications
Information Theory and Coding
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND
MEDICAL SYSTEMS
Computational Neuroscience
Instrumentation and Biomedical Signals
Computational Imaging and Computational Physiology
Analysis of Biomedical DataBRAIN AND COGNITION
Language and Comparative Cognition
Multisensory Research
Speech Acquisition, Perception, Production
Reasoning and Infant Cognition http://www.upf.edu/dtic/en/recerca/research_areas.html

3. ICT Department – key facts (2014)
People
• Tenured Faculty: 31
• ICREA Professors: 13
• Tenure-track Faculty: 4
• Undergraduate Students: 825
• Master and Ph.D. Students: 176 ( > 60% international)
Research
• Research incomes: 15.6 M€
• ERC grants: 9
• External Advisory Board
Faculty includes VP of the European Research Council (Prof. Sebastián-Gallés) or VP of Research for
Europe and Latin America Yahoo! (Prof. Baeza-Yates), plus a number of recognitions as ACM, IEEE,
AAAI or ECCAI Fellows (recognitions typically to 1-3% most influential researchers from the leading
professional communities)
65 FP7 projects participated and coordinated by 25 staff members (> 60% UPF EU funds) including 9
prestigious ERC Grants and the Human Brain Project
(absolute leader in Spain, with around 5% of all the funds obtained by Spanish Universities in FP7)

4. ICT Department - Training
Undergraduate Programs (Polytechnic School – ESUP)
• Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences
• Bachelor's degree in Telematics Engineering
• Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Systems Engineering
Research Master Programs
• Interdisciplinary Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media (CSIM)
• Master in Sound and Music Computing (SMC)
• Master in Intelligent Interactive Systems (MIIS)
• Master in Computer Vision (Interuniversity master, coord. UAB)
• Master in Brain and Cognition
• Master in Wireless Communications (jointly UPC, starting 2015)
PhD program in Information and Communication Technologies
• 2/3 PhD students are non-spanish nationals (around 140 students in total, 40 joining each year)
• DTIC Seminars
Recent selected awards for students
Cisco Security Grand Challenge 2014, European Young Researchers' Award 2013, National Commendation
for Invention from the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation in 2013, BBVA Innova Challenge 2013
International Competition on Big Data, BBVA Innova Challenge MX 2014

5. ICT Department - Training
Professional master and postgraduate studies (UPF-IDEC – Barcelona School
of Management)
• Master in Animation
• Master in Creation of Video Games
• Master in Sonology
• University Master in Digital Arts
• Master in ICT Strategic Management
• Postgraduate studies in Interactive Instruments
• Postgraduate studies in Data Visualisation… and more!
http://digitalmedia.idec.upf.edu/
MOOCs
• Descodificando el álgebra
• Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications (joint with Stanford)
• Hands On Wireless Sensor Networks
Coming soon…
• 3D Graphics for the Web Programmers
• Ecosistemas de innovación (with the network Cátedras de Telefónica)
And supplying the supporting technology for external MOOCS as Hands-on ICT (powered by ILDE)

6. Companies
Spin-offs
Some of our collaborators
Cognitive and Intelligent Systems Audiovisual Technologies
Communications and Networks Computational Biology and Medical Systems
TECNIO accreditation
Network of Tech Centers and University Research Groups dedicated to
Industrial Research and technology transfer in Catalonia. It is based on
cutting edge technology, business innovation and management
excellence.

7. #hacklab_upf
Physical and virtual space for student-driven action (since 29/10/2014)
Peer-to-peer-learning, collaborative projects
Established groups
Guifi.net: http://project.guifi.net/projects/upf
• Hands-on Wireless Sensor Networks: http://handsonwsn.org/
• ACM-UPF 2014 Contest (programming workshop) http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~jonsson/acm/
• Open-source 3D-printed life-size robots
• Hosting PyladiesBCN
Groups under preparation
• Data journalism
• Collaborative and interactive storytelling
• Robotics (RoboCup)
• Ruby (with Ironhack)
• BioHacking
Complementing other actions such as

8. Thank you
C/ Tànger, 122-140
08018 Barcelona, Spain
http://www.upf.edu/dtic/
@dtic_upf