CTIF - Interdepartmental Centre for Tele-InFrastructures
Director: Professor Giacinto della Cananea
CTIF_Italy Lab was opened on September 28, 2006 as a part of an international research network conceived by Prof. Ramjee Prasad (Aalborg University, Denmark).
The CTIF – Center for TeleInFrastructures network includes other selected centers in Europe, Asia and US, whose research is focused in the development of infrastructures, technologies, devices and interdisciplinary applications of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
CTIF nodes are in Denmark (Università di Aalborg with a branch in Copenhagen, 2004 e 2008), Italy (University of Rome Tor Vergata, 2006), India (University of Kolkota e Mumbai, 2007 e 2009), Japan (at YRP, Yokosuka Park, 2008) and USA (Princeton, 2011), Southern-Eastern Europe in Greece (2012).
The aim of the CTIF_Italy node is to coordinate heterogeneous research groups in order to push the limits of the applications of wireless communications and make the “ICT for life” paradigm a reality.
Nowadays, the CTIF_Italy node includes the Department with the core competences on ICT (the Department of Electronic Engineering) but also the Department of Management Engineering and Departments from Faculty of Law, Faculty of Physics, Faculty of Medicine. So, ICT technology and all the applications leading towards the “Quality of Life” paradigm, are under the same “umbrella”.
Due to its highly interdisciplinary nature, the Center is set on a unique model within the CTIF-Global international network of which it is a part https://ctifglobalcapsule.org/. The CTIF-Global network is a global non-profit organization that stimulates cross/inter-disciplinary collaboration with a robust academic and industrial research network. Here are the research centers that are part of the network.
CGC HQ Aarhus University BTECH, Denmark, April 2017
CTIF Technical Univesity, Bulgary, September 2018
CTIF University of Zagreb, Croatia, September 2018
CTIF University of Aalborg, Denmark, January 2004
CTIF AIT, Greece, September 2018
CGC Vishwaniketan Institute, India, February 2018
CGC BIT Sindri, India, February 2018
CGC Sandip, India, December 2018
CTIF University of Kolkata, India, December 2007
CTIF University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, September 2006
CTIF Yokosuka Research Park, Japan, October 2008
CTIF University of Skopje Macedonia, September 2018
CTIF Ss. C. & M. University, Montenegro, September 2018
CTIF University of Bucharest, Romania, September 2018
CGC University of Huddersfield, UK, July 2018
CGU ITU, USA, February 2018
CTIF Princeton University, USA, April 2011
CGC NUST Zimbawe, September 2019
The international attitude is also reflected in the Steering Board composition which is made up of 18 experts (including the Coordinator); 4 of them have been added in 2019 (5 are foreigners). The Steering Board meets annually at the University "Tor Vergata" in Rome at the CTIF headquarters in order to share the Centre's development objectives and strategies through joint design activities with the universities and organizations to which they belong, expanding the application of research. It, therefore, expands the steering board components to institutions/institutes/companies, and in particular: Leonardo Company, Defense, Telecom-Bretagne, IEEE, Airbus, Inmarsat, Bocconi University.
Contacts
General info:
Prof. Ernestina Cianca
email: cianca@ing.uniroma2.it
Administration & Finance:
Dr.Paolo Paolini
email: paolini@ing.uniroma2.it