The UPF ICT Department was created in 1999 and has since emphasized scientific excellence and internationalization. It has over 30 tenured faculty, 13 ICREA professors, and over 800 undergraduate students. The department focuses on cognitive and intelligent systems, audiovisual technologies, communications and networks, and computational biology. It offers various graduate and undergraduate degree programs and has strong industry partnerships, with over 70 internship agreements with companies. The department also engages in numerous knowledge transfer activities including incubators, conferences, and cultural/educational events.

1. Department of Information and
Communication Technologies
September 2014

2. Young university
UPF: A quality university created in 1990
13th position worldwide THE World University Ranking 100 under 50, 7th in Europe level and 1st in Spain

3. ICT Department
Created in 1999
Mission: to become one of the leading European university departments in the broad range of fields created around the convergence of ICT with biomedical and cognitive sciences, computation and networks.
The DTIC has since its beginnings emphasized scientific excellence and internationalization as core aspects of its activities.

4. TRAINING
Graduate, post-graduate and professional training
In-house training
Career development for students, including stays at companies (practicum, thesis, etc)
RESEARCH
Tailor-made R&D projects
Prototyping and proof-of-concepts of new technologies and services
Collaborative projects, industrial PhDs
Trend and business analysis in changing ICT, Health, Humanities and Social Sciences
OTHER SERVICES
Access to spaces and specialized infrastructures
Sponsorship, Social Responsibility
Specialized consulting
Technological platforms
Direct technology transfer
Services offered

5. ICT Department
DTIC Figures 2013
• Tenured Faculty: 31
• ICREA Professors: 13
• Tenure-track Faculty: 4
• Undergraduate Students: 825
• Master and Ph.D. Students: 176
• Research incomes: 15.6 M€
• ERC grants: 9
• Publications: > 230 per year (Scopus)
• External Advisory Board
65 FP7 projects participated and coordinated by 25 staff members (> 60% UPF EU funds) including 9 ERC Grants and the Human Brain Project
VP European Research Council, IEEE Fellows, ACM Fellow, etc 2/3 hold PhD from an institution abroad
European Young Researchers' Award 2013

6. ICT Department - 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 Data
Center of Brain and Cognition (CBC)
Language and Comparative Cognition
Multisensory Research
Speech Acquisition, Perception, Production
Reasoning and Infant Cognition
http://www.upf.edu/dtic/en/recerca/research_areas.html

7. ICT Department - Training
Undergraduate Programs
• 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 Starting 2015
• Master in Wireless Communications (jointly UPC)
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
62% non-spanish students on research masters (average last 4 years)
External grants available (like Excellence Grants Catalunya Caixa)

8. ICT Department - Training
Professional master and postgraduate studies (UPF-IDEC)
• 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 (with Stanford)
• Hands On Wireless Sensor Networks

9. Companies
Cognitive and Intelligent Systems
Audiovisual Technologies
Communications and Networks
Computational Biology and Medical Systems
Cátedra Telefónica – UPF. Social Innovation in Education
Panorama actual de los Cursos Masivos Abiertos en Línea en las universidades españolas
R&D agreements and cooperation with a large number of companies, including:

10. Companies
Spin-offs
Coming soon…
SMEs: Some of our collaborators
Cognitive and Intelligent Systems
Audiovisual Technologies
Communications and Networks
Computational Biology and Medical Systems
RING: Retail Innovation
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.

11. Sample on Knowledge transfer
Open initiatives. Example: Freesound
> 4 million users
> 40.000 daily accesses
> 200.000 uploaded sounds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIvpXeksLdE&feature=player_embedded
Actively used by companies
Basis for additional educational, artistic and entrepreneursial activities
Soundscape modelling
• Virtual environmens
• Videogames
• Tourism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZiXfm7dyxc
https://locosonic.com/

12. Companies - students
Internships and joint thesis
90% of the ICT under-graduate students did an internship in a company before graduating (around 70 agreements with companies every academic course)
Participation in industry-driven events by students
Industrial PhD
Catch & Win: Best app WIP Jam Best in Show App during Mobile World Congress 2014, Intel XDK
Smart packing: Cisco Spain Challenge Award 2014
Music Hack Day BCN (from companies such as Spotify, echonest, native instruments, Starlab, Universal Music, etc)
Dyseggxia: Mobile for
Good Awards 2014

13. Entrepreneurship
Incubation spaces
Business model
validation
Investment forum
Support to UPF students
Spaces and wide range of training and support services
Training program
Entrepreneurship lectures

14. Some events we host
Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
http://www.tei-conf.org/13/home
2011 IEEE Winter School of Information Theory (biennial)
Home / Collaboration in international events
Own and external training events
Professional events
http://www.isit2016.org/
http://bcbt.upf.edu/
http://new.musichackday.org/2014/barcelona/
http://opencities.net/

15. Other services - Interactive installations. Some examples:
Interaction Design for Educational Experiences on Palaeontology, Catalan Institute of Palaeontology
“Here: Bergen-Belsen, Space of Memory”. Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Activities with general public and schools on science dissemination. Examples:
Festival Minimúsica.
Noa & Max. Stucked in Electronia. Animated series to foster future STEM students
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1JydZqXOI8
Artistic and cultural activities
Phonos project (concerts, grants for artistic creation) http://phonos.upf.edu/
And much more
http://www.noamaxproject.com/
Students and teachers
Festival CTI BCN
Sound Workshops http://phonos.upf.edu/tallerssonors?language=en
http://phonos.upf.edu/node/670
Festival CTI BCN

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