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Internationalization

In the Politecnico di Torino Strategic Plan 2024–2030, internationalization is a key driver of the University's development. The Department embraces this vision by promoting an international dimension across education, staff development (research, academic, and technical-administrative personnel), research, and scientific and technological innovation.

Research and Education

Global map for initiatives

The Department fosters a strong international dimension in both research and education through academic and industrial partnerships, international mobility, participation in highly competitive European funding programmes (ERC, FET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions), joint patents, and active involvement in international conferences, workshops, and summer schools.

The map highlights the Department's more than 110 most recent international collaborations worldwide.

Over the past five years, we have hosted 12 long-term visiting professors from leading universities and research institutions in countries including the United States, Canada, Germany, and France. Faculty members and researchers interested in collaboration opportunities or visiting positions are warmly invited to contact us at: det.commissione.internazionalizzazione@polito.it.

In education, we develop and coordinate a wide range of international initiatives, including double-degree programmes, Erasmus+ mobility (incoming and outgoing), theses carried out abroad, and international educational projects that further strengthen the global dimension of Politecnico di Torino.

Among the Department's most significant international partnerships, within strategic University-wide initiatives, are the China Center, the SICEI Joint School with Tongji University (Shanghai), SCUT-PoliTo Joint School of future Habitat Institute with the South China University of Technology (Guangzhou), the collaboration with Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), the Japan Hub (established in 2022), and the Joint European Innovation Center for Advanced Electromagnetics with Xi'an Jiaotong University (since 2024). In Europe, we continue to strengthen our presence in Brussels through collaborations with Unioncamere and the Turin Chamber of Commerce.

The international profile of our doctoral education continues to grow steadily. Over the past three admission cycles, approximately 30% of the students enrolled in the PhD Programme in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering (IEEC) have been international candidates, supported by dedicated services for welcome, integration, and academic life.

Visiting professors

Visiting professors

The Visiting Professors Programme, launched in 2016, promotes the University’s internationalisation by hosting experts and scholars from institutions abroad. The DET has welcomed the following Visiting Professors:

Start date - End date: 6 aprile 2026 - 4 luglio 2026
Institution of origin: University of California Berkeley, USA
PoliTO receiving department: DET - Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni
PoliTO coordinator: Demarchi Danilo

Andrei Vladimirescu (LF’17) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a key contributor to the SPICE simulator, releasing the SPICE2G6 production-level SW in 1981.
He pioneered electrical simulation on parallel computers with the CLASSIE simulator as part of his PhD. He is the author of "The SPICE Book" published by J. Wiley and Sons.
For many years Andrei was R&D director leading the design and implementation of innovative Electronic Design Automation (EDA) products in software and hardware for Analog Devices Inc., Daisy Systems, Analog Design Tools, Valid Logic and Cadence.
Currently he is Professor involved in research projects at the University of California at Berkeley and the Technical University of Delft as well as consultant to industry. His research activities are in the areas of low-voltage low-power CMOS, design, simulation and modeling, circuits with new devices and circuits for quantum computing.
Andrei is an IEEE Life Fellow and IEEE CASS Vice-president of Conferences

Start date - End date: 1st april 2026 - 30th june 2026
Institution of origin: Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
PoliTO receiving department: DET - Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni
PoliTO coordinator: Alon Ascoli 

Ronald Tetzlaff (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Full Professor in Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden). He was the Chief Officer for Technology Transfer and Internationalization and Member of the Extended Rectorate at TU Dresden from 200 to 2025. His scientific interests include problems in the theory of signals and systems, medical signal processing, stochastic processes, systems modeling, systems identification, machine learning, mem-elements, memristive systems, volterra systems, and cellular nonlinear networks. He is a member of the IEEE CAS CNN-MAC TC, the IEEE CAS Nano-Giga TC, the German Society of Electrical Engineers, and the Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG) im Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Informationstechnik (VDE) eingetragener Verein (e.V.). He has founded the Chua Memristor Center in 2016. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS—I: REGULAR PAPERS, from 1999 to 2003. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, from 2001 to 2002.

Start date - End date: 04th September 2025 - 30th June 2026
Institution of origin: Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
PoliTO coordinator: Marco Pirola

Prof. Zhang’s research area is machine learning, modeling and optimization for design of high-speed and high-frequency electronic devices, circuits and systems, which are the basic building blocks of computers, wireless and wired systems used in telecommunications, internet, and intelligent and autonomous systems.  Prof. Zhang advanced the theory and practice of microwave active and passive computer-aided design with innovations in linear and nonlinear device modeling and circuit optimization for which he received the IEEE Fellowship.  Prof. Zhang is one of the pioneers of neural networks and machine learning for microwaves which started in the early 1990s. Prof. Zhang’s continuous innovations in this area for over 30 years have established many research milestones, and contributed to the substantial development of the area.  He authored (with Prof. K.C. Gupta) the first book of the area (Neural Networks for RF and Microwave Design, Boston, Artech House, 2000), and developed the first software (NeuroModeler, 1998) of the area. His neural network based modeling technology was adopted in industrial projects such as the Advanced Embedded Passives Technology Consortium (2000-2003) funded by the US Department of Commerce and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (Michigan, USA). In 2012, neural network based transistor modeling technology pioneered by him and his student became a primary feature of Agilent/Keysight IC-CAP software, the microwave industry’s dominant modeling tool. Over 300 technical papers archive his pioneering contributions. Example of publication: Q.J. Zhang, K.C. Gupta and V.K. Devabhaktuni, “Artificial neural networks for RF and microwave design: from theory to practice,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Techniques, vol. 51, 2003, pp. 1339-1350. 

Visiting professor at Polito