Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies is a public university institute - with special autonomy - working in the field of applied sciences: Economics and Management, Law, Political Sciences, Agricultural Sciences and Plant Biotechnology, Medicine, and Industrial and Information Engineering.

The Telecommunications, Computer Engineering, and Photonics Institute (TeCIP) of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa was created in 2001 as a Centre of Excellence funded by the Italian University, Scientific and Technological Research Ministry.

The core research domains in the TeCIP Institute are:

• Telecommunication networks, systems and components implemented with partial or full use of photonic technologies and relevant software control techniques;
• Cyber-physical systems, real-time computing, artificial intelligence and cyber-security;
• Photonic Integrated Circuits for datacom, sensors and networks and biophotonics.