The main research fields include Electronics, Applied Electromagnetism, Communication Systems, Information Engineering, Automation and Robotics and Biomedical Engineering. DII has promoted six spin-off projects, and it cooperates with private and public institutions to provide innovative solutions to key issues in different ICT sectors, and to bridge the gap between academic and industrial research. The Department is involved in many European, National and Regional projects ad in 2 ERC It runs an intense activity in Higher Education for about 4000 students and 100 PhD students. It manages DII gestisce three Phd programs, in InformationandEngineering, Smart Computing e Smart Industry, it organizes the Master in Cyber-security and the Summer Schools "Open medical device design" "Enabling Technologies for the Internet of Things". In 2018 DII was selected by the Italian Minister of Education as "Department of Excellence" with the project CrossLab, aiming to support tre revolution of Industry 4.0 in Italy by creating interdisciplinary research labs open to big, medium and small-sized enterprises.