About me

Teaching:

Courses, exercise classes and laboratories for undergraduate students for Numerical Analysis, Optimization Techniques, Pattern Recognition (esp Face and Digit Recognition), Algorithms and Programming, and Mathematical Software; Approximation and Simulation Methods, Algorithms Design and Analysis, Computer Aided Systems, and Machine Learning (last four items for master students). For Mathematical Doctoral School of UOC, I gave a lecture on Approximation and Simulation Methods. MatLab Programming (fall 2017).

Also, I co-supervised a scientific seminar for our students; details for the last ones can be found here (2019), here(2018), and here (2017).

Research Interests:

- Deep learning with applications in computer vision and data mining

- Pattern recognition (especially face and digit recognition); Low rank approximation

- Information retrieval

- Optical flow, image processing; Wavelets analysis in image processing

- Inverse problems; First kind integral equations; approximations methods for the solutions of such equations; genetic algorithms and neural networks techniques with applications in inverse problems; Generalized inverses for linear operators; Iterative algorithms, finite elements methods, finite difference schemes

- Sparse matrices

Awards:

- “The Young Researcher of the Year “ Prize from ROMAI (Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, Romania), 2009

- Excellence Award for Teaching Activities for 2005, and 2006 respectively; and for Research Activities in 2011

Membership:

- International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mecanics - Activity Group Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra (GAMM ANLA)

- Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), SIAG/IS, SIAG/LA

- American Mathematical Society (AMS)

- Inverse problems International Association (IPIA)

- Mathematical Sciences Society, Romania (SSMR)

- Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, Romania (ROMAI)

- Eu-Math -IN (European Service Network of Mathematics for Industry and Innovation, Romanian branch)

- ERRIS (Romanian Research Infrastructure System) - IPAL (Image Processing Analysis Laboratory)

Scholarships and Activities Abroad:

- August 18 – September 3, 2015 - short research stay at Heidelberg Collaboratory For Image Processing (Image and Pattern Analysis Laboratory), Heidelberg, Germany

- June 2012 - Erasmus Training Mobility grant, Institute of Information & Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Engineering, UCL, Belgium, Professor Paul Van Dooren

- April 2012 - Statistical Software Institute, Lisbon, Portugal (I gave 2 days lectures on Creating GUIs in MatLab)

- July, 2009 - Summer School & Advanced Workshop on Trends and Developments in Linear Algebra, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

- March, 2008 – Winter School on Hierarchical Matrices, Max-Planck Institute, Leipzig, German

-July 23 – August 03, September 06-09, 2007 – Summer School “Advance Training in Scientific Research”, Krems, Austria

- October, 2006 – Fifth SimLab Courses on Parallel Numerical Simulation, Belgrade, Serbia

- September 1, 2002 – February 28, 2003 – Research Scholarship from DAAD with the topic: “Inverse Problems for Integral Equations“; Friederich-Alexander University,Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

National Grants:

- Software System based on high performance computing methods for the simulations of the complex phenomena of nanofluids flowing through porous media,multiphasic, with chemical reactions, PNCDI INFOSOC No. 131/20.08.2004 (completed); web page: http://csam.univ-ovidius.ro/sistemnano – member and team leader for the First Kind Integral Equations Module

- Mathematical modeling in diffusion processes, CEEX-05-D11-25/05.10.2005 (completed) – member

- Mathematical Modeling of Rainfalls in Dobroudgea, ID_262/01.10.2007- 2010 (completed) – member

Miscellaneous:

- Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews

- Involved in the organization of the Workshop on the Mathematical Modeling of the Environmental and Life Sciences Problems 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018.

- Involved in the organization of the Computer Science Contest ESTIC for high schools pupils and students 2008 - 2020 (fundraiser for 2011-2012 competitions); main organizer (and fundraiser) for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 competitions

- Main organizer for Science Days 2013 and 2014 (for high school pupils; the 2013 talks can be found here; they have been accompanied by live demos)

- Member of the Organizing Committee of The 5th International Conference 2009 - Dynamical Systems and Applications, June 15-18, 2009, Constanta, Romania, web page: http://www.univ-ovidius.ro/faculties/civil_eng/conferinta%20iunie%202009/Home.html

- Invited Editor (with A. Barbulescu) for An. Sci. „Ovidius” University of Constanţa, Mathematics Series, no. 3, 2009

- Invited Editor (with A. Barbulescu, C. Maftei) for An. Sci. „Ovidius” University Constanţa, Civil Engineering Series, 2009, Proceedings of The 5th International Conference Dynamical Systems and Applications, June, 15-18, 2009, Constanta

- Invited Editor (with C. Popa and S. Ion) for An. Sci. „Ovidius” University of Constanţa, Mathematics Series, no. 2 (vol XXVI), 2018

Supervised Bachelor/Master Thesis (In Romanian, most of them) can be found here.