About me

Research Interests

• nature inspired metaheuristics, time series modeling, machine learning, computational intelligence,  quantum computing, inverse problems

Education

• 2004 – 2010 - PhD studies in the field of Artificial Intelligence, under the supervision or professor Henri Luchian, at the Faculty of Computer Science, "Al.I. Cuza", Univ., Iasi, Romania

  • Exams: Nature Inspired Metaheuristics, Genetic Programming, Symbolic Regression

  • Research reports: Optimal Control with Applications to Artificial Intelligence, Approaches to Solving First Kind Integral Equations, Genetic Expressions

  • Thesis: Intelligent Techniques for Data Modeling Problems

• 2003-2005 – Master studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, "Ovidius" University, Constanţa, România

  • Grade average: 9.95/10

  • Master Thesis: Regularization Algorithms for First Kind Integral Equations; Scientific advisor: Professor Constantin Popa, Grade: 10/10

• 1999-2003 – Facultatea de Informatica, Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Iasi

  • Graduated 2nd in class (approx. 200 students); Grade average: 9.92/10

  • Graduation Thesis: Evolutionary Interpolation - Symbolic Regression; Supervizor: Professor Henri Luchian, Grade: 10/10

• 1995-1999 – National College Gheorghe Rosca Codreanu, Bârlad, Vaslui

  • Grade average: 9.69/10 (2nd in class).

  • Baccalaureate degree, Sciences Stream; Final grade average: 9.96/10.

Scholarships and awards

1. Visiting researcher at the Biointelligence Lab, Seoul National University, September 2008

2. Microsoft Research Scholarship for participation at the ­Doctoral Intensive Summer School on Meta-Heuristics in Optimisation and in Intelligent Data Analysis, June 2008, organized by the Faculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi

3. Microsoft Research scholarship for participation at the Doctoral Summer Workshop on Metaheuristics in Data Mining and Optimisation, June 2007, Gura Humorului, Romania, organized by the Faculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi

4. DAAD scholarship for 5th SimLab Course on Parallel Numerical Simulations, Belgrade, Serbia, October 2006, organized by Technische Universitaet Muenchen and Mechanical Engineering Faculty, University of Belgrade

5. Microsoft Research scholarship for participation at the Doctoral Intensive Summer School, June 2006, organized by the Faculty of Computer Science, Al. Ioan Cuza University, Iasi

6. DAAD scholarship for Simulation Technology Summer School, September 9-19, 2004, Constantza, Romania, organized by Stuttgart University and Erlangen-Nuremberg University with DAAD support

7. Merit scholarship awarded by the Faculty of Computer Science, Al.I.Cuza University, Iasi during 2000-2003

8. Merit salary awarded by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ovidius University, Constanţa, for teaching excellence and activity within the faculty (2007, 2008, 2009)

9. Excellence award for teaching activites from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ovidius University, in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010.

10. Excellence award for research  activites from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ovidius University, in 2010.

11. "Profesor Bologna" title, awarded by Alianța Națională a Organizațiilor Studențești din România (ANOSR) in 2018, https://profitari.ro/editia-2018/ 

Research Projects

International: 

1.     Intellectual Propery Right for SEE (IPRforSEE) – AF/A/437/1.2/X, Programul Operational de Cooperare Transnationala Sud-Estul Europei 2007-2013, membru in proiect, http://iprforsee.univ-ovidius.ro/index.html 

2.      Romanian Norwegian Maritime Project (RoNoMar), 2008-2011, finantat prin EEAGrants, de catre Norwegian Cooperation Programme for Economic Growth and Sustainable Development with Romania, valoarea totala €4.700.000, https://eeagrants.org/archive/2004-2009/projects/2008/111922 https://www.anmb.ro/ro/files/cercetare/granturi_arhiva.html 

National:

1.      Programare genetică pentru probleme de optimizare în Inteligenţa artificială Grant CNCSIS TD-199/2007 (director de proiect), valoare totala 42000 lei https://uefiscdi.gov.ro/userfiles/file/TD2007_DOCUMENTE_COMUNE/PROIECTE%20FINALIZATE%20-%20actualizare%20mai%202011.pdf 

2.      Complex Project PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0917, ”Hybrid Light Visible Communication Platform and Augmented Reality for the Development of Intelligent Systems for Active Assistance and Safety of Vehicles”, contract no. 21 PCCDI / 2018. http://carsafe.cerva.ro/en (membru in colectivul de cercetare)

3.      Utilizarea tehnologiei video imersive pentru instruirea ofițerilor de punte (2019), proiect 128 din Planul sectorial de cercetare-dezvoltare al MApN pe anul 2019, valoare totala 23900 lei

4.      Sistem de poziționare și navigare pentru interior (2018), proiect 156 din Planul sectorial de cercetare-dezvoltare al MApN pe anul 2018, valoare totala 43900 lei

5.      Software pentru managementul resurselor umane implicate în activități didactice (2017), proiect 163 din Planul Sectorial de Cercetare-Dezvoltare al MApN pe anul 2017, valoare totala 37262 lei

6.      HapticMed - Interfeţe cu Retur Haptic în Aplicaţii Medicale, Contract Nr. 128/2.06.2010, Cod SMIS 12271, ID proiect 567, http://hapticmed.cerva.ro/ (membru in colectivul de cercetare 2010 – 2013)

7.      Cercetarea realității educaționale - coordonata fundamentală a formării viitorilor profesori (2014), POSDRU/156/1.2/G/139720, Expert IT

8.      SIMPA - Solutie Integrata E-Health De Monitorizare A Parametrilor Vitali La Pacientii Cu Afectiuni Cronice, Proiect in cadrul PNCDI Programul 4 “Parteneriate in domeniile prioritare”, cod proiect 3382, contract 11-070/2007, 2007-2010 (membru in colectivul de cercetare), valoare totala 275000 lei https://web.archive.org/web/20090119010247/http://cnmp.ro:8083/pncdi2/program4/competitie/main/index.php?&we=26531b94a8aa9ff7df5c5d983a506cd6&wf=detail&id=2382&wchk=66aa8995ed008f72710d10e4a3780800

9.      NatCOMP - Noi modele de calcul natural in studiul complexitatii si in rezolvarea problemelor complexe, Proiect in cadrul PNCDI Programul 4 “Parteneriate in domeniile prioritare”, cod proiect 2120, contract 11-028/2007, 2007-2010 (am participat din partea Univ. Al. I. Cuza Iasi, ca doctorand al dlui. prof. Henri Luchian), valoare totala 2000000 lei https://web.archive.org/web/20090119004311/http://cnmp.ro:8083/pncdi2/program4/competitie/main/index.php?&we=26531b94a8aa9ff7df5c5d983a506cd6&wf=detail&id=1120&wchk=017f9544d0694635ab6aa8a6a33c2f02

10.  TOMIS - Utilizarea realităţii virtuale în reconstituirea multimodală 3D a siturilor istorice, Proiect in cadrul PNCDI Programul 4 “Parteneriate in domeniile prioritare”, contract 11-041/2007, 2007-2010, http://tomis.cerva.ro/ (membru in colectivul de cercetare)

11.  Modelare matematică în procese de difuzie, CEEX-05-D11-25/05.10.2005, valoare totala/UOC 80000 lei, http://www.csm.ro/home/CEEX_grants/D11_25_05/ceex_D11_25_romana.htm, https://www.csm.ro/home/CEEX_grants/D11_25_05/ceex_D11_25_rom_consortiu.htm (membru in colectivul de cercetare)

12.  Sistem informatic bazat pe metode de calcul de înaltă performanţă pentru simularea fenomenelor complexe de curgere a nanofluidelor prin medii poroase, multifazice, cu reacţii chimice”. Responsabil cu implementarea modulului software pentru rezolvarea problemelor de ecuaţii integrale de speţa întai, PNCDI INFOSOC No. 131/20.08.2004, valoare totala/UOC 125000 lei http://web.archive.org/web/20070216194645/http://csam.univ-ovidius.ro/sistemnano/echipa.html (membru in colectivul de cercetare)

13.  Algebră computaţională cu aplicaţii în geometrie şi informatică, Grant A CNCSIS 1075/2005 (membru in colectivul de cercetare)

14.  Procese aleatoare şi statistica lor în fiabilitatea softului şi actuariat, Grant Academia Romana (GAR 2005) nr. 12 din 27.07.05 (membru in colectivul de cercetare)

Expert:

• CNFIS-FDI-2019-0519, Calitate și sustenabilitate în Universitatea ”Ovidius” din Constanța. Proiectarea și implementarea unui SISTEM DIGITAL INTEGRAT DE MANAGEMENT al învățării, evaluării și calității academice-DIGITALMENT”

• CNFIS-FDI-2019-0723, CRESTEREA COMPETITIVITATII TINERILOR PE PIATA FORTEI DE MUNCA PRIN ACCES LA STUDII UNIVERSITARE SI PREGATIRE PROFESIONALA CONTINUA 

Academic duties

• Reviewer for the SYNASC conferences, the Artificial Intelligence track

• Reviewer for the RoCHI conferences

• Reviewer for the Pattern Recognition Letters journal

• Reviewer for Neurocomputing journal

• Reviewer for Neural Computing and Applications journal

• Reviewer for Computers and Geosciences journal

• Reviewer for Applied Sciences journal

• Reviewer for Sustainability journal

• Review for Entropy journal

Organized Events

I was involved in the following events that took place at the Ovidius University in Constantza:

• Organizer for CreatiVE SummerSchool at the Ovidius University, Constanta, http://creative.cerva.ro/ 

• Organizer for the EUROLAN summerschool, 2017

• Sixth Workshop on Mathematical Modelling of Environmental and Life Sciences Problems

• The Fourth National Conference on Computer-Human Interaction - RoCHI 2007

• International Conference on Virtual Learningn - CNIV & ICVL 2007

• Conferinţa Naţională de Învăţământ Virtual - CNIV 2008,

• International Conference on Virtual Learning - ICVL 2008

• 7th Workshop on Mathematical Modelling of Environmental and Life Sciences Problems

• Program Comitee for Intelligent Systems Design and Applications - ISDA 2006, held in Jinan, Shangdong, China.

An up-to-date CV is available here.