Curriculum Vitae

Abstract

Dr. Ioan Toma is the Chief AI Officer and co-founder of ONLIM GmbH, an Austrian startup focusing on Chatbots and Intelligent Assistants, being responsible for the research activities of the company. Ioan’s current research areas include Conversational AI and Knowledge Graphs. Ioan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Innsbruck, Austria and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Ioan has been involved in numerous research projects at national and European levels. He authored over 85 articles as book chapters, conference papers, workshops papers and journal articles.

Personal details

• Birth date: September 25, 1978

• Birth place: Ocna-Mureş, Alba, Romania

• Nationality: Romanian

Education

• October 2005 - September 2010: PhD studies in Computer Science at the STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, under the supervision of Univ-Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel.

  • PhD Dissertation: Modelling and Ranking Semantic Web Services Based on Non-Functional Properties

  • In this thesis we developed ontological model for the most representative non-functional properties of services. Furthermore, we developed a set of ranking algorithms for Semantic Web services that uses non-functional properties descriptions.

• October 2002 - June 2003: Advanced postgraduated studies (M.S.) in Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Automatics and Computer Science, Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, under the supervision of Univ-Prof. Dr. Ioan Alfred Letia.

  • Advanced postgraduate studies (M.S.) in Computer Science and Engineering thesis: Using Neural Network ensemble based on selective techniques to optimize a Semantic Perceptron Net classifier

  • The thesis proposes an approach to construct a better Semantic Perceptron Net (SPN) used for topic spotting by applying a learning paradigm call: selective neural network ensembling based on genetic algorithms.

• 1997 - 2002: Diplomat Engineer (B.Sc.) in Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Automatics and Computer Science, Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, under the supervision of Univ-Prof. Dr. Ioan Alfred Letia.

  • Engineer Diploma (B.Sc.) thesis: Discriminative models for topic spotting from text documents

  • The thesis proposes and implements optimization of a text classifier called Semantic Perceptron Net built using neural networks by applying the theory of Minimum Classification Error/Generalized Probabilistic Descent.

• 1993 - 1997: "Petru Maior High School" Ocna-Mureş, Alba, Romania

Employment and professional experience

• January 2016 - ongoing: CAIO, co-founder onlim GmbH

• January 2010 - June 2018, January 2023 - December 2023: Senior Researcher at STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

• July 2015 - September 2016: Senior Researcher at UMIT - University for Health Sciences Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria.

• January 2013 - December 2014: STI Research and Consultancy, Vienna, Austria.

• March 2010 - September 2011: Senior Researcher at Softgress S.R.L, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

• April 2004 - December 2009: Researcher at STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

• October 2002 - March 2004: Junior Lecturer at Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

• March 2003 - February 2004: Programmer at ARoBS Transilvania Software Cluj Napoca, Romania.

• August 2001 - December 2001: Programmer at Pro3 Soft Cluj Napoca, Romania.

• November 2000 - June 2001: Programmer at B2B Soft Net Cluj Napoca, Romania.

Other activities

• Treasurer of STI International, January 2013 - May 2016.

Languages

• Romanian (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate), German (intermediate)