Scientific Activity

International research projects

• 2015 – 2016: member and key-person in DAMATS project (Data Mining For Analysis and Exploitation of Next Generation of Time Series, European Space Agency project)

• 2015 – 2016: member in OSIRIDE project (Open Source Image Retrieval – Integration of Developed Tools, European Space Agency project)

National research projects

• •   June 2022 - Present: director of MES-ER (Multimodal Embedded System for Emotion Recognition), funded by UEFISCDI 

  •   Oct. 2021 - Present: UPB project responsible for BDAGeoINT (Transforming a Massive Volume of Data and Geospatial Information in Actionable Intelligence), funded by UEFISCDI

  • Oct. 2020 - Present: director of MDM-SITS (Multimodal Data Mining in Satellite Image Time Series for Earth Observation), funded by UEFISCDI

  • Sept. 2017 - Sept. 2018: director of NEST (Unsupervised Analysis of Temporal Evolutions) funded by GEX Program UPB

  • October 2019 - December 2019 : member & team coordinator in "RISC V-based hardware-software system for Machine Learning Applications” R&D project (funded by NXP Romania) 

  • 2017 - 2020: member in SPIA-VA – Technologies and innovative video systems for person re-identification and analysis of dissimulated behavior PN-III-P2-2.1-SOL-2016-02-0002 (funded by UEFISCDI, parteneri: UPB, UTI GRUP S.A., MAPN-ACTTM), Director: Prof. Dr. Ing. Bogdan Ionescu

  • 2017 - 2020: member in UAV platform (unmanned aerial vehicle) with dedicated capabilities and support infrastructure with applications in national security missions (PN-III-P2-2.1-SOL-2016-01-0008 - funded by UEFISCDI, partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE AEROSPATIALA "ELIE CARAFOLI" - I.N.C.A.S. BUCURESTI; UPB; MAPN - ACTTM; ICPE - CA BUCURESTI; UTI GRUP S.A.; AVIOANE CRAIOVA S.A.) Director: Conf. Dr. Ing. Thor Pleter

  • 2014 – Sept. 2015: member in LEO-SITS project (Long-Term Exploitation of Satellite Image Time Series, C1 Star Project under the Romanian Space Agency, ID 187)

  • 2013 – Sept. 2015: member in Thz-Imaging project(C1 Star Project under the Romanian Space Agency, joint with National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics INFLP, ID 153)

Reviewer

• • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

  • IEEE Access

  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging

  • IET Image Processing

  • IET Computer Vision

  • IET Electronic Letters

  • MDPI Remote Sensing

  • MDPI Sensors

  • MDPI Electronics

  • MDPI IJGI

  • Scientific Bulletin of UPB, Series C

  • Revue Roumaine de Sciences Techniques, Serie Electrotechnique & Energetique

  • IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing TSP 2018, 2019, 2020 

  • IEEE International Conference on Communications COMM 2016, 2018, 2020 

  • IEEE International Symposium on Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering ISFEE 2016 

Affiliation to scientific community

• • IEEE member (2010 – present)

  • EURASIP member (2015 – present)