Awards

Research Awards

• 2026: Corneliu Penescu award from the Academy of Romanian Scientists for the group of papers titled Machine Learning and Graph Mining Algorithms for Social Media Analysis.

• 2025: Gheorghe Cartianu award from the Romanian Academy for the group of papers titled Social Network Analysis using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and Graph Mining

• In Tempore Opportuno award at the Gala of Excellence event organized by the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest for the group of papers titled Data-driven harmful content detection systems

• 2023: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "Context-Aware Misinformation Detection: A benchmark of Deep Learning Architectures using Word Embeddings"

• 2023: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "Neural Natural Language Generation: A Survey on Multilinguality, Multimodality, Controllability and Learning"

• 2023: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "LL(O)D and NLP perspectives on semantic change for humanities research"

• 2023: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "When Linguistics Meets Web Technologies. Recent advances in Modelling Linguistic Linked Open Data"

• 2023: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "A Novel Deep Learning-Based Relabeling Architecture for Space Objects Detection from Partially Annotated Astronomical Images"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "Topic-based Document-Level Sentiment Analysis using Contextual Cues"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "The Forgotten Document-Oriented Database Management Systems: An Overview and Benchmark of Native XML DODBMSes in Comparison with JSON DODBMSes"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "Change Point Enhanced Anomaly Detection for IoT Time Series Data"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "TLATR: Automatic Topic Labeling Using Automatic (Domain-Specific) Term Recognition"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Human Microbiome Studies: Contemporary Challenges and Solutions"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "TextBenDS: a Generic Textual Data Benchmark for Distributed Systems"

• 2021: UEFISCDI PRECISI award for the article titled "An Advanced Learning-Based Multiple Model Control Supervisor for Pumping Stations in a Smart Water Distribution System"

• 2016: Best Paper Award (Prix du défi EGC 2016) for the article titled "Topic modeling and hypergraph mining to analyze the EGC conference history" awarded by the Association Internationale Francophone d'Extraction et de Gestion des Connaissances (EGC), February 2016

• 2013: 1st Prize for presentation "Database Asynchronous Replication", Scientific Communications Session, University Politehnica of Bucharest, May 2013

• 2012: Honorable Mention for presentation "Data virtualization in Cloud Computing", Scientific Communications Session, University Politehnica of Bucharest, May 2012