Partners

• Prof. Dr. Bogdan Alexe

Bogdan Alexe is Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest, Romania. In 2013, he received his PhD degree from ETH Zurich. Since 2014 he joined University of Bucharest, where he teaches lectures on computer programming, artificial intelligence and computer vision. His research interest include machine learning and pattern recognition in computer vision.

• Prof. Dr. Radu Ionescu

Radu Tudor Ionescu is Professor at the University of Bucharest, Romania. He completed his PhD at the University of Bucharest in 2013. He received the 2014 Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research in the field of Computer Science from the Romanian Ad Astra Association. His research interests include machine learning, computer vision, image processing, medical imaging, computational linguistics and text mining. He published over 90 articles at international peer-reviewed conferences and journals, and a research monograph with Springer. He received the "Caianiello Best Young Paper Award" at ICIAP 2013 for the paper entitled "Kernels for Visual Words Histograms". Radu also received the "Young Researchers in Science and Engineering" Prize organized by prof. Rada Mihalcea for young Romanian researchers in all scientific fields. Together with other co-authors, he obtained good rankings at several international competitions: 4th place in the Facial Expression Recognition Challenge of WREPL 2013, 3rd place in the NLI Shared Task of BEA-8 2013, 2nd place in the ADI Shared Task of VarDial 2016, 1st place in the ADI Shared Task of VarDial 2017, 1st place in the NLI Shared Task of BEA-12 2017, 1st place in the ADI Shared Task of VarDial 2018.

• Iuliana Georgescu

Iuliana Georgescu is a PhD student at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest. She received the B.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, in 2017 and the M.Sc. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the same university in 2019. Although she is early in her research career, Iuliana is the author of 13 papers published at conferences and journals. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning and medical image processing.

• Lucian Bicsi

Lucian Bicsi is a PhD student at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest. He received the B.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, in 2018 and the M.Sc. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the same university in 2020. He is very passionate about competitive programming, winning many awards at several prestigious competitions. Lucian was a member of the University of Bucharest team that won the silver medal at the ICPC ACM 2021 in Moscow. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, programming language processing, deep learning and medical image processing.

• Petru Soviany

Petru started his doctoral studies at University of Bucharest in 2017 and he defended his thesis on the applications of curriculum learning in computer vision in September 2021. As a teaching assistant, he teaches laboratories on both artificial intelligence and web programming. His research focuses on improving the performance of machine learning models by changing the traditional random sample selection with meaningful criteria like in curriculum learning, self-paced learning or active learning.

• Prof. Dr. Nabil Belbachir

Nabil Belbachir is the Research Director of Smart Instrumentation and Industrial Testing of NORCE. He previously woked with Austrian Research Centers GmbH (ARC). Prior to ARC, he was with Vienna University of Technology involved in the Herschel-PACS project of the European Space Agency. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Vienna University of Technology. He is member of the IEEE, IAPR and EURASIP.

• Dr. Xuan Zhang

Xuan Zhang obtained B.E. degree on Electronics and Information Engineering from Hunan University, China, in 2005. She obtained M.E. degree on Signal and Information Processing from Shandong University, China, in 2008. From May 2010 to January 2014, she worked as a Ph.D. research fellow in the field of Artificial Intelligence, in University of Agder, Norway. From September 2014 to December 2014, she worked in Teknova Company for the project of condition-based maintenance. Keywords of her research interests include: Machine Learning, Learning Automata, Stochastic Modeling and Optimization, Data Mining, Pattern Recognition and Classification, Condition-based Maintenance and Decision Support.