Received the 'Grigore Moisil' Prize in 2014 for work on unsupervised learning for graph matching, the most prestigious award in Mathematics given by the Romanian Academy. A list of publications can be found on his Google Scholar and DBLP profiles.
Research Experience
Introduced courses on Computer Vision and Robotics at UPB in 2014, and started the Computer Vision Reading Group at IMAR with weekly meetings since 2016. Leads research projects on various computer vision and deep learning problems, spanning unsupervised learning, optimization methods for graphs and deep neural networks, object tracking, semantic segmentation, and more.
Education
PhD in 2009 from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University; Bachelor's in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2003 from Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Background
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Robotics. Background: Full Professor of Computer Science at the University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest (UPB) and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics 'Simion Stoilow' of the Romanian Academy (IMAR).
Miscellany
Tends to look for a balance between theory and practice, loves to get involved in projects that take full advantage of intelligent algorithms as well as real world data, such as developing vision and learning systems for drones, self-driving cars, medical applications, and the wood industry.