Research

Grants (director)

  1. PED, Contract No. 411PED/2020, code PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-2271, INvestigating the influence of optimistic/pessimistic sentiment from TExt in press REleases on Stock market Trend (INTEREST), 01.11.2020-31.10.2022.
  2. Ayuda para Investigadores Extranjeros en la UMA, Deep learning for sequence and image analysis, Universidad de Malaga, 24.06.2022-24.07.2022, Spain. 
  3. Fulbright Senior Award, Automated Learning Models for Cancerous Tissue Detection: from Traditional Classifiers to Deep Architectures, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 01.08.2018-31.10.2018, USA.
  4. PNCDI Partnerships, Contract No. 26/2014, code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1153, Intelligent Medical Information System for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of the Treatment of Patients with Colorectal Neoplasm, July 2014 - September 2017.
  5. DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Research Grant A/09/02567, Research Stays and Study Visits for University Academics and Scientists, An Evolutionary Approach for Estimating the Number and Sizes of Attraction Basins for Optimization Problems with Static and Dynamic Landscapes, TU Dortmund University (2 months) and Cologne University of Applied Sciences (1 month), 01.06-31.08.2009, Germany.
  6. DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Research Grant for doctoral student, young academics and researchers, A/06/90461, Novel Evolutionary Algorithms for Classification. Application to e-Health, Chair of Algorithm Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, 01.06-30.09.2007.

Grants (member)

  1. Internal competition research grant, University of Craiova, no. 42C/2014, Prototypes Evolution in Classification using Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks, January 2014 - December 2014.
  2. PNCDI Partnerships Grant, CNMP PC - 2076, Contract Nr. 41071, Algorithm for the diagnosis and prediction of the hepatic fibrosis evolution through noninvasive ultasonographic means, optimized by stochastic analysis of images , 2007 - 2010.
  3. PNCDI Partnerships Grant, CNMP PC - 2120, Contract Nr. 11028, New models of natural computation in the study of complexity and in solving complex problems, 2007 - 2010.
  4. CNCSIS Grant Type A, CNCSIS A-322, Evolutionary computation: new paradigms, tehniques and classes. Applications in optimization, 2007 - 2009.
  5. IDEAS Grant, CNCSIS IDEI - 508, New computational paradigms in the approach of complex problems, 2007 - 2009.
  6. CNCSIS Grant Type A, CNCSIS A - 1477, Computational models inspired from nature. New paradigms and metaheuristics. Real applications , 2004 - 2006.

Special issue editor

Reviewing activities (journals)

  1. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  2. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  3. Machine Learning
  4. Soft Computing
  5. Neural Computing and Applications
  6. Journal of the Franklin Institute
  7. Complex & Intelligent Systems
  8. Heliyon
  9. MDPI Sensors
  10. PLOS One
  11. Computers in Biology and Medicine
  12. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  13. Journal of Computational Science
  14. Journal of Computer Science and Technology
  15. Biomolecules
  16. Acta Biotheoretica
  17. Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
  18. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
  19. Entropy
  20. Memetic Computing
  21. Electrophoresis
  22. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
  23. SN Applied Sciences

Conference chair

Membership in program committees for conferences

  1. The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.
  2. Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), http://home.agh.edu.pl/~ppsn/program_c.php, http://www.dmi.unict.it/ppsn2012/program_c.php,
    http://ppsn2014.ijs.si/?show=progcomm, http://www.ppsn2016.org/conference/program-committee, http://ppsn2018.dei.uc.pt/index.php/programme-committee/.
  3. International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), 2024.
  4. The International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), https://lod2018.icas.xyz/ , https://lod2019.icas.xyz/program-committee/.
  5. Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (CD-MAKE), https://cd-make.net/committees/.
  6. Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO), http://www.econ.ubbcluj.ro/~rodica.lung/nicso2011/?page_id=23
  7. International Conference on Soft Computing (MENDEL), http://www.mendel-conference.org/index.php?link=ipc.
  8. International Conference on Advances Science and Contemporary Engineering (ICASCE), http://web.binus.ac.id/icasce2012/komite.asp.
  9. The International Conference on Machine learning, Optimization, and big Data (MOD), http://mod2017.taosciences.org/program-committee/, http://mod2016.taosciences.org/program-committee/.
  10. International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications, http://synasc12.info.uvt.ro/workshops/nca-2012,
    http://synasc.ro/synasc2013/workshops/nca-2013/.
  11. International KES Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT), http://idt-15.kesinternational.org/cmsIPCdisplay.php, http://idt-16.kesinternational.org/cmsIPCdisplay.php, http://idt-17.kesinternational.org/cmsIPCdisplay.php.
  12. International KES Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed), http://inmed-17.kesinternational.org/cmsIPCdisplay.php, http://inmed-18.kesinternational.org/cmsIPCdisplay.php, http://inmed-19.kesinternational.org/cmsIPCdisplay.php 
  13. Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems FedCSIS, Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO), https://annals-csis.org/Volume_13/pliks/communication.pdf, https://annals-csis.org/Volume_19/pliks/position.pdf.
  14. The 7th Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI 2015), http://bci2015.bci-conferences.org/ 
  15. International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA), http://www.inista.org/pc.html.

Invited talks

  1. From Image Classification and Image Segmentation to Semantic Inpainting with Deep Learning, May 2023, University of Rzeszow, Poland.
  2. Deep learning for the classification and segmentation of heart structures in first and second trimester fetal echocardiography, July 13, 2022, Universidad de Malaga, Spain.
  3. Huawei Technology Development Trend of Intelligent Internet, St Petersburg, "On Determining the Author of a Text using Chaos Game Representation", December 2020.
  4. University of Malaga, Department of Electronic Technology, "On classifying images using Keras and Tensorflow in Python", June 2019.
  5. University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Solomon Marcus seminar in Computational Linguistics 2019, "Machine learning for classification: from medical applications to text processing", April 2019.
  6. Wolfram Technology Conference 2018, "On Boosting the Accuracy for the Classification of Histopathological Slides", September 2018.
  7. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "On Diagnosing Cancer Grade Based on Histopathological Slides", August 2018.
  8. University of Ulster, Campus Coleraine, “Combination of Classifiers for Improving the Accuracy for the Diagnosis of Histopathological Slides”, August 2017.
  9. University of Malaga, Department of Electronic Technology, “On Boosting the Accuracy of Medical Image Diagnosis through Cooperation between Classifiers”, July 2017.
  10. University of Malaga, Department of Electronic Technology, “Automatic Diagnosis of Colorectal Neoplasm Based on Histological Images”, May 2016.
  11. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, Technology Arts Sciences TH Koeln, University of Sciences, “Computational Support for Pathologists in the Diagnosis of Colorectal Neoplasm Based on Histological Images”, May 2016.
  12. Workshop Young Researchers in Artificial Intelligence, (Tineri Cercetatori în Inteligenta Artificiala - TiCIA), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 5-8 September 2015, “Research Methodology in Artificial Intelligence”.
  13. TU Dortmund, Faculty of Computer Science, Chair of Algorithm Engineering, "Computational Intelligence for Histopathological Image Processing”, August 2015.
  14. Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany, “Semi-Automatic Parameter Setting when Processing Medical Images”, 2015.
  15. Romanian Association for Artificial Intelligence (ARIA), ARIA Caravan, “Research Directions in Artificial Intelligence”, November 2014.
  16. Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Computational Services in Automation (COSA) Kolloquium, “Multimodal Real-Valued Optimization Based on Topological Information”, 2009.
  17. Harrow School of Computer Science, London, UK, "Evolving Cooperative Rules for Medical Data Classification", November 2008.
  18. "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Faculty of Computer Science, Doctoral Intensive Summer School on Meta-Heuristics in Optimization and in Intelligent Data Analysis, “On Approximating the Multimodality Degree of a Function by Exploiting Landscape Topology”, 2008.
  19. TU Dortmund, Faculty of Computer Science, Chair of Algorithm Engineering, The Computational Intelligence Colloquium, “Multimodal Optimization, radii and search space topology”, July 2007.

Awards and distinctions

  1. Honor for special research results in the "Mathematics and Natural Sciences" domain in 2019, Excellence Research Gala, University of Craiova, 2020.
  2. Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition, March 2019.
  3. Included in "One Hundred Romanian Authors in Theoretical Computer Science", The Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, 2018.
  4. Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition, February 2018.
  5. Expert for PNCDI III – EUREKA Projects, Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding, 2016, 2017.
  6. Expert for PNCDI III - European and International Cooperation, Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding, 2016, 2017.
  7. Honorary diploma, first place within the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Excellence Research Gala, University of Craiova, 2016.
  8. Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition, September 2016.
  9. Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition, April 2016.
  10. Expert for PNCDI II – Young Research Teams, Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding, 2015.
  11. Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Journal of Computational Science, Elsevier Reviewer Recognition, November 2014.
  12. Director of the Research Section, Society for Computing Technologies, since 2009.
  13. The “Grigore Moisil” award of the Romanian Academy in 2008 for a collection of publications from 2006.