Research

Other affiliations:

  1. Doctoral supervisor in Computer Science at the West University of Timisoara
  2. Doctoral co-supervisor at the Inter-University PhD Program “Electric Energy Systems” at the University of Malaga, Spain
  3. External member, Group for Integrated Systems Engineering, University of Malaga, Spain

Editorial and evaluator roles:

  1. Associate Editor Computers in Biology and Medicine
  2. Evaluator for HADEA, DG CNECT & REA at the European Commission

Grants (director/partner leader)

  1. ERA-NET Cofund, Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) 2022, Increasing control and efficiency in regional energy systems using quantum sensors and machine learning (QuantumIRES), Universitatea din Craiova partner leader, 2023-2026
  2. UEFISCDI PNCDI III 178PCE/2021, PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-0788, Object PErception and Reconstruction with deep neural Architectures (OPERA), 2021-2023 
  3. UEFISCDI PNCDI III, 408PED/2020, PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-2227, Learning deep architectures for the Interpretation of Fetal Echocardiography (LIFE), 2020-2022
  4. Research grant “Ayuda para estancias de investigadores de reconocido prestigio en la UMA”, Deep learning for semantic segmentation and inpainting, 24.06.2022 - 24.07.2022 (1 month), University of Malaga, Spain
  5. Innovation cheque, 99CI/2017, PN-III-P2-2.1-CI-2017-0469, Automated prediction of the stock values trend for customers of a Financial Services and Investments Company, July 2017 - December 2017
  6. Research grant “Ayuda para estancias de investigadores de reconocido prestigio en la UMA”, Deep Learning for Histopathological Image Processing, 12.06.2017 – 06.08.2017 (2 months), University of Malaga, Spain
  7. 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
  8. DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Research Grant A/09/02566, Research Stays and Study Visits for University Academics and Scientists, Investigation of a Support Vector Machine-based Approach for Parameter Setting in Metaheuristics, TU Dortmund University (2 months) and Cologne University of Applied Sciences (1 month), 01.06-31.08.2009, Germany

Awards and distinctions

  1. Included in "One Hundred Romanian Authors in Theoretical Computer Science", The Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, 2018.
  2. The “Grigore Moisil” award of the Romanian Academy in 2008.

Invited speaker at conferences

  1. Deep learning for computational support in the restoration of cultural heritage artefacts, IV Congreso de Ciencia de la Computación, Electrónica e Industrial, CSEI 2022, November 07-11, Ambato, Ecuador, https://csei.uta.edu.ec/csei2022/index.html
  2. Deep learning for image and signal analysis in medicine, II Congreso de Ciencia de la Computación, Electrónica e Industrial, CSEI 2020, October 26-30, Ambato, Ecuador, https://csei.uta.edu.ec/csei2020/index.html

Grants (member)

  1. MINECO España, TIN2017-88728-C2-1-R, Avances en el diseño y adaptación de algoritmos de aprendizaje profundo para su aplicación a problemas en las áreas de biomedicina y contaminación atmosférica, 2018-2020
  2. 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 - June 2016
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. CNCSIS Grant Type A, CNCSIS A-322, Evolutionary computation: new paradigms, tehniques and classes. Applications in optimization, 2007 - 2009
  6. IDEAS Grant, CNCSIS IDEI - 508, New computational paradigms in the approach of complex problems, 2007 - 2009
  7. CNCSIS Grant Type A, CNCSIS A - 1477, Computational models inspired from nature. New paradigms and metaheuristics. Real applications , 2004 - 2006

Conference special session organizer

  1. 26th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2018), Special Session Deep Learning in Bioinformatics and Medicine, Deep Learning in Bioinformatics and Medicine
  2. 14th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Cadiz, Spain, June 14-16 2017 (IWANN 2017), Special Session Computational Intelligence Tools and Techniques for Biomedical Applications, Special Session CI for Biomedical Applications
  3. 15th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Gran Canaria, Spain, June 12-14 2019 (IWANN 2019), Special Session Computational Intelligence Tools and Techniques for Biomedical Applications, Deep learning models in healthcare and biomedicine
  4. 16th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, online, June 16-18 2021 (IWANN 2021), Information fusion in Deep Learning for Biomedicine
  5. 17th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN2023), June 19-21 2023, Special Session Neural Networks in Chemistry and Material Characterization.

Invited talks at universities

  1. University of La Laguna, Department of Computer and System Engineering, July 2023.
  2. University of Malaga, Department of Electronic Technology, Spain, July 2022.
  3. University of Malaga, Department of Applied Mathematics, Spain, June 2019, https://riuma.uma.es/xmlui/handle/10630/17529.
  4. University of Ulster, Campus Coleraine, UK, August 2017.
  5. University of Malaga, Department of Electronic Technology, Spain, July 2017.
  6. University of Malaga, Department of Electronic Technology, Spain, May 2016.
  7. Technology Arts Sciences TH Cologne, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, Germany, May 2016.
  8. Technical University of Dortmund, Faculty of Computer Science, Chair of Algorithm Engineering, Germany, 2015
  9. Technology Arts Sciences TH Cologne, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science, Germany, 2015
  10. Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Computational Services in Automation (COSA) Kolloquium, Germany, 2009
  11. Harrow School of Computer Science, London, UK, 2008
  12. "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Faculty of Computer Science, Doctoral Intensive Summer School on Meta-Heuristics in Optimization and in Intelligent Data Analysis, 2008
  13. University of Westminster, Health Care Computing Group, London, UK, 2004.
  14. TU Dortmund, Faculty of Computer Science, Chair of Algorithm Engineering, Germany, 2003

Reviewing activities (journals)

  1. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  2. Journal of the Operational Research Society
  3. Expert Systems
  4. Computers and Operations Research
  5. Computers in Biology and Medicine
  6. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  7. Information Sciences
  8. Pattern Analysis and Applications
  9. IEEE Transactions and Knowledge and Data Engineering
  10. Expert Systems with Applications

Membership in program committees for conferences

  1. International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN)
  2. European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN)
  3. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN)
  4. International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES)
  5. International KES Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies
  6. International KES Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare
  7. International KES Conference on Smart Education and E-Learning
  8. International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications