National Research Projects

• 2021-2023: researcher, “Platform Specialized in Identifying and Evaluating Early Warning Indices for Crisis Management”, owner Ferdinand I Military Technical Academy, partners University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Soft Galaxy International, Marctel S.I.T., public beneficiary Protection and Guard Service, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant 27SOL/2021 (budget ~2M Eur);
• 2021-2023: researcher, project DeepVisionRomania “Identifying People in Video Streams using Silhouette Biometrics”, owner University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, partners Softrust Vision Analytics, Romanian Ministry of National Defence — Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency, public beneficiary Romanian Intelligence Service, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant 28SOL/2021 (budget ~550k Eur);
• 2021-2023: researcher, project IDENEO “Identifying the Unusual Behavior of People in Video Streams”, owner Ovidius University of Constanța, partners University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Softrust Vision Analytics, Ferdinand I Military Technical Academy, public beneficiary Romanian Intelligence Service, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant 29SOL/2021 (budget ~550k Eur);
• 2020–2022: researcher, project SMARTRetail. “Enhancing and Improving Customer Experience and Services in Supermarkets via SMART Artificial Intelligence Powered Systems”, owner Softrust Vision Analytics, partner Polytechnic University of Bucharest, funded by UEFISCDI, Industry Transfer Axis, grant PN-III-P2-2.1-PTE-2019-0055 (budget ~340k Eur);
• 2020–2022: researcher, project GRAVI. “Virtual Guardian: Artificial Intelligence Powered Multi-Sensor System for Automatic Securing of Areas of Interest”, owner Softrust Vision Analytics, partner Polytechnic University of Bucharest, funded by UEFISCDI, Industry Transfer Axis, grant PN-III-P2-2.1-PTE-2019-0570 (budget ~350k Eur);
• 2017–2020: researcher, project SPIA-VA. “Technologies and Innovative Video Systems for Person Re-Identification and Analysis of Dissimulated Behavior”, owner Polytechnic University of Bucharest, partners UTI Grup, Romanian Ministry of National Defence — Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency, public beneficiary Protection and Guard Service, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant 2SOL/2017 (budget ~2.2M Eur);
• 2017–2018: researcher, project SPOTTER. “Real-time IP Camera-based Intelligent Video Surveillance Security System with DROP Retrieval”, owner Polytechnic University of Bucharest, partner UTI Grup, funded by UEFISCDI, PED Axis, grant 30PED/2017 (budget ~140k Eur).

International Research Projects

• 2020–2024: researcher, project H2020 AI4Media. “A European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracy”, owner CERTH, Greece, partner Polytechnic University of Bucharest, axis H2020 ICT-48-2020 / Towards a vibrant European network of AI excellence centres (budget ~12M Eur);
• 2016–2018: researcher, project Erasmus+ CBHE, UMETECH. “University & Media Technology for Cultural Heritage”, owner University of Florence, Italy, partner Polytechnic University of Bucharest (budget ~900k Eur).

Industry Projects

• 2020 March–2020 October: researcher, project Keysight 1. “Machine Learning Techniques for Generating Network Traffic Data”, owner Polytechnic University of Bucharest, CAMPUS Research Institute, beneficiary Keysight Technologies Romania (budget ~59k Eur);
• 2020 April–2020 July: researcher, project Hana 2. “Financial Data Augmentation and Forecasting Using Advanced AI Techniques”, owner “Polytechnic” Research, Development and Innovation Institute, beneficiary Hana Institute of Technology, Republic of Korea;
• 2019 May–2019 December: researcher, project NXP 1. “RISC V-based Hardware-Software System for Machine Learning Applications”, owner Polytechnic University of Bucharest, CAMPUS Research Institute, beneficiary NXP Semiconductors Romania (budget ~136k Eur).