Curriculum vitae

Academic positions:

• 2016-present: full professor with Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest;
• 2014-2016: associate professor with Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest;
• 2008-2014: lecturer with Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest;
• 2006-2007: temporary assistant professor (ATER - Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de la Recherche, ranked first in Haute-Savoie region), University of Savoie, Polytech’Savoie, Annecy-France, CNU section 61: computer science and engineering, automatics and signal processing;
• 2005-2006: substitute teacher (vacataire), University of Savoie, ESIA - Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs d’Annecy, France, conducting signal processing seminars and laboratories.

Professional experience:

• 2024-2029: president, vice-rector, Institute for Advanced Research on New Materials, Products and Innovative Processes - CAMPUS, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest;
• 2024-present: associate member, The Academy of Romanian Scientists - AOSR;
• 2024-present: member, Committee for Performance Evaluation for the Integration of Scientific Research and Technological Development of Research Organizations, Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization;
• 2024-present: expert, digital economy and space technologies, National Register of Experts for the Certification of the Research-Development Activities, Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization;
• 2020-present: member, National Council for Attestation of University Degrees, Diplomas and Certificates, Ministry of National Education;
• 2020-present: member of the faculty Council, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest;
• 2016-present: member of the department Council, Department of Applied Electronics and Information Engineering, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest;
• 2016-present: member of the Senate, University Politehnica of Bucharest;
• 2020-2024: director, Doctoral School of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest;
• 2016-2024: administrative coordinator, Center for Advanced Research on New Materials, Products and Innovative Processes - CAMPUS, University Politehnica of Bucharest;
• 2016-present: director, Politehnica Research & Development and Innovation Institute;
• 2018-present: member, European Commission, European AI Alliance - FUTURIUM;
• 2023-present: director from Politehnica Bucuresti, Vodafone Innovation Hub;
• 2016-present: founder & director, AI Multimedia Lab, CAMPUS Research Institute;
• 2023-2027: AI expert, National Register of Experts for the Certification of Research and Development Activity, Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization;
• 2018-2020: member, Advisory Board, Video Analysis for Investigation of Criminal and TerrORIst Activities - VICTORIA Horizon 2020 project;
• 2017-2020: member, National Council for Ethics and Management in Higher Education, Ministry of National Education;
• 2021-2025: member of the steering committee, Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum - CLEF;
• 2017-2021: member of the steering committee, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval - ICMR;
• 2014-2020: technical program expert, Horizon 2020 Programme (Romanian commission).
• 2019: member, Ministry of European Funds, Political Action Committee OP1 – Smarter Europe, Innovative and Intelligent Economical Transformation;
• 2014-2018: administrative council member, Romanian National Institute for Research and Development in Optoelectronics;
• 2017: IT&C expert, National Infrastructure Roadmap, Ministry of National Education;

Experience abroad and training:

• September 2012: training course on “Evidence Informed Policy and Practice in Education in Europe”, Institute of Education, University of London, Institute of Educational Sciences, Bucharest, Romania;
• July 2012: invited researcher, KnowDive, University of Trento, Italy;
• June 2012: invited researcher, LISTIC, Polytech Annecy-Chambéry, Université de Savoie, France;
• May 2012: training course on “Evaluating the Impact of Development Programs: Turning Promises into Evidence”, Paul Gertler, University of California -Berkeley, Adam Ross, HDNCE, Joost de Laat, ECSH World Bank, Bucharest, Romania;
• June - July 2011: invited researcher, LISTIC, Polytech Annecy-Chambery, University of Savoie, France;
• June 2009: invited researcher, LISTIC, Polytech'Savoie, University of Savoie, France;
• June 2009: invited researcher, Institut Gaspard Monge, Marne-la-Vallee, Universite Paris-Est, France;
• September 2008: invited researcher, VIVA, University of Ottawa, Canada;
• April 2008: invited researcher, LISTIC, Polytech'Savoie, University of Savoie, France.

Didactic experience:

• 2008-present: conducting courses on C programming language (undergraduate cycle), data science and machine learning, advanced image processing and analysis, video indexing and multidimensional digital signal processing (postgraduate cycle), Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest;
• 2010: conducting a course on Video Processing and Analysis at Fotonation - Tessera, Romania;
• 2006-2007: conducting image processing, computer vision, signal processing and object oriented programming seminars (TD) and laboratories (TP), departments: Automatique et Informatique Industrielle, Physique Appliquée et Instrumentation and Génie Logiciel et Services, Polytech’Savoie, University of Savoie, Annecy, France (30 TD hours and 96 TP hours);
• 2005-2006: conducting signal processing and computer vision seminars (TD) and laboratories (TP), department Automatique et Informatique Industrielle, ESIA - Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs d'Annecy, University of Savoie, Annecy, France (36 TD hours and 24 TP hours).

Project reviewer and coaching:

• Swiss National Science Foundation.
• L'Oréal UNESCO "For Women in Science".
• coaching CUHE & MindBugs projects, H2020 AI4Media, EU.
• Natural Environment Research Council, UK.
• Dutch Research Council, Netherlands.
• Icelandic Research Fund, Iceland.
• Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, Romania.

Associate Editor:

• ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2020 - 2024;
• IET Computer Vision, 2013 - 2016;
• Academy Publisher Journal of Multimedia, 2013 - 2015;
• Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology.

Journal papers reviewer:

• Scientific Bulletin of University “Politehnica” of Bucharest;
• SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging;
• SPIE Optical Engineering; Multimedia Systems;
• IS&T Journal of Imaging Science & Technology;
• Nature Scientific Data;
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems;
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing;
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology;
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia;
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence;
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing;
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters;
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering;
• IEEE Access;
• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing;
• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging;
• Springer Artificial Intelligence Review;
• Springer Multimedia Tools & Applications;
• Springer Journal on Evolving Systems;
• Springer International Journal of Computer Graphics - The Visual Computer;
• Springer Journal of the Operational Research Society;
• ACM Computing Surveys;
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems;
• ACM Transactions on the Web;
• ACM Multimedia Computing, Communications, & Applications;
• Elsevier Information Processing & Management;
• Elsevier Computer Standards & Interfaces;
• Elsevier Applied Soft Computing;
• Elsevier Pattern Recognition;
• Elsevier Computers in Industry;
• Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication & Image Representation;
• Elsevier Computer Vision & Image Understanding;
• Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems;
• Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications;
• IET Computer Vision;
• EURASIP Journal on Image & Video Processing.

Conference Technical Program Committee:

• ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2024;
• IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision - WACV 2023 - 2025;
• IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop - IVMSP 2022;
• International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications - SISAP 2022;
• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data - BigMM 2021 & 2022 - 2023;
• IEEE International Conference on Conversational Data & Knowledge Engineering - CDKE 2019 & 2024;
• International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - NeurIPS, Competition Track, 2019 - 2022;
• IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality - AIVR 2018 - 2020 & 2022 & 2024 - 2025;
• European Signal Processing Conference - EUSIPCO 2012 - 2017;
• International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI 2012 - 2014, 2017 & 2022, 2024;
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2012 & 2014; Workshop Community-Organized Multimedia Mining - MMCommons @ MM 2015 & 2016; Grand Challenge on Event Detection and Summarization @ MM 2015;
• Competitions track @ IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gestures Recognition - FG 2020;
• Workshop on Fair Face Recognition and Analysis, European Conference on Computer Vision - ECCV 2020;
• Workshop on Information Fusion in Computer Vision for Concept Recognition, European Conference on Computer Vision - ECCV 2012;
• European Workshop on Visual Information Processing - EUVIP 2013, 2014 & 2016;
• MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation 2013, 2014, 2020 & 2022;
• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP 2014 & 2023 - 2024;
• ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval - SIGIR 2023 - 2024 & International Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis 2014;
• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Theory, Tools and Applications - IPTA 2014 - 2017;
• Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia - PCM 2014 (outstanding reviewer award) & 2018;
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval - ICMR 2015 - 2016 & 2018 - 2024 (outstanding reviewer award), & International Workshop on Multimedia Artworks Analysis MMArt 2018;
• IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems - ISSCS 2013 & 2015;
• IEEE International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering - KSE 2015 - 2018 & 2020;
• IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - ICDM 2015, workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis;
• IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia - ISM 2015 & 2018 - 2024;
• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo - ICME 2016, 2017, 2019 - 2022, & 2024, & International Workshop on Multimedia Artworks Analysis MMArt 2016 - 2017;
• International Conference on Multimedia Modeling - MMM 2017, 2019 - 2023, & 2025;
• IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing - MMSP 2017, 2018 - 2023;
• ACM Multimedia Systems Conference - MMSys 2017, 2019 - 2022;
• ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces - IUI 2018, & Workshop on Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation - MILC 2018;
• ACM User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization - UMAP 2018 - 2023;
• CLEF Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum - CLEF 2024;
• European Conference on Information Retrieval - ECIR 2019 & 2020 - 2025.

Conference Area Chair:

• 32th ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2024;
• 31th ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2023;
• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - ICME 2023;
• Deep Learning for Multimedia, 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2021;
• Deep Learning for Multimedia, 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2020;
• Media Interpretation, 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2019;
• Multimedia and Vision, 26th ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2018.

Chair and organizer:

• general chair of the European Summer School on Information Retrieval - ESSIR 2026;
• general chair of the 1st hackathon on software development, cryptography, Artificial Intelligence and applied electronics - Hackathon 2024;
• general chair of the 1st Doctoral Symposium on Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology, 2023;
• co-organizer of the 1st Vodafone Innovation Hub Summer School, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology, 2023;
• co-organizer of the special session on "LPWAN and 5G/6G-enabled Artificial Intelligence of Things applications for Internet of Ships and Maritime Internet of Things" at the 9th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things - WFIOT 2023;
• demos and challenges co-chair of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval - ICMR 2023;
• co-organizer of the GANs Synthetic Medical Images Task @ ImageCLEF - Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF 2023 - 2025;
• co-organizer of the special session on "Learning from Scarce Data Challenges in the Media Domain" at the International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI 2022;
• co-organizer of the System Fusion Task @ ImageCLEF - Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF 2022 & 2023;
• co-organizer of the workshop on "Research and Innovation for Secure Societies" RISS at the International Conference on Communications - COMM 2022;
• co-organizer of the workshop on "Multimedia AI against Disinformation", ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval - ICMR 2022 - 2024;
• publicity chair for Europe for the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2022;
• mentor for the Code-against-hate 2 hackathon 2021;
• general chair for the CLEF Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum - CLEF 2021;
• co-organizer of the Social Media User Data Awareness Task @ ImageCLEF - Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF 2021 - 2023;
• co-organizer of the Detection and Recognition of Hand Drawn Website UIs Task @ ImageCLEF - Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF 2020 & 2021;
• co-organizer of the workshop on "Research and Innovation for Secure Societies" RISS at the IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition - ICPR 2020;
• co-organizer of the workshop on "Research and Innovation for Secure Societies" RISS at the International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue - SpeD 2019;
• publicity chair for Europe for the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2019;
• panelist of the panel session on “AI, Data Science and the Future of Your Business” at the WeLoveDigital.forum 2018;
• co-organizer of the workshop on "Research and Innovation for Secure Societies" RISS at the International Conference on Communications - COMM 2018;
• co-organizer of the Recommending Movies Using Content: Which content is key? Task @ MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation 2018;
• co-organizer of the Predicting Media Memorability Task @ MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation 2018 - 2023;
• co-organizer of the special session on "Predicting User Perceptions of Multimedia Content" at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval - ICMR 2018;
• co-organizer of the Multimedia Information Processing for Personality and Social Networks Analysis Challenge and Workshop at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition - ICPR 2018;
• demo co-chair for the 16th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI 2018;
• publicity co-chair for the 13th IEEE International Workshop on Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing - IVMSP 2018;
• lead organizer of the ImageCLEF - Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF 2017 - 2025;
• general chair for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval - ICMR 2017;
• general chair for the 14th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI 2016;
• lead organizer of the Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task @ MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation 2013 - 2016 and co-organizer for 2017;
• co-organizer of the Predicting Media Interestingness Task @ MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation 2016 - 2017;
• technical program co-chair for the 13th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI 2015;
• co-organizer of the 1st and 2nd Workshop on Human-Centered Event Understanding from Multimedia, ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2014 - 2015;
• co-organizer of the Affect Task: Violent Scenes Detection @ MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation 2013 - 2015;
• poster co-chair and resources and recognition committee for the MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation 2014;
• local arrangements co-chair for the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - ICIP 2014;
• coordinator of the panel session on “Future trends in events for media” at the Workshop on Event-based Media Integration and Processing, co-located with ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2013;
• awards and sponsorship co-chair for the MediaEval 2013 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, co-located with ACM Multimedia 2013;
• chair for the “Image Processing II” session at the IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems - ISSCS 2013;
• co-organizer of the Workshop on Event-based Media Integration and Processing, co-located with ACM International Conference on Multimedia - MM 2013;
• proceedings co-chair for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2013;
• chair for doctoral symposiums, PhD POS-DRU European Structural Funds Programmes, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 2009 - 2013;
• co-organizer of the workshop “Information Fusion in Computer Vision for Concept Recognition” at the European Conference on Computer Vision – ECCV 2012;
• co-organizer and co-chair of the special session “Automatic Indexing of Internet Multimedia” at International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI 2012;
• publication co-chair for the 10th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI 2012;
• chair for the “Biomedical Image Analysis” and “Remote Sensing and Geo. Signal Processing” sessions at the European Signal Processing Conference - EUSIPCO 2012;
• local arrangements chair for the 20th European Signal Processing Conference - EUSIPCO 2012;
• co-chair and co-organizer of the workshop “Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology in the World and in Romania”, Diaspora Conference on Higher Education and Scientific Research, UPB, 2010.

Membership:

• senior member IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Signal Processing Society membership;
• member SPIE - International Society Advancing an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Science and Application of Light;
• member ACM – Association for Computing Machinery;
• member EURASIP - European Association for Signal Processing;
• member GDR-ISIS – Groupement de Recherche Information, Signal, Images et Vision, France;
• member of the Research Commission for Creative Development, Academy of Romanian Scientists, in charge with the Electronic Engineering department;
• founding member of the Research Commission PRODUCTICA Dacia-Renault, Academy of Romanian Scientists.