UPB – Polytechnic University of Bucharest

Country Romania
Website upb.ro/en/

Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB) is the largest technical university in Romania, ranked 1st in the top 12 universities awarded the title of “University for advanced research and education” by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research. It has over 80 departments, offering programs of study at B.Sc. M.Sc., and Ph.D. levels in engineering for over 25,000 students. UPB benefits from a strong research infrastructure having approx. 150 laboratories in different fields. It is the most successful research entity from Romania, acquiring over 32 HORIZON 2020 grants in the last 3 years.

Adina Magda Florea

Adina Magda Florea

Full Professor

Dr Adina Magda Florea is full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of UPB and the Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory. Her research interests are in multi-agent systems, machine learning, ambient intelligence, active and assisted living, and human-robot interaction.

Irina Mocanu

Irina Mocanu

Associate Professor

Dr. Irina MOCANU is Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of University “Politehnica” of Bucharest and member of the AI-MAS Laboratory. Her research interests are: image processing, multimedia databases, machine learning, ontology development and applications of ambient intelligence in the area of ambient assisted living and social robotics.

Alexandru Sorici

Alexandru Sorici

Assistant Professor

Dr. Alexandru SORICI is an assistant professor and scientific researcher at the Department of Computer Science of the University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB). His research activity spans the domains of Ambient Intelligence (AmI), Context-Awareness and Context Management, knowledge- and data-driven (machine learning based) Human Activity Recognition (HAR), Multi-Agent Oriented Programming and Social Robotics.

Lidia Băjenaru

Lidia Băjenaru

Senior Researcher

Dr. Lidia BĂJENARU is Senior Researcher at Research infrastructure for the development of the products, processes and intelligent innovative services – PRECIS, University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB). She has coordinated and was a member of research teams in numerous national and international projects, with expertise in areas such as: eHealth, eLearning, eGovernment, ontologies, knowledge management, models and technologies in systems engineering.