ABOUT ME...

Professional experience

  • October 2006 - present: Professor dr. eng., Communications Department, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
  • October 2000 - September 2006: Associate Professor dr. eng., Communications Department, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
  • June 2001 - June 2002: Technical consultant, Business Logic Systems Ltd., Cluj-Napoca
  • October 1997 - September 2000: Assistant Professor dr.eng., Communications Department, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
  • Octombrie 1993 - Septembrie 1997: Assistant eng, dr.ing (1996), Communications Department, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
  • February 1991 - September 1993Faculty adviser, Communications Department, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
  • October 1990 - February 1991: Design engineer, Electrosigma SA, Cluj-Napoca

Education

  • February 1992 – July 1996: PhD degree in Telecommunications (“Automatic speech recognition for Romanian”), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
  • September 1985 – June 1990: MscEE, Electronics and Telecommunications, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
  • September 1980 – June 1984: Diploma of Computer analyst and software development, Informatics Highschool Cluj-Napoca

Other studies:

  • July 1999: 7th Summer School on Language and Speech Communication: Multimodality in Speech Systems, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
  • July 1998: 6th Summer School on Speech Communication: Robustness in Real Life Applications, Politechnic University of Catalunia
  • July 1997: Computational Models for Speech Pattern Processing, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Jersey
  • August 1996: 8th European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information, Charles University in Prague
  • May 1994: Diploma on Texas Instruments digital signal processors TMS320C50, Politehnica University Timisoara
  • June 1993: Diploma on the management of local area networks (France Telecom), Politehnica University Bucharest
  • November 2003 and Aprili 1995: Retraining and updating on Hidden Markov Models for Automatic Speech Recognition, University of Granada

Membership in professional bodies

  • Member of International Biographical Centre, Ref. ADV/ACK, 1999
  • Member of New-York Academy of Sciences, 1999
  • Marquis Who’s Who in the World, SA2/2611968
  • Member of European Language and Speech Network, ELSNET, since 1998
  • Member of European Network of Blended Learning experts, since 2005
  • Member of Romanian Human Computer Interaction body (RoCHI), since 2005