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is a full professor at UPB, responsible for the courses of Object-Oriented Programming, Semantic Web Applications, and Data Mining and Data Warehousing. He was head of the class in 2009 (e.g., GPA 10/10; ranked 1st across specialization and university) at University Politehnica of Bucharest and holds a double Ph.D. with the highest distinctions in Computer Science and Educational Sciences, with his thesis published as a book in Springer, Studies in Computational Intelligence. He has extensive experience in national and international research projects with more than 300 published papers, including 30 articles at top-tier conferences, 100+ papers indexed ISI at renowned international conferences, and 10+ Q1 journal papers.

last update: April 2022

Articles published on IXD&A:

• ‘Lib2Life – Digital Library Services Empowered with Advanced Natural Language Processing Techniques.’, N. 60, 2024, pp. 147 – 167, abstract, download, (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-060-006), Google Scholar
"Educational institutions are struggling to keep up with the accelerated technological advancements; hence, sustainable and supportive tools have become essential to reshape traditional models into int..."
• ‘Natural Language Processing Tools for Romanian – Going Beyond a Low-Resource Language.’, N. 60, 2024, pp. 7 – 26, abstract, download, (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-060-001sp), Google Scholar
"Advances in Natural Language Processing bring innovative instruments to the educational field to improve the quality of the didactic process by addressing challenges like language barriers and creatin..."
• ‘OntoStrength: An Ontology for Psychomotor Strength Development’, N. 52, 2022, pp. 101 – 118, abstract, download, (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-052-006), Google Scholar
"An ontology is a formal, explicit description of concepts and relations from a domain while considering underlying properties, restrictions, and instances.With the advancement of the Semantic Web, the..."
• ‘Joining Informal Learning in Online Knowledge Communities and Formal Learning in Higher Education: Instructional Design and Evaluation of a Blended-Learning Seminar with Learning Analytics Support’, N. 43, 2019, pp. 110 – 127, abstract, download, (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-043-006), Google Scholar
"The use of online knowledge communities (OKCs) as informal learning environments in connection with formal learning encounters two main issues: the learning guidance issue, and the newcomer integratio..."

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