It is my pleasure to welcome you to my personal webpage! Here you can find information about my research interests, current courses given, and publications. For a detailed CV, please click here.
I received the M.Sc. (1992), and Ph.D. (1998) degrees from “Politehnica” University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania. Since 1992 I have been working for the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, as a research assistant, teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor, and, since 2004, as a Full Professor. I am currently Professor of Natural Computing and Robotics and Head of the Natural Computing and Robotics Laboratory (natuRO) at the same University. My research interests include cognitive robotics, robotic art, natural computing, mathematical modeling of biological processes, bioinformatics, and educational technologies. I taught a variety of courses, both undergraduate to graduate level, e.g. Cognitive Robotics, Modeling of Biological Processes, Bioinformatics, Natural Computing.
In the quick links section of my site, you can find a list of publications with links to pdf versions of my papers and bibtex entries. It is still under construction, but you may find the most recent journal and conference papers. For any kind of information, reprints or questions related to my papers you may contact me by email.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." Albert Einstein