• M.Sc. - 1992, POLITEHNICA Univ. of Bucharest (UPB)
• Ph.D. - 1997, UPB
• Teaching Assistant (1992) ... Professor (2004), Dept. of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, UPB

• intelligent systems
• molecular modeling
• cognitive robotics
• modeling of biological processes
• educational technologies

• IEEE Member
• Member of IEEE Technical Committee on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics
• Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles
• Member of Biochemical Society, UK
• Member of Society for Mathematical Biology, USA
• Member of SRAIT, Romanian Society for Automatic Control and Technical Informatics
• Member of euCogII, European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems
• Member of EURON, European Robotics Network
• Member of the Engineering Sciences Committee of the Romanian National University Research Council (CNCSIS)

• Bioinformatics
• Modeling of Biological Processes
• Cognitive Systems

• Grant and project director for more than 12 international and national projects
• Member of IPCs and session chair at various conferences
• Author of 9 books, and over 40 journal and conference publications