Prof. Stefan Trausan-Matu, PhD
Head of the CM research at RACAI
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION :
- 2005 Fulbright Scholar - postdoc at Drexel University, Philadelphia, US.
- 1994 Ph.D. in Computer Science, from the Department of Computer Science, "POLITEHNICA" University of Bucharest, Romania. Thesis subject was Intelligent Reverse Software Engineering.
- 1983 Engineer in Computer Science, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.
EMPLOYMENT :
- since 2001 Professor
at the Computer Science
Department, "POLITEHNICA" University of Bucharest.
- since 1994 Principal researcher I, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy . Research in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, training courses in INTERNET.
- 1997-2001 Associate professor at the Computer Science Department, "POLITEHNICA" University of Bucharest.
- 1994 to 1997 Lecturer at the Computer Science Department, "POLITEHNICA" University of Bucharest.
- 1985 to 1994 Research scientist, senior researcher, head of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Research Institute for Informatics , Bucharest. Researches in knowledge-based systems, expert systems, automatic programming, constraint programming, software engineering, reverse engineering. Development of an object-oriented environment for knowledge-based systems and of several expert systems for design.
- 1983 to 1985 "Microelectronica" Factory, Bucharest. The main activity here was the development of computational geometry programs for integrated circuits design.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES (Lecturing) :
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Natural Language Processing
- Analysis of Algorithms
- Functional programming
- Text mining - Master in collaboration with Université Lumière Lyon 2 and École Polytechnique Nantes )
- Cognitive systems
- Knowledge management
- Knowledge-Based Systems
- Artificial Intelligence
Graduation projects for 2007-2008
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES :
- Research domains:
- Computer-Supported Collaborative problem solving
- Knowledge-based systems - Semantic Web, ontologies, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Computational linguistics - text mining, dialog analysis
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Cognitive Science, Hermeneutic philosophy, Science-Religion Dialog, Dialogism
- Projects
LTfLL Language Technology for Long-life Learning
EU-NCIT - NCIT leading to EU IST excellency - EU FP6 Excelency Centre
COOPER- STREP UE FP6 project
VMT - Virtual
Math Team - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - Fulbright
research grant at Drexel University, Philadelphia, US
K-Teams - Collaboration in Virtual Tems - CNCSIS National Project
Towntology - COST UCE Action C21- SINTEC - Intelligent and personalizable e-Learning system that considers socio-emotional intelligence - National INFOSOC Program(2003-2004)
IKF - "Information and Knowledge
Fusion", EU Eureka project 2235 IKF-ROMANIA (2001-2003) - Head from the Romanian part of the European Commission COPERNICUS project "LARFLAST " (1998-2001)
- Head from the Romanian part of the European Commission COPERNICUS project "PEKADS" for operationalization of CommonKADS designs (1994-1996)
- BALKANET- IST European project (http://dblab.upatras.gr/) extending Euro-WordNet with several new languagewordnets (Romanian among them)
- Mac-PAIL project. PAIL project, funded by "Dalle Molle" Swiss organization, product which won an annual prize in Switzerland
- Head of many national research projects and grants
- Participated to the development of the XRL object-oriented environment for knowledge-based systems
- Developed several expert systems, mainly for design (e.g. civil engineering design)
- First Romanian Human-Computer Conference
- Workshop on Collaboration in Virtual Teams on the Web
- Workshop on Virtual Environments
Organized events
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THAN 150 REPORTS AND PAPERS
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