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.

circuits design.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES (Lecturing, see ACS-PUB site):

Human-Computer Interaction
Natural Language Processing
Analysis of Algorithms
Design of Algorithms
Adaptive and Collaborative Systems
Advanced Web Applications
Knowledge management
Knowledge-Based Systems

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
ERRIC FP7-REGPOT-2010-1/264207
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)

Organized events

MORE THAN 200 REPORTS AND PAPERS

BOOKS :

Stefan Trausan-Matu, Dan Tufis (eds.), Lucrarile celei de-a opta Conferinta Nationala de Interactiune Om-Calculator, RoCHI2011, (“Human-Computer Interaction 2011, Proceedings of the Eight Romanian HCI Conference, RoCHI2011”, in Romanian), Ed. MatrixRom, Bucharest, 2011 Stefan Trausan-Matu (ed.), Proceedings of the First International K-Teams Workshop, ISBN 978-606-515-268-7, Ed. PolitehnicaPress, Bucharest, 2011 Stefan Trausan-Matu (ed.), Interactiunea conversationala in sistemele colaborative pe Web (in Romanian), Ed. MatirsxRom, 2008
SISTEME INTELIGENTE DE INSTRUIRE PE WEB (in Romanian), Ed. PolitehnicaPress, ISBN: 973-8449-85-5, Bucuresti, 2005.
Stefan Trausan-Matu, Programare în Lisp. Inteligenta artificiala si web semantic, ISBN 973-681-682-6,. Ed. Polirom, 2004. (in Romanian).
Stefan Trausan-Matu, Costin Pribeanu (Eds.), Lucrarile Primei Conferinte Nationale de Interactiune Om-Calculator, RoCHI2004, (“Human-Computer Interaction 2004, Proceedings of the First Romanian HCI Conference, RoCHI2004”), ISBN 973-718-053-4, Editura Printech, Bucuresti, 2004
Constandache, G.G., Stefan Trausan-Matu, M. Albu, C. Niculescu, "Cognitive Science and Philosophy" (in Romanian), ISBN 973-685-409-4, Ed. MatrixRom, 2002
Constandache, G.G., Stefan Trausan-Matu, "Ontology and Hermeneutics in Computer Science" (in Romanian), ISBN 973-31-1585-1, Ed. Tehnica, 2001.
Stefan Trausan-Matu, Claudia Raibulet, Ovidiu Constantin, "Document Processing with XML and Perl" (in Romanian), ISBN 973-685-224-5, Ed. MatrixRom, 2001
Stefan Trausan-Matu, "Advanced Human-Computer Interfacing" (in Romanian), Ed. ISBN 973-685-192-3, Ed. MatrixRom, 2000
Stefan Trausan-Matu, "Problems in advanced programming languages" (in Romanian), Ed. Printech, ISBN 973-652-221-0, 2000
D. Tufis, St. Trausan-Matu, D. Marcu, L Negreanu, D. Trifanescu, "Introduction to INTERNET" (in Romanian), ISBN: 973-31-0825-1, Ed Tehnica, Bucuresti, 1996. In 1997 a aparut o noua editie in Ed. Academiei. *OTHER DATA* · Fulbright Scholar Grant at Drexel University, Philadelphia, US, 2005. · Winner of the first prize at the first National Computer Programming Contest, Brasov, Romania, 1976. · Vice-chair of SIGCHI Romania · Research stages in Bratislava, Slovakia (1988-89 and 1990), U.K. (1995), and Netherlands (1994, 1996) *LANGUAGES SPOKEN* : English: fluent reading, writing and oral comprehension. French: fluent reading, writing and oral comprehension. *CONTACT* : [RACAI Home ] [Permanent Staff ] [CM Group ] Last modified: December, 15, 2011