ROMANIA

email: stefan.trausan@cs.pub.ro

http://www.racai.ro/~trausan

Education

· 2005 – PostDoc, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

· 1994 - Ph.D. in Computer Science, from the "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania, with a thesis on Knowledge-Based Reverse Engineering of Programs.

· 1983 - Engineer in Computer Science, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, with a dissertation on Expert Systems for Design

· 1977 – Informatics (Tudor Vianu) High School, Bucharest

· 1972 –Elementary Music School

Positions

2009	Invited Professor	Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
2008	Invited Professor	Universite Lyon 2, France
2005	Invited Professor as a Fulbright Scholar	Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2003, 2007	Invited Professor	Ecole Polytechnique de l’Universite de Nantes, France
2001 - present	Professor	"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Computer Science Department
1997 –2001	Associate professor	"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Computer Science Department
1994 – 1997	Lecturer	"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Computer Science Department
1999 - present	Senior researcher 1^st. grade,	Romanian Academy Institute for Artificial Intelligence
1999 – 2002	Deputy Director	Romanian Academy Institute for Artificial Intelligence
1994 –1999	Senior researcher 2^nd grade, Head of the Conceptual Modeling Group	Romanian Academy Institute for Artificial Intelligence (RACAI).
1993 –1994	Head of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	Research Institute for Informatics, Bucharest.
1990 –1993	Senior researcher 3^rd grade	Research Institute for Informatics, Bucharest.
1987 –1990	Researcher	Research Institute for Informatics, Bucharest.
1985 – 1987	Applications programmer	Research Institute for Informatics, Bucharest.
1983 – 1985	Applications programmer	"Microelectronica" Bucharest

Taught courses

1994 – now	Human-Computer Interaction
1995 – now	Natural Language Processing (master level)
1999 – now	Analysis of Algorithms
2007 - now	Algorithm Design
2009 - now	Collaborative and Adaptive Systems (master level)
2010 - now	Advanced Semantic Web (master level)
2006- 2010	Knowledge Management (master level)
2006- 2008	Knowledge extraction in web conversational systems (master in collaboration with the Universities of Lyon and Nantes, France)
2002- 2008	Text Mining (master in collaboration with the Universities of Lyon and Nantes, France)
2002- 2005	Cognitive Systems (master level - at the Philosophy Department of Politehnica Univ.)
2004	Knowledge-Based Systems
2002	Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
1997- 1999	Artificial Intelligence (at the University “Ovidius” of Constanta)
2001	Functional Programming
1992 -1993, 2001	Expert Systems
1996 – 1999	Information systems design
1994 – 2006	Advanced Programming Languages (Lisp, ML, Scheme)
1992 – 1998	Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis

Research domains (last 5 years)

· Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web, Ontologies, Knowledge-based systems

· Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning; Social Software

· E-Learning

· Natural language processing

· Human-computer interaction

· Philosophy, psychology, religion-science relation

Community work

· Vice-chair of SIGCHI, ACM, Romania

· Member of the Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Romanian Academy

· Corresponding member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists

· Member of the Committee for the Romanian Language Processing with Computers

· Member of the Organization Committee of conferences, workshops and summer schools:

* 2010 – Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Support of Learning, Bucharest, Romania

* 2009 - First Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Support of Learning, Brighton, UK

* 2007, 2008, 2011 – K-Teams Workshop on Collaborative Knowledge Construction in Virtual Teams

* 2002 - Task Models and Diagrams, Bucharest, Romania

* 2000 - Virtual Environments Workshop, Bucharest, Romania

* 1994 - Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Portable AI Lab., Bucharest, Romania

* Chairman of the First International K-Teams Workshop, Bucharest (2011)

* Chairman of Program Committee of the Eighth Romanian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (2011)

* President of the First Romanian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (2004)

* Committee program member at international conferences (USA – CSCL 2011; FLAIRS 2003 Special Track on Natural Language Applications, France - EGC 2005-2010; WBE 2007; ITS 2002, WITREC 2000, Bulgaria: AIMSA-2000; Romania - TAMODIA-2002, 2004 etc.)

* Reviewer at journals (Springer IJCSCL, Elsevier Information Sciences Journal) and conferences (CSCL 2011, CHI 2003-2009; ECTEL 2009, ICLS 2006, 2012, WBE 2007-2009, FLAIRS 2003, HCI-International 2003 Crete, ITS 2002, WITREC 2000, SCI-2003, 2002, 2001, ICALT-2001, 2007, 2010 etc.)

* Member in the Faculty Council

* Member in PhD, master dissertation and diploma committees

* Member in the ACM programming contest staff

* Reviewer for research grants NSF (USA), FP6 (EU), national grants

Collaborators

• Dr. Gerry Stahl, Dr. Alan Zemel, Dr. Juan Arratia, Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl, Dr, John Self, Dr. Isobel Braidman, Dr. Paola Monachesi, Dr. Peter Sloep, Dr. Stefano Cerri, Dr. Peter van Rosmalen, Dr. Jan van Bruggen, Dr. Vania Dimitrova, Dr. Galja Anghelova, Dr. Peter Brna, Dr. Philippe Dussus, Dr. Fabrice Guillet, Dr. Florence Sedes, Dr. Henri Briand, Dr. Pascale Kuntz, Dr. Djamel Zighed, Dr. Julien Velcin, Dr. Jean-Hugues Chauchat, Dr. Svetlana Dikareva, Dr. Catherine Roussay

· Universities: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Manchester University, UK; Open University of UK; Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany; Tubingen University, Germany; Open University of Netherlands,; Nantes University, France; Lyon2 University, France; Toulouse University, France; Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, Puerto Rico

PhD students

Claudiu Mușat, Costin Chiru, Ștefan Dumitrescu, Vlad Posea, Ana Găinaru, Traian Rebedea, Mihai Dascălu, Dan Mihăilă, Clementin Cercel, Adrian Simion, Ionuț Ghiban, Andrei Canciu, Cătălin Doraș, Raghad Jawad Ahmed AL-Shama’a, Andrei Dulceanu, Liviu Matei

Master students

More than 30 master students were advised for their thesis: Răzvan Bunescu, Mihai Stroe, Claudiu Mușat, Costin Chiru, Vlad Posea, Ana Găinaru, Traian Rebedea, Mihai Dascălu, Dan MIhăilă, Ionuț Ghiban, Andrei Dulceanu, Ioan Cătălina, etc.

Graduate and Undergraduate Students Mentored

More than 200 undergraduate were advised for their thesis

Other data

* Fulbright Scholar Post-doc, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US (2005)

* Tutorials at international conferences (Biarritz 2002, San Marino 2001, Montpellier 2000,)

* Invited professor, Philadelphia, USA (2004, 2005); Nantes (2003, 2005), Toulouse (2009), Lyon (2008), Montpellier (2000), France

* Research stages in Bratislava, Slovakia (1988-89 and 1990), UK (1995), and Netherlands (1994, 1996)

* Winner of the first prize at the first National Computer Programming Contest, Brasov, Romania, 1976.

Associations

* Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

* Member of IEEE

* Founder Member of the Romanian Asociation for Artificial Intelligence

* Member of the International Society for Learning Sciences (ISLS)

* Member of the Romanian ACM SIGCHI

* Member in the Romanian Fulbright Alumni Association

* Member of the Romanian Association of Computer and Automatics Engineers

Languages spoken

English and French: fluent reading, writing and oral comprehension.

International projects

ERRIC – Empowering Romanian Research on Intelligent Information Technologies - EU FP7 Support Action	Scientific coordinator	2010-2013
Courses and public activities on the Relation Among Science, Religion and Philosophy from an Orthodox Christian Perspective	Participant	2011-2013
LTfLL – Language Technology for Lifelong Learning (EU-FP7 STREP)	Romanian coordinator	2008-2011
EUCogII - 2nd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics	Participant	2010-2011
METANET4U - Enhancing the European Linguistic Infrastructure	Participant	2010-2013
SORE – Science and Orthodoxy Research and Education (Templeton grant)	Vice-president of Bucharest Pole	2008-2010
EU-NCIT - NCIT leading to EU IST excellency (EU-FP6)	Workpackage leader	2005-2008
COOPER - Collaborative Open Environment for Project-Centred Learning (EU-FP6 STREP)	Participant	2005-2007
Virtual Math Teams, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US	Participant as a Fulbright Scholar	2005
TOWNTOLOGY – COST Action C21	Representant of Romania in the Management Comittee	2005-2008
SkyNurse – Distance learning through satellite, Romanian-Italian project	Romanian scientific coordinator	2004-2006
Inf3C – “Representation et gestion des Connaissances et Competences”, Project with Nantes University, France	Romanian coordinator	2004-2005
POIROT - Development of an ontology for fraud detection, European Commission Project	Participant	2002-2004
Balkanet, proiect IST, UE	Participant	2002-2004
IKF (Information and Knowledge Fusion), European Commission EUREKA Project E! 2235	Romanian scientific coordinator	2002-2003
LarFLaST (Learning Foreign Language Scientific Terminology), European Commission COPERNICUS Project nr. 7074, http://www-it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/larflast/	Romanian coordinator	1998-2001
INTERNET School (Bilateral project with ICASIT-George Mason University with funds from Andrew Mellon Fondation in New York)	Participant	1996-1999
"Integrated Knowledge Modelling Environment", for the operationalization of CommonKADS designs, European Commission COPERNICUS project nr. CP93-7599	Romanian coordinator	1994-1996
Tempus JEP 9149/95, European Commision	Participant	1996
PAIL (Portable Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), colaboration with IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland	Participant	1994-1995

National projects, contracts, and grants

Sisteme inteligente de sprijinire a creativitătii in comunitatile virtuale, Romanian Academy Research project	Project director	2010-2012
Dialogic knowledge construction in virtual communities, Romanian Academy Research project	Project director	2005-2009
CONTO, National Research Program	Participant	2008-2010
PALIROM, National Research Program	Participant	2007-2009
K-Teams – Knowledge construction in virtual teams, CNCSIS	Project director	2007-2008
Text mining, Romanian Academy Research project	Project director	2003-2005
Modele culturale ale societăţii cunoaşterii, grant CNCSIS	Participant	2004-2007
SINTEC - Mediu inteligent de e-Learning, INFOSOC Project	Project director	2002-2003
Hermenophore environments, Romanian Academy Research project	Project director	1999-2002
Strategii si solutii pentru societatea cunoasterii; INFOSOC Project	Participant	2001-2002
Factori psihici implicati in proiectarea sistemelor inteligente de instruire	Participant	2000-2002
Modelarea cognitiva computationala în sistemele de instruire asistata de calculator, Romanian Academy Research project	Project director	1994-1999
Modelarea mentala in procesele de instruire in informatica	Participant	1997-1999
Dezvoltarea retelei academice de calculatoare si conectarea acesteia la reteaua internationala de calculatoare INTERNET, Romanian Academy Grant	Grant director	1995
Instrumente informatice cognitive pentru asistarea cu calculatorul a procesului de invatamant, CNSIS Grant	Grant director	1995-1996
Metode si instrumente avansate pentru sisteme experte de generatia a doua, National Informatics Commisssion Project	Project director	1990-1992
Sistem bazat pe cunostinte pentru dezvoltarea de software reutilizabil si evolutiv, Education Ministry Project	Project director	1990-1992
Cercetari privind elaborarea de instrumente informatice pentru elaborarea de sisteme experte	Participant	1985-1990
Sistem expert pentru proiectarea halelor industriale, parter, fara pod rulant, IPCT Bucharest contract	Contract director	1987-1989
Sistem expert pentru proiectarea cadrelor plane din beton armat, IPCT Bucharest contract	Contract director	1988-1989
Sistem expert pentru analiza solurilor, ISPIF, Bucharest	Contract director	1988-1989

Development of software systems

§ PolyCAFe – Environment for the Natural Language Processing of collaborative problem solving chats

§ Polyphony – Environment for collaborative problem solving chats

§ SINTEC – Intelligent Tutoring System based on ontologies and XML annotations standards for learning objects

§ STyLe – System for assisting the learning of a foreign language in a technical domain

§ PEKADS – Operationalization of the KADS knowledge acquisition methodology using descriprion logics

§ PAIL – Portable Artifcial Intelligence Lab. (partial participation)

§ Intelligent reverse engineering

§ COPE - A flexible constraint processing module for object-oriented programming

§ XRL – Environment for developing knowledge-based systems

§ Vectori, Prompt – programs for Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits Layouts