About me
Professor
Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Draganescu” of the
Romanian Academy and
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Bucharest
Email: apaun [at] {racai.ro, fmi.unibuc.ro}
Paul-Andrei received his BSc in Mathematics with a major in Computer Science from University of Bucharest (Romania) and later he received a Master’s followed by a PhD in Computer Science from University of Western Ontario (Canada) in 2003. His PhD supervisor was Dr. Sheng Yu, from whom he “inherited” the interest in Finite Automata and OOP modeling as well as the Biocomputing research field that was the main thrust of his PhD dissertation. Following the PhD Andrei was a postdoc at Technical University of Wien (Austria) and later at University of Rovira i Virgili (Spain). He then moved to the US as an assistant and later associate professor of Computer Science (tenured) at Louisiana Tech University (USA). He later returned to Europe having positions at University of Bucharest (Romania), National Institute of R&D for Biological Sciences (Romania) and recently he accepted a position of director of the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Draganescu” of the Romanian Academy.
RESEARCH
His main interests are Artificial Intelligence, Biocomputing and Bioinformatics, Mathematical modeling and simulation of cascade reactions: apoptosis, Computability models inspired by biological processes, Molecular computing, Formal languages and Automata theory
Publications and Citations:
- Published over 80 research papers, with 75 indexed in international databases: ISI, DBLP, MathSciNet, Zentralblatt; at least 15 are Q1 (Scopus)
- Over 1000 citations in ISI, over 2500 citations in Google Scholar
- H-index: 16 (WoK), 24 (Google Scholar), 17 (Scopus)
- Notable paper: “The Power of Communication: P Systems with Symport/Antiport” selected by Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators as one of the most influential/cited papers in the field (top 1%)
Selected papers (in bold the students that I supervised):
- Lita, Adrian, Joel Sjöberg, David Păcioianu, Nicoleta Siminea, Orieta Celiku, Andrei Păun, Mark Gilbert, Houtan Noushmehr, Ion Petre, and Mioara Larion. “PATH-62. RAMAN-BASED AI PLATFORM TO ACCELERATE THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF GLIOMAS VIA RAPID METHYLATION PROFILING.” Neuro-Oncology 25, no. Supplement_5 (2023): v182-v182. (Q1 AIS)
- Hamshawi, Y., Bîlbîe, F. D., Păun, A., Malka, A., & Piran, R. (2022). P systems with protein rules. Journal of the Franklin Institute, 359(8), 3779-3807. (Q1 AIS)
- Nicoleta Siminea, Victor Popescu, Jose Angel Sanchez Martin, Daniela Florea, Georgiana Gavril, Ana-Maria Gheorghe, Corina Iţcuş, Krishna Kanhaiya, Octavian Pacioglu, Laura lona Popa, Romica Trandafir, Maria Iris Tusa, Manuela Sidoroff, Mihaela Păun, Eugen Czeizler, Andrei Păun, Ion Petre, Network analytics for drug repurposing in COVID-19, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021;, bbab490, https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbab490 (Q1 AIS)
- Wu T, Păun A, Zhang Z, Pan L. Spiking neural P systems with polarizations. IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems. 2018 Aug;29(8):3349-60 (Q1 AIS)
- Zhang Z, Wu T, Păun A, Pan L. Universal enzymatic numerical P systems with small number of enzymatic variables. Science China Information Sciences. 2018 Sep 1;61(9):092103.(Q1 AIS)
- K. Irvine, G. Weigelhofer, I. Popescu, E. Pfeiffer, A. Paun et. al. Educating for action: Aligning skills with policies for sustainable development în the Danube river basin, Science of The Total Environment, 543(A), 765-777 (2016) (Q1 AIS)
- X. Zhang, L. Pan, A. Paun, On the Universality of Axon P Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 26(11), 2816-2829, NOV 2015 DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2015.2396940 (Q1 AIS)
Additional Relevant Information:
- Appointed as permanent expert for Computer Science in ARACIS’s C1 commission since 2022
- Member of the CNATDCU Computer Science commission (2012-2016 appointed, 2016-2020 elected, 2020-2024 elected and appointed as commission president)
- Member of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNCS), appointed in September 2022 for the term 2022-2024
- Head of the exact sciences section at ICUB, University of Bucharest 2014-2024
- Elected President of the Scientific Council of the University of Bucharest for two terms (2016-2020 and 2020-2024) and elected member of the University Senate for three terms (2016-2029) also at Louisiana Tech University elected for two terms (2004-2008 and 2008-2012)
- Director of the Doctoral School of Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest 2019-2024
- Director of the Bioinformatics Department at INCDSB (2007-2019) with 10 members
- Habilitation in Computer Science received in 2013
- title of “Profesor Bologna” awarded in 2011 by the national Association of Romanian Students (ANOSR) from the nominalization of the students from University of Bucharest (one of two recipients from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science).
- research projects received from the NSERC(Canada), NIH, NSF (SUA), CNMP, CNCSIS, CNCS, ANCS – Romania and FP7 H2020 and Horizon Europe from EC.
- Awarded the Grigore C. Moisil Prize for Computer Science by the Romanian Academy in December 2015
Doctoral Supervision:
– Supervised 3 PhD theses in the USA and 1 in Romania, currently supervising 5 PhD theses in Romania
