Career

2024 – present
NUST Politehnica Bucharest / Geosense
Research & Development

Researcher — AI4RISK project: building a multi-source data fusion platform for predictive risk analysis using explainable AI. Real-time aerial imagery processing, interactive mapping, and mission coordination.

2016 – 2021
Independent Software & Web Development

Custom software development, IoT, web administration, and data processing for clients.

2011 – 2015
NUST Politehnica Bucharest / ETTI, CeoSpaceTech
Academic Research & Teaching

Researcher — LEO-SITS project (satellite image time series classification using Latent Dirichlet Allocation). Published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IGARSS, EUSIPCO, and other venues.

Lab engineer in Digital Signal Processing, Microprocessor Architecture, Microcontrollers, and Embedded Systems at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, NUST Politehnica Bucharest.

Lab infrastructure maintenance, network administration, and Unix server management (elia.pub.ro and ceospacetech.pub.ro).

2008 – 2011
NUST Politehnica Bucharest / ETTI
PhD Studies

PhD degree in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications.
Thesis: spatio-temporal information extraction from multidimensional signal sequences for change detection, supervised by Prof. Mihai Datcu and Prof. Vasile Lăzărescu. Research conducted within UEFISCDI project PCE IDEI 1247 — spatio-temporal information extraction from multidimensional signal sequences for change detection. Built satellite image databases, developed classification algorithms, tested on Landsat time series.

1997 – 2008
Early career - various roles
Engineering & IT Infrastructure

Industrial equipment support, technical support for enterprise printing systems, CAD system and Oracle database management for garment manufacturing.

1992 – 1997
Education

Five-year engineering degree in Applied Electronics, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications (pre-Bologna system, equivalent to Bachelor's + Master's).