Interest and Competence Domains

• Evolutionary Computation

• Multimodal Optimization

• Artificial Intelligence

• Data Mining

• Machine Learning

• Heuristic search

• Optimization algorithms

• Diagnosis and Decision Systems

Fellowships and Grants

• PNCDI Partnerships, Contract No. 26/2014, code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1153, Intelligent Medical Information System for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of the Treatment of Patients with Colorectal Neoplasm, July 2014 - June 2016, website, Director.

• Internal competition research grant, University of Craiova, no. 42C/2014, Prototypes Evolution in Classification using Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks, January 2014 - December 2014, website, Member.

• DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Research Grant A/09/02567, Research Stays and Study Visits for University Academics and Scientists, An Evolutionary Approach for Estimating the Number and Sizes of Attraction Basins for Optimization Problems with Static and Dynamic Landscapes, TU Dortmund University (2 months) and Cologne University of Applied Sciences (1 month), 01.06-31.08.2009, Germany, http://www.f10.fh-koeln.de/Nachrichten/2009/09/f10_msg_04600.html, Director.

• PNCDI Partnerships Grant, CNMP PC - 2076, Contract Nr. 41071, Algorithm for the diagnosis and prediction of the hepatic fibrosis evolution through noninvasive ultasonographic means, optimized by stochastic analysis of images , 2007 - 2010, Member.

• PNCDI Partnerships Grant, CNMP PC - 2120, Contract Nr. 11028, New models of natural computation in the study of complexity and in solving complex problems, 2007 - 2010, Member.

• CNCSIS Grant Type A, CNCSIS A-322, Evolutionary computation: new paradigms, tehniques and classes. Applications in optimization. , 2007 - 2009, Member.

• IDEAS Grant, CNCSIS IDEI - 508, New computational paradigms in the approach of complex problems, 2007 - 2009, Member.

• DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Research Grant for doctoral student, young academics and researchers, A/06/90461, Novel Evolutionary Algorithms for Classification. Application to e-Health, Chair of Algorithm Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science, Tehnical University of Dortmund, Germany, 01.06-30.09.2007, Director.

• CNCSIS Grant Type A, CNCSIS A - 1477, Computational models inspired from nature. New paradigms and metaheuristics. Real applications , 2004 - 2006, Member.

Member in program committees

• Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization 2011.

• Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature 2010.

• The International Conference on Data Engineering and Internet Technology 2011.

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Member in organizing committee

• ACM International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems, Cairo, Egypt, 2011.

• First East European Conference on Health Care Modelling and Computation - HCMC 2005, Craiova, Romania, 2005.

Reviewing Activities

• Zentralblatt MATH, since 2009.

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, (ISI 2011 Impact Factor: 1.657), since 2012.

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (ISI 2011 Impact Factor: 3.341), since 2007.

• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, since 2014.

• Computers in Biology and Medicine (ISI 2011 Impact Factor: 1.089), since 2009.

• Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature 2010 (PPSN 2010)

• Annals of the University of Craiova, Mathematics and Computer Science Series, 2009.

• Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, 2009.

• European Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies (ECIT) Iasi, Romania.

• Book - Success in Evolutionary Computation, Springer, 2007.

• WSEAS conferences and journals, since 2007.

• Bio-Inspired Computing: Theory and Applications, BIC-TA 2006, Wuhan, China.

Editing Activities

• International Journal of Information Science and Computer Application (IJISCA), Editorial Board Member, since 2011

Talks

• Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Computational Services in Automation (COSA) Kolloquium, "Multimodal Real-Valued Optimization Based on Topological Information", http://fat70s236.eto.fh-koeln.de/ait/content/e183/e893/e1127/index_ger.html, August 2009.

• Harrow School of Computer Science, London, UK, "Evolving Cooperative Rules for Medical Data Classification", November 2008.

• "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Faculty of Computer Science, Doctoral Intensive Summer School on Meta-Heuristics in Optimisation and in Intelligent Data Analysis, "On Approximating the Multimodality Degree of a Function by Exploiting Landscape Topology", June 2008.

• Technical University of Dortmund, Faculty of Computer Science, Chair of Algorithm Engineering The Computational Intelligence Colloquium, Talk on Multimodal Optimization, radii and search space topology, http://sfbci.uni-dortmund.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=164