Domenii de cercetare si expertiza

• Calcul evolutiv

• Optimizare multimodala

• Inteligenta artificiala

• Data mining

• Masini instruibile

• Cautare euristica

• Algoritmi de optimizare

• Sisteme de diagnosticare si decizie

Burse si granturi

• Grant PNCDI de tip Parteneriate, Contract Nr. 26/2014, cod PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1153, Sistem informatic medical inteligent pentru diagnosticul si monitorizarea tratamentului la pacientii cu neoplasm colorectal, iulie 2014 - iunie 2016, website, Director.

• Grant de cercetare competitie interna, Universitatea din Craiova, nr. 42C/2014, Evolutia prototipurilor in clasificarea cu masini cu suport vectorial si retele neuronale, ianuarie 2014 - decembrie 2014, website, Director.

• Grant DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) 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, Universitatea Tehnica din Dortmund (2 luni) si Universitatea de Stiinte Aplicate din Koeln (1 luna), 01.06-31.08.2009, Germania, Valoare: 5520 euro, http://www.f10.fh-koeln.de/Nachrichten/2009/09/f10_msg_04600.html, Director.

• Grant PNCDI de tip Parteneriate, CNMP PC - 2076, Contract Nr. 41071, Algoritm pentru diagnoza si predictia evolutiei fibrozei hepatice prin mijloace ultrasonografice neinvazive optimizate prin analiza stochastica a imaginilor, 2007 - 2010, Membru.

• Grant PNCDI de tip Parteneriate, CNMP PC - 2120, Contract Nr. 11028, Noi modele de calcul natural in studiul complexitatii si in rezolvarea problemelor complexe, 2007 - 2010, Membru.

• Grant CNCSIS de tip A, CNCSIS A-322, Calcul evolutiv: noi paradigme, tehnici si clase. Aplicatii in optimizare, 2007 - 2009, Membru.

• Grant IDEI, CNCSIS IDEI - 508, Noi paradigme computationale in abordarea problemelor complexe, 2007 - 2009, Membru.

• Grant de cercetare DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) pentru doctoranzi, tineri profesori si oameni de stiinta, Novel Evolutionary Algorithms for Classification. Application to e-Health, Departamentul de Analiza Algoritmilor, Facultatea de Informatica, Universitatea Tehnica din Dortmund, Germania, 01.06-31.09.2007, Valoare: 4300 euro, Director.

• Grant CNCSIS de tip A, CNCSIS A - 1477, Modele computationale inspirate din natura. Noi paradigme si metaeuristici. Aplicatii reale, 2004 - 2006, Membru.

Membru in program committee

• 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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Membru in comitetul de organizare

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

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

Activitate de recenzor

• Zentralblatt MATH, din 2009.

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

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

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

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

• Analele Universitatii din Craiova, Seria Matematica si Informatica, din 2009.

• Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, din 2009.

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

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

• WSEAS conferinte si jurnale, din 2007.

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

Activitate de editor

• International Journal of Information Science and Computer Application (IJISCA), Membru in Editorial Board, din 2011

Sustinere conferinte

• Universitatea de Stiinte Aplicate din Koeln, Germania, Colocviul Computational Services in Automation (COSA), "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", noiembrie 2008.

• Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iasi, Facultatea de Informatica, Scoala doctorala in metaeuristici in optimizare si in analiza inteligenta a datelor, “On Approximating the Multimodality Degree of a Function by Exploiting Landscape Topology”, iunie 2008.

• Universitatea Tehnica din Dortmund, Facultatea de Informatica, Catedra de Ingineria Algoritmilor, Colocviul de Inteligenta Computationala, Conferinta despre Optimizare multimodala, raze si topologia spatiului de cautare, http://sfbci.uni-dortmund.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=164