Research Directions within the University of Bucharest

Human Language Technologies Research Center

Leader of IA and HLT groups
Prof. Liviu P. Dinu

Human Language Technologies Research Center is a a group of researchers working in different multi-disciplinary areas related to natural language processing, digital humanities, machine learning, digital culture, computational linguistics, arts, and general artificial intelligence.

  • topics: natural language processing, digital humanities, machine learning, digital culture, computational linguistics, arts, and general artificial intelligence
  • funding: 19 projects (13 nationals, 6 internationals) leaded by nlp members, over 30 projects involving nlp members

Research Center of Data Science

The leader of the CDS group
Prof. Marius Popescu

The Applied Data Science Center is a leading scientific center in data science in Bucharest. Its main focus is on applied research for high-impact problems from industry.

  • topics: images, text, images + text, anomaly detection, fraud detection
  • papers in top conferences and journals such as: CVPR, NIPS, ACL, EACL, PAMI, CVIU

Teorie

The leader of the Teorie group
Prof. Andrei Păun

Research Center for Logic, Optimization and Security (LOS)

The leader of the LOS group
Prof. Laurențiu Leuștean

Main objective: to stimulate interdisciplinary research in the fields of logic, optimization and security.
Research topics:

  • proof mining and applications to optimization, ergodic theory, nonlinear analysis
  • convex optimization for machine learning
  • signal processing and matrix factorization (dictionary learning)
  • security, anomaly detection and anti-money laundry

Models of Computation, Algorithms and Cryptography (MOCALC)

The leader of the MOCALC group
Prof. Victor Mitrana

Formal Methods and Software Engineering (MFIS)

The leader of the MFIS group
Prof. Florentin Ipate