Background
2008-present
Research Officer in the PAL project (TSB/EPSRC-funded).
PhD student, Computer Science, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
My current interest is on how technologies can support people in better understanding themselves by collecting user data and correlating it, by interpreting and using engaging visualizations and by interacting with the user. I am also interested in how to apply such systems to various applications areas, such as lifestyle management for preventive healthcare, behavioural changes, etc.
2005-2007
Research Manager, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
Interests: lifeblogging, context aware systems.
Also: internal research “selling” tasks (e.g., internal workshops, meeting business and R&D people, creating and contributing to visions and strategies for NRC and Nokia), as well as various university collaborations with MIT Media Lab(Prof. Roz Picard, Prof. Mitchel Resnick, and Leo Burd), Georgia Tech (Prof. Gregory Abowd and his group), Columbia University (Knarig Arabshnian and Prof. Henning Schulzrinne and ), CMU (Prof. Anind Dey), Tampere University (Prof. Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila and her group).
1999-2005
Senior Research Engineer, Agent Technology Group, Nokia Research Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Interests: agent-based smart environments, affective computing, context aware computing, Semantic Web, RFID, mobile-based sensing.
1997-1999
Software developer, Space Science Center, UNH.
Data mining and error correction software for Equator-S satellite data.
1996-1998
University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA – Computer Science – MSc.
Teaching assistant – C Programming, Research Assistant for Lucent Technologies (on constraint-based product configuration), summer internship with Lucent Technologies (1998). Favourite courses: AI and Theory of Computation (NP-Completeness).
1990-1995
“Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Control Engineering.
1986-1990
Math and Physics Highschool “Mihai Viteazul”, Bucharest, Romania.
Program Committees
* Program committee member for NGMAST’07, NGMAST’08, NGMAST’09, NGMAST’10 conference
* Program committee member for CONTEXT 2005 and 2007 conference
* Program committee member for Workshop on Context Awareness at MobiSys 2004 conference
