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Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant | Machine Learning Essentials SS25, Faculty of Informatik, University of Heidelberg

Implementing automated tests for the course assignments, and grading the assignments. Assisted in creation of debugging questions, that prepare the students for practical challenges when solving ML related tasks in practice.

• Implementing an automated grading framework based on otter-grader, and a testing framework for the course assignments.

Intern

Intern | Machine Learning Human Behaviour, IWR, University of Heidelberg

Mandatory internship as part of the Data and Computer Science M.Sc. curriculum. Exploring different approaches to Human Behavior modelling and control through Repeated Trust Game interactions, using Dynamical System Reconstruction methods and Recurrent Neural Networks. Internship under the guidance of the Machine Learning Human Behaviour laboratory, IWR.

• Implemented a Dynamical System Reconstruction method for Human Behavior modelling and control through Repeated Trust Game interactions, using Dynamical System Reconstruction methods and Recurrent Neural Networks.

Hilfswissenschaftler

Institute for Mathematics, Image & Pattern Analysis Group, University of Heidelberg

Contributed to DROID-Splat: Combining end-to-end SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splatting, a deep-learning-based dense visual SLAM framework that achieves real-time global optimization of poses and 3D reconstruction. Responsible for designing and implementing an evaluation framework, developed scripts, and defined performance metrics.

• Responsible for result evaluation, Weights & Biases integration, literature research, running experiments

Full Stack Web Developer Intern

NetRom Software

Developed a web-based consumer application using React and .NET 5 for event management within a company.

• Handled authentication, security, and consistent design across devices and browsers.
• Gained experience with SCRUM methodology and Jira.

Design Team Member

Board of European Student of Technology (BEST)

Involved in designing models and banners, attending meetings, and contributing to event planning.

• Contributed to various events such as hackathons.

Participant

Epilepsy Challenge Marathon

Supported a 5 km cross event to raise awareness and reduce stigma towards epilepsy.

Application Field of Study

University of Heidelberg

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Cognitive Science

• Computational Cognitive Science
• History of Philosophy
• Seminar of Linguistics
• fMRI analysis and experimental design
• Introduction to Cognitive Science

Master of Science

University of Heidelberg

Data and Computer Science

• Inverse Problems
• Computer Vision (3D reconstruction)
• Time Series Analysis
• NLP using Transformers
• Machine Learning Essentials
• Software Economics
• Generative Neural Networks for the Sciences
• GPU Computing and Architecture
• Mining Massive Datasets
• Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
• Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis

Summer School

3D UPB Summer School

Reinforcement Learning and Computer Vision

• Reinforcement Learning
• Tabular and Deep Q Learning
• Image Filtering
• Depth Recovery
• Planar Segmentation
• Edge Detection
• Normal Map Construction
• Pattern Matching

ERASMUS+ Exchange Program

Technische Universität Darmstadt

Computer Science M.Sc.

• Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
• Introduction to Computer Vision
• Distributed Systems and Algorithms
• Mobile Networks

Bachelor of Science

Politehnica University of Bucharest

Computer Science, Machine Learning and AI

• Linear Algebra
• Statistics and Probability
• Calculus II and III
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Numerical Methods
• Physics
• Functional and OO Programming
• Communication Protocols
• Digital and Analog Electronics
• Database Administration
• x86 Architecture
• Operating Systems
• Computing Systems Architecture
• Artificial Intelligence
• Introduction to Cryptology
• Machine Learning
• Computer Vision
• Signal Processing

High School

“Fratii Buzesti” National College

Mathematics and Informatics

• Mathematics
• Informatics
• English Bilingual Profile

DAAD Master Stipendium

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is the largest German support organization in the field of international academic cooperation. Scholarship was awarded for the entire duration of the M.Sc. program at the University of Heidelberg.

Q-Hack 2nd place in Microsoft Challenge

Q-Summit

Participated in the Q-Hack hackathon, a competition that challenges participants to develop AI agents that can enhance university life. Take a look at what we came up with here.

National Olympiad in Mathematics of Romania - 3rd place

Ministry of Education, Romania

Artistic Colorization with Adaptive Instance Normalization

Music Style transfer with Latent Diffusion Models

Risk assesment through Probability Discounting Modeling: a bayesian approach

AI Explainability for Human Action Recognition

Deep Reinforcement Learning Methods

RAG System on PubMed Data

Image-Based Steganography and Cryptography