Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Behavioral Data Science with the Data Science Institute, at the University of Technology Sydney.

Between March 2016 and January 2019, I was a Research Fellow, then Lecturer with the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University in Canberra. I was equally affiliated with the Data61 unit of CSIRO, in the Decision Sciences team.

Between May 2014 and February 2016,I was a researcher within the National ICT Australia in Canberra Australia, working in the Optimization Research Group. I was equally an adjunct lecturer with the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Between September 2013 and May 2014, I was a PostDoctoral researcher with the ERIC Laboratory, financed by the ImagiWeb Research Project. I was equally an assistant professor with the DIS Department, at the University Lumière in Lyon.

Between 2009 and 2013, I was a PhD student at the ERIC Laboratory with the University Lumière Lyon2, under the supervision of Stéphane Lallich and Julien Velcin. I defended my PhD thesis on June 24th 2013, with honors "Très Honorable".

In July 2009, I obtained my MSc (graduating first of promotion, with honors.) in Data Mining and Knowledge Management from the Polytechnic School of the University of Nantes, France and wrote my Master’s Thesis on "Textual Data Clustering and Cluster Naming" after an internship at the ERIC Laboratory.

Between 2004 and 2009, I did my undergrad and obtained in September 2009 my Engineer Diploma (double diploma, in parallel with the French Master's) in System and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers of the Polytechnic University Bucharest, Romania.