Prof. Dr. Ștefan TRĂUȘAN-MATU

About me

Education

• 2005   Fulbright Scholar – postdoc at Drexel University, Philadelphia, US.
• 1994   Ph.D. in Computer Science, from the Department of Computer Science, “POLITEHNICA” University of Bucharest, Romania. Thesis subject was Intelligent Reverse Software Engineering.
• 1983   Engineer in Computer Science, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.

Present position

• Senior researcher 1st grade
• Professor, University Politehnica of Bucharest

Employment

• since 2001 Professor at the Computer Science Department, “POLITEHNICA” University of Bucharest;
• since 1994 Principal researcher I, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy . Research in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, training courses in INTERNET.
• 1997-2001 Associate professor at the Computer Science Department, “POLITEHNICA” University of Bucharest.
• 1994 to 1997 Lecturer at the Computer Science Department, “POLITEHNICA” University of Bucharest.
• 1985 to 1994 Research scientist, senior researcher, head of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Research Institute for Informatics , Bucharest. Researches in knowledge-based systems, expert systems, automatic programming, constraint programming, software engineering, reverse engineering. Development of an object-oriented environment for knowledge-based systems and of several expert systems for design.
• 1983 to 1985 “Microelectronica” Factory, Bucharest. The main activity here was the development of computational geometry programs for integrated circuits design.circuits design.

Teaching activities (lecturing)

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Natural Language Processing
• Analysis of Algorithms
• Design of Algorithms
• Adaptive and Collaborative Systems
• Corpus design
• Advanced Web Applications

Research

Research Interests

• Discourse Analysis and Generation
• Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning,
• Computers and Music
• Creativity Fostering
• e-Learning
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Semantic Web
• Philosophy

International projects

• RAGE Horizon 2020 project on using serious games for e-learning
• Republic of Letters UE COST  Action
• TextLink UE COST  Action
• VMT Virtual Math Teams – NSF project
• LTfLL FP7 STREP Language Technology for Long-life Learning
• MUMIA UE COST  Action
• ERRIC FP7-REGPOT-2010-1/264207
• EU-NCIT – NCIT leading to EU IST excellency – EU FP6 Excelency Centre
• COOPER– STREP UE FP6 project
• VMT – Virtual Math Team – Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning – Fulbright research grant at Drexel University, Philadelphia, US
• K-Teams – Collaboration in Virtual Tems – CNCSIS National Project
• Towntology – UE COST Action C21
• SINTEC – Intelligent and personalizable e-Learning system that considers socio-emotional intelligence – National INFOSOC Program(2003-2004)
• IKF – “Information and Knowledge Fusion”, EU Eureka project 2235 IKF-ROMANIA  (2001-2003)
• Head from the Romanian part of the European Commission COPERNICUS project “LARFLAST ” (1998-2001)
• Head from the Romanian part of the European Commission COPERNICUS project “PEKADS” for operationalization of CommonKADS designs (1994-1996)
• BALKANET- IST European project (http://dblab.upatras.gr/) extending Euro-WordNet with several new languagewordnets (Romanian among them)
• Mac-PAIL project. PAIL project, funded by “Dalle Molle” Swiss organization, product which won an annual prize in Switzerland
• Head of many national research projects and grants
• Participated to the development of the XRL object-oriented environment for knowledge-based systems
• Developed several expert systems, mainly for design (e.g. civil engineering design)

Organized events

• K-Teams Second International Workshop, 26-27 August 2013, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
• Workshop on Design and Spontaneity in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (DS-CSCL), in conjunction with CSCS19, 19-21 May 2013, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
• The 3-rd International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies (2012)
• K-Teams First International Workshop (2011)
• Eigth Romanian Human-Computer Conference (RoCHI 2011)
• NLPSL 2010 Workshop
• First Romanian Human-Computer Conference (RoCHI 2004)
• Workshop on Collaboration in Virtual Teams on the Web
• Workshop on Virtual Environments

Publications

Contact

Surface mail Casa Academiei 13, Calea 13 Septembrie Bucharest – 050711, Romania

Fax: + 40 21 3188142

e-mail: trausan AT racai DOT ro

             stefan.trausan AT cs DOT pub DOT ro

             trausan AT gmail DOT com