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Academic life


Research Interests
  • Tree Automata and Tree Languages;

  • Weighted Tree Transducers and Formal Power Series;

  • Natural Language Processing Applications (Machine Translation).

Awards, Projects and Fellowships

  • June 2010: "Movilidad de estudiantes para la obtención de la Mención Europea en el Título de Doctor", three months exchange grant provided by  Spanish Ministry of Education and Researchto to visit Magnus Steinby at University of Turku, Department of Mathematics (during the academic year 2009-2010);

  • May 11 - May 27, 2009: AutoMathA (Automata: from Mathematics to Application), short term exchange grant provided by ESF to visit George Rahonis at Aristotle University of  Thessaloniki, Department of Mathematics;

  • May 19, 2008 - August 2008: paid internship to work at the project TREEWORLD developed at Information Science Institute, University of Southern California;

  • November 17 - November 30, 2008: AutoMathA (Automata: from Mathematics to Application), exchange grant provided by ESF to visit Magnus Steinby at University of Turku, Department of Mathematics;

  • April 2008 - May 17, 2008: AutoMathA (Automata: from Mathematics to Application), exchange grant provided by ESF to visit Magnus Steinby at University of Turku, Department of Mathematics;

  • September 2007 - August 2008: a one-year grant provided by Rovira i Virgili University (B+R+D+I project);

  • June 2006: “Ayudas para movilidad de alumnos en programas de doctorado con mención de calidad” to start my studies at GRLMC (awarded to students of the best doctoral programs in Spain by the Ministry of Education and Research);

  • February 2006:  AutoMathA (Automata: from Mathematics to Application), short term exchange grant to visit University of Leipzig during WATA 2006;

  • May 2005 – August 2006:  a small fellowship from Rovira i Virgili University to work for the Department of Roman Philology;

  • October 1998 – June 2001: a scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Research of Romania to study at Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest.

Stays in Other Research Groups

  • July 16 - September 30, 2010: Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland (Magnus Steinby);

  • January 25 - January 31, 2010: Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland (Magnus Steinby);

  • May 11 - May 27, 2009: Department of Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (George Rahonis)

  • November 17 - November 30, 2008: Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland (Magnus Steinby);

  • May 19 - August 31, 2008: Information Science Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, California, USA (Kevin Knight);

  • April 1 – May 17, 2008: Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland (Magnus Steinby);

  • February 1 – March 31, 2007: Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland (Magnus Steinby);

  • September 14 – December 11, 2006: Department of Computer Science, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan (Satoshi Kobayashi).

Other Stuff

  • Member in the LATA'07 Organizing Committee;

  • Member in the LATA'08 Organizing Committee;

  • Member in the LATA'09 Organizing Committee;

  • Reviewer for ROMJIST (Romanian Journal of Information, Science and Technology).