Stefania
Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science
Research Interests
  • Computer Vision
  • Human Robot Interaction
  • Robotics
  • Ambient Intelligence
Degrees and Experience
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, ongoing
  • Master in Computer Science, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, 2018
  • Engineer in Computer Science, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, 2016
Experience
  • 2016 – present – Research Associate, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest (Bucharest, Romania)
  • 2017 June – September – Software Engineer Intern, GOOGLE (Zurich, Switzerland)
  • 2016 June – September – Software Engineer Intern, GOOGLE (Zurich, Switzerland)
  • 2015 June – September – Software Engineer Intern, GOOGLE (Zurich, Switzerland)
  • 2014 June – September – Application Developer Intern, ADVAHOO (Bucharest, Romania)
Languages
  • Romanian ​– Native proficiency
  • English ​– Full professional proficiency
  • French ​– Elementary proficiency
  • Spanish ​– Elementary proficiency
Research and Publications

2022

  • D.T. Iancu, M. Nan, A.Ș. Ghiță, A.M. Florea. Trajectory Prediction Using Video Generation in Autonomous Driving. Studies in Informatics and Control, Vol. 31, pp. 37-48, 2022.
  • A.S. Ghiță, A.M. Florea. Real-Time People Re-Identification and Tracking for Autonomous Platforms Using a Trajectory Prediction-Based Approach, Sensors, Vol. 22, August 2022.

2021

  • D.T Iancu, M. Nan, A.Ș. Ghiță, A.M. Florea. Vehicle Depth Estimation for Autonomous Driving. University Politehnica of Bucharest Scientific Bulletin Series C-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 83, pp. 3-20, 2021.
  • A.Ş Ghită, M. Nan, D.T. Iancu, A.M. Florea. Top-level Scene Information Extraction from Eye-level View Images. 23rd International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), pp. 133-137, 2021.
  • V. Radu, M. Nan, M. Trăscău, D.T. Iancu, A.Ş. Ghiţă, A.M. Florea. Car Crash Detection in Videos. 23rd International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), pp. 127-132, 2021.

2020

  • A.S. Ghita, A.F. Gavril, M. Nan, B. Hoteit, I.A. Awada, A. Sorici, I. Mocanu, A.M. Florea. The AMIRO Social Robotics Framework: Deployment and Evaluation on the Pepper Robot. Special Issue “Human-Robot Interaction and Sensors for Social Robotics”, SENSORS Journal, Vol. 20, Iss. 24, 7271, DOI: 10.3390/s20247271, ISSN: 1424-8220, 2020.

2019

  • A.F. Gavril, A.Ș. Ghiță, A. Sorici, A.M. Florea. Towards a Modular Framework for Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration. 22nd Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, IEEE, p.667-674, 2019.
  • M. Nan, A.Ș. Ghiță, A.F. Gavril, M. Trăscău, A. Sorici, B. Cramariuc, A.M. Florea. Human Action Recognition for Social Robots. 22nd Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, IEEE, p. 675 – 681, 2019.

2018

  • A.S. Ghiţă, M.S. Barbu, A. F. Gavril, M. Trăscău, A. Sorici, A. M. Florea. User Detection, Tracking and Recognition in Robot Assistive Care Scenarios. The Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), pp. 271-283. Springer, Cham, 2018.
  • 2018 – ​Third place at Scientific Session for Students with ”User interaction using Pepper Robot” project
  • 2018 – ​Teaching Assistant at Data Structures
  • 2017 ​– Teaching Assistant at Formal Languages and ​Automatons
  • 2017 – ​ARIA (Romanian Association for Artificial Intelligence) award for a project about user interaction with Pepper robot
  • 2017 – ​Teaching Assistant at Data Structures
  • 2016 – ​Third place at a session of scientific presentations with an area safety prediction application
  • 2015 ​– Teaching Assistant at Formal Languages and ​Automatons
  • 2014 ​– Teaching Assistant at Numerical Methods
  • 2019 – Psycho – Pedagogical Module, level 2
  • 2012 – 2015 ​– Psycho – Pedagogical Module, level 1
  • 2012 – ORACLE Academy ​– Database Design and Programming With SQL
  • 2012 – ORACLE Academy ​– Database Programming With PL/SQL
  • 2011 ​– ​CISCO ​– IT Essentials: PC Hardware and Software

Last updated June 2022