Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science
Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Computer Vision
- Robotics
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Ambient Intelligence
Teaching
Professor at the following courses:
- Natural Human-Robot Interaction (2nd year Master in Robotics and Automation)
- Self-Organizing Systems (2nd year Master in Artificial Intelligence)
- Formal Languages and Automata (3rd year Bachelor)
- Machine Learning and Data Analysis (Digital Twins Master at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Teaching Assistant at the following courses:
- Machine Learning (4th year Bachelor)
- Artificial Intelligence (4th year Bachelor)
Degrees and Experience
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, 2022. Research Topic: Person Tracking Using Trajectory Prediction
- Master in Computer Science, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, 2018. Research Topic: User Identification in Human-Robot Interactions
- Engineer in Computer Science, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, 2016. Research Topic: Real-Time Person Detection in Images
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
2023
- A.S. Ghiță, A.M. Florea, M. Nan, D.T. Iancu. People Trajectory Prediction applied on Social Robotics Scenarios. UPB Scientific Bulletin, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, vol. 85, 2023.
2022
- D.T. Iancu, M. Nan, A.S. 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.
- Researcher in the Digital Twins project (2024 – present)
- Researcher in the PETRA project (2020 – 2022) – Responsible for the person identification, tracking and prediction component
- Researcher in the ROBIN project (2018 – 2020) – Responsible for the computer vision component
- Researcher in the CORSAR project (2017 – 2019) – Responsible for the computer vision component
- Researcher in the CAMI project (2016 – 2018) – Responsible for implementing a system for an assistive robot
- 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 April 2025