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Assistant Lecturer — Quantum Computing, Machine Learning and Numerical Calculus

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Teaching laboratory classes, designing and evaluating assignments and projects, and supervising BSc and MSc theses.

Researcher — Quantum Computing and Machine Learning

FreeYaMind Campus

Research on near-term applications of quantum computing and machine learning.

Researcher — Secure and Reliable AI

INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Research on certified robustness of neural networks, advised by Prof. Martin Vechev (ETH Zürich).

Research Intern

Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge

Studied gene-expression covariation and designed algorithms for gene regulatory network inference.

Teaching Assistant — Quantum Computing, Numerical Calculus and Machine Learning

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Designed and evaluated assignments and projects and taught laboratory exercises to BSc students.

Research Intern

University of Maryland

Characterized, quantified and remediated label noise in machine-learning malware detection.

Software Developer — Mathematics Specialist Intern

Gemini CAD Systems

Developed a photometric-stereo pipeline in Python and C++, optimized with CUDA, for generating normal and height maps.

PhD in Computer Science

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Quantum Computing and Machine Learning

Research Master

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Advanced Studies in Computer Science

• Quantum Computing
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• NLP
• Security

Bachelor of Engineering

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Technological Physics

• Quantum Mechanics
• Statistical Physics
• Plasma Physics
• Lasers
• Nuclear Physics
• Astrophysics
• Electronics
• Electrodynamics

Bachelor of Science

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Computer Science

• Neural Networks
• Machine Learning
• Quantum Computing
• Genetic Algorithms
• Cryptography

1st place worldwide — 36th Cloudflight Coding Contest, AI

Cloudflight

Silver Medal — 28th International Mathematics Competition for University Students

Gold Medal — 13th International Ariel Mathematical Olympiad

2nd place in Iași, 19th worldwide — 35th Cloudflight Coding Contest, AI

Cloudflight

Gold Medal — 12th International Ariel Mathematical Olympiad

Gold Medal — 14th South-Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students

2nd place in Iași, 7th in Romania — ACM ICPC Subregional Contest

Gold Medal — 11th International Ariel Mathematical Olympiad

Gold Medal, Team Contest — 11th International Ariel Mathematical Olympiad

Silver Medal — 13th South-Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students

Gold Medal — 19th Asian Physics Olympiad

Gold Medal — 11th International Earth Science Olympiad

Bronze Medal — 15th International Linguistics Olympiad

Silver Medal — 19th Balkan Mathematical Olympiad

Silver Medal — 12th International Junior Science Olympiad

Silver Medal — 11th International Junior Science Olympiad

Benchmarking Modular Optimization Strategies for Parameterized Quantum Circuits

arXiv preprint

Under review.

Experimental Comparison of a Classical CNN and a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Model for Dermoscopic Skin Lesion Classification

30th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2026)

KES 2026, Dublin, Ireland.

Practical Hybrid Quantum Language Models with Observable Readout on Real Hardware

arXiv preprint

Under submission at ICLR 2027.

MixAT: Combining Continuous and Discrete Adversarial Training for LLMs

39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)

NeurIPS 2025, San Diego, USA.

Understanding Museum Exhibits using Vision-Language Reasoning

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2025)

ICCV 2025, Hawaii, USA.

CTBench: A Library and Benchmark for Certified Training

Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 267

ICML 2025, Vancouver, Canada.

Gaussian Loss Smoothing Enables Certified Training with Tight Convex Relaxations

Transactions on Machine Learning Research

TMLR 2025.

Efficient Constructions for Simulating Multi Controlled Quantum Gates

22nd International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2022)

ICCS 2022, London, UK; Oral presentation and session co-chair.

Finite Difference Method for Modeling the Dielectric Properties of Ceramic Composites

13th Conference for Young Scientists in Ceramics (CYSC 2019)

CYSC 2019, Novi Sad, Serbia; Oral presentation.

Visual Word Sense Disambiguation — SemEval 2023

Convolutional, recurrent and attention networks for identifying the image that best describes an ambiguous word.

• PyTorch, NLTK, WordNet

Participation at CMMRS Research Summer School

Research summer school at MPI-SWS covering deep learning theory, large-scale ML, NLP, distributed systems, security and privacy.

Summarizing a Story

Extracted a story’s main characters and linked them to explicit and implicit actions.

• Winner of the Amazon Learn & Earn competition
• NLTK, spaCy

Q-learning for Gym's CarRacing Environment

Built a Q-learning agent that achieved scores of 850–900/1000.

• Keras, TensorFlow