Dr. Trausan-Matu started research over 40 years ago as an AI pioneer in Romania. For two years after graduation, he developed computational geometry programs for assisting the design of integrated circuits at Microelectronica Factory in Bucharest. Between 1985 and 1994 he done research on AI at the Research Institute for Informatics (ICI) in Bucharest, in the last two years being the head of an AI laboratory. Since 1994 he moved to UPB, teaching, among other courses, AI (NLP) at the Computer Science Department, where he also conducted many hundreds of AI graduation and master thesis, and 28 PhD defended thesis on AI subjects. He was a Fulbright post-doc at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA and visiting professor at Universities of Nantes, Lyon, Toulouse, and Grenoble in France. He has authored or edited 24 books, 59 book chapters and more than 525 peer-reviewed papers, at prestigious conferences (including rated A*/A – IJCAI, AAAI, AIED, ECAI) and journals, many Q1/Q2 (201 papers ISI-WOS, h-index ISI-WOS 13, Scopus 20, Scholar 31). He chaired international conferences (including rated A) and participated in the program or organizing committee of many others, was the Director of many research projects funded by the European Union or Romania, and participated in the program or organizing committee of many international conferences. He was awarded the Romanian Academy Award for the music-inspired polyphonic model of discourse and the associated analysis method that he introduced and applied in AI research.