Dr. Alexandru Sorici is an Assistant Professor at UPB and a member of the AI-MAS research laboratory. Alexandru holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UPB and École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (a joint thesis defended in 2015). The thesis aims to create a middleware that allows the design and programming of context-aware applications. The emphasis of the thesis is on expressiveness in modelling and reasoning, as well as on increased flexibility in configuration and implementation. The proposed system incorporates a lot of techniques from the fields of semantic web and multi-agent systems.

His research interests encompass context management, agent-oriented programming, human activity recognition, and ambient intelligence (which extends to research in assisted robotics, autonomous driving, and wearable device data analysis in a medical context). Alexandru has published over 45 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings.
Recent research activities and projects include working on context-management in Hypermedia-based Multi-Agent Systems (director of project CASHMERE), studying the predictive power of data from wearable devices and patient logs in determining the health status of patients suffering from neurological diseases (HORIZON 2020 ALAMEDA project), and working on techniques of adaptive AI applied to time series analysis and medical data as part of the AI Lighthouse project ENFIELD.
Alexandru also serves as the Secretary of the Romanian Association for Artificial Intelligence (ARIA). In this role, he has contributed to organizing several events aimed at education and raising public awareness about Artificial Intelligence, including TiCIA (Young Researchers in AI – 2015, 2016, 2018), EEML 2019, Romanian AI Days, and the AI4Highschool initiative.

“It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now” – Marcus Aurelius

◦ Profil Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XblTQSYAAAAJ&hl=en
◦ Media appearances:
▪ https://2023.frontiers.health/agenda/session/1246418
◦ Selected articles:
▪ Sorici, Alexandru, Gauthier Picard, Olivier Boissier, Antoine Zimmermann, and Adina Florea. “CONSERT: Applying semantic web technologies to context modeling in ambient intelligence.” Computers & Electrical Engineering 44 (2015): 280-306.
▪ Ghiță, Alexandra Ștefania, Alexandru Florin Gavril, Mihai Nan, Bilal Hoteit, Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici, Irina Georgiana Mocanu, and Adina Magda Florea. “The amiro social robotics framework: Deployment and evaluation on the pepper robot.” Sensors 20, no. 24 (2020): 7271.
▪ Sorici, Alexandru, Lidia Băjenaru, Irina Georgiana Mocanu, Adina Magda Florea, Panagiotis Tsakanikas, Athena Cristina Ribigan, Ludovico Pedullà, and Anastasia Bougea. “Monitoring and Predicting Health Status in Neurological Patients: The ALAMEDA Data Collection Protocol.” In Healthcare, vol. 11, no. 19, p. 2656. MDPI, 2023.
▪ Nan, Mihai, Alexandra Stefania Ghiță, Alexandru-Florin Gavril, Mihai Trascau, Alexandru Sorici, Bogdan Cramariuc, and Adina Magda Florea. “Human action recognition for social robots.” In 2019 22nd International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), pp. 675-681. IEEE, 2019.
▪ Nica, Andrei Cristian, Mihai Trsăcău, Alexandru Andrei Rotaru, Constantin Andreescu, Alexandru Sorici, Adina Magda Florea, and Vlad Bacue. “Collecting and processing a self-driving dataset in the UPB campus.” In 2019 22nd International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), pp. 202-209. IEEE, 2019.
▪ Sorici, Alexandru, and Adina Magda Florea. “Towards Context-Based Authorizations for Interactions in Hypermedia-Driven Agent Environments-The CASHMERE Framework.” In International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 191-207. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.