Alexandra Stefania GhitaLecturer, PhD, Engineer
areas of expertise
- Machine Learning
- Robotics
- Computer Vision
- Self-Organizing Systems
- Formal Languages and Automata
education
PhD and Master’s in Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor’s in Engineering, Computer Science field, all from the Faculty of Automation and Computers
I am passionate about artificial intelligence, with a special interest in computer vision applied to autonomous systems and robots. I enjoy developing solutions that allow robots to perceive and intelligently interact with their surroundings. When I am not working on technical projects, I love to travel and enjoy ice cream.
Hands-on experience is the best way to learn.
I have been employed at UPB (University Politehnica of Bucharest) since 2018, where I have been involved in both research projects and teaching activities. During my studies, I had the opportunity to complete three internships at Google, working in infrastructure and application development teams. The research projects I worked on at UPB focused on artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on computer vision and robotics. I collaborated on configuring the Pepper robot, with the aim of making it autonomous and capable of interacting naturally in populated environments.
Top publications
- A. Ș. Ghiță, A. M. Florea, M. Nan, and D. T. Iancu, “People Trajectory Prediction applied on Social Robotics Scenarios”, UPB Scientific Bulletin, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 85, 2023.
- A. Ș. Ghiță and A. M. Florea, “Real-time People Re-Identification and Tracking for Autonomous Platforms using a Trajectory Prediction-based Approach”, Sensors, vol. 22, no. 15, p. 5856, 2022.
- D. T. Iancu, M. Nan, A. Ș. Ghiță, and A. M. Florea, “Trajectory Prediction using Video Generation in Autonomous Driving”, Studies in Informatics and Control, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 37–48, 2022.
- D. T. Iancu, M. Nan, A. Ș. Ghiță, and A. M. Florea, “Vehicle Depth Estimation for Autonomous Driving”, UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series C: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, pp. 3–20, 2021.
- V. Radu, M. Nan, M. Trăscău, D. T. Iancu, A. Ș. Ghiță, and A. M. Florea, “Car Crash Detection in Videos”, in 2021 23rd International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), pp. 127–132, IEEE, 2021.
- A. Ș. Ghiță, M. Nan, D. T. Iancu, and A. M. Florea, “Top-level Scene Information Extraction from Eye-level View Images”, in 2021 23rd International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), pp. 133–137, IEEE, 2021.
- A. Ș. Ghiță, A. F. Gavril, M. Nan, B. Hoteit, I. A. Awada, A. Sorici, I. G. Mocanu, and A. M. Florea, “The AMIRO Social Robotics Framework: Deployment and Evaluation on the Pepper Robot”, Sensors, vol. 20, no. 24, p. 7271, 2020.
- M. Nan, A. Ș. Ghiță, A. F. Gavril, M. Trăscău, A. Sorici, B. Cramariuc, and A. M. Florea, “Human Action Recognition for Social Robots”, in 2019 22nd International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), pp. 675–681, IEEE, 2019.
- A. F. Gavril, A. Ș. Ghiță, A. Sorici, and A. M. Florea, “Towards a Modular Framework for Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration”, in 2019 22nd International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), pp. 667–674, 2019.
- A. Ș. Ghiță, M. Ș. Barbu, A. F. Gavril, M. Trăscău, A. Sorici, and A. M. Florea, “User Detection, Tracking, and Recognition in Robot Assistive Care Scenarios”, in Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, pp. 271–283, Springer, 2018.
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