Imad Alex AWADA is a scientific researcher at the PRECIS Research Center of the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest. He holds a Master of Engineer in Computer Science, Multimedia, Systems & Networks degree from Antonine University and a PhD degree in Computer Science from UPB. Alex’s research activity and interests span the domains of Human-computer interactions, Ambient Intelligence, Smart Interfaces, Human Activity Recognition, AI in education systems and medicine as well as Assistive Robotics. His PhD research focused on building an Adaptive Multimodal Interface for Active and Assisted Living Systems, which included a fusion engine for data coming from different input channels: microphone (for speech), camera (for emotions and touch-free gestures), touch-screen (for touch-based gestures). He published 29 publications: 25 in international conferences, 3 in journals and a book chapter. Alex has been/is involved in several national projects (e.g. VIRTUAL PATIENT, MERITT, ROBIN, CONSERT, ACTIVROBO, MOBILE@OLD, MCVRO, LOMAR…) and international projects (e.g. CAREUP, ALAMEDA, INCARE, IONIS, CAMI, NITICS…). Lastly, Alex is an active member of the Romanian Association for Artificial Intelligence (ARIA) and the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems (AI-MAS).

“Research is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought” (Albert Szent-Györgyi)

• Imad Alex Awada, Adina Magda Florea and Alexandru Scafa-Udriște, “An e-Learning Platform for Clinical Reasoning in Cardiovascular Diseases: A Study Reporting on Learner and Tutor Satisfaction”, in: BMC Medical Education Journal, Vol. 24, 984, DOI: 10.1186/s12909-024-05938-6, ISSN: 1472-6920, September 2024.
• Imad Alex Awada, Adina Magda Florea and Alexandru Scafa-Udriște, “A Virtual Case Presentation Platform: Protocol Study”, in: Methods and Protocols Journal, Vol. 7, Iss. 2, 23, DOI: 3390/mps7020023, ISSN: 2409-9279, PubMed ID: 38525781, March 2024.
• Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici, Adina Magda Florea and Alexandru Scafa-Udriște, “Enhanced Design and Functionalities for the Virtual Patient Educational Platform”, in: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), pp. 473-476, DOI: 1109/CSCS59211.2023.00080, ISSN: 2379-0482, IEEE, May 2023.
• Alice Lavinia Chiru, Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici, Adina Magda Florea and Alexandru Scafa-Udriște, “A Support Module for the Virtual Patient Educational Platform”, in: Proceedings of the 10th edition of the IEEE International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering (EHB), pp. 1-4, DOI: 1109/EHB55594.2022.9991475, ISSN: 2575-5145, November 2022.
• Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici, Marius Drăgoi, Adina Magda Florea and Alexandru Scafa-Udriște, “Virtual Patient: Architecture of an Educational Web Platform for the Assessment of Consultation and Diagnosing Skills of Medical Students”, in: Proceedings of the 15th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), pp. 8080-8084, DOI: 21125/iceri.2022.2074, ISSN: 2340-1095, November 2022.
• Lionel Brunie, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Dorothée Brac de la Perrière, Damien Fabrègue, Laëtitia Tondu, Amélie Cordier, Virginie Delplanque, Alizée Bertrand, Ophélie Coueffe, Harald Kosch, Ernesto Damiani, Stelvio Cimato, Imad Alex Awada, Andrei Olaru, Roland Wossidlo, Giampaolo Fiorentino, Leandro Lombardo, Francesco Saverio Nucci and Oana Cramariuc, “Training Future IT Leaders in a Collaborative and Multicultural Setting”, in: Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN), pp. 5318-5321, DOI: 21125/edulearn.2022.1258, ISSN: 2340-1117, July 2022.
• Lionel Brunie, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Dorothée Brac de la Perrière, Damien Fabrègue, Laëtitia Tondu, Amélie Cordier, Virginie Delplanque, Alizée Bertrand, Ophélie Coueffe, Harald Kosch, Ernesto Damiani, Stelvio Cimato, Imad Alex Awada, Andrei Olaru, Roland Wossidlo, Giampaolo Fiorentino, Leandro Lombardo, Francesco Saverio Nucci and Oana Cramariuc, “Fostering Student Entrepreneurship Mindset through the Embedding of International Student Teams into Start-Ups and the Study of Company-Driven Open Questions”, in: Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN), pp. 4544-4549, DOI: 21125/edulearn.2022.1087, ISSN: 2340-1117, July 2022.
• Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici, Marius Drăgoi, Adina Magda Florea and Alexandru Scafa-Udriște, “Virtual Patient: A Web-Based Platform for the Training of Medical Students in Patient Consultation During a Lockdown”, in: Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN), pp. 6491-6497, DOI: 21125/edulearn.2022.1533, ISSN: 2340-1117, July 2022.
• Alice Lavinia Chiru, Imad Alex Awada and Adina Magda Florea, “The Information Technology Service Operation Process Implementation in Education System During COVID-19 Pandemic”, in: Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), Valencia, Spain, pp. 445-451, DOI: 21125/inted.2022.0185, ISSN: 2340-1079, 2022.
• Bilal Hoteit, Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici and Adina Magda Florea, “Continuous Operations and Fully Autonomy of a Social Service Robotic System”, in: Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), pp. 129-134, DOI: 1109/SYNASC54541.2021.00031, December 2021.
• Alice Lavinia Chiru, Imad Alex Awada and Adina Magda Florea, “A Support Process of Telemedicine Applications that Integrates a Chatbot”, in: Proceedings of the 9th edition of the IEEE International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering (EHB), pp. 1-4, DOI: 1109/EHB52898.2021.9657553, ISSN: 2575-5145, November 2021.
• Alice Lavinia Chiru, Imad Alex Awada and Adina Magda Florea, “Incident Management that Integrates a Chatbot to Improve the use of Online Education Services”, in: Proceedings of the 14th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), pp. 5357-5361, DOI: 21125/iceri.2021.1212, ISSN: 2340-1095, November 2021.
• Ana Cosmina Popescu, Imad Alex Awada, Irina Mocanu, Oana Cramariuc and Neja Samar Brenčič, “A Platform that Aims to Help People to Learn how to Interact with Robotic Platforms”, in: Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN), pp. 6342-6351, DOI: 21125/edulearn.2021.1285, ISSN: 2340-1117, July 2021.
• Bilal Hoteit, Ahmad Faour, Ali Abdallah, Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici and Adina Magda Florea, “Towards a General and Complete Social Assistive Robotic Architecture”, in: Ahram T., Taiar R., Groff F. (eds) Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications IV (IHIET-AI 2021), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 1378, pp. 59-67, Springer, Cham, DOI: 1007/978-3-030-74009-2_8, 2021.
• Imad Alex Awada and Irina Mocanu, “An e-Learning Platform Adapted to the Online Learning System”, in: Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), Valencia, Spain, pp. 7473-7479, DOI: 21125/inted.2021.1501, ISSN: 2340-1079, 2021.
• Alexandra Stefania Ghita, Alexandru Florin Gavril, Mihai Nan, Bilal Hoteit, Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici, Irina Mocanu and Adina Magda Florea, “The AMIRO Social Robotics Framework: Deployment and Evaluation on the Pepper Robot”, in: Special Issue “Human-Robot Interaction and Sensors for Social Robotics”, SENSORS Journal, Vol. 20, Iss. 24, 7271, DOI: 3390/s20247271, ISSN: 1424-8220, 2020.
• Bilal Hoteit, Ali Abdallah, Ahmad Faour, Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici and Adina Magda Florea, “AI Planning and Reasoning for a Social Assistive Robot”, in: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 141-148, ISBN: 978-989-8704-22-1, 2020 (link).
• Imad Alex Awada and Irina Mocanu, “A Platform to Promote a more Active Lifestyle Between Students”, in: Proceedings of the 16th eLearning & Software for Education Conference (eLSE), Bucharest, Romania, Vol. 3, pp. 355-362, DOI: 12753/2066-026X-20-217, 2020.
• Imad Alex Awada, Irina Mocanu and Oana Cramariuc, “An e-Learning Platform That Supports Personalized Learning and Multimodal Interactions”, in: Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), Valencia, Spain, pp. 8828-8836, DOI: 21125/inted.2020.2405, ISSN: 2340-1079, 2020.
• Imad Alex Awada, Irina Mocanu, Alexandru Sorici and Adina Magda Florea, “An Integrated System for Improved Assisted Living of Elderly People”, in: H. Costin, B. Schuller, A.M. Florea (eds) Recent Advances in Intelligent Assistive Technologies: Paradigms and Applications, Intelligent Systems Reference Library Vol. 170, pp. 111-141, DOI: 1007/978-3-030-30817-9_5, ISBN: 978-3-030-30817-9, Springer, 2020.
• Imad Alex Awada, Irina Mocanu, Dumitru-Iulian Nastac, Dan Benta and Serban Radu, “Adaptive User Interface for Healthcare Application for People with Dementia”, in the: Proceedings of the 17th RoEduNet Conference: Networking in Education and Research, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, pp. 96-100, DOI: 1109/ROEDUNET.2018.8514150, ISSN: 2247-5443, IEEE, 2018.
• Imad Alex Awada, Irina Mocanu and Adina Magda Florea, “Exploiting Multimodal Interfaces in eLearning Systems”, in: Proceedings of the 14th eLearning & Software for Education Conference (eLSE), Bucharest, Romania, Vol. 2, pp. 174-181, DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-18-094, 2018.
• Imad Alex Awada, Oana Cramariuc, Irina Mocanu, Cristina Seceleanu, Ashalatha Kunnappilly and Adina Magda Florea, “An End-User Perspective on the CAMI Ambient and Assisted Living Project”, in: Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), Valencia, Spain, pp. 6776-6785, DOI: 21125/INTED.2018.1596, ISSN: 2340-1079, 2018.
• Imad Alex Awada, Irina Mocanu, Lucia Rusu, Raluca Arba, Adina Magda Florea and Bogdan Cramariuc, “Enhancing the Physical Activity of Older Adults Based on User Profiles”, in: Proceedings of the 16th RoEduNet Conference: Networking in Education and Research (RoEduNet), Targu Mures, Romania, pp. 120-125, DOI: 1109/ROEDUNET.2017.8123749, ISSN: 2068-1038, IEEE, 2017.
• Ashalatha Kunnappilly, Alexandru Sorici, Imad Alex Awada, Irina Mocanu, Cristina Seceleanu and Adina Magda Florea, “A Novel Integrated Architecture for Ambient Assisted Living Systems”, in: Proceedings of the 41st Computer Society International Conference on Computers, Software and Applications (COMPSAC), Turin, Italy, pp. 465-472, DOI: 1109/COMPSAC.2017.28, ISSN: 0730-3157, IEEE, 2017.
• Imad Alex Awada, Irina Mocanu, Sergiu Jecan, Lucia Rusu, Adina Magda Florea, Oana Cramariuc and Bogdan Cramariuc, “Mobile@Old – An Assistive Platform for Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle for Elderly People”, in: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on E-Health and Bioengineering (EHB), Sinaia, Romania, pp. 591-594, DOI: 10.1109/EHB.2017.7995493, ISSN: 2575-5137, IEEE, 2017.
• Imad Alex Awada, Irina Mocanu, Adina Magda Florea and Bogdan Cramariuc, “Multimodal Interface for Elderly People”, in: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), Bucharest, Romania, pp. 536-541, DOI: 10.1109/CSCS.2017.82, ISSN: 2379-0482, IEEE, 2017.
• Imad Alex Awada, Andra Codreanu, Irina Mocanu, Adina Magda Florea and Mihaela Apostu, “An Adaptive Multimodal Interface to Improve Elderly People’s Rehabiliation Exercises“, in: Proceedings of the 13th eLearning and Software for Education Conference (eLSE), Bucharest, Romania, Vol. 2, pp. 41-47, DOI: 12753/2066-026X-17-092, 2017.
• Alexandru Sorici, Imad Alex Awada, Ashalatha Kunnappilly, Irina Mocanu, Oana Cramariuc, Lukasz Malicki, Cristina Seceleanu and Adina Magda Florea, “CAMI – An Integrated Architecture Solution for Improving Quality of Life of the Elderly””, in: Ahmed M., Begum S. & Raad W. (Eds.) Internet of Things Technologies for HealthCare, HealthyIoT 2016, Vasteras, Sweden, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Vol. 187, Springer, Cham, DOI: 1007/978-3-319-51234-1_23, ISSN: 1867-8211, 2016.