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Lidia Bajenaru

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Bajenaru LidiaSenior Researcher

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The core purpose of PRECIS is to enhance its infrastructure within National University for Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, driving technological advancements and technological transfer for the development of innovative engineering products, processes and new generation technologies for a better future.
Our mission is to build a safe, supportive academic enrichment space where the engineering creators can go from ideea to product, from concept to prototype and beyond.

Ioan Stefan Sacala

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Catalin Negru

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Catalin NegruSenior Researcher

areas of expertise

Distributed Systems
BigData Systems
Pervasive Systens
Resource Management
Open Science

2020 – Present: Second Degree Researcher, – PRECIS Institute, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
2015-Present: Teaching Associate, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers Faculty, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest
2008-2020 – System Engineer, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers Faculty, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest

Catalin NEGRU is Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Innovative Products, Processes, and Services (PRECIS) within the University Politehnica of Bucharest. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Ccience at UPB, in 2016. He has important scientific and scholarly contributions in the field of Large-Scale Distributed Systems (design and performance) and specifically regarding resource management in heterogeneous distributed systems such as Edge and Cloud computing. His research interests also include, Big Data Management, Data Reduction. He published over 60 papers in ISI journals (e.g., FGCS, SOCO, SENSORS, IJSTA), Ranked conferences (e.g., PODC, CISIS, ICCP, ISPDC, AQTR) and book chapters. During his career, he has been involved in national and international research projects in the area of cloud computing, smart city and pervasive services.

Top publications

Musat, George-Alexandru, Mǎdǎlin Colezea, Florin Pop, Catalin Negru, Mariana Mocanu, Christian Esposito, and Aniello Castiglione. “Advanced services for efficient management of smart farms.” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 116 (2018): 3-17.

Vasiliu, Laura, Florin Pop, Catalin Negru, Mariana Mocanu, Valentin Cristea, and Joanna Kolodziej. “A hybrid scheduler for many task computing in big data systems.” International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 27, no. 2 (2017): 385-399.

Ciobanu, Radu-Ioan, Catalin Negru, Florin Pop, Ciprian Dobre, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, and George Mastorakis. “Drop computing: Ad-hoc dynamic collaborative computing.” Future Generation Computer Systems 92 (2019): 889-899.

Colezea, Madalin, George Musat, Florin Pop, Catalin Negru, Alexandru Dumitrascu, and Mariana Mocanu. “CLUeFARM: Integrated web-service platform for smart farms.” Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 154 (2018): 134-154.

Iordache, George, Adrian Paschke, Mariana Mocanu, and Cătălin NEGRU. “Service Level Agreement Characteristics of Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks for Water Resource Management (SLAs4Water).” Studies in Informatics and Control 26, no. 4 (2017): 379-386.

Sotiriadis, Stelios, Nik Bessis, Euripides GM Petrakis, Cristiana Amza, Catalin Negru, and Mariana Mocanu. “Virtual machine cluster mobility in inter-cloud platforms.” Future Generation Computer Systems 74 (2017): 179-189.

Catalin Negru, Mariana Mocanu, Valentin Cristea, Stelios Sotiriadis, and Nik Bessis. “Analysis of power consumption in heterogeneous virtual machine environments.” Soft Computing 21, no. 16 (2017): 4531-4542.

Stan, Roaxana Gabriela, Catalin Negru, and Florin Pop. “CloudWave: Content gathering network with flying clouds.” Future Generation Computer Systems 98, (2019): 474-486.

ȚIGĂNOAIA, Bogdan, George IORDACHE, Catalin Negru, and Florin POP. “Scheduling in CloudSim of Interdependent Tasks for SLA Design.” Studies in Informatics and Control 28, no. 4 (2019): 477-484.

Filip, Ion-Dorinel, Andrei Vlad Postoaca, Radu-Dumitru Stochitoiu, Darius-Florentin Neatu, Catalin Negru, and Florin Pop. “Data Capsule: Representation of Heterogeneous Data in Cloud-Edge Computing.” IEEE Access 7 (2019): 49558-49567.

Firuți, Bogdan-Cristian, Răzvan-Ștefan Păduraru, Cătălin Negru, Alina Petrescu-Niţă, Octavian Bădescu, and Florin Pop. “Road risk-index analysis using satellite products.” Sensors 23, no. 5 (2023): 2751.

Catalin Negru, George Musat, Madalin Colezea, Constantin Anghel, Alexandru Dumitrascu, Florin Pop, Carmen De Maio, and Aniello Castiglione. “Dependable workflow management system for smart farms.” Connection Science 34, no. 1 (2022): 1833-1854.

Mocanu, Bogdan-Costel, Ion-Dorinel Filip, Remus-Dan Ungureanu, Catalin Negru, Mihai Dascalu, Stefan-Adrian Toma, Titus-Constantin Balan, Ion Bica, and Florin Pop. “Odin ivr-interactive solution for emergency calls handling.” Applied Sciences 12, no. 21 (2022): 10844.

IORDACHE, George-Valentin, Cătălin Negru, Gabriel Neagu, and Florin Pop. “SLA for Cloud processing: use cases for satellite image processing, disaster management and IoT.” Romanian Journal of Information Technology & Automatic Control/Revista Română de Informatică și Automatică 30, no. 4 (2020).

Iordache, George Valentin, Bogdan Tiganoaia, Catalin Negru, and Florin Pop. “Implementing SLA constraints in Multi-Cloud environments.” Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics 22, no. 4 (2020): 71-81.

Gabriel-Cosmin APOSTOL, Alexandra-Elena MOCANU, Bogdan-Costel MOCANU, Dragoș RĂDULESCU, Cătălin NEGRU, Ionuț PETRE, Florin POP, “A Multi-layer Approach for Mobile Devices: Behavioral Fingerprinting”, Studies in Informatics and Control, ISSN 1220-1766, vol. 32(2), pp. 105-116, 2023. https://doi.org/10.24846/v32i2y202310

Tudorescu, Ana-Maria, Catalin Negru, Bogdan-Costel Mocanu, and Florin Pop. “Quality sustaining vegetation index for natural resources monitoring using satellite images.” Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal 59 (2024): 101847.

Stan, Roxana-Gabriela, Lidia Băjenaru, Cătălin Negru, and Florin Pop. “Evaluation of task scheduling algorithms in heterogeneous computing environments.” Sensors 21, no. 17 (2021): 5906.

Mihaela Mihaiu; Bogdan-Costel Mocanu; Cătălin Negru; Alina Petrescu-Nița; Florin Pop. “Resource Allocation Optimization Model for Computing Continuum”.Mathematics.

Razvan Stoleriu, Catalin Negru, Bogdan-Costel Mocanu, Emil-Andrei Constantinescu, Alexandra-Elena Mocanu, Florin Pop.”Scalable malicious URL detection technique for smishing attacks”. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering. 10.1504/IJCSE.2024.10067011

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Dan Teodor Poncu

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Dan Teodor PoncuResearch Assistant

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Daniela Lupu

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Daniela LupuResearcher

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Elena Camelia Papuc

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Elena Camelia PapucResearch Assistant

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Imad Alex Awada

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Imad Alex AwadaPhD

areas of expertise

Human-computer interactions
Ambient Intelligence
AI in education systems
AI in medicine
Active and assisted living

education

2014-2019, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest: PhD, Multimodal Interfaces for Active and Assisted Living Systems.
2006-2011, Antonine University: Master of Engineer in Computer Science, Multimedia, Systems & Networks

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)

Top publications

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.
Imad Alex Awada, Irina Mocanu and Oana Cramariuc, “A System for Engaging Older Adults in Maintaining an Active and Healthy Life Through Games”, in: Proceedings of the 19th eLearning & Software for Education Conference (eLSE), Bucharest, Romania, Vol. 1, pp. 403-417, DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-23-038, 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.

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Iulian Munteanu

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Iulian MunteanuResearcher

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Luiza Elena Burlacu

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Luiza Elena BurlacuResearcher

areas of expertise

Collaborative Networks
Digital Ecosystems
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Interoperability
Sematic Web
Process Modeling
Biotechnology

education

2015 – University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest: PhD, Systems Engineering
2012 – University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest: MSc, Automation and Industrial Informatics

Luiza-Elena Burlacu is a researcher at the PRECIS Research Institute, where she focuses on healthcare and biomedical systems within the Knowledge Management in Healthcare and Life Sciences Laboratory.
She has a multidisciplinary academic background that combines advanced systems engineering, automation technologies, and biotechnology, allowing her to approach innovative solutions for healthcare applications.
With over 17 years of experience in technology, research, and enterprise project delivery, Luiza brings a versatile and adaptable skill set. She has successfully coordinated cross-functional teams throughout all phases of the project lifecycle, contributed to both technical and functional specifications, and played a key role in implementing complex IT solutions.
Luiza excels in collaborative environments and is dedicated to translating research findings into practical, real-world solutions.