The Babeș-Bolyai University is a public comprehensive university, that is currently the largest university in Romania and one of the best and most representative institutions of higher learning in the country. At national level, the Babeș-Bolyai University was awarded the title of intensive-research university and was ranked the best Romanian university in the meta-ranking of CWUR World University Rankings 2019-2020.
The project team consists of members with high expertise and valuable scientific results in the fields of artificial intelligence, software development, maintenance and software product quality. Members of the group involved in the project:
| prof. Czibula Gabriela, PhD Gabriela Czibula works as a professor in the Computer Science Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from the Babes-Bolyai University, city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She received her PhD degree in Computer Science in 2003. She published more than 200 papers in prestigious journals and conferences proceedings. Her research interests include Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Multiagent systems, Bioinformatics. Google Scholar |
| prof. Czibula Istvan, PhD Istvan Gergely Czibula works as a professor at the Computer Science Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from the Babes-Bolyai University, city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science in 2009. He published more than 95 papers in various journals and conferences proceedings. His main research interests are Search-based Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Programming paradigms, Object Oriented Design and Machine Learning. Google Scholar |
| lect. Molnar Arthur, PhD Molnar Arthur is an associate professor in Computer Science currently teaching at the Babes-Bolyai University. His PhD. thesis targeted the visualisation and testing of GUI-driven applications and was successfully defended in 2012. His research expanded to cover metrics and their relation with software quality, together with applications of computer science to eHealth and adjoining domains. He coordinated the Romanian partners within 2 international research projects in eHealth and worked as a researcher in several others, including at FP7 and Horizon 2020 level. Google Scholar |
| lect. Mihai Andrei, PhD Mihai Andrei works as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science in 2021, the research centering around machine learning models for weather nowcasting. He published 10 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. His main research interests are Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence. Google Scholar |
| lect. Mariana Maier, PhD Mariana Maier is a lecturer in the Department of Exact Sciences Didactics, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences from the Babes-Bolyai University, city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Her research interests include Machine Learning, Educational Data Mining and Didactics of Computer Science. Google Scholar |
The Romanian National Meteorological Administration provides warnings for the public and the disaster management authorities in case of severe weather phenomena, and also being a supplier of scientific and technical services and a competent and reliable partner for public and private entities. The Romanian NMA is actively involved in national and international research projects, and education and training respectively. Romania is currently a Cooperating State to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), member of the EUMETNET’s radar programme OPERA, and starting with 2010, a full Member State of the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). Among NMA’s primary objectives is the constant work of upgrading real-time detection capabilities, and facilitating the exchange of data at local, regional and global levels.
The project team consists of members with high expertise in the fields of meteorology. Members of the WinDMiL group involved in the project:
| Eugen Mihuleț, Forecaster Eugen Mihulet works in the Satellite Laboratory of the Romanian National Meteorological Administration. Eugen has been a member, key person or initiator of several national and international research and infrastructure projects funded through Horizon programs, EEA grants, or national programs. He is enrolled in a doctoral program and the research topic is the analysis of impact of weather conditions on photovoltaic energy production using machine learning models. His main professional interests are new technologies in meteorology and weather data analysis using machine learning. Research Gate Profile |
| Raluca Ștefan, Engineer Raluca Ștefan is an engineer at the Romanian National Meteorological Administration. Her main responsibilities focus on the maintenance and optimization of operational production systems, particularly for products in the field of satellite meteorology, mainly lightning activity. At the same time, she is pursuing a PhD at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, where her research is centered on air quality, emissions, and their impact on human health, using advanced computational chemistry models. |
| Ștefan Gabrian Ștefan Gabrian has been working in the Laboratory of Numerical Modelling since 2021, and he has expertise in producing realistic simulation in the field of numerical weather prediction employing earth system models such as COSMO, ICON, and WRF. Concurrently, he is pursuing a PhD at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, with research focused on the optimization of numerical weather prediction models. |