Research Group

Metaheuristics for Complex Systems (MECO)

PhD Students

• Marioara Nichitean, PhD student since October 2025, Google Scholar Profile
• Raul-Octav Munteanu-Bardan, PhD student since October 2025, Google Scholar Profile
• Yingkai Xu, PhD student since October 2023, Google Scholar Profile
• Bogdan Putinica, PhD student since October 2023, Google Scholar Profile
• Iulia-Andreea Ion, PhD student since October 2023, Google Scholar Profile
• Raluca-Diana Chis, PhD student since October 2023, Google Scholar Profile
• Georgian Anghelescu, PhD student since October 2023, Google Scholar Profile
• Madalina Dicu, PhD student since October 2021, Google Scholar Profile
• Aniko Kopacz, PhD student since October 2021, Google Scholar Profile

PhD Alumni

• Adel Bajcsi, Google Scholar Profile

PhD Thesis: Interpretable Machine Learning Detection and Diagnosis Systems for Medical Data Analysis

Public Defense: 19 September 2025

Projects

• Romanian Hub for Artificial Intelligence (HRIA)

PCIDIF/709/PCIDIF_P4/OP1/RSO1.6/PCIDIF_A12, SMIS 351416, 2025-2027 (UBB)

Team leader topic: Intelligent learning and optimization systems in complex dynamic environments

Team: Lect. dr. Darie Moldovan, Drd. Madalina Dicu, Drd. Raluca Chis, Drd. Aniko Kopacz

• Artificial Intelligence for Connected Industries (AI4CI)

DIGITAL-2022-SKILLS-03, EU Horizon Europe, 2023-2028

UBB Partner Coordinator

AI4CI is a European master programme developed as part of the European project AI4CI, co-funded by the European Commission through the Digital Europe Programme (contract nb: 101123524).

Project website: AI4CI

• Emergence, auto-organization and evolution: new computational models in the study of complex systems

PN-II-RU-TE-2010-320, 2010-2013

Project Director

Team: Dr. Anca Andreica, Dr. Rodica-Ioana Lung, Drd. David Iclanzan