On May 27, 2026, the Romanian HUB of Artificial Intelligence (HRIA), represented by the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iași, has been awarded the Education Initiative of the Year at the PIN Awards 2026, one of the most important events celebrating excellence and impact in the regional tech industry.
Between April 17–20, 2026, the national stage of an extraordinary initiative — the National Olympiad of Artificial Intelligence (ONIA) — took place at Politehnica. HRIA was proud to be among the institutional partners and co organizers of this event.
Modern Speech Recognition for Romanian Language. Remus-Dan Ungureanu; Mihai Dascalu. In: Applied Sciences, Vol 16, Iss. 4, February 2026, DOI: 10.3390/app16041928.
Cross-Lingual Speaker Diarization for Romanian Without Fine-Tuning: End-to-End MSDD Versus a Traditional Segmentation–Embedding–Clustering Pipeline. Remus-Dan Ungureanu; Mihai Dascalu. In: Electronics, Vol. 15, Iss. 4, February 2026, DOI: 10.3390/electronics15040778.
Rule guided transformers for dynamic knowledge adaptation in rotating machinery fault diagnosis. E Hogea, DM Onchiş, R Yan, Z Zhou. In: Advanced Engineering Informatics, Vol. 72, February 2026, DOI: /10.1016/j.aei.2026.104444.
A New Quantum Video Processing Algorithm Based on the NEQR Technique. Adrian Prodan, Alexandru-Gabriel Tudorache, Vasile Manta. In: Entropy, Vol 28, Iss. 2, February 2026, DOI: 10.3390/e28020168.
Efficient voltage-based intrusion detection for in-vehicle networks: From density clustering to centroid classification. Patricia Iosif, Lucian Popa, Bogdan Groza. In: Computer Networks, Vol. 281, February 2026, DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2026.112176.
A large-scale benchmark for evaluating large language models on medical question answering in Romanian. Ana-Cristina Rogoz, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Alexandra-Valentina Anghel, Ionuţ-Lucian Antone-Iordache, Simona Coniac, Andreea Iuliana Ionescu. In: npj Digital Medicine, Vol. 9, February 2026, DOI: 10.1038/s41746-026-02465-0.
A Note on Shift Retrieval Problems. Cristian Rusu. In: Mathematics, Vol. 14, Iss. 3, February 2026, DOI: 10.3390/math14030532.
OCR and LLM Pipeline for Reliable Expiration Date Reading in Accessibility Applications. Theodor Grumeza, Alexandra Fortis. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data & Web Technologies (EIDWT-2026), February 2026, Chania, Crete, Greece.
When Medical Imaging Meets Aggregate Computing: A Bibliometric Study. Diogen Babuc, Ionica-Larisa Puiu, Teodor-Florin Fortis. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data & Web Technologies (EIDWT-2026), February 2026, Chania, Crete, Greece.
Intelligent Fault Detection in the Mechanical Structure of a Wheeled Mobile Robot. Viorel Ionut Gheorghe, Laurentiu Adrian Cartal, Constantin Daniel Comeaga, Bogdan-Costel Mocanu, Alexandra Rotaru, Mircea-Iulian Nistor, Mihai-Vlad Vartic, Stefana Arina Tabusca. In: Technologies, Vol. 14, Iss. 1, January 2026, DOI: 10.3390/technologies14010025.
Large multimodal models for low-resource languages: A survey. Marian Lupaşcu, Ana-Cristina Rogoz, Mihai Sorin Stupariu, Radu Tudor Ionescu. In: Information Fusion, Vol. 131, January 2026, DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2026.104189.
RISCDF53: Risc-V Extension for Discrete Wavelet Transform Using CDF 5/3 Lifting Scheme. Cosmin-Andrei Popovici, Andrei Stan, George-Emil Vieriu, Vasile-Ion Manta. In: Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Iași, January 2026.
IHDCP: Single Image Dehazing Using Inverted Haze Density Correction Prior. Y Liu, T Li, C Tan, W Ren, Cosmin Ancuti, W Lin. In: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 35, January 2026, DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2026.3657636.
Suction Cup-Type Prescribed Performance Fault-Tolerant Fuzzy Control for Nonlinear Systems Considering Actuator Power. Yu Xia, Zsófia Lendek, Radu-Emil Precup, Ramesh K. Agarwal, Imre J. Rudas. In: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 56, January 2026, DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2025.3609402.
Deep Learning Computer Vision-Based Automated Localization and Positioning of the ATHENA Parallel Surgical Robot. Florin Covaciu, Bogdan Gherman, Nadim Al Hajjar, Ionut Zima, Calin Popa, Alexandru Pusca, Andra Ciocan, Calin Vaida, Anca-Elena Iordan, Paul Tucan, Damien Chablat, Doina Pisla. In: Electronics, Vol. 15, Iss. 2, January 2026, DOI: 10.3390/electronics15020474.
Boosting lightweight object detection with enhanced feature fusion and optimized receptive field. Dan-Sebastian Bacea, Florin Oniga. In: Neurocomputing, Vol. 671, January 2026, DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2026.132728.
FPGA-Accelerated ECG Analysis: Narrative Review of Signal Processing, ML/DL Models, and Design Optimizations. Laura-Ioana Mihăilă, Claudia-Georgiana Barbura, Paul Faragó, Sorin Hintea, Botond Sandor Kirei, Albert Fazakas. In: Electronics, Vol. 15, Iss. 2, January 2026, DOI: 10.3390/electronics15020301.
On Model and Data Scaling for Skeleton-based Self-Supervised Gait Recognition. Adrian Cosma, Andy Catruna, Emilian Radoi. In: Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), January 2026, Singapore, DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v40i5.37340.
AIs and Education: Do we really need to worry? Use and perceptions of university students – quasi-global feelings and behaviors. Carlo Giovannella; Alaa Alkhafaji; Mihai Dascalu; Elvira Popescu. In: IxD&A – Interaction Design and Architecture (s), December 2025, DOI: 10.55612/s-5002-067-002.
How has IxD&A Evolved in the Last Decade? A Topic Modeling Approach to Identify Salient Themes and Cultural Shifts. Razvan Paroiu; Mihai Dascalu; Carlo Giovannella. In: IxD&A – Interaction Design and Architecture (s), December 2025, DOI: 10.55612/s-5002-067-013.
Selfit v2 – The evaluation of an Intelligent Tutoring System for Psychomotor Development. Laurentiu-Marian Neagu; Eric Rigaud; Vincent Guarnieri; Vladimir Ghita; Sébastien Travadel; Mihai Dascalu; Razvan Rughinis. In: IxD&A – Interaction Design and Architecture (s), December 2025, DOI: 10.55612/s-5002-067-008.
Hierarchical Conditioning of Predictions in Multi-Task Settings for Image-Based Vehicle Analysis. Andy Catruna, Emilian Radoi, Mihai Dascalu. In: IEEE Access, Vol. 13, December 2025, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3642948.
Assessing the Readability of Russian Textbooks Using Large Language Models. Andrei Paraschiv; Mihai Dascalu; Marina Solnyshkina. In: Information, Vol. 16, Iss. 12, December 2025, DOI: 10.3390/info16121071.
Comparative Analysis of Motif-Based Anomaly Detection for Humidity Monitoring in Digital Twin Systems. Ionica Larisa Puiu, Daniela Zaharie, Florin Fortis. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 12th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies, December 2025, Nantes, France, DOI: 10.1145/3773276.3774290.
From the individual to the group: Towards a common VR Adaptive Framework for Therapy for People with Disabilities. Dan Tilinca, Ana Cernei, Ruth Fodor, Daniel Chioibas, Andrea Ciorba, Andrei Telechi, Marc Frincu. In: Proceedings of the 2025 Joint Conference on Serious Games, December 2025, Rotkreuz, Switzerland, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-10518-9_34.
Virtual Reality as a Tool for Raising Awareness of Visual Impairments. Ioana-Simina Giurginca, Marc Frincu and Nastasia Salagean. In: Proceedings of the 2025 Joint Conference on Serious Games, December 2025, Rotkreuz, Switzerland, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-10518-9_35.
Meta-learning how to Share Credit among Macro-Actions. Ionel-Alexandru Hosu, Traian Rebedea, Razvan Pascanu. In: Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), December 2025, San Diego, CA, USA.
On March 30, 2026, the UVT – ExplainableAI Reading Group meeting took place. The theme of this edition was learning the cause-effect relationship from purely observational data and applications in the explainability of artificial intelligence models.
