National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (UPB)
The International Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence at POLITEHNICA Bucharest brings together the main research laboratories in the field, including the Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory (AI-MAS) and the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Laboratory, to develop cutting-edge technologies in artificial intelligence.
The key competencies of the center’s researchers include intelligent agents, machine and deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing for low-resource languages, social and assistive robotics, and explainable artificial intelligence.
The center integrates artificial intelligence in different fields, such as health, environment, education, cybersecurity, and human-computer interaction. It plays a key role in national and European projects, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration to create human-oriented AI systems and to apply the results in industry and society.
The International Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence is the AI Testing Center of the DIANA (Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic) network.
Prof. Dr. Adina Magda FLOREA: Adina.Florea@upb.ro
Prof. Dr. Mihai DASCĂLU: Mihai.Dascalu@upb.ro
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN)
The Institute of Artificial Intelligence of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca brings together the main research laboratories in the field, including the Research Center for Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, the Intelligent Systems Laboratory, the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, the Robotics and Nonlinear Control Laboratory, the Interactive and Nonlinear Control Laboratory for Distributed Systems, the Center and Research Laboratories in Robotics and Microelectronics.
The key competencies of the researchers in the center include deep machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, explainable artificial intelligence, supply systems, intelligent control.
The applied fields addressed include perception and representation of the environment, risk estimation and navigation for autonomous systems, medical imaging, spatial imaging, predictive maintenance, medical and assistive robotics, smart cities. They are the basis for involvement in national and international projects aimed at developing AI solutions for the economy and society.
The Institute of Artificial Intelligence of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca is part of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of the European University of Technology.
Prof. Dr. Sergiu NEDEVSCHI: Sergiu.Nedevschi@cs.utcluj.ro
West University of Timisoara
The Artificial Intelligence research group within the Center for Research in Informatics – CeRiCS (research.info.uvt.ro; hpc.uvt.ro) at UVT has expertise in intelligent business, multi-agent systems, machine learning techniques and knowledge extraction from data.
Within the national and international projects carried out, the group has developed intelligent and scalable strategies for allocating resources in distributed systems, anomaly identification techniques, efficient processing platforms for data collected from sensors, deep learning-based models for processing satellite images, artificial vision models, explanatory neuro-symbolic models.
Application areas include medical imaging, intelligent environment, human-machine interfaces, cybersecurity, environmental and industrial process monitoring. From an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective, the UVT group is distinguished by its theoretical approaches in machine learning, based on the analysis of dynamic systems, as well as by its AI applications in archaeo-astronomy, ecology, and cultural heritage.
Prof. Dr. Viorel NEGRU: Viorel.Negru@e-uvt.ro
”Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi
TUIASI leverages in the Romanian Artificial Intelligence Hub a multidisciplinary team of researchers from 7 research/excellence centers and the infrastructures of the main laboratories in the field, such as Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Cloud Technologies, Big Data Applications and Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Internet of Things, Human-Computer Interaction, Autonomous Vehicles.
The researchers have key skills in machine and deep learning, artificial vision, biologically inspired algorithms, multi-agent systems, hardware neural networks and advanced simulations. The innovative solutions developed, based on AI technologies, cover a wide range of fields: smart/autonomous mobility, neuro-engineering, Industry 4.0, human-machine interfaces, assistive technologies, modeling and optimization of chemical processes, intelligent energy systems, etc.
At the educational level, TUIASI supports training in the field of AI through a solid portfolio of undergraduate courses and master’s programs within the Faculty of Automation and Computers. The university is a member of eight innovation clusters, a partner in digital hubs and coordinator of the Digital Innovation Zone EDIH, actively contributing to the digital transformation of industry and society.
Prof. Dr. Vasile-Ion MANTA: Vasile-Ion.Manta@academic.tuiasi.ro
Politehnica University Timisoara
With a tradition of over a century, Politehnica University of Timișoara (UPT) has established itself as a pole of excellence in education and research in the fields of engineering and science. Over time, UPT has been a pioneer of technological innovation in Romania, being the institution that hosted the development of the first university computer in the country – MECIPT – and launched the first specialization in “Computers”. Starting with 2020, the university offers, for the first time in the country, a research-oriented master’s program in the field of Machine Learning, through which it annually trains approximately 50 specialists in machine learning. These initiatives highlight both the solid institutional heritage and the current commitment of UPT to technological progress, especially in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
Research activity in AI is supported by specialized laboratories such as the Databases and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Intelligent Embedded Vision Laboratory, which bring together interdisciplinary teams of researchers with advanced skills in machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, vision, computational intelligence, embedded systems. The research directions addressed include both theoretical fundamentals and innovative applications, with impact in strategic areas such as health, education and cybersecurity. These activities are integrated into research projects at national and European level, thus strengthening the position of UPT as a relevant actor in the international scientific ecosystem in the field of AI.
Prof. Mihai MICEA: Mihai.Micea@cs.upt.ro
University of Bucharest
The Artificial Intelligence Group of the University of Bucharest brings together the Data Science Research Center, the Language Technologies Research Center and the Logic, Optimization and Security Center.
Researchers within the artificial intelligence group have top-level expertise in various subdomains of artificial intelligence, such as machine learning, neural networks, deep learning, artificial vision, medical imaging, signal processing, cybersecurity, robotics, natural language processing, machine translation, linguistics, etc.
Expertise is proven both by the successful implementation of numerous research projects and by publications at top conferences, such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, ACMMM, NAACL, WACV, or prestigious journals, such as TPAMI, IJCV, TSP, JMLR, TAC, COLI, CVIU, AIR. Developed models and systems have applicability in various fields such as health, industry, education, agriculture, environment, security, etc.
Prof. Radu Tudor IONESCU: Radu.Ionescu@fmi.unibuc.ro
Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
The Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Virtual Reality was established to support research activities in the field of Artificial Intelligence and related fields at Babeș-Bolyai University. The institute is organized into six specialized research groups: Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Metaheuristics for Complex Systems, Data Mining, Virtual Reality, and Modeling and Simulation, and collaborates with national and international institutions.
The institute’s team brings together teaching staff, researchers and PhD students with solid expertise in areas such as machine learning, computational intelligence, virtual reality or modeling and simulation of complex systems. The intelligent systems developed target areas such as health, education, economics, bioinformatics, environment, cybersecurity and robotics.
Advanced topics related to explainability, trust and ethics in AI are also addressed. The institute’s work highlights the potential of AI to transform society and the need for interdisciplinary cooperation in developing innovative solutions.
Conf. dr. Christian SĂCĂREA: Christian.Sacarea@ubbcluj.ro
BEIA Consult International SRL
BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL is a company that carries out, among others, research, innovation and development activities in fields such as Telemetry, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Natural Language Processing.
The relevant skills of BEIA employees include acoustic signal processing and deep learning, applied in fields such as environmental sound identification, predictions of natural phenomena based on data received from sensors.
BEIA’s experience in natural language processing also includes the analysis and understanding of written and spoken text in Romanian, for chat bot or voice bot communication applications for fields such as commercial or medical. BEIA employees also have knowledge acquired in the process of a long practice in monitoring and representing data from sensors.
These were acquired within national and European projects, which promote interdisciplinary research.
Svetlana SEGARCEANU: Svetlana.Segarceanu@beia.ro
IT Center for Science and Technology SRL
The IT Center for Science and Technology (CITST), established in 2007, focuses its activity mainly on the development and sale of cutting-edge technologies for various sectors.
The main directions are in the following areas:
- information and communication technology, with the focus in recent years on technologies based on artificial intelligence and dedicated to the adult and elderly population segment;
- electrotechnologies;
- assistive robotics.
Through its founders, CITST has trained highly qualified personnel in the areas of interest of the company as well as a European collaboration network. The aim is to integrate artificial intelligence both in the provision of services to local and international clients and in the field of research and innovation.
For the assisted living environment field, we provide our clients with intelligent platforms that address both health and well-being. The CITST laboratory is equipped with intelligent devices and sensors as well as various robotic platforms.
Daniela NĂSTAC: Daniela.C.Nastac@gmail.com
Oana CRAMARIUC: Oana.Cramariuc@citst.ro
GreenSoft SRL
For over two decades, GreenSoft SRL has been developing artificial intelligence solutions focused on critical infrastructure, health and transportation.
The first project was car noise modeling for a European automotive company, followed by an optimized industrial planner for a manufacturing company.
Within a national consortium, within the SIIMA platform, we created an institutional orchestrator with anomaly detection and open source micro-services.
AI FERODATA, a winning project of Innovation Norway, uses recurrent networks and GIS analysis to predict energy consumption and parking times of over a hundred locomotives.
Living Lab, implemented in partnership with UMF Iași, monitors patients and recommends interventions, using CNN models and reinforcement learning algorithms.
The PLISS platform supports epidemic management through STEM simulations and predictive notifications, and the GreenChain solution guarantees the integrity of doctoral theses through the Solana blockchain and consensus algorithms.
For hospitals, we developed a project called SpeechToText, which transcribes clinical records, with the aim of improving document completion time.
Adrian – Iulian BREZULIANU: Adi.Brezulianu@greensoft.com.ro
Neural Grader SRL
Neural Grader SRL has successfully developed three major projects based on AI and computer vision: TallyExpress, NeuralGrader and LogSize, obtaining 5 international patents as a result of industrial research activity.
Our modern 200 m² laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art technology and servers powered by high-performance GPUs, providing an infrastructure that ensures the implementation of our projects with maximum efficiency. It is the only laboratory in Romania equipped with a production line specific to the wood industry, allowing us to test solutions under conditions suitable for the real industrial environment.
We have consolidated strategic partnerships with NostraSilva and DMSi, which support us in the implementation of our projects, and the constant collaboration with researchers from the Politehnica University of Bucharest amplifies our technological expertise.
Our team is made up of recognized specialists in the fields of AI, computer vision and machine learning, with extensive experience both nationally and internationally.
Cătălin MUTU: Catalin.Mutu@fordaq.com
Safetech Innovations SA
Safetech Innovations has solid expertise in applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies in cybersecurity, reinforced by a constant commitment to innovation and applied research. The company develops advanced solutions capable of anticipating and countering ever-evolving digital threats.
One example is the platform for forensic analysis and reverse engineering of mobile devices, which includes an application for security monitoring, auditing functionalities, risk analysis, reporting and an ML module for identifying abnormal behaviors. In all activities, we integrate AI and ML technologies provided by trusted partners, enhancing human intelligence and operational efficiency.
Our security teams use advanced tools based on adaptive models to detect emerging threats. We perform complex analyses on large volumes of data, extract relevant patterns and apply intelligent algorithms for flexible, scalable and efficient protection in critical infrastructures.
Victor GANSAC: Victor.Gansac@safetech.ro
SoftTehnica SRL
SOFTTEHNICA SRL is a Romanian company specialized in providing software solutions and IT services, with the main objective of supporting businesses in the process of digital transformation. With over 20 years of experience in the field, the company offers a wide range of services, including the development of customized applications, IT consulting and the integration of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).
SOFTTEHNICA SRL has developed several AI-based solutions, the most important of which are HOLOTRAIN – an innovative training platform using augmented reality, Aidoo.Analyzer, an advanced analysis tool for Call Centers, which uses AI technology to analyze and optimize interactions between agents and customers, thus improving performance and customer satisfaction, and the Read2Me application, an innovative text to speech solution in Romanian, which quickly and easily transforms text into clear voice messages, in the most natural tone.
Florian BUCA: Florian.Buca@soft-tehnica.com
Technology Systems and Services International
TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS AND SERVICES INTERNATIONAL (TSSI) demonstrates a consolidated experience in developing advanced AI solutions applied in industry, healthcare, public administration and research. The company has expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision, Machine Learning (ML) and multi-agent architectures.
As a technology partner in EU projects (e.g. FoodChecker JRC), TSSI has used AI for semantic classification, visual analysis and multilingual information extraction. The team’s experience includes projects such as SPIDEP, with ML algorithms applied for early detection of infectious diseases (biometric data), and SmartHEAT, with AI for behavioral simulation and adaptive thermal regulation. The team includes experts in open-source Large Language Models (LLM), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). Its own testing infrastructure allows for rapid and scalable prototyping of AI solutions.
Catrina SINESCU: Catrina.Sinescu@tssi.ro
Terrasigna SRL
Terrasigna SRL is a Romanian company specialized in providing geoinformation services based on Earth Observation data, in fields such as forestry, agriculture, environmental monitoring, critical infrastructures or natural hazards (landslides, floods).
In recent years, the company has gained expertise in integrating artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing methods with satellite data analysis, through projects such as AI4PSInSAR Intelligent exploitation of satellite monitoring results of infrastructure stability at national level (PNCDI III-PTE 2022 – 2023); EO SMITH Deep Learning Data Fusion for Earth Observation (2020 – 2023 ESA); LOOSE Technologies for the Management of LOng EO Data Time Series (2020 – 2022 ESA); ML4EO Machine Learning for Earth Observation (2018 – 2019 ESA).
Terrasigna uses state-of-the-art technologies, including Data Cubes, Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalogues, ServerLess computing, Open Standards or Hugin EO (Open Source ML runtime for Earth Observation technologies), ML algorithms.
Florin ȘERBAN: Florin.Serban@terrasigna.com, office@terrasigna.com