Education

PhD @ETTI, UPB

Working towards increasing the robustness of neural networks against adversarial attacks, in various applications, by constructing new optimization algorithms, under the supervision of Corneliu Burileanu and Ana Neacşu.

October 2023 - present

Visiting PhD,
@sAIfer Lab, Joint Lab on Safety and Security of AI
@Università degli Studi di Genova

May 2025 - December 2025
Genoa, Italy

Visiting PhD,
@Centre de Vision Numérique
@CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay

February 2025 - April 2025
Paris, France

Summer School, Mathematics and Machine Learning for Image Analysis

June 2024, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

MSc, 2021-2023, @ETTI, UPB

My thesis was titled "Defenses against adversarial attacks in image classification", where I focused on comparing and improving multiple robust training techniques against adversarial perturbations. I also explored the reliability of defenses tailored for white-box attacks against real adversarial perturbations: The thesis can be found here.

BSc, 2017-2021, @ETTI, UPB

My thesis was titled "Automatic Lung Lesion Segmentation using Deep Learning Techniques" in which several architectures, including GANs, were trained for segmenting COVID-related lesions from lung CTs: The thesis can be found here.