Education
Ph.D. Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, 2000
M.Sc. Computer Science, The University of Iowa, 1996
M.Sc. Statistics, University of Paris XI, 1992
B.Sc. Applied Mathematics, University of Bucharest, 1991

Professional Positions
Applied scientist, Applications and services group, Microsoft, since 2012
Researcher, Natural Language Understanding & Language Modeling groups, Nuance Communications, 2005-2012
Scientist, Speech & Language processing, BBN Technologies, 2000-2005
Research Assistant, Pattern recognition Lab, Michigan State University, 1996-2000
Research Assistant, Medical imaging, Siemens Corporate Research, 1997-1999
Teaching Assistant, Computer science, Michigan State University, 1996-1997
Instructor, Computer science, The University of Iowa, 1996
Teaching Assistant, Computer science, The University of Iowa, 1994-1996
Research Assistant, SYNTIM Lab, INRIA - Rocquencourt, France, 1993

Research interests: pattern recognition and machine learning techniques applied to vision, speech, language, biometrics, robotics and genetics