Mihai Dascalu

Mihai Dascalu is a professor in Computer Science at the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest and is a co-coordinator of the Data Science Master's program. Mihai was head of his class (i.e., GPA 10/10; ranked 1st across specialization and university) at POLITEHNICA Bucharest and holds a double Ph.D. with the highest distinctions in Computer Science (Excellent, POLITEHNICA Bucharest) and Educational Sciences (Très Honorable avec Felicitations, University Grenoble Alpes, France).

Mihai has extensive experience in national and international research projects (HRIA, POC Optimize, POC InsureAI, PTE ATES, PCE INTELLIT, PCE Lib2Life, PCE ROBIN, POC D HUB-TECH, POC G NETIO, H2020 RAGE, ERASMUS+ ENeA-SEA) with more than 300 published papers, including 40+ articles at top-tier conferences (AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, CogSci, AIED, COLING), 150+ papers indexed ISI at renowned international conferences (ICALT, ITS, EC-TEL, ICWL, ISPDC, AIMSA), and 30+ Q1/Q2 journal papers (e.g., Computers & Education, Computers in Human Behavior, Behavior Research Methods, ijCSCL). Complementary to his competencies in ML/NLP, AI in education, and discourse analysis, Mihai holds a multitude of professional certifications (e.g., PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CISA, C|EH, and CISSP).

Moreover, Mihai received the award “Mihai Drăgănescu” from the Romanian Academy in 2023, the distinction “IN TEMPORE OPPORTUNO” in 2013 as the most promising young researcher in POLITEHNICA Bucharest, obtained a Senior Fulbright scholarship in 2015, and holds a US patent. Mihai is also a corresponding member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists.