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"Increases in data and computational power mean Artificial Intelligence (AI) has considerable societal impact. Although impactful, the AI theory is extremely far from creating true intelligence. Thus, the question is not what AI will do to humans, but how humans will improve AI and what they will do with it?"
Research profile
Decebal Mocanu is Associate Professor in Machine Learning within the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg (UL); and Guest Faculty Member within the Data Mining group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).
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Academic background
From 2020 until 2023, Decebal was Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning within the DMB group, EEMCS faculty at the University of Twente. In the period 2017 - 2020, Decebal was Assistant Professor in Machine Learning within the Data Mining group, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU/e and a member of TU/e Young Academy of Engineering. Previously, he worked as a PhD candidate at TU/e and as a software developer in industry.
In 2017, Decebal received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Network Science from TU/e. During his doctoral studies and after that, Decebal undertook four research visits at the University of Pennsylvania (2014), Julius Maximilians University of Wurzburg (2015), the University of Texas at Austin (2016), and the University of Alberta (2022). Decebal holds a MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Maastricht University for which he received the "Best Master AI Thesis Award", and a BEng in Computer Science from the University Politehnica of Bucharest.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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Interoperability of Heterogeneous IoT Platforms
Mocanu, D. C. & Exarchakos, G.
1/01/16 → 31/12/18
Project: Research direct
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Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science
Mocanu, D. C., Mocanu, E., Stone, P., Nguyen, H. P., Gibescu, M. & Liotta, A., 19 Jun 2018, In: Nature Communications. 9, 1, 12 p., 2383.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Decentralized dynamic understanding of hidden relations in complex networks
Mocanu, D. C., Exarchakos, G. & Liotta, A., 1 Dec 2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8, 1, 15 p., 1571.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Online contrastive divergence with generative replay: experience replay without storing data
Mocanu, D. C., Torres Vega, M., Eaton, E., Stone, P. & Liotta, A., 18 Oct 2016, In: arXiv. 16 p., 1610.05555.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic
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On the synergy of network science and artificial intelligence
Mocanu, D. C., 2016, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2016). Palo Alto: AAAI PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Factored four way conditional restricted Boltzmann machines for activity recognition
Mocanu, D. C., Bou Ammar, H., Lowet, D. J. C., Driessens, K., Liotta, A., Weiss, G. & Tuyls, K. P., 2015, In: Pattern Recognition Letters. 66, p. 100-108Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open AccessFile36 Citations (Scopus)265 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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Highly Commended Paper Award - International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications
Mocanu, Decebal C. (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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Travel Award at IJCAI 2016
Mocanu, Decebal C. (Recipient), 11 Jul 2016
Prize: Other › Scholarships › Scientific
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Master AI Thesis Award, 1st prize, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Mocanu, Decebal C. (Recipient), 12 Jul 2013
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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Best Paper Award MoMM2015
Mocanu, Decebal C. (Recipient), 13 Dec 2015
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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Best Paper Award of ALA 2022
Sokar, Ghada (Recipient), Mocanu, Elena (Recipient), Mocanu, Decebal C. (Recipient), Pechenizkiy, Mykola (Recipient) & Stone, Peter (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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University of Texas at Austin
Decebal Mocanu (Visiting researcher)
16 Jan 2016 → 16 Apr 2016Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution › Scientific
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"Deep Learning and its applicability" at University of Würzburg, Germany.
Decebal Mocanu (Speaker)
24 Aug 2015 → 28 Aug 2015Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific
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University of Pennsylvania
Decebal Mocanu (Visiting researcher)
15 Sept 2014 → 15 Dec 2014Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution › Scientific