My research interests include machine learning, text mining, computer vision, image processing and computational biology. I published over 110 articles at international peer-reviewed conferences and journals, and a research monograph with Springer. I received the "Caianiello Best Young Paper Award" at ICIAP 2013 for the paper entitled "Kernels for Visual Words Histograms". I also received the "Young Researchers in Science and Engineering" Prize awarded by prof. Rada Mihalcea for young Romanian researchers in all scientific fields, and the "Danubius Young Scientist Award 2018 for Romania" awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. Together with other co-authors, I obtained good rankings at several international competitions: 4th place in the Facial Expression Recognition Challenge of WREPL 2013, 3rd place in the NLI Shared Task of BEA-8 2013, 2nd place in the ADI Shared Task of VarDial 2016, 1st place in the ADI Shared Task of VarDial 2017, 1st place in the NLI Shared Task of BEA-12 2017, 1st place in the ADI Shared Task of VarDial 2018.