Personal Data

Date and place of birth: Hunedoara, 1998

Education and degrees

2021-present: Ph.D. Student in Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Scientific advisor: Assoc. prof. dr. habil. Teodora Cătinaș

2019-2021: Master Degree in Advanced Mathematics, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

2016-2019: Bachelor Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

2012-2016, Iancu de Hunedoara National College, Hunedoara

Employment history

2022-present: Research assistant at ICTP

2021-2022: Mathematics Teacher at Montessori Transylvania School

Teaching Experience

• Laboratories of Numerical Analysis, Numerical Calculus and Numerical Methods, Seminars of Algebra, Calculus, General Mathematics, Special Mathematics at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

Membership in professional societies:

• American Mathematical Society (since 2024);
• SIAM – Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (since 2024);

Talks at conferences

• Numerical Analysis, Numerical Modeling, Approximation Theory (NA-NM-AT) (4-7.11.2024), Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Zilele Academice Clujene), “Spherical interpolation of scattered data by means of combined Shepard operators”.
• 26th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), (16-19.09.2024), Timișoara, Romania, “An application of the Shepard operator in image reconstruction”.
• Le 16ème Colloque Franco-Roumain, (26-30.08.2024), Bucharest, Romania, “Spherical interpolation of scattered data using least squares thin-plate spline and inverse multiquadric functions”.
• Sesiunea de Comunicări Ştiinţifice ale Studenţilor – Matematică, Facultatea de Matematică și Informatică, UBB Cluj-Napoca (25.05.2024), “Spherical interpolation of scattered data using least squares thin-plate spline and inverse multiquadric functions”.
• Numerical Analysis, Numerical Modeling, Approximation Theory (NA-NM-AT) (6-9.11.2023), Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Zilele Academice Clujene), “Combined Shepard operators applied in image reconstruction”.
• 9th International Conference on Mathematics and Informatics (MathInfo) (7-8.09.2023), Târgu Mureș, Romania, “An application of the Shepard operator in image reconstruction”.
• 14th Joint Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science (MaCS) (24-27.11.2022), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, “New Shepard operators in the univariate case”.
• Numerical Analysis, Numerical Modeling, Approximation Theory (NA-NM-AT) (26-28.10.2022), Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Zilele Academice Clujene), “New Shepard operators in the univariate case”.
• International Conference on Approximation Theory and its Applications (12-14.09.2022), Sibiu, Romania, “Univariate Shepard operators combined with least squares fitting polynomials”.
• Functional Analysis, Approximation Theory and Numerical Analysis (5-8.07.2022), Matera, Italy (online), “Iterative Shepard operator of least squares thin-plate spline type”.
• Sesiunea de Comunicări Ştiinţifice ale Studenţilor – Matematică, Facultatea de Matematică și Informatică, UBB Cluj-Napoca (21.05.2022), “Univariate Shepard operators combined with least squares fitting polynomials”.
• International Student Conference StudMath-IT (18-19.11.2021), Arad, “Iterative Shepard operator of least squares thin-plate spline type”.
• Zilele Academice Clujene, 70 de ani de la înființarea Institutului de calcul „Tiberiu Popoviciu” (28.10.2021), Cluj-Napoca, “Shepard operator of least squares thin-plate spline type”.
• International Conference on Mathematics and its Applications in Science and Engineering (1-2.07.2021), Universidad the Salamanca, Spain (online), “Shepard operator of least squares thin-plate spline type”.

Participations at Conferences

• ”Machine Learning Prague 2024“, Prague, Czech Republic (22-24.04.2024) (Online).
• VII Workshop on Innovative Teaching Methodologies for Math Courses on Engineering Degrees, 05.07.2021, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal (Online).

Computer experience

• Operating systems: Windows, Linux.
• Programming languages: Matlab, Julia.
• Word-processing languages: LaTeX, Scientific Work Place.

Languages

• English
• French.

Papers:

• T. Cătinaș, A. Malina, Spherical Shepard-Bernoulli operator, J. Appl. Math. Comput. (2024), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12190-024-02285-z
• A. Malina, Univariate Shepard operators combined with least squares fitting polynomials, Filomat, 38 (2024) no. 15, pp. 5507-5516. https://doi.org/10.2298/FIL2415507M
• N. Suciu, F.A. Radu, J.S. Stokke, E. Cătinaș, A. Malina, Computational orders of convergence of iterative methods for Richards’ equation, arXiv:2402.00194v1, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.00194
• T. Cătinaș, A. Malina, Spherical interpolation of scattered data using least squares thin-plate spline and inverse multiquadric functions, Numer. Algor., 97 (2024), pp. 1397-1414, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11075-024-01755-6
• A. Malina, Iterative Shepard operator of least squares thin-plate spline type, Dolomites Res. Notes Approx., 16 (2023), no. 3, pp. 57-62. http://doi.org/10.14658/PUPJ-DRNA-2023-3-8
• T. Cătinaș, A. Malina, The combined Shepard operator of inverse quadratic and inverse multiquadric type, Stud. Univ. Babeș-Bolyai Math., 67 (2022), no. 3, pp. 579-589. http://doi.org/10.24193/subbmath.2022.3.09
• T. Cătinaș, A. Malina, Shepard operator of least squares thin-plate spline type, Stud. Univ. Babeș-Bolyai Math., 66 (2021), no. 2, pp. 257-265.
  http://doi.org/10.24193/subbmath.2021.2.02