Dr. Cristian-Daniel Alecsa

(former researcher at ICTP, between 2017-2021)

This website does not contain the papers elaborated after leaving ICTP.

Last update: February 21, 2022.

Former position:

Research Assistant at Tiberiu Popoviciu Institute of Numerical Analysis

Postdoc, Romanian Institute for Science and Technology

Research domains:

  1. Optimization Methods for Machine Learning
  2. Data Science Techniques
  3. Scientific Computing & Numerical Algorithms
  4. Mathematical Modeling

Personal Data

Date and place of birth : 15.03.1990, Săveni, Botoșani

Educational Background

2005 – 2009 : High School „Dr. Mihai Ciucă”, Săveni, section Mathematics – Computer Science

2010 – 2013 : Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca

2013 – 2015 : Master Studies at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, field Applied Mathematics;

2015 – 2019 : Doctoral Studies at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, field Nonlinear Operators and Differential Equations

Employment Experience

3 February 2020 – ?: Machine Learning Researcher at Romanian Institute of Science and Technology (RIST) : Postdoc position for the”DeepRiemann” project entitled “Riemannian Optimization Methods for Deep Learning” – funded European Regional Development Fund and the Romanian Government through the Competitiveness Operational Program 2014-2020

1 January 2017 – January 2021: Assistant Researcher at Tiberiu Popoviciu Institute of Numerical Analysis (ICTP), Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

3 July 2019 – 23 December 2019 : Machine Learning Engineer at EspresSoft-Tech SRL, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Conferences and Workshops

  1. S.C. Laszlo, C.D. Alecsa, T. Pinta, An extension of the second order dynamical system that models Nesterov’s convex gradient method, Games, Dynamics and Optimization (GDO2020), Rome, Italy, February 24-26, 2020.
  2. Interdisciplinary Conference for Phd Students, Baru Mare, Hunedoara, 3-5 June 2016
  3. Student Scientific Session, Phd Students, Cluj-Napoca, 31 May 2016
  4. Student Scientific Session, Phd Students, Cluj-Napoca,  6 June 2017
  5. Numerical Analysis, Approximation and Modeling (Symposium), Cluj-Napoca, 14 June 2017
  6. Național Session of Mathematics Scientific Communications, Iași, 6-9 July 2017
  7. Weekly Seminars at ‘Tiberiu Popoviciu’ Institute of Numerical Analysis, 2017
  8. PhD Scientific Reports at ‘Nonlinear Operators and Differential Equations’ Research Group, UBB, 2015-present

 

Teaching Experience

http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/files/orar/2015-1/cadre/alcc.html
Seminar – Basic Mathematics – first semester, 2015/2016, Mathematics for Computer Science (teaching in Romanian), Undergraduate (for 1st and 2nd year students)
Seminar – Differential Equations – first semester, 2015/2016, Mathematics (teaching in Romanian), Undergraduate (for 2nd year students)
Lab – Differential Equations – first semester, 2015/2016, Mathematics (teaching in Romanian), Undergraduate (for 2nd year students)

http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/files/orar/2015-2/cadre/alcc.html
Seminar – Special Topics of Differential Equations – second semester, 2015/2016, Mathematics and Mathematics for Computer Science (teaching in Romanian), Undergraduate (for 2nd year students)
Lab – Dynamical Systems – second semester, 2015/2016, Computer Science (teaching in English), Undergraduate (for 2nd year students)

http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/files/orar/2016-1/cadre/alcc.html
Lab – Probability and Statistics – first semester, 2016/2017, Computer Science (teaching in Romanian), Undergraduate (for 2nd year students)
Lab – Probability and Statistics – first semester, 2016/2017, Computer Science (teaching in English), Undergraduate (for 2nd year students)
Seminar – Differential Equations – first semester, 2016/2017, Mathematics (teaching in Romanian), Undergraduate (for 2nd year students)
Lab – Differential Equations – first semester, 2016/2017, Mathematics (teaching in Romanian), Undergraduate (for 2nd year students)

http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/files/orar/2016-2/cadre/alcc.html
Lab – Numerical Calculus – second semester, 2016/2017, Computer Science (teaching in English), Undergraduate (for 3rd year students)
Lab – Numerical Analysis – second semester, 2016/2017, Mathematics (teaching in Romanian), Undergraduate (for 2nd year students)
Lab – Dynamical Systems – second semester, 2016/2017, Computer Science (teaching in English), Undergraduate (for 1st year students)

http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/files/orar/2017-1/cadre/alcc.html
Lab – Mathematical Statistics – first semester, 2017/2018,  Mathematics for Computer Science (teaching în Romanian), Undergraduate (for 3rd year students)
Seminar – Differential Equations – first semester, 2017/2018, Mathematics (teaching in Romanian), Undergraduate (for 2nd year students)
Seminar – Differential Equations – first semester, 2017/2018, Mathematics for Computer Science (teaching in Romanian), Undergraduate (for 2nd year students)

http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/files/orar/2017-2/cadre/alcc.html
Seminar – Dynamical Systems – second semester, 2017/2018, Computer Science (teaching in Romanian), Undergraduate (for 1st year students)

Computer experience

Programming languages: Matlab, C, C++, Maple, HTML, CSS, JQuery
Word-processing languages: LaTeX, Scientific Work Place, Beamer

Languages

English

Postdoc position at Romanian Institute of Science and Technology – for the”DeepRiemann” project entitled “Riemannian Optimization Methods for Deep Learning” – funded European Regional Development Fund and the Romanian Government through the Competitiveness Operational Program 2014-2020

Research Assistant at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca – national research grant “Research Projects for Young Independent Teams” PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0266, entitled “Optimizare neneteda, convexa si neconvexa, o abordare din perspectiva sistemelor dinamice” (in Romanian)

GitHub projects: https://github.com/CDAlecsa

Contributor to a Deep Learning library: https://github.com/rist-ro/argo

Research Internship at the Research Group on Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, 05.11.2019 – 12.11.2019

Publications

Publication Fields