Personal Data

Date and place of birth: Hunedoara, 1998

Education and degrees

2021-2025: Ph.D. Student in Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Scientific advisor: Assoc. prof. dr. habil. Teodora Cătinaș, Thesis Title: Methods for approximating multivariate functions

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

2026-Present: Scientific researcher III at ICTP

2022-2026: Research assistant at ICTP

2021-Present: Associate Teaching Assistant at Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

2021-2022: Mathematics Teacher at Montessori Transylvania School

Teaching Experience

• Laboratories and seminars of Numerical Analysis, Probabilities and Statistics,  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) (3-6.11.2025), Cluj-Napoca, Romania ( Zilele Academice Clujene), „Methods for interpolating scattered data”. 
• 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:

• Papers published in WOS journals:

1. Malina, A., Stan, A. Componentwise localization of positive periodic solutions for a general Bazykin-type system. Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl. 94, 104701 (2027)
2. E.S. Grigoriciuc, A. Malina, A Stancu-Schurer type extension of higher order of the Cheney-Sharma operators, Math. Slovaca 76 (2026), no. 1, pp. 225-244, https://doi.org/10.1515/ms-2025-1155
3. T. Cătinaș, A. Malina, Spherical Shepard-Bernoulli operator, J. Appl. Math. Comput. 71, pp. 1267–1283 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12190-024-02285-z
4. 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
5. 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
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
7. 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
8. 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

• Papers published in SCOPUS journals:

1. E. Ș. Grigoriciuc, A. Malina, On a generalization of the Stancu-Schurer operator of higher order. J. Numer. Anal. Approx. Theory  (2026), accepted. 

• Papers published in Proceedings WOS:

1. A. Malina, An application of the Shepard operator in image reconstruction, 2024 26th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), Timisoara, Romania, 2024, pp. 61-67, https://10.1109/SYNASC65383.2024.00023.
2. N. Suciu, F.A. Radu, J.S. Stokke, E. Cătinaș, A. Malina, Computational orders of convergence of iterative methods for Richards’ equation, N. Suciu, F.A. Radu, J.S. Stokke, E. Cătinaș, A. Malina, Computational orders of convergence of iterative methods for Richards’ equation, 2025.