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groups researchers and PhD students working in one of the following  directions: </para><section><title>Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing, and Internet of Things</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Exascale Data Processing </para></listitem><listitem><para>Monitoring data-intensive applications </para></listitem><listitem><para>Portability in Clouds and open source Platform as a Service </para></listitem><listitem><para>Cloud resources management and self-organization in heterogeneous cloud </para></listitem><listitem><para>Data-intensive applications </para></listitem><listitem><para>Ontologies for Cloud services </para></listitem><listitem><para>Cloud governance  </para></listitem><listitem><para>HPC service exposure in the Cloud </para></listitem><listitem><para>Empirical software engineering for cloud-based applications  </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Big Data Applications and Data Analysis</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Accelerating applications on clouds and HPC </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Graph processing </para></listitem><listitem><para>Astronomy image processing and object detection </para></listitem><listitem><para>Satellite-based image processing </para></listitem><listitem><para>Smart grids </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>Hybrid processing on clouds, IoT, and HPC </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Mixing GPUCPU, edge devices, and clouds for optimizing execution of large scale distributed applications </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>Scheduling algorithms for distributed systems </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Optimal and suboptimal heuristics with energy, cost and execution constraints </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Multi-agent approaches and recommender systems: </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>health monitoring and healthcare systems  </para></listitem><listitem><para>customer-relationship management </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>Machine learning techniques for:  </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>knowledge extraction from data (medical, biological, financial) </para></listitem><listitem><para>intrusion and anomaly detection </para></listitem><listitem><para>prediction for auto-scaling of  resources in distributed systems </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>Metaheuristic algorithms  for:  </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>scalable cloud resource allocation </para></listitem><listitem><para>model inference and parameter estimation in biological systems </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>Explainable Artificial Intelligence  </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Signal and image processing using deep neural networks (<ulink url="http://staff.fmi.uvt.ro/~darian.onchis/simtresearch.html">Group - Signal, Image and Machine Learning</ulink>) </para></listitem><listitem><para>Uncertainty in deep neural networks </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Applications of Machine Learning in Earth Observation</title><para>(<ulink url="https://sage.ieat.ro/">EO+ML Research Group</ulink>) </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Application of advanced computational techniques for Earth Observation problems </para></listitem><listitem><para>Big Data Processing platforms (processing of massive Earth observation data)  </para></listitem><listitem><para>Machine Learning algorithms in Remote Sensing </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Cybersecurity</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Blockchain-driven </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Consensus mechanisms </para></listitem><listitem><para>Fraud detection </para></listitem><listitem><para>Smart-contracts security </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>Intrusion detection </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Host and network-based intrusion detection </para></listitem><listitem><para>Exact and inexact pattern-matching </para></listitem><listitem><para>Malware analysis </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Static analysis </para></listitem><listitem><para>Dynamic analysis </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>Mitigation and recovery </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>Digital/cyber forensics </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Data/file carving </para></listitem><listitem><para>Data mining techniques </para></listitem><listitem><para>Trace and log analysis </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>Criminal investigations </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>DNA matching for crime investigations </para></listitem><listitem><para>Profiling using DNA analysis </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Theory of Computing</title><para>(<ulink url="http://tcs.ieat.ro/">TCS Research Group</ulink>) </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Algorithms and Computational Complexity </para></listitem><listitem><para>Agent-based models, game theory and complex networks </para></listitem><listitem><para>Symbolic computation </para></listitem><listitem><para>Unification and matching </para></listitem><listitem><para>Constraint logic programming </para></listitem><listitem><para>Proof-based algorithm synthesis </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Computational and Applied Mathematics</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Qualitative and quantitative aspects of Dynamical Systems (time-delayed systems, impulsive systems, fractional-order systems) </para></listitem><listitem><para>Simulation of fractional-order systems using HPC </para></listitem><listitem><para>Analysis of nonlinear and chaotic phenomena in: fractional-order neural networks models, complex-valued neural networks </para></listitem><listitem><para>Applications of the theory of dynamical systems to: medicine, neuroscience, aerodynamics, economy </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section></section></article>