I joined Meta as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in August 2022. There, I am working part of the Health Tech Engineering team.

Previous to Meta, I have been working at Koa Health as Head of Digital Phenotyping for over three years, a company that spun out of Telefonica’s Innovation unit in November 2020. I was managing the Digital Phenotyping research team and focusing on research methods for capturing user behaviour from active/passive sensing data. Previous to Koa, I was a principal investigator and team lead at IBM Ireland for over three years, mainly focusing on patents, publications and funding. During my time at IBM, I was lecturing at NCI courses related to databases and big data part of the Higher Diploma programmes.

I completed my PhD at University College Dublin, done in collaboration with IBM Ireland, where I focused on analyzing data from relational databases and scaling it up or down while maintaining representativeness or at fast speed. I completed my Bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering from "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania . To date, I have published over 25 publications in top venues, such as Ubicomp, PAKDD, ECML-PKDD, ICTAI, ACM TIST, and have filed over 20 patents.

I draw my experience from a mix of international programmes from Europe — Erasmus at UPM Spain, a summer research internship at DCU Ireland, a brief BEST (Board of European Students of Technology) summer school in Poland, PhD at UCD Ireland — to South America — a one year AIESEC student placement as a software developer in a start-up company in Brazil.