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Teaching:
  • 2007: Course instructor at University of Toronto for "CSC 324 - Principles of Programming Languages" (3rd year undergraduate), Department of Computer Science
  • 2001- : Teaching assistant at the Computer Science Department, University of Toronto (more than 20 appointments):
    • "Natural Language Computing" (CSC401 - 4th year undergraduate / 1st year graduate)
    • "Introduction to Programming Languages" (CSC324 -- 3rd year undergraduate)
    • "The Design of Interactive Computational Media" (CSC318 -- 3rd year undergraduate)
    • "Introduction to Computer Programming" (CSC108, CSC148 -- 1st year undergraduate)
  • 2001: C Language Trainer for the new employees at Siemens Automotive Company, Timisoara, Romania
  • 1999-2001: Teaching assistant (full-time) for the laboratories of Programming Techniques (Computer Programming using the C Language) at Computer Science Department, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara
Research:
  • 2004-present: Research on Automatic Speech Recognition for Webcast Lectures and Presentations (an ePresence Research Project), under the supervision of Prof. Ronald Baecker and Prof. Gerald Penn, at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada
  • 2002-2003: Research on Indexing Methods for Parsing with Typed Feature Structure Grammars, under the supervision of Prof. Gerald Penn at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada
  • 1998-2001: Research on Spoken Dialog Systems, under the supervision of Prof. Marian Boldea at the Department of Computer and Software Engineering, ”Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania
  • 1998-1999: Research assistant for the project Research on Automatic Processing and Recognition of Continuous Speech (Romanian Higher Education Scientific Research Council grants CNCSU 281/1998 and CNCSIS 567/1999)
  • 1997-1998: Research assistant for the project BABEL: A Multi-language Database - manual and automatic labeling of speech signals (Copernicus 1304/1994 contract with the European Commission)