I am a PhD student in the Web & Media Group at VU University Amsterdam, together with IBM Research New York and IBM Netherlands Centre for Advanced Studies. I am working at the Crowd-Watson project, under the supervision of Lora Aroyo, Chris Welty, and Robert-Jan Sips. My research interests are crowdsourcing, natural language processing, and semantic web technologies.
You can email me at: anca dot dumitrache at student dot vu dot nl
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Here are some of the courses I've been taking as part of my Master's, with links to notable projects:
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Education |
11/2013 to date |
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands PhD. Web & Media Group, in collaboration with IBM Research New York and IBM Netherlands Centre for Advanced Studies. |
09/2011 to 10/2013 |
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands MSc. Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Technology and Intelligent Internet Applications specialization. |
09/2008 to 06/2011 |
Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany BSc. Computer Science. |
09/2004 to 06/2008 |
Colegiul Naţional "Liviu Rebreanu", Bistriţa, Romania High school education, with emphasis on Mathematics and Computer Science. |
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Research Experience |
10/2011 to date |
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Student assistant in the KR&R research group, contributing to the OpenPHACTS project. |
07/2011 to 08/2011 |
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Research intern in the WBSG research group. |
10/2009 to 06/2011 |
Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany Student developer in the KWARC research group, for the BauDenkMalNetz project. |
06/2010 to 09/2010 |
DERI, Galway, Ireland Research intern in the URQ group. |
06/2009 to 08/2009 |
Recognos Romania Intern in the software development department. |
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Other Work Experience |
09/2009 to 06/2011 |
Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany Teaching assistant for the Programming in C, Programming in C++, Operating Systems Lab, Text and Digital Media courses. |
03/2009 to 06/2011 |
Universität Bremen, Germany Student assistant in the Cognitive Systems research group. |
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Skills and Achievements |
Programming languages |
Advanced: C/C++, Java; Working knowledge: C#, Prolog, Scala; Basic: Perl. |
Software | Hadoop, HBase, Protégé. |
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Languages |
Romanian: mother tongue English: fluent French: fluent German: working knowledge |