Marius LEORDEANU

• I am Professor of Computer Science at the Politehnica University of Bucharest and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy (IMAR). In everything I do I try to push further our understanding of Intelligence and study its ways of connecting to the world and construct our reality of mind.
• At Politehnica, I introduced in 2014, for the first time in our Computer Science Department, the courses of Computer Vision and Robotics and at IMAR I started the Advanced Computer Vision Seminar, with weekly meetings since 2016. I received my PhD from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, in the USA (2009) and Bachelors in Computer Science and Mathematics from the City University of New York (2003).
• For my work on unsupervised learning for graph matching I received, in 2014, as a single recipient, the “Grigore Moisil” Prize", the most prestigious award in Mathematics given by the Romanian Academy (please see my book: Unsupervised Learning in Space and Time, Springer, 2020). Now, in 2024, for my scientific results obtained throughout my career together with my wonderful group of young researchers and doctoral students, I received the Grand Prize in Computer Science and Mathematics, at the Romanian Research Gala (February, 2024)
• Besides science, I am interested in music, with one professional album and another single composed and co-produced ("Supersonic" 2022, "Cosmic Attraction" 2024), I write poetry (with two volumes published: "Povestea unui Cuvant" 2013 and "Odiseu si Destinul" 2024, and another one to be published in 2024 at Curtea Veche Publishing House) and prose (with one book published - "Ma numesc albastru", 2016). In my activities I always aim to connect, in a natural and coherent way, both from human and computational perspectives, different domains of human experience, in order to better understand the real world, at interplay between mind and matter.