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Awards

Scholarships, paper awards, and competition results.

2026

Adobe Systems Romania Scholarship

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

Awarded for outstanding academic achievement, research contributions, and involvement in the national AI, AcadNet, and Cybersecurity Olympiads.

2025

Most Impactful Scientific Paper Award · Engineering Domain

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

For the Stochastic Taylor Derivative Estimator research.

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2025

Best Scientific Master's Paper Award · Engineering Domain

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

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2025

"Teodor Ceaușu" Scholarship for Excellence in Research and Technological Development

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

Awarded to top master's and PhD students for outstanding research performance.

Award announcement

Footage from the on-stage announcement of the Best Scientific Paper and Most Impactful Paper awards at the POLITEHNICA Bucharest Students’ Scientific Communications Session, 2025.

Award announcement, SCSS 2025, POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Award announcement, SCSS 2025, POLITEHNICA Bucharest

FIRST Robotics Competition

2026

Rookie All-Star Award · 2026 FIRST Championship, Daly Division

First Romanian team to win an award at a FIRST World Championship event.

2026

Rookie All-Star Award · Ankara Regional

2026

Quality Award · Başkent Regional

Student Scientific Communication Session

Services and Applications in Large-Scale Distributed Systems · 2nd Place

SCSS

2026

Distributed Algorithms · 1st Place

SCSS

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2025

Cloud/Fog/Edge Applications and Systems · 1st Place

SCSS

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2023

Cloud/Fog/Edge Applications and Systems · 2nd Place

SCSS

2024

Selected international programs

Oxford Machine Learning Summer School

University of Oxford

2024, 2025

The Machine Learning Summer School

Okinawa, Japan

2024

East European Machine Learning Summer School

Google DeepMind · Košice, Slovakia

2023

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · Volunteer

Paris, France

2023

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) · Volunteer

New Orleans, US

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2023
Earlier competition results

International Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon · 3rd Place

AI-based multi-agent crisis decision

2026

Nitro Language Processing Hackathon · Top 8% National

2023

LiRo Machine-Learning Romanian NLP Hackathon · 1st Place National

2022

AWS DeepRacer Hackathon · Top 4.8% National

National Stage

2022

Google Hash Code · Top 5% Worldwide

2022

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest · Top 37%

Regional Stage

2020, 2021

Google Kick Start · Top 40% Worldwide

2021

Bloomberg BPuzzled · Top 5% National

2021

National Mathematics Olympiad · Top 41% National

2017