☰ Prof.dr. Horia F. Pop - Studies & Work

Formal studies

January 1992 - November 1995: Ph.D. studies in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Ph.D. Thesis "Intelligent Systems in Classification Problems" (Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Militon Frențiu) (ISCED 2011 Level 8)
September 1987 - July 1991: B.Sc. studies in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Average final grade: 9.86 (1-10 scale). Bachelor's Degree with maximum grade: 10 (Summa Cum Laude). B.Sc. Thesis "Adaptive Prototypes in Fuzzy Clustering" (Scientific supervisor: Lect. Prof. D. Dumitrescu) (ISCED 2011 Level 6)
September 1986 - June 1987: Compulsory military service
September 1982 - June 1986: High school studies at the "Emil Racoviță" Mathematics and Physics High School, Cluj-Napoca (ISCED 2011 Level 3)
September 1978 - June 1982: Secondary studies at the "Emil Racoviță" Mathematics and Physics High School, Cluj-Napoca (ISCED 2011 Level 2)
September 1974 - June 1978: Elementary studies at the "Gheorghe Lazăr" Pedagogical School, Cluj-Napoca (ISCED 2011 Level 1)

20-25 July 1997: Advanced Summer School "Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems PARADIS '97", organized in Mangalia (Romania) by the "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, the Research Institute for Informatics, Bucharest, the University of Marseille, and Glossy SA (Global Services and Systems) Bucharest, under the sponsorship of the Service Culturel of the Embassy of France in Romania, the Romanian National Commission for Informatics and the Romanian National Tempus Office
1-5 August 1994: Summer School "Computer Assisted Learning in the Field of Artificial Intelligence", organized in Bucharest by the Romanian Academy, Department of Science and Technology of Information, Center of Advanced Research in Automatic Learning, Natural Language Processing and Conceptual Modelling and the Istituto "Dalle Molle" di Studi sull' Intelligenza Artificiale from Lugano, Switzerland

Since 6 July 2009: Ph.D. supervisor in Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
15 August 1991 - 30 September 1991: Computer Analyst, Computer Center, History Museum of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

✓ Since 24 October 2022: Member, Doctoral School Council, School of Mathematics and Computer Science
✓ Since 17 February 2020: Member, Senate Committee for Human Resources
23 February 2016 - 10 February 2020: Vice-President of University Senate
4 July 2012 - 15 February 2016: President, Senate Committee for Curriculum, Quality Assurance and Nontraditional Education
5 April 2012 - 6 April 2020: Director, Division for Information Technology and Communication
✓ Since 12 March 2012: Member, University Senate
✓ Since 25 February 2012: Director, Research Institute on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Robotics, UBB Cluj
- 2012-2020: the institute was known as Research Center on Applied Computational Intelligence
9 March 2004 - 1 March 2012: Vice-Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
✓ Since 2 March 2004: Member, Faculty Council, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
1 October 2001 - 31 December 2007: Member, Senate Committee for European Integration
1 October 1997 - 30 September 1998: Member, Organizing Committee and Faculty Council of the Faculty of Open (Inter-Disciplinary) Studies
1 February 1997 - 1 February 2004: Member, Senate Committee for University Communication Network and Internet

6 July 2022 - 19 June 2023: External Member, Doctoral School Council, School of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași

Romanian Standardization Society, National Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence
- ✓ Since 18 December 2023: Member
Scientific and Ethical Council for Artificial Intelligence, consultative body of the Romanian Government
- ✓ Since 25 May 2023: Member
CNATDCU: Romanian National Council for Academic Titles
- September 2018 - June 2020: President, Commission for Computer Science
- May-September 2018: Vice-President, Commission for Computer Science
- 10 June 2016 - 11 October 2023: Member, Commission for Computer Science
ARACIS: Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
- ✓ Since 1 October 2005: Expert, Commission for Computer Science
CNCS: Romanian National Council for Scientific Research
- 19 December 2022 - 7 December 2023: Member, Commission for Information Science and Technology
- 1 September 2016 - 9 March 2020: Member, Commission for Mathematics and Computer Science
UEFISCDI: Romanian Executive Agency for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation
- ✓ Since 1 February 2011: Expert, Commission for Computer Science
CNCSIS: Romanian National University Research Council
- 1 October 1998 - 1 February 2011: Expert, Commission for Computer Science

1 October 1995 - 30 September 1999: Associated member, Communication Center
15 April 1993 - 1 February 1997: Unix network administrator, Department of Computer Science

15 April 2014: AMIC - Asociația Matematicienilor și Informaticienilor din Cluj (Cluj Mathematics and Computer Science Association)
1 January 2007: AMS - American Mathematical Society
1 October 2006: SSM - Societatea de Științe Matematice din România (Romanian Society of Mathematical Sciences)
30 January 1997: BISC - Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing
15 November 1995 - 31 October 1998: ACM - Association of Computing Machinery