☰ Prof.dr. Horia F. Pop - Research activities

National research programs - Coordinations

2012-2016: Project director of the Partnership research grant 2011-3.2-0917 "System for management and intelligent analysis of medical data in order to improve response strategies for acute and chronic diseases", financed by Romanian National Research Council (CNCS)
2007-2010: Project director of the PNII-IDEI research grant ID_550/2007, "Robust methods and models of data analysis with applications to natural sciences", financed by Romanian National Council for University Scientific Research (CNCSIS)
2005-2008: Project director for the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca for the excelence research grant no. PC-D11-PT00-147 "New techniques in nuclear magnetic resonance on solids"; General contractor is the Research and Development Institute for Isotopic and Nuclear Technologies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

National research programs - Participations

2007–2010: CRONIS – Decision system based on multi-agent techniques for the generation, optimization and management of the national registry of chronic non-transmisible diseases. Partners: Institute for Research, Design and Production of Automatization Equipment and Installations Bucharest, Cluj Branch, Ion Chiricuță Oncological Institute of Cluj, Iuliu Hțtieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Cluj and Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj. Grant PNCDI II Partnerships No. 11-003/2007.
2006–2009: Contributions in the domain of multiagent systems using methods of cognitive psychology, interface agents and aspect oriented programming paradigm. Partners: Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Chair of Psychology and Chair of Programming Languages and Methods from BBU. Grant 307248/2006, financed by the Babeș-Bolyai University.
2005-2007: Systems for collaborative decision aid in academic environments - case study BBU. Grant TP 2/2005, financed by the Babeș-Bolyai University. Research grant coordinated by Prof. Stefan Nitchi.
2004-2007: Evolutionary computing: new paradigms, techniques and classes of evolutionary algorithms. Grant 23/322/2004, 23/322/2005, Contract between the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca and the Minsitry of Education and Research. Research grant coordinated by Prof. D. Dumitrescu.
2001-2003: New methods of evolutionary computation. Applications in machine learning, evolutionary optimisation, scientific data analysis and natural language processing. Grant 34971/2001, 34971/2002, 34971/2003, Contract between the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca and the Minsitry of Education and Research. Research grant coordinated by Prof. D. Dumitrescu.
1998-2000: Modeling and implementation of a multidisciplinary algorithms database to create a high performance computing center. Grant 193/1998 (code 193), 32575/1999 (code 291), 31/2000 (code 275). Contract between the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca and the National Council of University Scientific Research, Ministry of Research and Technology. Research grant coordinated by Prof. Militon Frențiu.
1995-1997: Study for building a university computer network. Useful algorithms in the functioning of the university services network. Contract between the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca and the Ministry of Education. Research grant coordinated by Prof. Militon Frențiu. Contract 241/1995 (Useful algorithms in the operation of the university services network). Contract 5010/1996 (Elaboration and implementation of new algorithms for different problems). Contract 7010/1997 (Study of algorithms complexity and programs optimization).
1994: Computer program for dimensioning the lighting installations of social, cultural and sports buildings. Contract 115/1994 between the Buildings Technical University, Bucharest and the Ministry of Science and Technology, External collaborator. Research grant coordinated by Prof. Cornel Bianchi.
1993-1997: Elaboration of models and algorithms for applications from different domains. New performant algorithms concerning problems of classification, simulation and reorganization of data. Contract 1087B/1993, 3010/1994, B10/Grant 244/1995, Grant 943/1996, Grant 309/1997, Contract between the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca and the Ministry of Education and Science. Research grant coordinated by Prof. Militon Frențiu and Grigor Moldovan.
1992: Electrical energy distribution networks for the consumer, Pop, F., Beu, D., and Pop, H. F. Contract No. 92F/1992 between the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and the Ministry of Education and Science. 20% of the value of the contract are for the Department of Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, representing some computer programs. Research grant coordinated by Prof. Florin Pop.
1988: Energetic balance sheet for "Mucart" Co. (Romanian), Pop, F., Filip, A., Moca, M., and Pop, H. F. Contract No. 96/1988 between the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and "Mucart" Co. Research grant coordinated by Prof. Florin Pop.

International research programs - Coordinations

2002-2003: Coordinator, together with Prof. Thomas R. Cundari from Faculty of Chemistry, University of North Texas and Prof. Costel Sârbu, from Faculty of Chemistry, Babeș-Bolyai University, of the research project "US-Romanian Research on Soft Computing Approaches to Modeling Metal Chemistry for Catalysis Applications", financed by National Science Foundation, from the United States, under the number 0308637/2002
2000-2002: Coordinator, together with Prof. Thomas R. Cundari from Faculty of Chemistry, University of Memphis and Prof. Costel Sârbu, from Faculty of Chemistry, Babeș-Bolyai University, of the research project "US-Romanian Research on Soft Computing Approaches to Modeling Metal Chemistry for Catalysis Applications", financed by National Science Foundation, from the United States, under the number 0077531/2000
1998-2000: Coordinator of the Babeș-Bolyai University participation in the project proposal Tempus Phare Compact Measures Project "Lighting Engineering Center", registered under No. CME-97-3551. The general coordinator of the project is Dr. Florin POP, from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

International research programs - Proposals

2005: Coordinator of the Babeș-Bolyai University participation in the HEAT Project ("Higher-Education Applied Tools"), submitted to CCE for financial support as a FP6 STRPS project. The general coordinator of the project is prof. Laurent Flory, Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon
1998-2001: Executive Secretary of the Coordination Team of the "Computational Natural and Socio-Human Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies" program, developed by the Babeș-Bolyai University and proposed to be financially supported by the World Bank
1995-1996: Coordinator of the Babeș-Bolyai University participation to the EUMEDNET Project - proposal phase. The General Coordinator of the EUMEDNET ("A EUropean and MEDiterranean Trade Support NETwork") Project is Dr. Juan Carlos M. COLL from Universidad de Malaga, Spain

International research programs - Participations

1999-2001: Member of the project DAWAI - research project on the time-adaptive processing of natural language, supported through a grant of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft", developed at the Natural Languages Division, Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
1998-2000: Participation at the Tempus-Phare CME - Compact Measures Project - CME-03551-97, coordinated by Prof. Florin Pop, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
1997-1999: Participation at the Tempus SJEP Project 11168 / 1996, "Restructuring the (Re)Training of School Teachers in Computer Science"
1997-1999: Participation at the Tempus SJEP Project 11219 / 1996 "Support for Chemistry College by Computer Aided Learning"
1993: Participation, together with Florin Pop, Dorin Beu and Mircea Moca from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, at the research grant "Characterization of glazings materials for daylighting applications", under Contract JOU2-CT-0052, Coordinator dr. Marc Fontoynont, ENTPE, France

International research visits

19-28 July 2018: Collaboration and documentation visit, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme
8-16 July 2017: Collaboration and documentation visit, Hyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, in the framework of the research program "System for management and intelligent analysis of medical data in order to improve response strategies for acute and chronic diseases", financed by UEFISCDI-CNDI
6-17 July 2015: Collaboration and documentation visit, Tongji University, Shanghai and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in the framework of the research program "System for management and intelligent analysis of medical data in order to improve response strategies for acute and chronic diseases", financed by UEFISCDI-CNDI
13-27 July 2014: Collaboration and documentation visit, INSA Rouen, France and University Hospital Bruxelles, Belgium, in the framework of the research program "System for management and intelligent analysis of medical data in order to improve response strategies for acute and chronic diseases", financed by UEFISCDI-CNDI
19-26 June 2013: Research visit, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey, in the framework of the research program "System for management and intelligent analysis of medical data in order to improve response strategies for acute and chronic diseases", financed by UEFISCDI-CNDI
21-30 May 2009: Invited Professor, 3rd Central European Functional Programming School, CEFP 2009, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and Selye Janos University, Komarno, Slovakia
4-11 October 2008: Research visit, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, in the framework of the research program "Robust Methods and Models of Data Processing with Applications in Natural Sciences", financed by the Romanian National Council for University Scientific Research (CNCSIS)
17 June - 15 July 2008: Research visit, University of Liverpool and University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, in the framework of the research program "Robust Methods and Models of Data Processing with Applications in Natural Sciences", financed by the Romanian National Council for University Scientific Research (CNCSIS)
1 January - 16 May 2006: Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, United States, in the framework of the Academic Exchange Agreement between the two universities
15 June - 15 August 2002: Research visit, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Memphis, United States, in the framework of the common research program "US-Romanian Research on Soft Computing Approaches to Modeling Metal Chemistry for Catalysis Applications"
1 July - 31 August 2001: Research visit, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Memphis, United States, in the framework of the common research program "US-Romanian Research on Soft Computing Approaches to Modeling Metal Chemistry for Catalysis Applications"
1 October 1999 - 30 April 2001: Member of the project DAWAI - research project on the time-adaptive processing of natural language, supported through a grant of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft", developed at the Natural Languages Division, Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
25 August - 14 September 1999: Research visit at the Lighting Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology, in the framework of the Tempus Phare Project CME-03551-1997
6 June - 5 July 1999: Research visit at the Natural Language Division, Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, in the framework of the Tempus SJEP Project 11168 / 1996, "Restructuring the (Re)Training of School Teachers in Computer Science", with the task to produce two reports: TR-HH-6-99 - "Developing Software: Programming for What?" and TR-HH-7-99 - "A Short Introduction to SunOS"
20 April - 15 July 1998: Didactic visit at the CTI Centre for Chemistry / University of Liverpool in the framework of the Tempus sJep Project 11219 / 1996 "Support for Chemistry College by Computer Aided Learning", with the specific task to develop a didactic demonstrative software package for applications in Analytical Chemistry
1 September 1996 - 1 April 1997: Study visit at the Lawrence Orlando Berkeley National Laboratory and different other universities in California, United States
1 December 1995 - 1 March 1996: Study visit at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona and the Universidad de Malaga, in Spain
17 March - 15 April 1994: Study visit at the University of Liverpool, under a ROMLISS program having the financial support of the British Council and the Soros Foundation for an Open Society. There he initiated an Academic Exchange Agreement between the Babeș-Bolyai University and the University of Liverpool
9 October 1992 - 31 January 1993: Scholarship in the field of Sun computer networks, at the Universite de Geneve in Switzerland, as a result of the co-operation relationships between the two universities

Invited conferences

31 January 2023: Opening and closing speeches at "Artificial Intelligence 4.0 @UBB", conference organized by UBB Cluj
20 September 2019: Invited lecture on "Fuzzy Data Analysis. A Fuzzy Model for Uninominal Elections" at the 27th Conference on Applied and Industrial Mathematics - CAIM 2019, Târgoviște, Romania
24 July 2018: Invited lecture on "Fuzzy Data Analysis, Case Studies in Natural Sciences" at the graduate research seminar, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
23 July 2018: Invited lecture on "Theoretical Aspects Fuzzy Data Analysis" at the graduate research seminar, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
11 July 2017: Invited speaker and instructor, "Theoretical Aspects of Fuzzy Data Analysis", at the International Workshop on Environment/Energy/Ecology Data Analytics, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
9 July 2015: Invited lecture on "Fuzzy Data Analysis" at the graduate research seminar, School of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
17-18 June 2014: Invited lecture on "Research Topics in Computer Science at BBU. Case study: Applied Computational Intelligence" at The 5th GIST- European Universities Joint Workshop, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
21-25 May 2014: Invited lecture on "Fuzzy Data Analysis. Case Studies" at the 10th Joint Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science, jointly organized by Babeș-Bolyai University and Eötvös Loránd University, Cluj, Romania
5-7 October 2012: Invited lecture on "A Fuzzy Logic Model of the Romanian Uninominal Elections System" at the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Communications, Orsova, Romania
9 July 2008: Research Conference on "Theoretical Aspects of Fuzzy Sets in Data Analysis" at the Research Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
21 February 2006: Research Conference "Fuzzy Sets in Data Analysis: Between Theory and Applications" at the Graduate Seminar, Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University
4 December 2004: Professorship inaugural conference, "Fuzzy Sets in Data Analysis: between Theory and Applications", Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
17 July 2001: Seminar on "Fuzzy Clustering" at the computational chemistry research group, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Memphis, United States
5-10 June 2001: Invited conference and session chairman at the Fourth international conference of Mathematics and Computer Science, Felix-Oradea, Romania, jointly organized by the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
19 June 2000: Research talk "Self-Organizing Map in Text Mining" at the Text Mining Seminar of the Natural Language Division, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany
11 May 2000: Research talk "A Soft-Computing Approach to NLP" at the Research Seminar of the Natural Language Division, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany
18 November 1999: Research talk "Fuzzy Clustering" at the Research Seminar of the Natural Language Division, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany
8 September 1999: Invited conference "Fuzzy Clustering" at the Research Seminar of the Lighting Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland
6-10 October 1998: Presentation "ActiveX" at the Advanced Educational Technologies Intensive Courses organized under the Tempus S-JEP 12518-97 program, with the participation of the "Petru Maior" University, Targu-Mures, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, National College University of Ireland, Galway and National Technical University of Athens, Greece
20 February 1997: Invited conference "Fuzzy Clustering" at the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing Seminar, Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
7 February 1996: Invited conference "Fuzzy Clustering and Related Items" at the Artificial Intelligence Group Seminar, Department of Software, Faculty of Computer Science in Barcelona, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya