{"id":2433,"date":"2016-07-04T14:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/?page_id=2433"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:43:03","slug":"alexandru-caranica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/people\/alexandru-caranica\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandru Caranica"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a name=\"top_link\"><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><br \/>\nTechnical consultant, Research staff, PhD, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology,<br \/>\nUniversity Politehnica of Bucharest<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> alexandru.caranica@upb.ro<br \/>\n<strong>Office:<\/strong> B042, Leu Campus<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><a title=\"Degrees\" href=\"#degrees_link\">Degrees and Professional Experience<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Degrees<\/li>\n<li>Professional experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><a href=\"#researchInterests_link\">Research Interests<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><a title=\"Academic Activity\" href=\"#academicActivity_link\">Academic Activity<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Teaching<\/li>\n<li>Teaching books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Last update: March 2026<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><a href=\"#scientificActivity_link\">Scientific Activity<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>National research projects<\/li>\n<li>International research projects<\/li>\n<li>National Collaborations<\/li>\n<li>Affiliation to scientific community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><a href=\"#listOfPublications_link\">List of publications<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD Thesis<\/li>\n<li>Books and book chapters<\/li>\n<li>Journal and conference papers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"researchInterests_link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests <a href=\"#top_link\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/top.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"12\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spoken Language Technology (Automatic Speech\/Speaker Recognition, Speech Indexing, Spoken Term Detection)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Natural Language Processing (Statistical Language Modeling, Diacritics &amp; Punctuation Restoration)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Computer network security<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">High availability systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"degrees_link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Degrees and Professional Experience <a href=\"#top_link\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/top.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"12\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>Degrees<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Post-doctoral studies, in Electronics and Telecommunications (Dec 2019), University \u201cPolitehnica\u201d of Bucharest.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">PhD Degree, in Electronics and Telecommunications (Dec 2015), University \u201cPolitehnica\u201d of Bucharest.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Master`s Degree, in Electronics and Telecommunications (July 2012), University \u201cPolitehnica\u201d of Bucharest.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bachelor`s Degree, in Electronics and Telecommunications (July 2010), Constanta Maritime University.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Highschool Graduation Degree (June 2006), \u201cTraian\u201d Highschool, Constanta.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Professional experience<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Assistant professor<\/strong>\u00a0(2023 &#8211; present) at Department of Electronic Devices, Circuits and Architectures, <strong>University Politehnica of Bucharest. <\/strong>Teaching Security in Computer Networks.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Scientific Researcher<\/strong>\u00a0(Dec 2015 \u2013 present) at <strong>University Politehnica of Bucharest<\/strong>, Speech and Dialogue Research laboratory.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MLOps Engineer &amp; Co-founder<\/strong>\u00a0(Jan 2019 &#8211; present) for <strong>Zevo Technology Srl<\/strong>. I focus on streamlining the process of taking ML models to production, and then maintaining and monitoring them<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Systems Director<\/strong> (Jan 2004 \u2013 present) for <strong>GLYKON SRL<\/strong>, Constanta, Romania. I design and administer clusters or servers based on Lenovo \/ Dell (Linux, Windows Server, VMWare). Also, I am involved in a lot of IT integration projects for the company (Fuel Management Systems, WMS Applications, Industrial &amp; Retail Sector, Wireless Infrastructure implementation, etc.).<\/li>\n<li><strong>PhD Student<\/strong> (Oct 2012 \u2013 Dec 2015) at <strong>University Politehnica of Bucharest<\/strong>, Speech and Dialogue Research laboratory.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Teaching Assistant<\/strong> (March 2012 \u2013 Oct 2014) at Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, <strong>Constanta Maritime<\/strong> <strong>University<\/strong>. Teaching Sensor Networks, Analog-to-Digital Communication and Mobile Communication Laboratory. Supervising BSc projects in sensor networks and embedded systems.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Implementation Expert<\/strong> (2008 \u2013 2012) at <strong>Constanta Maritime<\/strong> <strong>University<\/strong>. Developed software for the research department, administered web servers and developed web applications.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Short Term Expert<\/strong> (2009 \u2013 2012) at <strong>University Politehnica of Bucharest<\/strong>. Developed high traffic conference web-sites and network security laboratory platforms for the students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"academicActivity_link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Academic Activity <a href=\"#top_link\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/top.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"12\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>Teaching<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All my teaching activity took place in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Constanta Maritime University and Department of Electronic Devices, Circuits and Architectures, University Politehnica of Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master curricula<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Security in Computer Networks (2023 &#8211; present)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bachelor curricula<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sensor Networks, seminary (2012 \u2013 2014) and laboratory (2012 \u2013 2014);<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analog-to-Digital Communication, seminary (2012 \u2013 2014) and laboratory (2012 \u2013 2014);<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mobile Communications, seminary (2012 \u2013 2014), laboratory (2012 \u2013 2014).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Teaching books<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alexandru Caranica,<\/strong> <em>&#8220;Re\u0163ele de senzori: \u00eendrumar de laborator&#8221;<\/em>, Laboratory Guide, Nautica Publishing House, Constanta, 2014, ISBN: 978-606-681-029-6.<\/li>\n<li>Electronic support for &#8220;Analog-to-digital Communications&#8221; laboratory, Constanta Maritime University;<\/li>\n<li>Electronic support for &#8220;Mobile Communications&#8221; laboratory, Constanta Maritime University;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Electronic support for \u201cNetwork Security\u201d laboratory, University Politehnica of Bucharest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"scientificActivity_link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Scientific Activity <a href=\"#top_link\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/top.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"12\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>National research projects<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">2014 &#8211; 2016: research staff, <a title=\"AFLR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.softwinresearch.ro\/index.php\/ro\/proiecte\/aflr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">project AFLR<\/a> (&#8220;Phonetic Analysis of the Romanian Language&#8221;), funded by the Romanian Government through UEFISCDI, project coordinator Softwin Group, ID PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1451.<\/li>\n<li>2017 &#8211; 2019: research staff, project <a href=\"https:\/\/tor-sim.pub.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ToR-SIM<\/a>\u00a0(&#8220;Integrated software platform for malware analysis of mobile terminals&#8221;), funded by the Romanian Government through UEFISCDI,\u00a05Sol\/2017.<\/li>\n<li>2017 &#8211; 2020: research staff, <a href=\"http:\/\/campus.pub.ro\/lab7\/spiava\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SPIA-VA<\/a> (&#8220;Intelligent Systems for Video and Audio Analysis \u2014 Technologies and Innovative Video Systems for Person Re-identification and Analysis of Dissimulated Behavior&#8221;),\u00a0 grant UEFISCDI 2SOL\/2017 (2017-2020).<\/li>\n<li>2019 \u2013 2020: Researcher at <strong>University Politehnica of Bucharest<\/strong>, in the project \u201cRISC V-based hardware-software system for Machine Learning Applications\u201d,\u00a0 R&amp;D project funded by\u00a0<strong>NXP Semiconductors Romania SRL<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>2018 &#8211; 2021: research staff, project <a href=\"https:\/\/siima.pub.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SIIMA<\/a> (&#8220;Integrated Information System for the Management of Activities Inside Institutions&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>2018 &#8211; 2021: research staff, project <a href=\"https:\/\/multimond.wixsite.com\/multimond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MultiMonD2<\/a> (&#8220;Multiagent intelligent systems platform for the monitoring of water quality on the Romanian sector of the Danube and Danube Delta&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>Aug 2019 &#8211; Dec 2019: research staff: \u201cRISC V-based hardware-software system for Machine Learning Applications\u201d project (research and development project funded by NXP Semiconductors Romania SRL).<\/li>\n<li>2021 &#8211; 2022: research staff, project \u201cEfficiency and Effectiveness of Circuit Verification using Machine Learning Methods v2\u201d. Research and development project funded by Infineon Technologies Romania &amp; Co. SCS.<\/li>\n<li>2022 &#8211; 2024: research staff, in <a href=\"https:\/\/avesic.upb.ro\">AVESIC<\/a> project (R&amp;D project funded by the Romanian Government through UEFISCDI, project coordinator Infineon Technologies Romania &amp; Co. SCS).<\/li>\n<li>Mar 2023 &#8211; Dec 2023: project director at BOLD TEHNOLOGIES SRL, in the \u201cIntegrated voice to text analytics system (<a href=\"https:\/\/voita.boldtech.eu\">VOITA<\/a>)\u201d project (R&amp;D project funded by the Romanian Government through UEFISCDI, project coordinator Bold Technologies SRL).<\/li>\n<li>Jan 2023 \u2013 present: Researcher at <strong>POLITEHNICA<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Bucharest<\/strong>, in the project \u201cAI-based-technologies for trustworthy solutions against disinformation\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/ai4trust.eu\/\">AI4TRUST<\/a>), R&amp;D project funded by the European Union through Horizon Europe programme, ID 101070190, project coordinator\u00a0<strong>Fondazione Bruno Kessler<\/strong>, Trento, Italy.<\/li>\n<li>June 2024 \u2013 May 2025: Researcher at <strong>POLITEHNICA<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Bucharest<\/strong>, in the project \u201cGenerative AI for Requirement Engineering (GenAI4RE)\u201d, R&amp;D project funded by\u00a0<strong>Infineon Technologies Romania &amp; Co. SCS<\/strong>, contract no. 4520242912.<\/li>\n<li>Jan 2024 \u2013 Dec 2025: Researcher at <strong>POLITEHNICA Bucharest<\/strong>, in the project \u201cTehnologii bazate pe inteligen\u021b\u0103 artificial\u0103 pentru solu\u021bii de \u00eencredere \u00eempotriva dezinform\u0103rii\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/ai4trust-ro.upb.ro\/\">AI4TRUST-RO<\/a>), R&amp;D project funded by the Romanian Government through UEFISCDI, ID PN-IV-P8-8.1-PRE-HE-ORG-2023-0078, contract no. 27PHE\/ 2023, project coordinator\u00a0<strong>POLITEHNICA<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Bucharest<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Jun 2022 \u2013 Jul 2024: Researcher at <strong>POLITEHNICA<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Bucharest<\/strong>, in the project \u201cAI-assisted Verification of Smart Integrated Circuits\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/avesic.upb.ro\/\">AVESIC<\/a>), R&amp;D project funded by the Romanian Government through UEFISCDI, ID PN-III-P2-2.1-PTE-2021-0460, contract no. 90PTE \u2044 2022, project coordinator\u00a0<strong>Infineon Technologies Romania &amp; Co. SCS<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Sept 2024 \u2013 Sept 2026: Researcher at <strong>POLITEHNICA\u00a0Bucharest<\/strong>, in the project \u201cIDS\/IPS Detection and Protection System for Critical Communication Infrastructures with DDoS Alert and Blocking Capabilities\u201d (SDPICaDDoS), R&amp;D project funded by the Romanian Government through UEFISCDI, ID PN-IV-P5-5.6-SOL-2024-26, contract no. 26SOL \u2044 2024, project coordinator <strong>POLITEHNICA\u00a0Bucharest<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>International research projects<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2023 &#8211; present: research staff, in <a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/id\/101070190\">AI4TRUST<\/a> project (R&amp;D project funded by the European Union through Horizon Europe programe, project coordinator Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">National collaborations<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><a title=\"Softwin R&amp;D\" href=\"http:\/\/www.softwinresearch.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Softwin R&amp;D<\/a>: several research projects in digital signal processing and natural language processing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Affiliation to scientific community<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Jan 2012 \u2013 present;<\/li>\n<li>Member of SpeeD Laboratory, Oct 2011 \u2013 present;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Organizer<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Member of the organizing committee for the 8th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue \u2013 SpeD 2015, SpeD 2017, SpeD 2019, SpeD 2021, SpeD 2023 (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sped.pub.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/sped.pub.ro\/<\/a>&#8220;).<\/li>\n<li>Member of the organizing committee for the The 7th edition of the International Conference &#8220;Advanced Topics in Optoelectronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies&#8221; &#8211; ATOM-N 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Member of the organizing committee for the The 6th edition of the International Conference &#8220;Advanced Topics in Optoelectronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies&#8221; &#8211; ATOM-N 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"listOfPublications_link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>List of publications <a href=\"#top_link\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/top.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"12\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>PhD thesis<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PhDThesis_AlexandruCaranica.pdf\"><em>Optimizations in Spoken Language Recognition<\/em><\/a>\u201d, PhD Thesis, University \u201cPolitehnica\u201d of Bucharest, Dec 2015 (scientific coordinator: prof. Corneliu Burileanu).<\/p>\n<h4>Books and book chapters<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alexandru Caranica,<\/strong> <em>&#8220;Re\u0163ele de senzori: \u00eendrumar de laborator&#8221;<\/em>, Laboratory Guide, Nautica Publishing House, Constan\u021ba, 2014, ISBN: 978-606-681-029-6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Journal papers<\/h4>\n<p><strong>2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manolache, Cristian, Cristina Andronache, Alexandru Guzu, <strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>,\u00a0Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo, and Georg Pelz. \u201c<em>Synthetic Benchmark for Data-Driven Pre-Si Analogue Circuit Verification.<\/em>\u201d Electronics 13, no. 13 (2024): 2600. ISI IF 2.6 (Q2).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Alexandru CARANICA<\/strong>, Dan ONEA\u0162\u0102, Horia CUCU, Corneliu BURILEANU, \u201c\u2022 Confidence Estimation for Lattice-Based and Lattice-Free Automatic Speech Recognition<em>,<\/em>\u201d in University \u201cPolitehnica\u201d of Bucharest Scientific Bulletin, Series C, vol. 83, issue 3, pp. 155-169, Bucharest, 2021, ISSN: 2286-3540.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Alexandru Lucian Georgescu, <strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Horia Cucu, Corneliu Burileanu, \u201c<em>RoDigits \u2013 a Romanian connected-digits speech corpus for automatic speech and speaker recognition,<\/em>\u201d in University \u201cPolitehnica\u201d of Bucharest Scientific Bulletin, Series C, vol. 80, issue 3, pp. 45-62, Bucharest, 2018, ISSN: 2286-3540.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo, Corneliu Burileanu, &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.romjist.ro\/full-texts\/paper561.pdf\">Survey on Multilingual Spoken Term Detection<\/a>,<\/em>&#8221; in Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 210-221, 2017, ISSN 1453-8245, ISI IF 0.442.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo<strong>,<\/strong> Corneliu Burileanu, &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/ceai.srait.ro\/index.php?journal=ceai&amp;page=article&amp;op=download&amp;path%5B%5D=3126&amp;path%5B%5D=1394\">On the design of an automatic speaker independent digits recognition system for Romanian language<\/a>,<\/em>&#8221; in Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 65-76, Jun 2016, ISSN 1454-8658, ISI IF 0.449.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo<strong>,<\/strong> Corneliu Burileanu, &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificbulletin.upb.ro\/rev_docs_arhiva\/rez84a_488788.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capitalization and punctuation restoration for Romanian language<\/a>,<\/em>&#8221; in University \u201cPolitehnica\u201d of Bucharest Scientific Bulletin, Series C, vol. 77, issue 3, pp. 95-106, Bucharest, Aug 2015, ISSN: 2286-3540.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alexandru Caranica,<\/strong> Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo<strong>,<\/strong> Corneliu Burileanu, &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tjfeonline.com\/admin\/archive\/1213.09.20151442156906.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exploring Spoken Term Detection with a Robust Multi-Language Phone Recognition System<\/a>,<\/em>&#8221; in Rev. T\u00e9c. Ing. Univ. Zulia, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 97-104, Aug 2015, ISSN: 0254-0770.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo, <strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Corneliu Burileanu, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tjfeonline.com\/admin\/archive\/113.09.20151442157147.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>On Formatting Transcriptions of Romanian Speech<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; in Rev. T\u00e9c. Ing. Univ. Zulia, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 1-11, Dec 2015, ISSN: 0254-0770.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Conference papers<\/h4>\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C. Manolache, C. Andronache,<strong> A. Caranica<\/strong>, H. Cucu, A. Buzo, C. Diaconu and G. Pelz, &#8220;Applying Multi-objective Acquisition Function Ensemble for a candidate proposal algorithm,&#8221; in 2023 International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), 2023, pp. 116-121, doi: 10.1109\/SpeD59241.2023.10314884.<\/li>\n<li>C. Manolache, C. Andronache, <strong>A. Caranica<\/strong>, H. Cucu, A. Buzo, C. Diaconu and G. Pelz, &#8220;Adaptive Planning Search Algorithm for Analog Circuit Verification,&#8221; in 2023 International Semiconductor Conference (CAS), 2023, pp. 81-84, doi: 10.1109\/CAS59036.2023.10303674.<\/li>\n<li>A. Vulpe, C. Dobrin, A. Stefan, <strong>A. Caranica<\/strong>, &#8220;AI\/ML-based real-time classification of Software Defined Networking traffic,&#8221; in ARES 2023: The 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2023, doi: 10.1145\/3600160.3605078.<\/li>\n<li>A. Vulpe, M. Zamfirache, <strong>A. Caranica<\/strong>, &#8220;Analysis of Spectral Entropy and Maximum Power of EEG as Authentication Mechanisms,&#8221; in 2023 International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), 2023, doi: 10.1109\/SpeD59241.2023.10314890.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C. Manolache, <strong>A. Caranica<\/strong>, H. Cucu, A. Buzo, C. Diaconu and G. Pelz, &#8220;Enhanced Candidate Selection Algorithm for Analog Circuit Verification,&#8221; in 2022 International Semiconductor Conference (CAS), 2022, pp. 137-140, doi: 10.1109\/CAS56377.2022.9934364.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dan Onea\u0163\u0103, <strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Adriana Stan, and Horia Cucu. \u201cAn evaluation of word-level confidence estimation for end-to-end automatic speech recognition.\u201d In 2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), pp. 258-265. IEEE, 2021.<\/li>\n<li>D. Dr\u0103ghicescu, <strong>A. Caranica<\/strong>, O. Fratu, &#8220;HONEYPOT TECHNOLOGIES FOR MALWARE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS,&#8221; in STRATEGIES XXI &#8211; Command and Staff College, 2021, pp. 265-271, doi: 10.53477\/2668-2028-21-34.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cristian Manolache, Alexandru-Lucian Georgescu, <strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Horia Cucu, \u201cAutomatic Annotation of Speech Corpora using Approximate Transcripts,\u201d in the Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), 2020, Milano, Italy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Alexandru Vulpe, Marius Emil P\u00e2rvu, Drago\u0219 Dr\u0103ghicescu, Octavian Fratu, &#8220;<em>ToR-SIM, A Mobile Malware Analysis Platform<\/em>&#8220;, in the Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), 2019, Timi\u0219oara, Romania &#8211; October 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Alexandru Vulpe, Octavian Fratu, &#8220;<em>Tenable Smart Building Security Flow Architecture using Open Source Tools<\/em>&#8220;, in the Proceedings of WorldCist&#8217;18 \u2013 6th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, Workshop Emerging Trends, Challenges and Solutions in Infrastructures and Smart Building Management, Naples, Italy, 27th &#8211; 29th of March 2018.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Lucian Georgescu, Alexandru Vulpe, Horia Cucu, \u201c<em>Multilingual Low-Resourced Prototype System for Voice-Controlled Intelligent Building Applications,<\/em>\u201d in Rocha \u00c1., Adeli H., Reis L., Costanzo S. (eds) Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST\u201918 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 747. Springer, Cham.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Horia Cucu<strong>,<\/strong> Corneliu Burileanu, Fran\u00e7ois Portet, Michel Vacher, &#8220;<em>Speech Recognition Results for Voice-controlled Assistive Applications,<\/em>&#8221; in the Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), Bucharest, 2017, 8p, ISBN 978-1-5090-6496-0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo, \u201c<em>Exploring an Unsupervised, Language Independent, Spoken Document Retrieval System,<\/em>\u201d in the Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Bucharest, Romania, 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Andi Buzo, Horia Cucu, Corneliu Burileanu, &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/ceur-ws.org\/Vol-1436\/Paper78.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SpeeD @ MediaEval 2015: Multilingual phone recognition approach to Query by example STD<\/a>,<\/em>&#8221; in the Proceedings of the MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop, Wurzen, Germany, 2015, ISSN: 1613-0073.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Horia Cucu, <strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Andi Buzo, Corneliu Burileanu, &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015_TSP_informalNumbers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On transcribing informally-pronounced numbers in Romanian speech<\/a>,<\/em>&#8221; in the Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), Prague, Czech Republic, 2015, pp. 372-376.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bogdan Ludu\u015fan, <strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Horia Cucu, Andi Buzo, Corneliu Burileanu, Emmanuel Dupoux, &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/login.jsp?tp=&amp;arnumber=7343096&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D7343096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exploring Multi-Language Resources for Unsupervised Spoken Term Discovery<\/a>,<\/em>&#8221; in the Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), Bucharest, 2015, pp. 17-22, ISBN 978-1-4673-7559-7.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gheorghe Pop, <strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Horia Cucu, Drago\u015f Burileanu, &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/login.jsp?tp=&amp;arnumber=7343087&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D7343087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sound Event Recognition in Smart Environments<\/a>,<\/em>&#8221; in the Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), Bucharest, 2015, pp. 45-50, ISBN 978-1-4673-7559-7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Corneliu Burileanu, &#8220;<em>An automatic speech recognition system with speaker-independent identification support<\/em>&#8220;, in Proc. SPIE 9258, Advanced Topics in Optoelectronics, Microelectronics, and Nanotechnologies VII, 925834, Constan\u021ba, Romania, 2015, doi:10.1117\/12.2072245.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, Vali Mihaela Stefan, Danut Argintaru, Eliodor Constantinescu, &#8220;<em>Simulating The Marusya Setup With Geant4<\/em>&#8220;, in Proc. of The 10th International Balkan Workshop on Applied Physics &#8211; IBWAP 2009, Constan\u021ba, Romania, 2009.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mihaela Hnatiuc,<strong> Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, &#8220;<em>Communication between the Sensor Levels for Monitoring Subjects with Disabilities<\/em>&#8220;, in Advanced Technologies for Enhanced Quality of Life &#8211; AT-EQUAL &#8217;09, Ia\u0219i, Romania, 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Danut Argintaru, Calin Besliu, Alexandru Jipa, Tiberiu Esanu, <strong>Alexandru Caranica<\/strong>, <em>&#8220;Glauber analysis of He+AT nuclear colisions at 4.5 GeV<\/em>&#8220;, in Proc. of the 15th National Conference on Physics, Bucharest, Romania, 2008.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">D. Argintaru, A. Baldin, C. Argintaru, A. Jipa, D. Moscalu, <strong>Alexandru Caranica,\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/crawl.prod.proquest.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/fpcache\/c265b44bbfbebd72944039b13bccd256.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJF7V7KNV2KKY2NUQ&amp;Expires=1467635510&amp;Signature=AB5FhcCd39RA6G6zGa%2FqYzde0pc%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Searching for the Mixed Phase with the Marusya Setup at the Nuclotron Energies<\/em><\/a>&#8220;, in Constanta Maritime University Annals,\u00a0 Year IX, Vol.11, 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a name=\"listOfCitations_link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical consultant, Research staff, PhD, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest Email: alexandru.caranica@upb.ro Office: B042, Leu Campus Degrees and Professional Experience Degrees Professional experience Research Interests Academic Activity Teaching Teaching books Last update: March 2026 Scientific Activity National research projects International research projects National Collaborations Affiliation to scientific community List<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3209,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2433","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4925,"href":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2433\/revisions\/4925"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.speed.pub.ro\/speed3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}