Stefan TRAUSAN-MATU

Full Professor

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Artificial Intelligence In Education Discourse Analysis Natural Language Processing Creativity Fostering Human-Computer Interaction Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Explainable Artificial Intelligence Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Quotations: 6514 Wos Publications: 205 Journal Articles: 700 h-index: 41 Projects: 20 University Management


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Prof. Stefan Trausan-Matu, PhD is professor at the Computer Science Department of the University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB) and a pioneer in Romania in the research of artificial intelligence, discourse analysis in conversations, e-learning, human-computer interaction, collaborative and personalized systems on the web, ethics and philosophy of artificial intelligence. Now, his research interests are at the confluence of Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Text Mining, e-Learning, Knowledge Construction, Social Web, Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Ethics, Religion-Science Dialogue, and Music. He introduced the Polyphonic Model and Analysis Methodology for discourse, collaboration, learning, and creativity, based on the idea that these activities have essential common points with the polyphonic music. He has authored or edited an important number of books, book chapters and peer-reviewed papers, at prestigious conferences and journals. Prof. Trausan-Matu was a Fulbright Visitor Scholar post-doc at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA in 2005 and visiting professor at Universities of Nantes (2003 and 2007), Lyon (2008), Toulouse (2009), and Grenoble (2015) in France. Prof. Trausan-Matu was invited speaker in USA, China, Germany, France, San Marino, Puerto Rico, Croatia, etc. He received the Romanian Academy Award ”Mihai Drăgănescu” in 2015. In 1976 he won the first prize at the Romanian National Programming Olympiad. He is Vice-president of the Romanian Chapter of ACM SIGCHI and full member of the Romanian Scientists Academy. He chaired international conferences (including rated A*) and participated to the program or organizing committee of many others. Prof Trausan-Matu is the Head of the Natural Language Processing in N.S.T. University Politehnica Bucharest, is a scientific researcher I at the Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, was the Deputy Director of Romanian Academy Center for Artificial Intelligence, and conducted the Expert Systems (Artificial Intelligence) Laboratory of the National Informatics Research Institute in Romania. He won and was the Director of many research projects for the Romanian part in international European Union funded research projects (FP7 LTfLL, SkyNurse, Inf3S, EUREKA IKF, FP6 LarFLaST, PEKADS, etc.), participated in others (NSF-VMT, H2020 Rage, Erasmus+ ENeASEA, Erasmus Mundus DMKM, FP7 EU-NCIT, FP7 COOPER, FP7 ERRIC, COST TOWNTOLOGY, COST MUMIA, COST Republic of Letters, COST TextLink, etc.) and coordinated many national ones. His hobbies are photography and music.

Lastest Projects

Sistem informatic de transcriere în timp real a vorbirii în text pentru limba română și recunoașterea stărilor emoționale în apelurile de urgență 112
2021 - 2023

Lib2Life- The revival of libraries and cultural heritage through advanced technologies
2018 - 2021

The Robots and the Society: Cognitive Systems for Personal Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
2018 - 2021

Inteligent Platform for Drug Administration
2018 - 2020

Realising an Applied Gaming Eco-system
2015 - 2019

Patents

Medicine administration method for the users who want effective management of medicines in their treatment schemes
2025

Top Publications

Participation in virtual academic communities of practice under the influence of technology acceptance and community factors. A learning analytics application Beate BALTES, MIHAI DASCALU, Dan-Gheorghe Mihaila, George SMEATON, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014, 000335630100040 10.1016/j.chb.2013.10.051

PolyCAFe-automatic support for the polyphonic analysis of CSCL chats STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, MIHAI DASCALU, TRAIAN EUGEN REBEDEA, International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning SPRINGER, 2014, 000341087500002 10.1007/s11412-014-9190-y

Automated dialog analysis to predict blogger community response to newcomer inquiries MIHAI DASCALU, Yvonne SERAFIN, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2018, 000449136900038 10.1016/j.chb.2018.08.034

Research challenges in opinion mining from a Natural Language Processing perspective DUMITRU CLEMENTIN CERCEL, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST SCIENTIFIC BULLETIN SERIES C-ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE POLYTECHNIC UNIV BUCHAREST, 2016, 000393326700015

ANALYZING AND PROVIDING COMPREHENSIVE FEEDBACK FOR FRENCH CVS WITH READERBENCH MARIUS GABRIEL GUTU-ROBU, Ionut-Cristian PARASCHIV, MIHAI DASCALU, Gabriel CRISTIAN, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Olivier LEPOIVRE, UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST SCIENTIFIC BULLETIN SERIES C-ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE POLYTECHNIC UNIV BUCHAREST, 2018, 000434342000002

Recent Publications

Transhumanism, Artificial Intelligence, and the Delusion of Mind Uploading, from a Science-Theology Perspective STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Doxologia, 2025,

Cuvântul de înțelepciune și cuvintele inteligenței artificiale STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Doxologia, 2024,

Studiu asupra generării de replici explicative de către un agent conversațional STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, , 2024,

Computer-support for the analysis of rhetorical devices in texts STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Adrian-Dinu URSE, International Conference on User System Interaction 2024 , 2024,

Rhythm analysis of Romanian texts Onur-Sener VEIS, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, International Conference on User System Interaction 2024 , 2024,

Books

Sisteme inteligente de instruire pe Web STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Bucuresti: Politehnica Press, 2005,

Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 12th International Conference, ITS 2014 STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, TRAUSAN-MATU BOYER, CROSBY PANOURGIA, Springer, 2014,

Interactiunea conversationala in sistemele colaborative pe web STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Matrix Rom, 2008,

Ontologia si hermeneutica calculatoarelor STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Ed Tehnica, 2001,

Intelligent Tutoring Systems STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Kristy Elizabeth BOYER, Martha CROSBY, Kitty PANOURGIA, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014, 10.1007/978-3-642-30950-2

Filosofie şi ştiinţe cognitive GG CONSTANDACHE, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Ecaterina Cornelia NICULESCU, MatrixRom, 2002,

Prelucrarea documentelor folosind XML si Perl STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Editura MatrixRom, Bucuresti, 2001,

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 12th International Conference, ITS 2014, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 5-9, 2014. Proceedings STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Kristy Elizabeth BOYER, Martha CROSBY, Kitty PANOURGIA, Springer, 2014,

Natural Language Processing in Support of Learning: Metrics, Feedback and Connectivity STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Philippe DESSUS, Fridolin WILD, Peter Van ROSMALEN, MatrixRom, 2010,

2nd Workshop" Natural language processing in support of learning: Metrics, feedback and connectivity (NLPsL 2010)" STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Matrix Rom Publisher, 2010,

Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Natural Language Processing in Support of Learning STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Peter Van ROSMALEN, Fridolin WILD, IOS Press, 2009,

Introducere în INTERNET STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Gheorghe TECUCI, Dan TUFIS, LORINA CRISTINA NEGREANU, Editura Academiei, 1996,

Probleme de programare in limbaje avansate STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Printech, 2000,

Programare în LISP. Inteligență artificială și web semantic STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Polirom, 2004,

Interfațarea Evoluată Om-Calculator STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, MatrixRom, 2000,

Hermenutica și ontologia calculatoarelor GG CONSTANDACHE, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Ed. Tehnică, 2001,

Proceedings of the First International K-Teams Workshop STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Politehnica Press, 2011,

Interacțiune om-calculator 2004 STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Printech, 2004,

Proiectarea algoritmilor. O abordare practică TRAIAN EUGEN REBEDEA, MIHAI DASCALU, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, , 2016,

Tehnologii Web Centrate pe Interacțiunea Om-Calculator COSTIN GABRIEL CHIRU, MIHAI DASCALU, VLAD VALENTIN POSEA, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, , 2015,

12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems-Volume 8474 STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Kristy Elizabeth BOYER, Martha CROSBY, Kitty PANOURGIA, Springer-Verlag, ,

NAMED ENTITIES DISTRIBUTION IN NEWSPAPER ARTICLES FOR E-LEARNING STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Liviu-Sebastian MATEI, " CAROL I" National Defence University Publishing House, ,

ANALYSIS OF THE ALTRUISTIC DIMENSION OF CSCL CHAT STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Mohammad Hamad ALLAYMOUN, " CAROL I" National Defence University Publishing House, ,

A Deep Insight in Chat Analysis: Collaboration, Evolution and Evaluation, Summarization and Search, AIMSA 2010, LNAI 6304, 191-200 MIHAI DASCALU, TRAIAN EUGEN REBEDEA, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Springer, ,

A paper recommendation system with readerbench: the graphical visualization of semantically related papers and concepts IONUT CRISTIAN PARASCHIV, MIHAI DASCALU, Philippe DESSUS, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, Danielle S. MCNAMARA, , 2016, 10.1007/978-981-287-868-7_53

The 22th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies Maiga CHANG, MIHAI DASCALU, STEFAN TRAUSAN-MATU, IEEE, 2022,