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Mirela Popa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering at Maastricht University. She joined the faculty in spring 2020. Currently, she is also the lab manager of the Trustworthy AI Media Lab (TAIMLab) as part of the LTP ROBUST program focused on 'Trustworthy AI-based Systems for Sustainable Growth.' Her research interests encompass understanding human behavior, activity recognition, computer vision, and machine learning. Prior to her position at Maastricht University, she worked as a Post-doctoral researcher on the ICT4Life EU H2020 project, which aimed at developing advanced methods for integrated care for the elderly and ambient-assisted living. She completed her PhD thesis at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, focusing on multimodal assessment of shopping behavior and was previously employed as a research associate in the Intelligent Interactive Systems (IIS) group at Innsbruck University in Austria, where she developed probabilistic compositional representations for object manipulation.
The School of Business and Economics (SBE) encompasses departments like Organization, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Economics.