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