Dr. Sorin M. Iacob
Research Scientist

Phone: +31 (0) 15 2517875
Fax:     +31 (0) 15 2517801

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Experience
- 2007 – present: Research Scientist at Thales Research & Technology – NL/D-CIS Lab
- 2000 – 2007: Researcher at the Telematica Institute in Enschede
- 1998 – 2000: Post-doc researcher a the Information Technology Group, Delft University of Technology
- 1996 – 2000: Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Telecommunications, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 1991 – 1996: Teaching Assistant at the Dept. of Telecommunications, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Education
- 1998 – Ph. D. in Computer Science and Engineering (Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania)
- 1991 – Dipl. Eng. In Electronics and Telecommunications (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Additional information
Interests:
- Design of autonomous agents (embodied and virtual)
- Actor-Agent Communities: design of collaboration and self-organization
- Data and systems security, persistent protection of information, Digital Rights Management
- Past interests:
- Physical security (advanced surveillance systems, identification and biometrics, threat detection)
-  Artificial Intelligence (sub-symbolic, non-representational)
- Computer vision, Media Management (automatic indexing and metadata extraction for multimedia content)
- Theoretical models of perception and cognition