Vlad Trifa

Current

• Researcher at SAP Research
• Scientific collaborator at University of California Los Angeles

Past

• Researcher at ATR International Research Center, Kyoto
• Research assistant at Swarm Intelligent Research Group
• Photojournalist at Daily Bruin

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Education

• Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Vlad Trifa’s Summary

As a young, dynamic and creative researcher in robotics and intelligent learning systems, I'd like to expand my knowledge towards the "real world", outside of a lab. I am eager to learn about the processes that link bright innovative ideas with concrete marketed products.

With very good communications skills and languages knowledge (I speak fluently French, German, English and Romanian, I understand Italian and Spanish, and I'm currently an intermediate Japanese learner), I enjoy interacting with people from any cultural and educational backgrounds, and help them solve their problems the best I can with my knowledge and willingness to learn about our society, and how new technolgies shape it.

Vlad Trifa’s Specialties:

Intelligent Information Systems, Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial and Swarm Intelligence, Robotics, Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks and other Embedded Systems. Strong skills in algorithmics and software engineering.

Vlad Trifa’s Experience

• Researcher

  SAP Research

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Researcher in smart collaborative items and their applications in business processes.

• Scientific collaborator

  University of California Los Angeles

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; UCLA; Computer Software industry)

  August 2005 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Researcher at the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) with Prof. Deborah Estrin and the department of biology with Prof. Charles Taylor. Development of set of tools to perform bird species' songs detection, recognition, and localization using distributed sensor networks.

• Researcher

  ATR International Research Center, Kyoto

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Research in human-robot multimodal interaction using audio-visual information integration.

• Research assistant

  Swarm Intelligent Research Group

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2004 — May 2006 (1 year 10 months)

  Assistant Swarm Intelligent Research Group at the EPFL, Responsible of the hardware upgrade of a robotic platform, configuration of an embedded linux on a pc/104 low-power motherboard. Development of a mini sensor node for micro-robot. Software developement for an embedded camera for sensor nodes.
  Full developpement of a collective Sound Localization software on sensor networks (crossbow motes).

• Photojournalist

  Daily Bruin

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

  October 2005 — March 2006 (6 months)

  Photojournalist at the top US college newpaper (daily circulation 30.000). Published over 10 pictures on the front page. Enjoyed learning a lot about work in a newspaper, and about medias in general.

Vlad Trifa’s Education

• Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

  PhD, Computer Science, 2007 — 2011 (expected)

  PhD student at the Institute for Pervasive Computing at ETH Zurich.

• University of California, Los Angeles

  Master of Science Project, Computer Science and Biology, 2005 — 2006

• Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

  M. Sc., Computer Science, 2001 — 2006

Additional Information

Vlad Trifa’s Websites:

• My Website

Vlad Trifa’s Interests:

Litterature, arts, snowboarding and martial arts, east-asian cultures and history.

Vlad Trifa’s Groups:

Member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society., mediamatic rfid workshop

•    EPFL Alumni
•    Business in Japan

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