Corina VĂDUVA – CV

Academic background

2008 – 2011
Ph.D. — Mining Image Symbols and Semantics
University Politehnica of Bucharest · Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and IT
Research focused on image information mining, content-based retrieval and semantic analysis of Earth Observation imagery.
Image Mining Semantics Earth Observation Remote Sensing
2002 – 2007
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering — Mobile and Satellite Communications
Polytechnic University of Bucharest · Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and IT
Thesis: Similarity measures based on information theory for image analysis.
Mobile Communications Satellite Systems Information Theory
1998 – 2002
High School Diploma — Mathematics & Physics
National College "Alexandru Dimitrie Ghica" · Alexandria

Professional experience

2024 – presentActive
Senior Scientist
Geosense Lab – GEOspatial and Smart SENSors for Environmental Applications · Campus Research Institute · NUST POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Research in AI-driven Earth Observation, image analysis, and environmental monitoring applications.
Earth Observation AI Environmental Monitoring
2012 – presentActive
Senior Scientist / Associate Research Professor
CEOSpaceTech – Research Centre for Spatial Information · NUST POLITEHNICA Bucharest
As Project Manager / Principal Investigator:
  • Plan, guide, monitor and update project development; manage resources to achieve project goals within scope, time and budget.
  • Write project reports and specifications; documents management.
  • Direct scientific, conceptual and algorithmic design.
  • Monitor and coordinate technical implementation.
  • Coordinate engineering according to ESA best practices.
  • Communication with Contracting Authority and Technical Officer.

As Strategy, Cooperation and Proposal Expert:
  • Draft technical proposals for national and international financing schemes: UEFISCDI, ROSA/STAR, ESA, Horizon 2020.
Project Management ESA Projects Earth Observation Image Analysis Remote Sensing
2007 / 2021 – presentActive
Research Engineer / Associate Research Professor
NUST POLITEHNICA Bucharest · Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and IT
Research and teaching activities in Earth Observation, image processing, content-based retrieval and deep learning for remote sensing applications.
University Teaching Remote Sensing Deep Learning Image Processing
Apr – Sep 2012
Visiting Scientist
German Aerospace Centre (DLR) – Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) · Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Research in content-based information retrieval from data collections containing very high resolution imagery and text descriptions.
DLR Content-Based Retrieval Very High Resolution Imagery
Mar – Oct 2010
Intern — Ph.D. Stage
German Aerospace Centre (DLR) – Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) · Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Research in Very High Resolution image processing.
DLR VHR Image Processing

Awards, prizes & scientific service

2010 · International Prize
2010 DigitalGlobe 8-Band Research Challenge
Paper: Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Spatial Analysis of Very High Resolution Satellite Images
2021 – present
Program Committee Member — IGARSS
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) — Program Committee Member since 2021.
2016 – present
Program Committee Member & Session Chair — BiDS
ESA Conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS) — Program Committee Member since 2017; Session Chair in 2016 and 2017.