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Email: mihai.oltean@gmail.com

Home page: https://mihaioltean.github.io

Few things I have created

• DiDiR2 robot: A Direct Drive Robot. A movie is here.
• F-Roof: A multi-functional roof - solar electricity and food production roof. More details here.
• Fruits-360 dataset: a large dataset of pictures with fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Kaggle repository.
• Jenny 5 robot: a multi-purpose, almost humanoid robot. More details here: jenny5.org
• Optical computing with time delays: a simple way to solve NP-complete problems with delayed photons. More details here: Optical computing with time-delays.
• Multi Expression Programming: a Genetic Programming variant encoding multiple solutions in the same chromosome and thus exploring the search space better than single-solution-per-chromosome techniques. More details here: mepx.org
• MEPX - crossplatform software (runs on Windows, MacOS, Ubuntu) for data analysis (regression and classification). Based on Multi Expression Programming. More details here: mepx.org
• Automatic generation of heuristics. I evolved heuristics better than NN and MST for the Travelling Salesman Problem. More details here: Evolve heuristics
• Traceless Genetic Programming: - a very fast version of Genetic Programming. Does not store the program itself, rather it stores only the output. More details here: Traceless Genetic Programming
• No Free Lunch proof: I gave a practical proof that functions for which random search is better than a Genetic Algorithm exist.
• 3D Printizer - a 3D printer. Joint collaboration with Ciocan Ioan and Ciocan Andrei. More details here: Uzina 3D

Classes I have initiated

• Intelligent Robots - 2006-2017. More than 100 different robotic projects have been created using Lego, IRobot, Festo, Lynxmotion, Intellibrainbot robots.
• Unconventional computing - 2007-2017. Theoretical and practical examples with Optical, DNA, Quantum, chemical, water based, etc computers.

Competitions I have organized

• UBBOTS: Intelligent robots day @ Babeș-Bolyai University. Took place in each spring. Students made demonstrations of their work to the interested public. National televisions have transmited from the event. More details here: UBBOTS

Publications

• Journal papers: 23
• Conference papers: 35
• Book chapters: 4
• Books (in Romanian): 8. I wrote my first book with problems solved in Pascal when I was in highschool and 5 others when I was student.

See here the entire list: List of publications

Research Grants (as Principal Investigator)

• Nokia research grant, 2010-2011, 41452 RON, (approx 10000 Euros)

• Natural Computing of Excellence, Ministry of Education and Technology, 2007-2010, 526000 RON, (approx 130000 Euros)

• Genetic Programming of Excellence, Ministry of Education and Technology, Romania, 2006-2008, 124000 RON (approx 37000 Euros)

• Algorithms and models of computation having biological and physical proceses as the source of inspiration, Babeș-Bolyai University, 2007-2009, 73600 RON (approx 21000 Euros)

• New models of evolutionary computation for generating computer programs, predictions, digital circuits design, data analysis, Ministry of Education and Technology, TD, 2004-2005, 6360 RON

Awards, Prizes, Nominees

• Best paper award: International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms 2007, (for Oltean Mihai, Liquid State Genetic Programming, International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, Warsaw, Poland, ICANNGA 2007, B. Beliczynski et al. (Eds.), Part I, LNCS 4431, Springer-Verlag, pp. 220-229, 2007.)

• Best paper nominee: European Conference on Genetic Programming 2006: (for: Dioșan, L., Oltean, Mihai, Evolving crossover operators for function optimization, European Conference on Genetic Programming, LNCS, Springer-Verlag, pp. 97-108, 2006)

• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2006 and 2007.

• Second prize at National Olympiad (Contest) in Informatics, 1995.

• Member of the extended Romanian team for International Olympiad in Informatics, 1995.

Organized workshops

• Shlomi Dolev, Mihai Oltean, Optical Supercomputing - 4^th International Workshop, OSC 2012, in Memory of H. John Caulfield, Bertinoro, Italy, July 19-21, 2012. Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7715, Springer 2013.

• Shlomi Dolev, Mihai Oltean: Optical Supercomputing - 3^rd International Workshop, OSC 2010, Bertinoro, Italy, November 17-19, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6748, Springer 2011.

• Shlomi Dolev, Mihai Oltean: Optical SuperComputing, 2^nd International Workshop, OSC 2009, Bertinoro, Italy, November 18-20, 2009. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5882, Springer 2009.

• Shlomi Dolev, Tobias Haist, Mihai Oltean: Optical Super Computing, First International Workshop, OSC 2008, Vienna, Austria, August 26, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5172, Springer 2008.

Special issues

• Shlomi Dolev, Mihai Oltean: Natural Computing journal: special issue on Optical Parallel Super Computing, vol. 14, issue 3, Springer 2015.

• Shlomi Dolev, Mihai Oltean: Journal of Supercomputing: special issue on Optical Super Computing, vol. 62, issue 2, Springer 2012.

• Shlomi Dolev, Tobias Haist, Mihai Oltean: Natural Computing journal: special issue on Optical Super Computing, vol. 9, issue 4, Springer 2010.

Participation to conferences and workshops

• 3^rd Optical SuperComputing Workshop, Bertinoro, Italy. 2010.

• 2^nd Optical SuperComputing Workshop, Bertinoro, Italy, 2009.

• 1^st Optical SuperComputing Workshop, August 26, Vienna, Austria, 2008.

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO, July 5-11, London, UK, 2007.

• 5^th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, September 4-8, York, United Kingdom, 2006.

• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, April 23-27, Dijon, France, 2006.

• 8^th European Conference on Genetic Programming, March 29-April 1, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2005

• World Computer Congress, The Symposium on Professional Practice in AI, August 26-29, Toulouse, France, 2004.

• 6^th NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH'04, June 24-26, Seattle, USA, 2004.

• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC'04, June 19-23, Portland, USA, 2004.

• 4^th International Conference on Computational Sciences, ICCS'04, June 6-9, Krakow, Poland, 2004.

• First International Industrial Conference Bionik, April 22-23, Hanover, Germany, 2004.

• First International Workshop on BioInspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology, BioADIT'04, January 29-31, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2004.

• 7^th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, JCIS'03, 26-30 September, 2003, North Carolina, USA, 2003.

• 7^th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL'03, 14-17 September, 2003, Dortmund, Germany, 2003.

• 5^th International Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA'03, 28-30 August, Berlin, Germany, 2003.

Education

• PhD in Information Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (1999-2004), PhD thesis: New Evolutionary Computation Models and their Applications to Machine Learning, Babeș-Bolyai University, scientific adviser: prof. D. Dumitrescu, defended on December 2004.

• M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (1999-2000).

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (1995-1999). Undergraduation thesis: Generarea automată a programelor de calculator, Babeș-Bolyai University, scientific adviser: prof. Militon Frențiu, defended on July 1999.

Scholarships

• CEEPUS Scholarship, Budapest, Hungary, May 2002.

• CEEPUS Scholarship, Linz, Austria, May 2001.

• Performance scholarship, Babeș-Bolyai University, 1999-2000.

• Performance scholarship, Babeș-Bolyai University, 1996-1997.