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London, GB

• Building the neuromorphic AI platform for autonomous drones.
• Won NATO DIANA grant.
• Won 2nd place in US Army competition.
• Won the Readiness Innovation Challenge at Defense TechConnect.
• VC-backed by Techstars.
• Autosens finalist for Most Exciting Startup Award.

London, England, GB

The Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) is a NATO body working with leading researchers and entrepreneurs across the Alliance, helping them develop technologies to keep NATO populations safe and secure. With dozens of accelerator sites and test centres across the Alliance, DIANA brings together universities, industry and.

New York City, New York, US

This program is committed to supporting and advancing world-class startups focused on emerging technologies across industries including artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, quantum information science, 5G/advanced wireless technology, biotechnology, and clean energy technology.

• Defect detection in 3D printing aka additive manufacturing.
• Built and open-sourced MVP: https://github.com/dnstanciu/pool-tracker-pro
• Demo video: https://youtu.be/TMDshCcjujc

• Developing MVP for HR tech concept - quick reference checks for new hires.
• Collaborating with business partner on requirements, user stories, and promotion.
• Full-stack development: built API for back-end and web app for front-end (Django REST framework, Angular, Docker, Auth0, Google Cloud Platform).
• Documented learnings by blogging - link below.

Zürich, Zürich, CH

• Training in Regulatory Reporting and market data interfaces (Bloomberg).
• Collaborating with software architects, business analysts, and consultants to analyse, design and develop interfaces to third party systems (PL/SQL, Python).
• Participating in Design Patterns and Code Complete reading groups.
• Giving company-wide technical presentations.
• Mentoring colleagues.

Zürich, CH

• Academic guest at ETH Zürich.
• Researched the use of neuromorphic hardware and event-based cameras in robot navigation, with a focus on drones.
• Worked on mapping, localization (SLAM) and motion estimation models.
• Supervised two master students.

Colchester, Essex, GB

• Developed and tested web applications.
• Wrote unit tests (NUnit) and integration tests (Selenium).
• Built logging service for storing user activity (C#, SQL).
• Improved software engineering skills. Continuous integration with Jenkins, issue tracking with JIRA.

Essex, East England, GB

• Wrote software for comparing different feature detection methods in the field of computer vision (C++, OpenCV, MATLAB).
• Implemented image stitching application as part of a two-student team project.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd (Dropout), Neuromorphic Computing And Perception For Robotics

Master Of Research - Mres, Neuroinformatics And Computational Neuroscience

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Computer Science