I obtained my bachelor degree in Automation and Applied Informatics at the "Politehnica" University in Timisoara and I did a 1-year Master in Human Language Technologies and Interfaces (a lot of Text and Speech Processing with a hint of HCI) at the University of Trento. I stayed at the Univ. of Trento also for my PhD. I graduated with a PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences in December 2013. During my PhD studies, the main research efforts were towards indentifying audiovisual cues for personality recognition and ultimately, use machine learning algorithms to automatically do the recognition task. Apart from this, I was also a visiting scholar at the Institute for Creative Technologies, in LA, for a few months.Specialties: social signal processing, human behavior analysis, machine learning, natural language processing.