Silvia - Monica FERARU
 
Office address :

Institute of Computer Science
Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch
Boulevard Carol I, 22A, cod 700506, Iasi, Romania
phone: +40 232 241708
e-mail: mferaru@etc.tuiasi.ro

Date of birth:
  11.1977
Education and training:
2009 PhD
"Electronics and Telecommunications" Faculty, "Gh. Asachi" Technical University, Iasi,
Specialisation: Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
Thesis title: Contributions to the analyzing and development of computer aided learning and monitoring technologies with applications in biomedical engineering domain
06.2004 MSc in Medical Engineering and Intelligent Systems , Technical University "Gh. Asachi", Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Iasi
Oct 1997- Oct 2003 BSc
Faculty of "Biomedical Engineering", University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Gr. T. Popa" of Iasi, Section graduated: Bioinstrumentation and Medical Techniques
Nov 2008 - present Research Assistant at the Institute for Computer Science, Romanian Academy, since November 2008; my work at the Institute for Computer Science started in 2005, when I worked like associated assistant to a priority project of the Romanian Academy, "Cognitive systems and applications", I worked also on developing the web page Archive for the Romanian Sounds
  Member of the Center for Education and Research - CERFS
Research grants:
  12-079 CNMP - "Adaptive bio-mimetic SONAR heads for autonomous vehicles", member in research team, 2009-2011
46CEEX - "Para-clinical automatic system for para-clinical diagnosis for the dysfunctional syndrome of the stomatognat system", member in research team, 2005-2008
3374CEEX -"Developing an integrated research network in the domain of methods, analysis and equipment for determining caloric consumption patterns and walking dynamics patterns for subjects with chronic diseases", member in research team, 2005-2008
Awards:
  Gold Medal for software protect "Sound Database Archieve – Annotated and Documented Recordings for Romanian Spoken Language", Teodorescu H.N., Zbancioc M., Feraru M., Trandabăţ D., Luca R., Pistol L., to the International Conference Inventica 2009, Iaşi, June 4-6, 2009
"Special Award "Intel Education", for "SRoL - Web-based Resources and Tools used for e-Learning of Languages and Language Technology", Silvia Monica Feraru, Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, to the 4th International Conference on Virtual Learning - ICVL 2009
The list of a few publications in the last years:
  1. H. N Teodorescu, R. Ganea, M. Feraru, A. Burlui, Assement of Voice quality based on nonlinear dynamic analysis, Proceedings of The 15th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, May 25-27,2005, Bucharest, România, pp 536-542, ISBN 973-8449-89-8.
2. Feraru, M., Trandabăţ, D., Towards the Emotional Annotation of a Corpus for the Romanian Spoken Language, Romanian Academy Open Days, 8 -10 September 2006, Iaşi, Romania, 2006. ISBN 978-973-730-244-1
3. Feraru, M., Trandabăţ, D., The Emotional Annotation for Romanian Language, 4th European Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies, ECIT 2006, Iaşi, Romania, 2006, ISBN 973-730-265-6
4. Teodorescu, H.N., Feraru, M., Trandabăţ, D., Nonlinear Assessment of the Professional Voice ‘Pleasantness’, Proceedings of the 18th Biennal International EURASIP Conference BIOSIGNAL 2006, J.Jan, J.Kozumplik, I. Provaynik (Eds.), Vutium Press, pp.63-66, Biosignal, June 2006, Brno, Chech Republik, ISSN 1211 - 412X, ISBN 80-214-3152-0
5. Teodorescu, H.N., D. Trandabat, M. Feraru, M. Zbancioc, R. Luca, A Corpus of the Sounds in the Romanian Spoken Language for Language-Related Education, Carlos Perinan Pasqual (Eds.), Revisiting Language Learning Resources, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP), UK, ISBN 1-84718-156-2, Chapter six, pp. 73-89, 2007.
6. H.-N. Teodorescu, M. Feraru, A sudy on Speech with Manifest Emotions, 10th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2007, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, vol. 4629/2007, pp. 254-262, ISBN 978-3-540-74627-0
7. Teodorescu, H-N, Feraru, M., Trandabăţ, D. Studies on the Prosody of the Romanian Language: The Emotional Prosody and the Prosody of Double-Subject Sentences, C., Teodorescu, H-N (Eds.) Advances in Spoken Language Technology, The Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, România, 2007, ISBN 978-973-27-1516-1, pp. 171-182
8. H.N. Teodorescu, M. Feraru, Analyzing emotions in spoken Romanian, Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Technical Science, Information Science, Ed. Academiei Române, ISSN 1454 - 8267, vol.8, nr. 2, pp. 161-168, Bucharest, May-August 2007
9. M. Feraru, O. Voronenau, Knowledge based system used for identification and recognition the emotions, SACCS, 16-18 nov 2007, Iaşi, România
10. M. Feraru, H.N. Teodorescu, Speech Corpus for the Romanian Language: the Emotional Speech Section, Inventica 2008, Ed. Performantica, ISBN: 978-973-730-491-9, pp. 261-273, 21-24 May 2008, Iaşi, România
11. The Emotional Speech Section of the Romanian Spoken Language Archive, 5th European Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies, ECIT 2008, 10-12 July 2008, Iaşi, România, ISBN 978973730497
12. H.N. Teodorescu, M. Feraru, Classification in Gnathophonics - Preliminary Results, The Second International Symposium on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ISEEE 2008, 12-13 September 2008, Galaţi, România, Galaţi University Press, pp 525-530, ISBN 1842-8046
13. Teodorescu H.N., Feraru M., Zbancioc M.D., Assesing the Quality of Voice Synthesizers, Burileanu C., Teodorescu H.N. (Eds.) Advances in Spoken Language Technology, The Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, România, 2009, ISBN 978-973-27-1808-7, pp. 53-66 (în volum la Editura Academiei şi simultan volum IEEE Proceedings si simultan publicatie IEEE http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentCon.jsp?punumber=5129254)
14. Feraru M., Teodorescu H.N., Classification of the Emotional States in Speech using the SRoL Database - Preliminary Results, Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial intelligence 2009, Piteşti, România, ISBN 1843-2115
15. Feraru, M., Păvăloi, I., The Emotional Prosody in Romanian Spoken Language, International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering, EHB, Constanţa, Romania, 22-26.Sept.2009, vol. "Advancements of Medical Bioengineering and Informatics", Edit. UMF "Gr.T. Popa" Iaşi, pp. 247-250, 2009, ISSN 2066-7590.
16. Feraru, M., Teodorescu, H.N., SRoL - Web-based Resources and Tools used for Language and Language Technology e-Learning, Virtual Learning - Virtual Reality, Proc. 4th International Conference on Virtual Learning, ICVL 2009, Bucharest University Press, ISSN: 1844-8933, Section Models & Methodologies, pp. 119-127
What's to say about me?
  I'm optimist, impulsive, and ambitious person. I love to travel and experience different cultures.
Favorite words: "love", "true", "trust".
Favorite actions: "to be", "to share".
Wise words:
 
"Knock at the mysterious "doors"of knowledge, with good hope and they will open and allow you discover the truth or any mysteries that may be unveiled."
"Give yourself the time to work full of enthusiasm, because this causes to appear the price of success."
"Give yourself the time to give to the others all that is good, beautiful and wonderful because the life of everyone amongst us is much too short to live selfishly."
"Give yourself the time to read sacred and divinely inspired works, which form the age-old tradition of wisdom, because this will lead you to the undying spring of wisdom."
"Whatever exists inside our being exists all over at the same time. Whatever does not exist inside our being exists nowhere else."