Resume (updated Aug. 2006):

• Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa - PhD in Computer Science – area: Artificial Intelligence, 2003-Present
• Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania - Master in Software Project Management , 2003-Present
• Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Faculty of Cybernetics and Applied Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania  - BA in Economic Informatics - Graduation thesis: Evolving text mining, 1997-2002

• Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa - Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Aug. 2003-Present; Responsibilities: Teaching aspects of object-oriented languages and data structures under C++ and Java;
• MediaPro, Bucharest, Romania - Financial Database Analyst, Financial Department, 2002-2003; Responsibilities: Design of new financial reports, data mining, maintenance of the of the database and of the data flow;
• Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania - Researcher, Economic Research Department, 2002-2003; Responsibilities: Data mining at macro-economical level;
• Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania - Teaching assistant, Computer Science Department, 2001-2002; Responsibilities: Lecturer and co-author of the Data Mining Course.

• 2006 Flavian Vasile, Adrian Silvescu, Dae-Ki Kang, Vasant Honavar: TRIPPER: Rule Learning Using Taxonomies. PAKDD 2006 [link] ;
• 2003 Processes of Consciousness. Flavian Vasile - The 6th International Conference on Information Fusion 2003 - Special session SS8 ;
• 2003 Flavian Vasile, Constanta Bodea: Multimedia memory, a step beyond classical databases towards real information fusion - the 6th International Conference on Economic Informatics, Bucharest;

• 2005 Flavian Vasile, Adrian Silvescu, Vasant Honavar: Tripper: Rule Learning using Taxonomies – Workshop paper  - 2005 AAAI Conference - Human Comprehensible Machine Learning Workshop [slides];

• 2003 Flavian Vasile, Constanta Bodea: Premises for a Multimedia Memory - Informatica Economica 7/03 (Romanian only);
• 2002 Flavian Vasile, Constanta Bodea: The use of data mining techniques in the study of the equipoise on the labor market for the young graduates - Informatica Economica 4/02 (Romanian only);

• 2004 Present and Future of Knowledge Management Systems –  Masters Thesis (Romanian only) [to add] abstract; 
• 2002 Evolving Text Mining - BA graduation thesis (Romanian only) [to add] abstract;

• 2001 Course material for the Data Mining Course - held at the faculty of Cybernetics during the period 2001-2003.

• Programming languages: Assembler, Pascal, C, C++, Visual C, .Net, C#, Visual Basic,  Java, ActionScript, Lingo, Oracle Forms, PL/SQL, ASP, PHP, JSP, Prolog, Pearl, Python;
• Data Bases: Oracle 8i (attested diploma from ORACLE), SQL Server, MySQL;
• Software Modeling Techniques: UML, OMT.

• 2006 Compressing Conditional Probability Tables using rules.
• 2004-2005 ILP methods for Relational Learning: Rule pruning by abstraction.
• 2003-2004 Mutimodal classification, text mining using multiple bags of words;
• 2002-2003 Web agent design new facilities and optimizations using genetic algorithms on state-of-the-art algorithms;
• 2002 Research project on software development for decision assistance at a macroeconomic level regarding the labor market, using the CRISP-DM methodology;
• 2002 Text mining agent graduation project.