HRIA - Romanian HUB for AI
Region
national
Partners
14 partners
Phase
OngoingStart
Mar 01, 2025
End
Dec 31, 2029
Project Journey & Timeline
Today is Oct 21, 2026
Project Kickoff
Official launch of project research activities.
Active project execution — 34% of timeline completed. 1167 days remaining until target completion.
Target Completion
Scheduled delivery of final milestones and objectives.
Abstract
The goal to establish and operationalize the Romanian Hub for Artificial Intelligence (HRIA) for research, development, and innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), by developing an attractive and competitive research ecosystem that brings together the efforts of the academic and business environments, with the aim of producing original scientific research, transferring research results to industry and society, developing new products and services, and generating a core of knowledge and development in Artificial Intelligence integrated into the European Research Area (ERA).
There are six research directions within UTCN:
1. Trustworthy AI
- Agentic AI for Complex Goals (Adrian.Groza@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)
- Neorosymbolic foundation models (Anca.Marginean@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)
- Multilingualism, multi-task learning (Rodica.Potolea@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)
- Speech recognition and synthesis (Mircea.Giurgiu@com.utcluj.ro, Link)
2. Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
- Understanding of the environment (Sergiu.Nedevschi@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)
- Real-time perception with low power (Florin.Oniga@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)
- AI for nonlinear control and robotics (Lucian.Busoniu@aut.utcluj.ro, Link)
3. Hardware Technologies for AI
- Self-interference rejection in radio comm. (Sorin.Hintea@bel.utcluj.ro, Link)
- Biometric electrophysiological signals on FPGA (Sorin.Hintea@bel.utcluj.ro)
- AI optimized design of integrated circuits, Marius.Neag@bel.utcluj.ro, Link)
4. AI in Healthcare
- Eye-on-AI: explaining diagnostic models (Adrian.Groza@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)
- Analysis of brain activity using AI techniques (Rodica.Potolea@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)
- AI in medical imaging (Tiberiu.Marita@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)
- Surgery Robots for Pancreas and Esophagus (Doina.Pisla@mep.utcluj.ro)
- Robotics in Oral Surgery and Dental Medicine (Doina.Pisla@mep.utcluj.ro, Link)
- Robots for Rehabilitation of Neuromotor Deficits (Doina.Pisla@mep.utcluj.ro)
5. AI in Cybersecurity and Space
- Intelligent Space Surveillance (Radu.Danescu@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)
- Analysis Spatial Data (Dorian.Gorgan@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)
6. AI for smart cities
- Optimizing Household Energy Consumption (Rodica.Potolea@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)
- Energy Optimization of Smart City (Tudor.Cioara@cs.utcluj.ro, Link)