M.C. Popa

Dr. Mirela Popa works as Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, at Maastricht University, since spring 2020. She is the lab manager of the Trustworthy AI in Media Lab (TAIMLab), part of the large LTP ROBUST program “Trustworthy AI-based Systems for Sustainable Growth” consortium, since 2022. Her research interests include human behavior understanding, activity recognition, computer vision and machine learning. 

She worked before as a Post-doctoral researcher in the ICT4Life EU H2020 project, which advanced methods for integrated care for the elderly, through ambient-assisted living. She completed her PhD thesis at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, on multimodal assessment of shopping behaviour and worked as a research associate in the Intelligent and Interactive Systems (IIS) group at Innsbruck University, Austria, on developing probabilistic and compositional representations for object manipulation.