Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology (ETTI) is the faculty I graduated from—and the field I am most passionate about. From the moment you enter the university gates, you notice the rivalries between this faculty and Automatic Control and Computer Science (ACS). I’ve never fully understood these rivalries. While they are two of the best tech faculties in Romania, I don’t see them as direct competitors. Yes, both produce engineers and heavily focus on software development, but the lens through which their students view the world is different. ETTI and ACS faculties provide distinct perspectives and mindsets for solving the same problems.
Still, under these circumstances, I was proud to step into the ACS faculty as an invited lecturer to present my research on AI and content generation to Master’s students.
The main topics we discussed included:
- Synthetic content
- Photorealistic avatars
- Deepfake & voice cloning
- Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) and Diffusion models
We didn’t just explore today’s state-of-the-art technology, but also its implications—how everything will be transformed, and the ethical considerations for the future. Society needs to prepare for this transformation, and that preparation starts in educational institutions.
I’m grateful for the wonderful opportunity and for the invitation from Laur Neagu.
It has been an honour to be part of this initiative and to help bridge the gap between the communities of ETTI and ACS!
