Current position: Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology and Faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Department, University of Oradea, Romania, since 2009. Professional experience: She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, in the area of Data Mining, from "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, in 2003. In 2000 and 2001, she participated at University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in a Tempus project for the specialization in analysis and implementation of Integrated Software Management Systems in local administration. She is the local coordinator of the Oracle Academic Initiative, and participated at different specializations in this area, organized by Oracle Romania. Her current research interests include database management systems, knowledge discovery in databases, and data mining techniques. She is a member of several research groups: CCTIA (Center for Research in Information Technology and Automation), SRAIT, and the Data Mining Research Group at the University of Oradea, Department of Computer Science. She has been a program committee member and reviewer in several conferences and journals. She was a director of three, and member of several, international projects. She is the author/co-author of 10 books and more than 85 publications in the aforementioned fields, many of them in journals and international conferences.