Mihai Dascalu is a Professor at the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest. He holds a double Ph.D. with the highest distinctions in Computer Science (Excellent, UPB) and Educational Sciences (Très Honorable avec Felicitations, University Grenoble Alpes, France). Complementary to his competencies in NLP, technology-enhanced learning (TEL), and discourse analysis, he holds a multitude of professional certifications (e.g., PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CBAP, CISA, C|EH, and CISSP) and has extensive experience on strategic projects on non-refundable funds (EU, WB, USTDA). Moreover, he received the distinction “IN TEMPORE OPPORTUNO” in 2013 as the most promising young researcher in UPB, obtained a Senior Fulbright scholarship in 2015, has become a Fulbright Ambassador since 2018, and holds the US patent # 9734144 B2 ” Three-Dimensional Latent Semantic Analysis”. He is also a corresponding member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists. He conducts research on natural language processing, educational data mining, intelligent tutoring systems, discourse analysis, and computer supported collaborative learning.