Professional Career
Awards and Recognitions
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2007 Certificate of appreciation awarded by Colonel Jeffrey P. Hightaian, the Director of the Warfighting Center of the Air University, for Outstanding Service to the Air War College Maxwell Air Force Base Alabama.
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2003 Certificate of appreciation awarded by General Robert Ivany, the Commandant of the US Army War College. In May 2003 Major General Robert R. Ivany awarded this certificate for the outstanding performance and support of the US Army War College Electives Program throughout the 2003 academic year.
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2003 Invited to the Second Annual Reception to honor the research, scholarship and creative activities of George Mason University.
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2002 Innovative Application Award at IAAI-2002, the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 30-August 1, 2002, for the paper “Development and Deployment of a Disciple Agent for Center of Gravity Analysis,” by Tecuci G., Boicu M., Marcu D., Stanescu B., Boicu C., Comello J., Lopez A., Donlon J., Cleckner W. The following fragment is from one of the anonymous reviews: "General Comments: A quality paper that shows that, yes, even universities can do real applications simultaneously with technology research if they work closely with users."
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2002 Outstanding Graduate Student in Information Technology Award presented by Knowledge Consulting Group during Fourth Annual Banquet of the School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University.
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2002 Centennial Coin awarded by Major General Robert Ivany, the Commandant of the US Army War College, on May 22nd 2002 during the after action review for the “Case Studies in Center of Gravity Analysis” course, where the Disciple-COG system was used as a learning assistant by the students, helping them to develop their Center of Gravity Analysis project.
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2002 Certificate of appreciation awarded by General Robert Ivany, the Commandant of the US Army War College. In March 2002 Major General Robert R. Ivany, the Commandant of the US Army War College, awarded this certificate for the exceptional contributions to the successful execution of Elective Course 319jw from Winter 2002 session.
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2002 Invited to the First Annual Reception to honor the research, scholarship and creative activities of George Mason University.
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2001 Certificate of Appreciation awarded by Prof. Douglas Campbell, Director of the Center for Strategic Leadership of the US Army War College. “For exceptional contribution to the United States Army War College during the academic year 2000-2001. Your work on the Disciple-COG research project was instrumental to the development of learning agents for center of gravity determination. Your excellent technical work was a significant contribution to agent development, and your tireless support to the Artificial Intelligence course was key to the smooth integration of that agent technology into the War College curriculum. Your effort and attention to detail are deeply appreciated and reflect great credit upon yourself and George Mason University.”
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1998 Fellowship award. I received a fellowship award based on the activity performed, which contributed to the successes obtained by the Learning Agents Laboratory during the academic year 1997-1998.
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1996 The national teaching award "Laudatio" from the Romanian Department of Education.