Bogdan-Iulian Ciubotaru, PhD, Eng.
easier to remember, Bogdan
Bucharest, Romania

cybersecurity expert

scientific researcher

full-stack developer

Research and military career path
2017 - Present
Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency (METRA), Ministry of National Defence

Scientific researcher, rank 3, in computer science and cybersecurity domains

2019 - Present
European Defence Agency

National Coordinator - Cybersecurity Captech

2020 - Present
Science and Technology Organization, NATO

2020 - 2023 - System Analysis and Studies Member

2023 - Present - Information Systems Technology Member

2017 - Present
Research and development projects

International funding

  • Coordinator - Artificial Intelligence Deployable Agent (AIDA), European Defence Fund (2025-2028)
  • Coordinator - European Cyber Situational Awareness Platform - Enhanced Cyberspace Operations (ECYSAP), European Defence Fund (2025-2028)
  • Coordinator - Secure Digital Military Mobility System (SDMMS), European Defence Fund (2023-2025)
  • Technical coordinator - Cyber Rapid Response Toolbox for Defence Use, Cyber4de, European Defence Industrial Development Programme 2020 (2021-2024)
  • Key expert - EU Naval Collaborative Surveillance Operational Standard, European Defence Fund 2022
  • Key expert - Romanian National Quantum Communication Infrastructure, Digital Europe

National funding

  • Coordinator, Implementation of Distributed Ledger Technologies in Internal Organizational Workflows and Support Applications for Cooperation Between National Security Institutions, PN-IV-P6-6.3-SOL-2024-2-0312
  • Key expert, Tactical, secure, and private 4G-5G networks, PN-IV-P6-6.3-SOL-2024-2-0213
  • Key expert, Entity Relation Detection in Unstructured and Structured Datasets (DeteRel), PN-IV-P6-6.3-SOL-2024-0060
  • Key expert, Certified components based interoperable system for remote electronic signature creation services conforming to eidas regulation, PN-III-P2-2.1-PTE-2021-0655, 2022-2023
  • Key expert, Identify people in video streams, using silhouette biometrics, PN-III-P2-2.1-SOL-2021-0114
  • Key expert, A non-intrusive home surveillance system for assisting elderly persons with frailty risk, PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2019-0202
  • Key expert, Strategy for national participation in the new european context for coordinating security and space industry research, PN-III-P2-2.1-SOL-2020-3-0415
  • Key expert, Search and rescue mission drone network (DEFEND), PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-0732
  • Projects in the Sectorial Research and Development Plan of the Ministry of National Defense, project manager / member of the project teams
ongoing
Scientific research articles
  • Addressing Missing Data Challenges in Geriatric Health Monitoring: A Study of Statistical and Machine Learning Imputation Methods (Gabriel-Vasilică Sasu, Bogdan-Iulian Ciubotaru, Nicolae Goga, Andrei Vasilățeanu) https://doi.org/10.3390/s25030614
  • Frailty Insights Detection System (FIDS)—A Comprehensive and Intuitive Dashboard Using Artificial Intelligence and Web Technologies (Bogdan-Iulian Ciubotaru, Gabriel-Vasilică Sasu, Nicolae Goga, Andrei Vasilățeanu, Iuliana Marin, Ionel-Bujorel Păvăloiu, and Claudiu Teodor Ion Gligore), https://doi.org/10.3390/app14167180
  • Prototype Results of an Internet of Things System Using Wearables and Artificial Intelligence for the Detection of Frailty in Elderly People (Bogdan-Iulian Ciubotaru; Gabriel-Vasilică Sasu; Nicolae Goga; Andrei Vasilățeanu; Iuliana Marin; Maria Goga; Ramona Popovici; Gora Datta) - https://doi.org/10.3390/app13158702
  • Architecture of a Non-Intrusive IoT System for Frailty Detection in Older People (Bogdan-Iulian Ciubotaru; Gabriel-Vasilică Sasu; Nicolae Goga; Andrei Vasilateanu; Alexandru-Filip Popovici) - https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12092043
  • A Quantitative Research for Determining the User Requirements for Developing a System to Assist People with Frailty (Bogdan-Iulian Ciubotaru; Vasilică-Gabriel Sasu; Andrei Vasilateanu; Nicolae Goga; Ramona Dragomir; Alexandru-Filip Popovici) - DOI: 10.1109/CSCS52396.2021.00014
  • Quantitative Research for Determining the User Requirements for Developing a System to Detect Depression (Vasilică-Gabriel Sasu; Bogdan-Iulian Ciubotaru; Ramona Popovici; Alexandru-Filip Popovici; Nicolae Goga; Gora Datta) - WOS:000802227900144
  • EXTENDED ANALYSIS USING NIST METHODOLOGY OF SENSOR DATA ENTROPY (Florin Rastoceanu; Bogdan-Iulian Ciubotaru; Ionut Radoi; Constantin Viorel Marian) - WOS:000692193500010
  • Improved Secure Internet of Things System using Web Services and Low Power Single-board Computers (Bogdan-Iulian Ciubotaru, Vasilica-Gabriel Sasu, Andrei Vasilateanu) - WOS:000646194100015

Full list available here.

Education, courses and awards
2019 - 2023
Doctoral School of Automation and Computers, Polytechnic University

Doctoral degree, Computer Science and Information Technology

PhD thesis title: Healthcare surveillance: an approach using Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Web Technologies

2017-2018
Military Technical Academy

Master degree, Electronics applied in robotics for security and defense

Title: Graphical user interface for simultaneous management of a robots system

2013-2017
Faculty of Military Electronic and Informatics Systems, Military Technical Academy

Bachelor degree, Computer and communications engineer

Title: Smarthome application with Raspberry PI and web interface

ongoing
Courses
  • Foundations of Project Management, Google, 2022
  • Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project, Google, 2022
  • HPC Course, Waterford Institute of Technology, 2020
  • Cybersecurity Course, European Security and Defence College (ESDC), 2019, Budapest
  • Mobile terminal investigation course, Military Technical Academy, 2018
  • Responsive websites, London University, 2016
  • CCNA 1, CCNA 2, ATM, 2016
  • IT Essentials, CISCO, 2014
  • Cybersecurity, CISCO, 2014
  • Internet of Everything - June 9th Class, CISCO, 2014
  • Database Design and Programming with SQL, Oracle, 2013
  • ECDL Core Certificate, 2013
ongoing
Awards and distinctions

2022:
-1st place Black Sea Defence and Aerospace hackathon
2021:
-1st place Devhacks hackathon, Climate change section
2020:
-2nd place DevHacks hackathon, Driving innovation in Education Hackathon section
2019:
-1st prize Junction Helsinki hackathon, Track Future Cities, Open City Challenge
-1st prize Coding Contest Ericsson, Helsinki
-1st prize DevHacks Award hackathon, Digital Transformation section
2018
-1st prize at HackMAN, cyber security and data analysis contest, 1st and 2nd edition
-1st prize at DevHacks hackathon, Cyber Security section
Driving Licence: B
2017:
-2nd prize and silver medal at DefCamp 2017, section of industrial control system and data from critical infrastructures
-1st Prize at the Scientific Communications Session COMMUNICATING ACROSS CULTURES, AFASTUD 2017, Fundamental
Sciences & Engineering section
-2nd Prize at the CERC Scientific Communications Session, Military Technical Academy, Robotics and Automation section