Dr. Dr. Ana-Maria Oltețeanu
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics
Dr. Ana-Maria Oltețeanu is an Artificial Intelligence expert with 15 years of experience in research, teaching, and innovation. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and led AI innovation projects across EdTech, cognitive systems, and health and wellbeing.
Overview
Dr. Dr. Ana-Maria Oltețeanu is an Artificial Intelligence expert with 15 years of experience in research, teaching, and innovation. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and led AI innovation projects across EdTech, cognitive systems, and health and wellbeing.
Her work spans the development of AI-driven MVPs and innovation consulting for startups, NGOs, and universities in sectors such as HR, psychometrics, wellbeing, cognitive enhancement, healthTech, sustainability and EdTech SaaS / AIaaS. She is passionate about shaping the innovative research and technology businesses of tomorrow and building AI systems that support human learning, creativity, and decision-making.
Previously as Director of Research and Transfer at Constructor University, she led research strategy, AI transformation of research processes, and technology transfer to industry, while helping administer 10 million euro grants/year.
Previously, she served as AI Professor, Program Director AI & Sustainable Tech, and VP of Research at Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences, where she helped accredit AI-related programmes, scaled them and developed grant winning AI innovation in Edtech.
Areas of expertise
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning
- Computational Creativity and Cognitive Systems
- AI Innovation Strategy and AI MVP Development (SaaS, AIaaS)
- AI for Wellbeing, Psychometrics and Human Enhancement
- Generative AI and AI Agents for Education and Productivity
- Innovation Coaching, Digital Transformation and AI Process Redesign
- Grant Strategy, Research Funding and Technology Transfer
Research interests
Ana-Maria Oltețeanu’s research lies at the intersection of AI, cognitive science, and innovation. Her main research interests include:
- Cognitive AI systems
- Generative AI and agentic AI systems for learning and decision support
- Computational models of creativity and creative problem solving;
- Cognitive AI models of strategic thinking
- AI for wellbeing, emotion-supportive and social AI
- Human-centred AI, AI for cognitive enhancement and personalised learning
- Therapeutic AI systems
- AI for sustainability
- AI-supported research processes and grant application workflows
Awards and Honors / Professional Roles
- AI Expert for the European Commission (Horizon 2020, FET, HADEA, MSCA and related programmes), advising on and reviewing research funding exceeding €90 million.
- Obtained >2.2 million euro for own research and innovation projects
- Judge, Global Challenge Lab 2021, an international entrepreneurship programme on UN SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being).
- Editorial and guest editor roles for journals and special issues in Cognitive Systems Research, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, and Frontiers in ICT.
- Junior Associate AI Expert Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Delmenhorst (2016–2018), on AI supporting the human mind and creative problem solving.
Publications
Ana-Maria Oltețeanu has authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications on computational creativity, remote associates tests, cognitive AI systems and creative problem solving. Selected works and datasets can be found here.
