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Ștefan-Adrian Toma
No. 13, Secuilor street, Bucharest, Romania
Mobile: 0040766263755
Toma.stefan.adrian@gmail.com
Romanian
November, 01 1980
Male
Work experience
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Occupation or position held
Main activities and responsibilities
Name and address of employer
Type of business or sector
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Occupation or position held
Main activities and responsibilities
Name and address of employer
Type of business or sector
Dates
Occupation or position held
December 2010 onwards
Researcher
Research and development of software for InSAR processing
Advanced Studies and Research Center
19 Ion Luca Caragiale St., 020042, Bucharest, Romania
Industry/Research
September 2008 onwards
Researcher/ Lecturer in the Computer Science Department
Research and education
Military Technical Academy, 81-83 George Cosbuc, 050141, Bucharest, Romania
Education/Research/Military
November 2007 – September 2008
Head of IT support and network administration
Main activities and responsibilities
Organizing network administration and IT support.
Name and address of employer
Ministry of National Defense, Bucharest, Romania
Type of business or sector
Dates
Occupation or position held
Main activities and responsibilities
Name and address of employer
Type of business or sector
Military
September 2004 – November 2007
IT support and network administration
Network administration and IT support.
Ministry of National Defense, Bucharest, Romania
Military
Education and training
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Title of qualification awarded
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covered
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
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2005 - 2011
PhD
Thesis title: Methods for increasing synthetic speech quality.
Scientific advisor: prof. Oancea Eugeniu.
Military Technical Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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Level in national or international
classification
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covered
ISCED 6
2005 - 2007
Master of science in radio communications, microwaves and optical communications
Master Thesis title: Study on subjective evaluation of communication codecs using the Internet.
Thesis advisor: prof. Marghescu Ion.
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (University)
Level in national or international
classification
ISCED 6
Dates
Title of qualification awarded
Principal subjects/occupational skills
covered
1999 - 2004
Bachelor of science in telecommunications
Diploma thesis: Implementation of a MIMO channelsounder. Diploma thesis made at the Bundeswehr
University, Munich, Germany under the supervision of Andreas Knopp and prof. B. Lankl.
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Military Technical Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Level in national or international
classification
ISCED 5
Personal skills and
competences
Mother tongue(s)
Romanian
Other language(s)
Self-assessment
Understanding
Listening
European level (*)
English
French
German
Reading
Speaking
Spoken interaction
Writing
Spoken production
C2
Proficient user
C2
Proficient user
C1
Proficient user
C1
Proficient user
C1
Proficient user
A2
Basic user
B1
Basic user
A2
Basic user
B1
Basic user
A2
Basic user
A2
Basic user
A2
Basic user
A2
Basic user
A2
Basic user
A1
Basic user
(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Social skills and competences
Organisational skills and
competences
I have worked in various types of teams ranging from research teams to military units. I consider
myself a reliable team player.
Good communication skills (as part of my job, I interact with many peoples, of different cultures).
- Leadership (I was head of IT support in a military unit from the Romanian MoD. I led teams made
up of two to seven persons);
- Good organizational skills (I was a member of the organizing committee of the COMM2010
International Conference);
- I was project manager for two research projects funded by the Romanian MoD.
Technical skills and competences
I have experience prototyping electronic circuits with discrete components and microcontrollers.
Excellent skills with digital signal processing algorithms, speech processing algorithms and natural
language processing.
Computer skills and competences
Excellent C and Matlab (including Simulink) programming skills. Proficient with the GNU tool chain.
Proficient with Windows and Linux OS.
Proficient with various software applications.
Proficient with HTML and Javascript. I designed the COMM 2010 conference website.
Competent with LaTeX scientific document typesetting.
Good knowledge of Doris and Nest InSAR processing software.
Basic knowledge of VHDL and Verilog.
Other skills and competences
Driving license
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Good presentation skills. I have three years of teaching experience.
B, C+E
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Additional information Publications - Conference papers:
Bârsan T., Toma, S.-A. On Graphem to Phoneme Conversion for Romanian using Pronunciation by
Analogy. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communications COMM2012,
Bucharest, 2012.
Toma, S.-A., Totir, F. Time scale modification of voiced fricatives using noise subtraction and TDPSOLA. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Audio and Speech Processing (under review).
Toma S.-A., Târşa G.-I., Oancea E., Munteanu D.-P., Totir F., Anton L. “A TD-PSOLA based method
for speech synthesis and compression”, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference
Communications 2010, pp. 123-126, Bucharest, 2010
Munteanu D.-P., Toma S.-A. “Automatic speaker verification experiments using HMM”, in
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference Communications 2010, pp. 123-126, Bucharest, 2010
Totir F., Bombrun L., Vasile G., M. Gay, Toma, S.-A. “On hierarchical segmentation on high resolution
PolSAR data” , 8th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR 2010), (1185 pages,
CD-ROM, ISBN 978-3-3272-2), pp. 174-177, 07-10 June 2010, Aachen, Germany
Toma S.-A., Oancea E. Munteanu D.-P. “Automatic rule-based syllabication for Romanian”,
Proceedings of the 5-th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue 2009
SpeD '09, 18-21 June 2009
Toma S.-A., Munteanu D.P. “Rule-based automatic phonetic transcription for the Romanian
language”, Proceedings of the first international conference on creative content technologies CONTENT 2009, 15 – 20 November 2009
Toma S.-A., Oancea E., Totir F., Godoi S.M., Munteanu D.P. “The Non-linear dynamical systemic
approach to speech synthesis”, Proceedings of the „New Challenges in the Field of Military Sciences”
Conference, CD-ROM ISBN 978-963-87706-4-6, 18-19 November 2009
Toma S.-A., Munteanu Doru-Petru, Ciotârnae Petrică “Letter to sound system for the Romanian
language”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference Communications 2008, pp. 85-88,
Bucharest, 2008
Toma Ştefan-Adrian, Popescu Florin “Web Based Application for Subjective Codec Quality
Evaluations”, Proceedings of the „Tehnologii moderne în secolul XXI”, Academia Tehnică Militară,
Bucharest, 2007
Mihai Radu, Toma Ştefan-Adrian and Popescu Florin “Aspects regarding synthetic speech quality
evaluations for military systems”, Advances in Spoken Language Technology, pp. 99-108,
Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2007
POPESCU Florin, TOMA Ştefan-Adrian, Vizitiu Constantin “Speech Coding in Military
Communication Networks”, The 3rd International Conference „New Challenges In The Field of Military
Sciences 2005
TOMA Ştefan-Adrian, KNOPP Andreas, POPESCU Florin “Simplified multi-path channel estimation
rule through the use of PS-MP CAZAC sequences”, The 36th International Scientific Symposium of
the Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency, pages 306-311, May 26-27, 2005,
Bucharest, Romania
Training courses:
• September 2011 – GEOSS Summer School – Advancig Earth Observation Data Understanding
for Disaster Management and Emergency Response – Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)
• February – June 2011 – Advanced course on logistics for officers, Military Technical Academy
• April 2010 Project Management course organized by S.C. European Project Consulting S.R.L.
• April – June 2009 German language course – National Defense University
• October 2006 – February 2007 – German language course – National Defense University
Projects:
Development of SpechDat corpus for Romanian, research team member, private funding.
Integrated system for speech signal acquisition and processing, research team member, funded
by the Ministry of Education, contract 8GR/23.05.2007, Cod AT144, 2007-2008.
Complex system for optimizing and analyzing trafiic in technoloogy convergent networks;
research team member. Funded through: PNCDI2 - Program 4 – Parteneriate în domeniile
prioritare – Competiția 2007 - Domeniul Tehnologia informaŃiilor şi comunicaŃii, Contract nr 11029/2007. Authority managing the funds: CNMP (Centrul National de Management Programe).
Phonetic transcription system for Romanian; project manager; funded by the MoD.
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Membership:
Member of the organizing committee of the COMM 2012 and COMM2010 International Conferences.
Additional work experience:
2012 – embedded software consultant for Selex Telecom
Annexes
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