FINCRIME - Key Persons
Adeline-Cristina COZMA is a PhD student at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Postgraduate with a master diploma in tourism, at Faculty of Business, Babes-Bolyai University, and also undergraduate of two bachelor programs at Faculty of Business, Babes-Bolyai University: one in economics and one in tourism. Author and co-author of several academic articles in international journals, such as Information, Negotia, Studia, Journal of Tourism. Participated as author and co-author in several international conferences, such as B.EN.A Conference, CACTUS, Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality Industry. With considerable experience in the academic field, the research focuses on the relation between economic and financial crime and illegal deforestation, as the illegal logging becomes a serious issue for the environment, as well as for the safety of the ones trying to protect the forests.
Alexandra Ioana Daniela RUS- is a graduate of economic studies and law, with a master's degree in Corporate Finance-Insurance, currently she is a PhD in Finance with a topic of interest for the economic field "The impact of Intellectual Capital on Corporate Performance". She is author/co-author of several scientific articles for the field of interest and the research area includes several fields such as: intellectual capital, relationship between intellectual capital and economic and financial crime, public finance, corporate finance and insurance. She also works as an associate professor at two faculties of Babeș-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca
Andrada Ioana SABĂU has a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in Accounting Expertise and Financial Audit, at the Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Currently she is PhD candidate in Finance field, researching a topic of interest for the economic environment: "Corporate Governance and manipulation of financial data". She is the author and co-author of articles in the research area. She gained practical experience working as a financial auditor, and as office manager. Reasearch was one of her interests since early studies.
Anghelus Alexandru (Prodefence CEO) is a Specialist in the field of cyber security (Standard ISO / IEC 27032), NIS Directive Special Auditor, Chief Auditor in the implementation of information security management systems (Standard ISO / IEC 27001) and Data Protection Officer (GDPR). Director within the Cluster of Excellence in Cyber Security - CYSCOE, technical collaborator in the analysis of cyber attacks and online financial frauds, of the Romanian National Cyber Security Directorate - DNSC, auditor and penetration tester of Critical Infrastructure in Romania within the program Cyber Volunteers 19 Romania - DNSC, cyber security trainer - Project of Constanta Maritime University, technical collaborator in the analysis of cyber financial frauds - Project FINCRIME - Babes-Bolyai University Cluj.
Job Titles:
- General Fintech Researcher
Călin Rangu has over 25 years of experience in financial-banking field, in the field of information systems management, communications and their security, of which over 17 years of strategic and operational management.
Cristina BOȚA-AVRAM (PhD) is an Associate Professor Habilitated, PhD at the Department of Accounting and Audit, Faculty of Economics Sciences and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania. With over 20 years of academic experience, she has published as author and co-author of over 70 scientific articles, five book chapters and four books. In 2011, she obtained the Award Excellence "Constantin Ionete" of the Financial Audit Magazine under the auspices of the Chamber of Financial Auditors from Romania, for the scientific series of studies entitled "The Contribution of the Audit Function in the Vision of Corporate Governance Codes at the European level". Her research interests include governance, corruption, digitalization, internal audit, financial audit, ethical behaviour, sustainable business performance, and sustainability reporting assurance. Currently, she is a member of the Body of Expert and Licensed Accountants of Romania since 2010, a member of the Chamber of Financial Auditors from Romania since 2021, and a member of the Association of Internal Auditors from Romania (Charter of the Institute of Internal Auditors) since 2020.
Daniela DELINSCHI has a background in IoT and system optimization, B.Sc. degree from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Applied Electronics with a thesis in telemetry and system monitoring. She is pursuing her M.Sc. degree in Electronics Management and Engineering and also working on numerous software projects in the Holisun Development Team. She is a researcher and project manager at HOLISUN. Her expertise encompases Electronic System Engineering, IoT Design and Integrations, Data Mining and Cloud Computing. She is also a member of the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no.862665 ICT-AGRI-FOOD, Horizon 2020-MODSOIL and member of other international programs of HOLISUN S.R.L. as CHIST-ERA-E-FUNCTIONIZER.
Job Titles:
- Chief
- Deputy Editor
- Experienced Scientific Researcher
Decebal Remus Florescu is a deputy Editor-in-chief of Adevărul newspaper, coordinating its Transylvanian counties. He's a graduate of the Faculty of Law from "Babeş-Bolyai" University (BBU) Cluj-Napoca and he has been working as a journalist for over 15 years. Among the media institutions he worked for there are Ziarul Clujeanului, Clujeanul, Ziarul Financiar and the Adevărul de Seară network. In 2015, he was elected a president of the Cluj Press Professionals' Association, a position he has held until today. In 2020, he defended his PhD thesis entitled "Creating viral content in the digital age", within the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences (FPACS), BBU Cluj-Napoca, becoming a PhD in Communication Sciences. He has been working as a teaching associate for the Journalism Department of the FPACS since 2015 and his research interests cover the media, democracy, corruption, fake news.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics
- Lawyer
Florin Alexandru Roman is a lawyer and associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Management within the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca.
Florin coordinates projects, advises and provides representation before the courts on organized crime, money laundering, tax evasion, fraud, corruption and work-related crimes (including industrial and labor accidents).
He completed in-depth studies in the field of European and Comparative Law in Italy (Pisa, Padua, Syracuse) and in France (Strasbourg). He is a member of the Bucharest Bar (2006) and the Naples Bar (2012).
Gabriela Mihaela MUREȘAN holds a PhD în Finance and currently works as an Teaching Assistant at the Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Babeș-Bolyai University. She has also worked as an Corporate Credit Administrator at Banca Transilvania and she was a member of three UEFISCDI (Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding) grants. She has published more than 15 research papers, 2 international books and attended several international conferences. Her research interests are broadly focused in the field of insurance, financial analysis and economic psychology. She is especially interested in human behavior, manipulation, money addiction, culture, happiness, ethics, corruption, fraud, corporate performance, bankruptcy and creative accounting.
Ioana Lavinia Safta has a degree in economics, with a master's degree in Audit and Control Accounting Management, she is currently PhD student in the second year in Finance field, with a topic of interest for economics "The relationship between creative accounting and fraud, models for detecting the risk of fraud at the level of economic entities". She worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration , Babeș Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca. She gained over 3 years of experience in accounting, working as an accountant in a financial expertise and audit firm. She is the author / co-author in scientific articles for her studies area. Her research interests are focused on finance and accounting. Lately, she has given special attention on issues related to economic and financial crime.
Job Titles:
- Project Manager
- Professor
Monica Violeta Achim is professor and doctoral supervisor in the field of Finance at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. With over 22 years of experience in academia, she has published as author and co-author, over 140 scientific articles and 25 books. Her most recent reference work is the book Economic and financial crime. Corruption, Shadow economy and Money laundering, co-authored by international publishing house Springer. In 2020 she obtained the Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, at Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as a recognition of the results obtained in the research activity. In the business environment, she works in liberal professions as accountant expert, tax consultant and judicial expert, from this perspective being involved in solving many cases of economic and financial crime of the Palace of Justice, Cluj-Napoca.
Mukul PAL has spent over 20 years in global financial markets and investment management capacities, working from 2000-2004 for the Bombay Stock Exchange and various financial institutions in India and from 2005-2010 consulting European asset managers and securities divisions of financial institutions like Société Générale, Raiffeisen, Uniqua Insurance, Bucharest Stock Exchange etc. He has published extensively, filed several patents, holds an MBA in Finance, a master's in applied econometrics and statistics, a CMT designation and has been awarded a top fintech award from MIT in 2016. In his current role, he runs an AI company which specializes in General AI for financial (automated Smart Beta) and non-financial applications for early warning systems for earthquakes, shipping logistics and understanding immune systems.
Neli Muntean holds a PhD in Economics and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management, Faculty of Economic and Business Engineering, Technical University of Moldova, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. She holds the quality of Doctoral Supervisor in the specialties of Accounting, Audit, Economic analysis and Finance. She has 18 years' experience in the academic field. She is author/co-author of more than 80 scientific works (monographs, books, scientific articles, conferences papers). Research interests: Bankruptcy risk assessment, Corporate financial stability determinants analysis, Risk Management. During the period 2016-2022 she was director/member of more than 8 scientific/institutional projects. Starting with May 2020 she became a Member of the Commission of Experts in the field of Economic Sciences, Sociology, Media and Communication of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Education and Research of Republic of Moldova. During the period 02 October 2019 - 20 December 2019 she fulfilled the Advanced Programme in European Law and Economics, Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia, a Short-Duration Programmes funded by the government of Latvia together with the government of Norway, in cooperation with the governments of the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America. In 2016 obtained a Postdoctoral PhD in Economics within the scholarship Eugen Ionescu 2015-2016 funded by the Romanian government for research internships at Romanian universities, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Romania, Cluj. Since 2015s he is a Member of the Romanian Society of Economic and Financial Analysts, SRAEF.
Oliviu MATEI received in 2002 M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam and in 2012 his PhD in system engineering from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. From 2016 after obtaining his Habilitation in Computer Science and Information Technology, he has a select group of doctoral students. His doctoral students have promising research results. Since 2002, he also works at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca where he is currently a full Professor. He holds five patents for software. His research interests include artificial intelligence with evolutionary computation, evolutionary ontologies, optimizations, robotics, transportation, operational research and related fields. He founded the HOLISUN S.R.L an ICT company. His company's research projects include: Big-Smart-Log (Big Data Analytics for process modelling in Smart Logistics Operations), CHIST-ERA - E-FUNCTIONIZER (Multi-cloud & serverless deployment optimisation platform for data-intensive computing), Eurostars-SDK4ED (Software Development Toolkit for Energy Optimization and Technical Debt Elimination), Horizon 2020 - MODSOIL(Expert system for monitoring risks in agriculture and agricultural technologies conservative adaptation to climate change). Dr. Habil. Oliviu Matei was a recipient of the Bologna Professorship award in 2019.
Job Titles:
- Business Professor at Fayetteville State University
- Full Professor Specialized in Accounting Scholarship Business Ethics
Robert W. McGee is a business professor at Fayetteville State University, USA. He has earned 23 academic degrees, including 13 doctorates from universities in the USA and four European Countries. He has published more than 60 books, including several novels, and more than 1000 articles, book chapters, conference papers and working papers. Various studies have ranked him #1 in the world for both accounting ethics and business ethics scholarship. He is an attorney and CPA (retired), and has worked or lectured in more than 30 countries. He drafted the accounting law for Armenia and Bosnia and reviewed the accounting law for Mozambique. He was in charge of assisting the Finance Ministries of Armenia and Bosnia convert their countries to International Financial Reporting Standards. He is also a world champion in taekwondo, karate, kung fu and tai chi (both Yang and Sun styles), and has won more than 900 gold medals.
Rudolf ERDEI has a background in electronics and software engineering, especially Artificial Intelligence, a M.Sc. degree from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Computer Science and Engineering in Genetic Algorithms. Currently he is project manager, researcher and software engineer within the HOLISUN R&D department. His research interest includes Metaheuristic Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, IoT hardware to software integrations, cloud/mist/edge computing, distributed systems, energy optimizations, logistic operations software, and optimizing VRP class problems. He is member of the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 862665 ICT-AGRI-FOOD, Horizon 2020-MODSOIL and member of other international programs of HOLISUN S.R.L. as CHIST-ERA-FUNCTIONIZER.
Job Titles:
- Scientific Researcher
- Professor
Sorin Nicolae Borlea is professor and doctoral supervisor in the field of Finance, at the University of Oradea and Vasile Goldiș University, and associate scientific researcher at the European Research Institute of Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca. He has over 16 years of experience in the academic field and 30 years in the business environment. He has published over 90 scientific articles and 20 books. His most recent reference work is the book Economic and financial crime. Corruption, Shadow economy and money laundering, published as co-authored at the international publishing house Springer. In parallel with the academic field, he works in the business environment as financial auditor, accounting expert, tax consultant, and financial analyst, being strongly anchored in economic and financial crime issues in the files managed by the Court of Cluj-Napoca. He is well kown in the business environment as profesionist, being on the top of 10 accounting experts in Cluj County (2017).
Job Titles:
- Experienced Scientific Researcher - Assistant Manager II
Viorela-Ligia Văidean obtained a Bachelor Degree in Finance and Banking from ‘Babeş - Bolyai' University (BBU) Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2006, further graduating a Master program in Corporate Finance and Insurances and another one in Project Management and Evaluation. She successfully followed a full time PhD program, obtaining the PhD title in the Finance field, in 2010. In 2015 she graduated a postdoctoral study program. She has worked as a Teaching Assistant and then a Lecturer, for the Finance Department within BBU Cluj-Napoca. She has also worked as an Expert for different EU financed projects and grants. She has published more than 40 research papers and attended several international conferences. She has been the author or coauthor of ten books and international book chapters. Her research interests cover the areas of Health Economics, Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Organized Crime and Fiscal Policies.