Mihai Popescu
Vicepresident @ E³UDRES² Students

I am a 20-year-old third-year bachelor’s student in Computer Engineering at Politehnica University Timișoara. Over the past year, I have also focused my efforts on civic engagement and student representation, as I currently serve as the E³UDRES² Board of Student Representatives Vice-Chair and Vice President for Foreign Affairs of my student league, Liga AC. Furthermore, I am active in the field of management, where I work as a project manager for Erasmus+ KA152 projects, helping young people discover new interests and develop their soft skills through diverse activities.

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Valentin Bogulean
Ex-UniHack Coordinator

Master’s Degree student at Politehnica University of Timișoara, passionate about Software Development and Machine Learning.

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Bianca Belea
Junior QA Engineer @ The Access Group

Software Engineering graduate and ex-developer turned QA Engineer. I get paid to break stuff so the team can build better.
During UniHack, I’ll help you spot bugs before judges do and make sure your project shines in both quality and presentation (yes, I can answer your dev questions, too).
Also part of that rare tribe that actually enjoys JavaScript and its frameworks.

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Andrei-Claudiu Stanica
Security Researcher

Working in the domain of Android security research for Bitdefender while doing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at UPT.

Mentor at the CyberSec@UPT coderdojo where we teach pre-university children the basics of cybersecurity and programming. 

Challenge Author for CTF@AC 2025 and CyberHackDay2024 and participant in tens of hackatons and ctfs.


I enjoy finding issues and fixing them, so you can count on me to help with anything that comes up throughout the hackathon.

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Raul Geană
Track Leader Sustainability
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Valentin Mureșan
Track Leader Public Services
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Oana Simionescu
Track Leader Culture & Entertainment

Oana Simionescu is an architect and manager, constantly concerned about the future of the creative professions as well as how people and the built environment mutually influence each other. University assistant at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Timișoara 2010-2023, coordinator of the Timișoara Architecture Annual and then Biennial in the period 2014-2018, co-founder and coordinator of the collaboration platform F O R (2010 - 2022), member of the Board of Directors of the Timiș branch (vice-president, 2014-2018) and then of the National level of the Order of Architects of Romania (treasurer, 2018 - 2022), part of the project teams undelocuiesc.eu (2016 - 2020), Upgrade My City (2016-2018), Triplex Confinium (2019 - 2022), Bright Cityscapes (2023), and last but not least, co-founder and CEO of FABER.

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Florin Ciocan
Track Leader Private Services

High energy leader, confident professional with broad experience on people and project management, involved in multiple activities from local innovations events to various corporate social responsibilities.
Skilled communicator, leading by example, performing well in multi-national environment, adaptable and able to maintain cultural sensitivity, relates well with diverse groups and promotes team cohesiveness.
Innovative thinker and excellent leadership qualities, efficient in communicating, able to motivate and negotiate with the people.

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Alin Anton
Associate Professor

Alin-Adrian Anton is an Associate Professor at Politehnica University of Timișoara, where he teaches computer science and leads research in cybersecurity, privacy, and scientific computing.

With a PhD in computers and information technology and 20+ years of hands-on experience running his own tech company (2004-2025), Alin brings both academic depth and real-world expertise to hackathon teams.

What he can help you with:

Cybersecurity and privacy-focused solutions
High-performance computing and parallel processing
CFD simulations and computational modeling
Free (Libre) software
Information security best practices
Reverse engineering challenges
Scaling technical solutions

Alin founded the IEEE Romanian Chapter of the Society on Social Implications of Technology in 2013, reflecting his passion for ethical tech development - perfect for teams building solutions with real social impact.

When not mentoring or researching, you'll find him doing astrophotography or diving deep into code.

Alin has seen tech from every angle - academia, entrepreneurship, and free software. Whether you're building a privacy tool, optimizing performance, or tackling a complex computational problem, he's got you covered.

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Radu Șeitan
Technical Lead @ NetRom Software

My experience as a Software Developer taught me that every great product in the marketplace started as a mere idea and came into being due to how tech talent and passion intertwined. I think the best place to find all of these elements is a hackathon, where we, people from the industry and academia, can guide the next generation of developers and share a trick or two.

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Dean Crainic
Software Developer @ NetRom Software

I am a fullstack developer for Netrom Software. I’ve been working with them since university, having just celebrated my 3 years anniversary.
In these years I’ve gained vast experience in .NET, being my main programming language. For web interfaces I have worked with React, but recently I’ve started doing more backend and less frontend implementations.

I like hiking and going on roadtrips.

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Rares Bunea
Fullstack Developer
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Loredana Gostian
Junior Software Developer @ The Access Group

Passionate about anything that involves software and cats with a professional degree in catching bugs.
You can count on me from desktop issues, to mobile overflows, or even a bit of web knowledge.

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Alexandru Lolea
Software Developer @ Netrom Software

Experienced in web development with React, Angular, and .NET, and passionate about video games. I also enjoy volunteering in my free time.

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Alexandru Mihai Drincianu
Software Developer
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Vlad Mihai Tircomnicu
Software Developer
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Bianca Barbosu
System Test Engineer

Hello! I am a system test engineer so you can count on me mostly on the embedded part of your project. I mostly use C, CAPL and Python for serial communication, design PCBs and work with high voltages⚡️(hopefully we won’t use the last part). Can’t wait to see you at this UniHack 💜💛

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Andreea Maria Fruja
Junior Software Engineer
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Alexandru Szabo
Technical Volunteer

I'm a self taught Security Operations Center Analyst at Cyber Threat Defense and and entrepreneur in my free time. I work with clients from both Romania and abroad on Incident Response, SOC services and network infrastructure design and implementation, backup engineering.
My interest include cryptography, radio communications, networking and inner workings of Linux.
I provide mentoring through various projects including CoderDojo, Savnet Summer School and Erasmus+ via Cirkuliranje and Asociația One Source

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Cătălin Cândea
Software engineer
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Ioan-Andrei Ionescu
RoboTEC 2025 Coordinator @ Liga AC

I like making things do things (explode)

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Alice Cania
President @ Liga AC
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Andrei Dobre
Vicepresident @ Liga AC

I am a web developer passionate about learning and teaching IT techonologies, as well as organizing meaningful events for the community.

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Vlad Tomici
Technical Department Lead @ Liga AC

Technical Department Coordinator and a member of the Management Committee (Biroul de Conducere) for Liga AC in the 2025-2026 term.

Ex-Team Leader & Current Mentor in the 19094 - WizzTech RO048 robotics team.

Computer vision, ML & Python freelancer, with good skills in communication and management of a team. Cambridge English C1 certificated speaker.

Experience in participating local hackathons and programming competitions from Romania. Knowledge of developing Computer Vision projects in Python, solving algorithmic problems in C/C++, developing full-stack web solutions in Angular/.NET and creating simple Java, Kotlin and Swift apps. Able to build and program robots using microcontrollers. Average level of knowledge in electronics.

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Eduard Cziszter
Ex-UniHack Coordinator

Working in the domain of Android security research for Bitdefender and also doing a Master's degree on Software Engineer. Free time activities include volunteering, board games and traveling.

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Ovidiu Lica
Junior Software Engineer

I'm a junior web developer with experience in Angular, React, .NET Core, Docker, and Linux. I enjoy building full-stack applications and exploring how different technologies work together, especially in web and cloud environments. I'm always looking to improve my skills through hands-on projects. Outside of coding, I’m into gaming, hitting the gym, and diving deeper into modern web/cloud tech.

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Marius Miri
Volunteer
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Vlad Vălean
Membru dep. Tehnic
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Florian IVAN FERNOLENDT
QA engineer
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Boran Rusalin Lucian
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Paul Jarca
UI/UX Designer
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Adina Țeudan
Software Developer

Enthusiastically crafting pretty web interfaces - yep, I'm one of those freaks who actually like CSS. My framework of choice is Angular, but I also have experience with backend development and mobile apps. I have also organized and participated in a few hackathons myself. If you're reading this, please focus on your project's main functionalities BEFORE working on authentication & authorization 😁

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Madalin Pothora
Software Developer @ NetRom Software
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Silviu Vert
Associate Professor @ Politehnica University Timisoara

Silviu Vert is Associate Professor at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, where he teaches and does research in the areas of user experience, mixed reality, web and mobile apps, open data and smart cities. Silviu is passionate about digital education and the technologies of the future. He is very active in social, cultural and entrepreneurial projects in the local community.

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