Hi, I'm
Antonia

Machine Learning Engineer, Bucharest. Nice to meet you!

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About Me

I'm a Machine Learning Engineer based in Bucharest. At VOIS I build LLM-powered applications and complex ML pipelines, and ship them to production end to end.

I like staying curious and keeping up with what's new, but outside of work I try to keep my life off screens as much as possible... the occasional video game aside :)

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What I'm Into

  • Bass
  • Hiking
  • Board Games
  • Video Games
  • Pixel Art
  • Music
  • Traveling
  • Reading

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Latest Project

New

The Pawn Line

A time-management puzzle game where you sort items on a conveyor belt at a pawn shop during 90-second shifts, directing junk left and valuables right. Made for GBJam 2026 in Godot, with a Game Boy-style look, alongside cristishor on sprites.

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Curriculum Vitae

Skills, experience, education, and publications.

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Machine Learning

  • Deep Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Large Language Models
  • RAG Architecture
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • Seq2Seq Models
  • AutoML
  • Signal Processing

Frameworks and Libraries

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • OpenCV
  • Scikit-learn
  • LangChain
  • Ollama

Languages

  • Python
  • R
  • C++
  • C#
  • SQL
  • JavaScript

Development Tools

  • Flask
  • .NET
  • VS Code API
  • Git

Monitoring and Dashboards

  • Grafana
  • OpenSearch
  • Metabase

Creative and Growing

  • Game Dev
  • Pixel Art

Currently Learning

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • French

Experience

  1. 2024 - Present

    Machine Learning Engineer

    VOIS

    • Built an AI-powered chatbot using RAG architecture and prompt engineering to translate natural language into SQL queries, deployed into a production web application.
    • Designed and deployed seq2seq models for ticket path prediction, owning the full pipeline from data preprocessing through to production.
    • Built an internal AutoML platform (automated EDA, preprocessing, and model training pipelines), adopted across multiple internal datasets.
    • Built an end-to-end EDA pipeline that stores dataset statistics in OpenSearch and surfaces them through Grafana dashboards for team-wide visibility.
    • Deployed machine learning models to production using Flask.
    • Delivered internal presentations and training sessions on Machine Learning and AI concepts for colleagues.
  2. 2023

    Intern - Signal Processing and ML

    CODECart

    • Implemented digital signal processing algorithms (STFT) for feature extraction.
    • Trained a CNN model to classify voice and instrumental segments in audio recordings.
    • Explored methods for porting algorithms to embedded systems.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science

University of Bucharest

Faculty of Mathematics and CS

2021 - 2024

Coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence

High School - Math and Informatics

Mihai Viteazul National College

Mathematics and Informatics

2017 - 2021

Informatics emphasis track

Publications

RANLP 2025 2025

A Culturally-Rich Romanian NLP Dataset from "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Videos

Alexandru-Gabriel Ganea, Antonia-Adelina Popovici, Adrian-Marius Dumitran

Introduces a novel multilingual dataset derived from video recordings of the Romanian game show Vrei sa fii Milionar?, built using OCR, automated text extraction, and manual verification. Benchmarking state-of-the-art LLMs revealed significant performance gaps between international questions (80-95% accuracy) and Romanian-specific cultural questions (50-75%), highlighting the impact of cultural context on LLM evaluation.

arXiv ACL Anthology

Things I'm Making

Personal projects and things I build for fun, outside of work.

The Pawn Line

A time-management puzzle game: sort items on a pawn shop conveyor belt during 90-second shifts, junk left, valuables right. Made for GBJam 2026, free to play in the browser.

  • Godot
  • GBJam
  • Pixel Art
Play on itch.io

What the QUACK?

Rubber duck debugging in the browser. You explain your code to a duck that stays quiet, and the bug tends to fall out of your own explanation. Rule-based text classification for the optional hints, no AI, nothing leaves the page.

  • React
  • Vite
  • NLP
Live demo Code

Repo Health

A VS Code extension that scores repository hygiene - vague commit messages, README drift, stale TODOs, and leaked secrets - all analyzed locally with no network calls, surfaced in a dashboard with a 0-100 health score.

  • TypeScript
  • VS Code API
  • Git
Marketplace Code

This Website!

As you can see: CV, projects, snapshots, and a little lofi player, built from scratch with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

University Projects

A few things built during coursework.

Character Detection and Recognition

HOG method and sliding window technique for detecting and recognising characters in images.

  • Python
  • OpenCV
  • HOG

Fitness Web Platform

Progress tracking platform with article access and community interaction features.

  • React
  • Node.js
  • MySQL

OOP Behavior Simulator

Individual behavior simulator built on object-oriented principles and design patterns.

  • C++
  • Design Patterns

ASP.NET Discussion Platform

Platform for posting and commenting on discussions.

  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • SQL Server

Cinema Chain Management

PL/SQL system for movie scheduling, ticket booking, and revenue tracking.

  • Oracle PL/SQL
"Lofi Beats" by MondaMusic — check them out!