Elena Burceanu
Machine Learning Researcher, Team Lead at Bitdefender
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolElena Burceanu is a Machine Learning Researcher and team lead with 15 years of experience building robust AI systems for security and real-world deployment, currently leading research at Bitdefender and serving as Associate Program Chair for NeurIPS 2025. She bridges theory and product impact—turning advances in distribution-shift robustness, unsupervised video tracking, and adversarially resistant models into deployable security tools backed by eight patents and top-conference publications. A PhD candidate in computer vision with a stellar academic record, she mentors students and runs industry–university collaborations that foster applied research and talent development. Her background as a mobile developer and startup co-founder gives her a pragmatic edge in shipping prototypes under platform constraints and driving cross-functional teams from concept to production. Notably, she sustains an active research engineering culture at Bitdefender through open proofs-of-concept (bit-ml.github.io) that emphasize generalization under shifting data distributions.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
"Mircea cel Batran" National College, ConstantaPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyPhD Student, Computer Vision, PhD Student, Computer Vision at University of Bucharest
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
bit10
sensor10
kotlin9
android8
java8
simulation8
simulator8
gatsby7
jekyll7
libtorch7
wifi6
battery6
iphone6
spinner6
intent-filter6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bit-ml/bit-ml
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
Source of the bit-ml.github.io website.
Contributions:42 commits, 36 pushes in 4 years
gatsbyjekyllbit
bit-ml/sfseg
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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