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Stefana Belbe

Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Statistics-Forecasts-Mathematics, 58-60, Teodor Mihali str., 400591, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Data Science, 68, Avram Iancu str., 400083, 4th floor, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Email: stefanacioban@yahoo.com, stefana.cioban@ubbcluj.ro, stefana.cioban@econ.ubbcluj.ro, stefana.belbe@endava.com
Mobile: +40744318845

Babes-Bolyai University
Endava

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About

Stefana is currently a PhD Candidate and a Research Assistant in the Department of Mathematics-Forecasts-Statistics in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, BBU Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with her thesis on Space-Time Predictive Econometrics. She is also working as a Data Science consultant in an international company dedicated to IT services, Endava , and a collaborating member of the Interdisciplinary Data Science Center, in BBU. She is also an enthusiastic member of the FinAI COST Action (CA19130), focusing on Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance. Through her career and studies, Stefana has gained hands-on experience in NLP applications including LLMs, software development, geospatial data analysis and visualization, (web)GIS, and predictive non-spatial, spatial and space-time modelling using Machine Learning, reinforcement learning and GenAI, Spatial Statistics and Econometric tools.

Key Achievements and Outputs

I have made significant contributions to the Action through multiple publications in renowned scientific journals and by actively participating in several research projects. My successful delivery of one VMG and two STSMs, along with my roles as both a trainee and trainer in various PhD summer schools organized by the Action, highlights my dedication to advancing research and education in FinTech. I have disseminated my research findings at numerous COST and non-COST conferences, and I was awarded with the Best WI-FI Young Researcher Paper Award during Women in FinTech IV. Additionally, I have served as a member of the scientific and organizing committees for various COST events. To enhance visibility, I created the FinAI GitHub Organization for Action members, to increase visibility on the key software developed by each of the WGs in line with their objectives. Furthermore, I established a valuable linkage between the Action and the private fintech sector by consistently presenting the outputs of the COST Action within the private sector and by also inviting the key members to introduce the Action to Endava - a multinational corporation with an audience that reached 120 attendees from 10+countries.






Research Interests

Spatial Econometrics
Data Modelling and Data Analysis
Geospatial Technologies and Geospatial Data Science
GenAI, NLP and LLMs

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