Research

Research Interests & Projects

My work at DSRL spans distributed systems, energy efficiency, and applied AI.

Interests

Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading

Decentralized local energy markets and matching mechanisms for prosumers.

Blockchain & Smart Contracts

Trustless coordination, tokenization, and self-sovereign identity for energy systems.

Transactive Energy Communities

Game-theoretic incentives, demand response, and energy flexibility markets.

Privacy-Preserving Computation

Homomorphic encryption and privacy-aware computation on public blockchains.

Research Projects

PoCIDIF 2021–2027 / ERDF – Priority Axis 4

HRIA – Romanian Hub for Artificial Intelligence

National hub developing strategic AI research, technologies and demonstrators (STEP).

hria.upb.ro ↗

Horizon

HEDGE-IoT

Holistic approach towards empowerment of the digitalization of the energy ecosystem through adoption of IoT solutions across different levels, infusing intelligence into the edge and cloud layers.

hedgeiot.eu ↗

Horizon

DEDALUS

Empowering residential consumers to engage in adaptable, tech-driven energy management solutions by combining ICT technologies with social and behavioural dimensions.

dedalus-horizon.eu ↗

National

Data-driven Residential Energy Demand Response Tools

Data-driven, carrier-agnostic residential demand response tools and multi-value services. Nationally funded project (PN-IV-P8-8.1-PRE-HE-ORG-2023-0111) supporting DEDALUS.

2024–2025

dsrl.eu/40PHE ↗

H2020

BRIGHT

Boosting demand-response through increased community-level consumer engagement, combining data-driven and blockchain technology tools with social science approaches and multi-value service design.

cordis.europa.eu ↗

H2020