Research in network data science and AI, for diverse application areas related to networks (social, computer, information networks).
Teaching topics in data science.
Interest in the ethics of data science. Member of the Ethics Committee for Computer and Information Science.
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Publications
2026
Trade-offs in Financial AI: Explainability in a Trilemma with Accuracy and Compliance (2026)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Evite, P. M., Svetlova, E. & Bucur, D.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.01368
2025
Dragon: Data-driven causal discovery for soils in the presence of latent and discrete variables (2025)Ecological informatics, 92. Article 103527. Chen, N., Wubs, E. R. J. & Bucur, D.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103527Interactive Evolutionary Optimization of Visual Explainable AI through Gestalt Principles with Human Feedback (2025)In GECCO 2025 Companion - Proceedings of the 2025 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (pp. 1935-1943). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Bucur, D., Miotto, S., Custode, L. L., Rambaldi Migliore, C. C. & Iacca, G.https://doi.org/10.1145/3712255.3734299gFlora: A Topology-aware Method to Discover Functional Co-response Groups in Soil Microbial Communities (2025)IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 1-12. Article 10964872 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Chen, N., Schram, M. & Bucur, D.https://doi.org/10.1109/TCBBIO.2025.3560853
2024
gFlora: a topology-aware method to discover functional co-response groups in soil microbial communities (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Chen, N., Schram, M. & Bucur, D.Learning the mechanisms of network growth (2024)Scientific reports, 14(1). Article 11866. Touwen, L., Bucur, D., van der Hofstad, R., Garavaglia, A. & Litvak, N.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61940-4Understanding Sparse Neural Networks from their Topology via Multipartite Graph Representations (2024)Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024. Cunegatti, E., Farina, M., Bucur, D. & Iacca, G.https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Egb0tUZnOYEleMi: A Robust Method to Infer Soil Ecological Networks with Better Community Structure (2024)In Complex Networks XV - Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Complex Networks, CompleNet 2024 (pp. 165-178) (Springer Proceedings in Complexity). Springer. Chen, N. & Bucur, D.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57515-0_13Learning the mechanisms of network growth (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Touwen, L., Bucur, D., van der Hofstad, R., Garavaglia, A. & Litvak, N.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.00793
2023
Parallels in the symbolism of star constellations (2023)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Bucur, D.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.17573
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Courses academic year 2026/2027
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