M.Sc. Student, Assistant Researcher, B.Sc.,
Speech and Dialogue Research Laboratory (SpeeD),
Department of Electronic Devices, Circuits, and Architectures (DCAE),
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology (ETTI),
National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (UNSTPB)

Email: cristian.neamtu@stud.etti.upb.ro
Office: B030, Leu Campus – 1-3 Blvd. Iuliu Maniu, Bucharest, 061071, Romania

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Research and teaching interests Degrees and professional experience Degrees Professional experience Last updated: Mar. 2025

Academic activity Undergraduate curricula List of publications Conference papers Theses: MSEE, BSEE

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Research and teaching interests

• Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL);
• Audio Signal Analysis, Processing, and Synthesis;
• Speech Liveness Detection;
• Synthetic Speech Recognition;
• Spoofed Speech Detection.

Degrees and professional experience

Degrees

• Master of Science in Electronic Engineering (MSEE) (2023 – present): Multimedia Technologies in Biometrics and Information Security Applications (BIOSINF) program @ ETTI, UNSTPB;
• Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering (BSEE) (2019 – 2023): major in Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications, and Information Technologies, specialization in Microelectronics @ ETTI, UNSTPB;
• Baccalaureate Degree (2015 – 2019) @ “Matei Basarab” National College of Computer Science, Râmnicu Vâlcea.

Professional experience

• Assistant Researcher (3 Oct. 2022 – present) @ SpeeD, UNSTPB – Research on speech liveness detection, synthetic speech recognition, and spoofed speech detection using machine learning and deep learning models and techniques, with emphasis on forensic applications;
• Master Working Student (1 Aug. 2023 – present) @ Infineon Technologies, Bucharest – Real number modeling, behavioral model development and validation for analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits;
• Physical Design Engineer Intern (4 Jul. 2022 – 31 Jul. 2023) @ Marvell Technology, Bucharest – Digital circuit and system design, top-level layout integration and verification.

Academic activity

Undergraduate curricula (ETTI)

• Advanced Techniques in Digital Signal Processing, 4th year: labs (2024 – present);
• Digital Signal Processing, 3rd year: labs (2024 – present);
• Decision and Estimation in Information Processing, 3rd year: tutorials (2023 – 2024).

Undergraduate curricula (FIIR)

• Digital Electronics, 2nd year: labs (2023 – present).

Undergraduate curricula (FIM)

• Electronics, 2nd year: labs (2024 – present).

List of publications

Conference papers (1)

2023

• C.T. Neamțu, Ș. Mihalache, D. Burileanu, “Liveness Detection – Automatic Classification of Spontaneous and Pre-recorded Speech for Biometric Applications,” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD), Bucharest, Romania, pp. 1-5, 25-27 Oct. 2023. ISBN: 979-8-3503-2797-7. DOI: 10.1109/SpeD59241.2023.10314940

MSEE thesis

C.T. Neamțu, “Advanced techniques for automatic spoofed speech detection in speaker recognition-based biometric systems”, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, expected defense date 25 Jun. 2025 (academic supervisors: Prof. Dragoș Burileanu, Lect. Șerban Mihalache).

BSEE thesis

C.T. Neamțu, “Speech liveness detection”, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technology, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, defended 5 Jul. 2023 (academic supervisors: Prof. Dragoș Burileanu, Lect. Șerban Mihalache).