Conference presentations and academic talks
A DySES 2026 talk on whether prompted LLMs can generate synthetic accounting amounts that resemble Benford-compliant data, and how explicit Benford instructions change detectability.
EURO 2025 (Leeds, UK) • A Markov chain analysis of academic mobility patterns revealing how university reputation influences researchers’ career trajectories and institutional barriers to mobility.
EURO 2025 (Leeds, UK) • A novel rank-size analysis approach to systematically characterise optimal portfolio weight distributions across different portfolio optimization models.
IE 2025 Keynote (Bucharest, Romania) • Exploring the universal application of rank-size analysis across diverse socio-economic systems and modelling frameworks.
EcoSta 2024 (Beijing, China) • An innovative approach to soccer rankings integrating statistical methods for balanced team performance evaluation.
ICAS 2023 (Bucharest, Romania) • A presentation exploring the application of MCMC techniques for generating ranked textual data.
CEBSS 2021 (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) • A study on the relationship between pandemic-induced anxiety and trust in global financial markets.
International Week 2021 (Bucharest, Romania) • Investigating pandemic anxiety’s influence on financial markets.
ICAS 2020 (Bucharest, Romania) • Analyzing the application of Benford’s law to S&P500 market data.
JDS 2019 (Nancy, France) • Assessing the economic impact of earthquakes using rank-size analysis.
EURO 2018 (Valencia, Spain) • Analyzing the effects of trader backgrounds in a semi-closed simulated stock market.
JADT 2018 (Rome, Italy) • Exploring the complexity and clustering patterns in US Presidential speeches through text mining and network analysis.
CFE 2017 (London, UK) • Investigating the complexity of US Presidential speeches through computational methods.
KNOWeSCAPE 2017 (Sofia, Bulgaria) • Exploring the structure of the US presidential speeches
