Oliviu Matei is a Romanian computer scientist, entrepreneur, and full professor at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. He holds an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from UTCN. His research focuses on AI, evolutionary computation, ontologies, and optimisation, with five software patents to his name. Matei is also the founder and CEO of HOLISUN S.R.L., an ICT company active in EU-funded R\&D projects. He has supervised numerous doctoral students and was awarded the Bologna Professorship in 2019."