Nicolae-Catalin Ristea graduated as valedictorian from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest, in 2019. He received the M.S. degree in the image processing field and in 2021 started the PhD at the same university. Nicolae is co-author of multiple papers accepted at top-tier conferences and journals, such as VTC, INTERSPEECH and Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, signal processing and deep learning