Alexandru Mara is one of the Co-Founders and CEO of Nobl.ai, a tech startup focused on delivering trustworthy AI for the labour market. Simultaneously, Alexandru holds a part-time appointment as a postdoctoral researcher in the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics group at Ghent University. His research interests revolve around recommender systems and representation learning as well as their applications to the labour market. Over the past decade, Alexandru has built an international academic career in AI and data mining obtaining his PhD from Ghent University in Belgium, MSc from Aalto University in Finland and BSc from the Technical University of Madrid in Spain. He was also part of the ERC projects ONTIC and COGNET focused on AI for telecommunication networks.

Expertise: AI techniques for the job market with particular emphasis on Network representation learning, recommender systems, link prediction, and experimental design and evaluation