Ana-Sabina Uban is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest . She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2020 under the supervision of Professor Liviu Dinu with a thesis on distributional and stylistic aspects of natural language. She teaches and coordinates courses in natural language processing, AI, and machine learning for both computer science and digital humanities students. Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Bucharest (2020) – Thesis: "Distributional aspects of natural language. Semantic and stylistic dimensions of text" Research Interests: Dr. Uban’s research is strongly interdisciplinary, bridging natural language processing , computational linguistics , psychology , and cognitive science . She explores historical computational linguistics , distributional semantics , and multilingualism , while also investigating explainability in AI models and mental health disorder detection using social media data. Research Trends & Publication Focus: Her recent publications span clinical NLP , mental health detection , historical linguistics , and multilingual cognate identification . A recurring theme is the application of advanced NLP techniques—such as transformer models, contrastive learning, and ensemble classification—to real-world problems in health, literature, and historical language study. Teaching & Student Supervision: Dr. Uban currently teaches and coordinates the following courses: Bio-medical NLP – Master’s level (English) Artificial Intelligence – Bachelor’s level for Mathematics students Practical Introduction to Machine Learning – Master’s level for Digital Humanities students Natural Language Processing 1 & 2 – Master’s labs and projects Contact: auban@fmi.unibuc.ro








