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- Assistant Professor with University of Colorado Denver

- Director of National Center for Media Forensics

Contact Address:

Catalin GRIGORAS, Ph.D.

National Center for Media Forensics

1800 Grant Street, Suite 230

Denver, CO 80203

USA

Phone: 303-315-5859

Fax: 303-832-0483

e-mail(1): catalin.grigoras@ucdenver.edu

e-mail(2): forensicav@techemail.com

web: www.forensicav.ro

Education

2003 Post-doctoral Scholarship in Forensic Audio, University of Cambridge, UK

1998-2001 Digital Signal Processing System, Ph.D. Thesis, Electric Engineering Department, Politehnica University of Bucharest

1994 MA Electric Engineering Department, Politehnica University of Bucharest

Training

2008 Training on Voice Analysis Systems, AGNITIO, Madrid, Spain

2008 Training on Forensic Photography & Video / Image Analysis, European Commission TAIEX project, Vilnius, Lithuania

2002 Forensic Audio Training, - Audio Enhancement, STC, Saarbrucken, Germany

2000 Forensic Audio/Video Training, New York Institute for Forensic Audio, USA

Projects

2000-present DCLive Forensics

2005-2007 IAFPA Grant, Catalina Forensic Voice Analysis System

2008-2010 EU Project on forensic voice analysis and speaker recognition

Professional Vitae

2010 Forensic expert (expert tehnic judiciar, expert criminalist autorizat) by the Ministry of Justice, Romania

2002-2010 forensic official expert, authorised forensic expert by the Ministry of Justice, Romania

1994-2001 forensic examiner with the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) and Ministry of Interior (Internal Affairs)

Official trainer in DCLive Forensics and Automatic Speaker Recognition Systems; I trained forensic audio/video examiners from: Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Poland, Turkey.

Articles about/Interviews:

2010, June 3^rd, Romania Libera (in Romanian)

2010, June 1^st, Romania Libera (in Romanian)

2010. June 1^st, The Reporter, UK (in English)

2010, Martie 3^rd, Ziua Veche (in Romanian)

2008, TV JOJ, Slovakia (translated into Slovak)

2008, August 28^th, Romania Libera (in Romanian)

2008, July 3^rd, ZIUA (in Romanian)

2008, June 11^th, NewsFM (in Romanian)

2008, June 9^th, Gardianul (in Romanian)

2008, Winter, Security Newsletter, pg.4, USA, (in English)

2007, October 10^th, Wired (in English)

2007, September 10^th, Gardianul (in Romanian)

2007, September 8^th, Dziennik Polski (in Polish)

2006, December, National Geographic (in Romanian)

2006, November 11^th, Romanian National Television (TVR1)

2004, February 28^th, Adevarul, pg.9 (in Romanian)

2003, March 9^th, ZIUA page 9 (in Romanian - Courtesy ZIUA)

2003, March, Palatul de Justitie / Justice Palace (in Romanian - Courtesy Palatul de Justitie)

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