Ştefan is an Associate Professor of AI for Defence and Security and a Royal Academy of Engineering UK Intelligence Community Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln, where he leads the research of the Centre for Defence and Security AI and the HIDE Lab, a hub for AI-based research on deception. He is also an Associate Researcher at Inria and a Faculty Affiliate at Ontario Tech (Trustworthy AI Lab).

Previously, Ştefan was a Proleptic Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at King’s College London. Before that, Ştefan was a 3iA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Inria/3iA Côte d’Azur and a Postdoc in the HASP lab at King’s. Ştefan’s background includes a PhD in AI from King’s, an MSc in Cognitive Science from Edinburgh, and a BA in Philosophy from West University of Timisoara.