I am Alexandru Brateanu, a first-year Ph.D. researcher in World Modelling and Physical AI at the University of Manchester, supervised by Dr. Tingting Mu and Prof. Timothy Cootes.
I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester in 2026.
Since 2024, I have also been working with Prof. Cosmin Ancuti, Prof. Codruta O. Ancuti, and Dr. Ciprian Orhei on deep learning methods for image restoration and enhancement.
Research Interests: World Modelling, Physical AI, Physically Grounded Representation Learning, Computer Vision, Image Restoration and Enhancement.
I am happy to discuss research ideas and potential collaborations.



