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Tulescu Bert

Tulescu Bert

Founder & Student Research Lead

Admitted Student, General Studies (UMGC)

Tulescu Bert is the founder and student research lead of the Aura Computing & Intelligence Lab (Aura Lab). He is an admitted student at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) in General Studies.

His research interests include artificial intelligence, large language model reasoning, intelligent agents, AI for software engineering, mobile systems, and human–AI interaction.

Academic Affiliation & Identity Note: Tulescu Bert is an admitted student at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC). Aura Computing & Intelligence Lab is an independent student-led research group and is not an official UMGC departmental research unit or laboratory.

Selected publications

  1. Aura-Bench: An Open Evaluation Suite for Multi-Step AI Agent Tool Execution

    Bert T , Miller G , Ortega-Marquez J , Miljkovic N

    Open Source Software & Datasets · 2026

    Tulescu Bert Tulescu Bert Gillian Miller, BS Gillian Miller Jorge Ortega-Marquez, MS Jorge Ortega-Marquez Nenad Miljkovic, PhD Nenad Miljkovic
    Cited by 0 Mentee-led PI first/senior Collaboration Open access arXiv:2605.00331

  2. Benchmarking Agentic Tool Use and Reasoning in Repository-Level Code Comprehension

    Miller G , Bert T , Castro-Palacin A , Miljkovic N

    Aura Lab Technical Report · 2026

    Gillian Miller, BS Gillian Miller Tulescu Bert Tulescu Bert Alberto Castro-Palacin, MSc Alberto Castro-Palacin Nenad Miljkovic, PhD Nenad Miljkovic
    Cited by 0 Mentee-led PI first/senior Collaboration Open access arXiv:2602.00101

  3. Automated Regression Testing and Patch Generation with Multi-Agent Workflows: A Case Study

    Castro-Palacin A , Bert T , Ortega-Marquez J , Miljkovic N

    Aura Lab Technical Report Series · 2025

    Alberto Castro-Palacin, MSc Alberto Castro-Palacin Tulescu Bert Tulescu Bert Jorge Ortega-Marquez, MS Jorge Ortega-Marquez Nenad Miljkovic, PhD Nenad Miljkovic
    Cited by 0 Mentee-led PI first/senior Collaboration Open access

  4. Structured Retrieval and Factuality Verification for Scientific Domain Large Language Models

    Bert T , Ortega-Marquez J , Miljkovic N

    Aura Lab Preprints · 2025

    Tulescu Bert Tulescu Bert Jorge Ortega-Marquez, MS Jorge Ortega-Marquez Nenad Miljkovic, PhD Nenad Miljkovic
    Cited by 0 Mentee-led PI first/senior Collaboration Open access arXiv:2511.00204

  5. Transparency and Multi-Turn Reliability in Human–AI Software Development Workflows

    Tripathy S , Bert T , Miller G , Miljkovic N

    Aura Lab Working Paper · 2025

    Shreya Tripathy, BS Shreya Tripathy Tulescu Bert Tulescu Bert Gillian Miller, BS Gillian Miller Nenad Miljkovic, PhD Nenad Miljkovic
    Cited by 0 Mentee-led PI first/senior Collaboration Open access