University of Leeds, UK

Dragos Ciobanu is a Lecturer in Translation Studies specialising in Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools and he runs the MA in Applied Translation Studies (MAATS). He is also an instructional designer and certified learning technologist using his background in languages and technology to produce effective interactive multilingual, multimedia online resources. Dragos Ciobanu works a lot with CAT tools such as SDL Trados 2011, MemoQ, SDL Passolo, Wordfast, Deja Vu X2, and OmegaT. He is interested in a cross-disciplinary approach combining CAT, corpus, assistive and e-learning technologies in order to increase language service provider productivity. His aim is to use his background in languages and corpus linguistics together with his experience in making the most of learning and teaching tools for the benefit of language service providers everywhere. In addition, he is also fascinated by serious games, game design and games localization. He has been involved in several large-scale collaborative projects in the field of CAT-tools training, interpreter training and global online training funded by UK institutions, the EU, or international organisations such as UNICEF: eCoLoRe, MeLLANGE, NNI, ORCIT, WASH.

At TransTech 2014 he will be giving a course on Translation Environment Tools.