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Miruna Niculescu is an emerging researcher whose work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and consumer behavior. Her scholarship focuses primarily on how people perceive and respond to anthropomorphic qualities in AI devices and robots, with particular attention to how demographic factors — including gender and generational differences — shape these attitudes. Niculescu's most recognized contribution examines whether men and women differ in their responses to human-like characteristics in AI systems, a question with meaningful implications for product design, marketing, and the broader social integration of intelligent technologies. Her 2022 paper on this topic has garnered five citations, making it her most impactful work to date. Complementary studies explore gender-specific preferences toward anthropomorphic robots and the social appreciation users derive from interacting with them, each accumulating three citations. Her more recent 2024 work extends this lens to generational cohorts, reflecting a timely interest in how age shapes openness to robotic technologies. While still building her citation profile, Niculescu addresses questions of growing urgency as AI becomes embedded in everyday life, offering researchers, designers, and policymakers nuanced insight into the human dimensions of technological acceptance.