California Institute of Technology
(Caltech), Pasadena, CA
Ph.D. candidate, Computer
Science Department, Oct 2001 - Present
University of Maryland, College
Park (UMD), College Park, MD
Master of Science,
Computer Science Department, May 2001
California Institute of Technology
(Caltech), Pasadena, CA
Bachelor of Science,
Computer Science Department, June 1999
Université des Sciences
et Technologies de Lille (USTL), Lille, France
L'Ecole Universitaire D'Ingénieurs
de Lille,
March 1997 - July 1997,
as winner of TEMPUS scholarship (G.P.A. 18 out of 20)
Politehnica University of
Bucharest (PUB), Bucharest, Romania
Bachelor of Science,
Computer Science Department, September 2001 (September 1995 - September
2001 ; transferred to Caltech in September 1997)
COMPUTER SKILLS
Languages: C/C++, Assembly
80x86, Java, Lisp, Pascal, Matlab, VRML, HTML
Systems: UNIX, Linux,
DOS, Windows 95, Windows NT
Projects:
"Kernel level distributed shared
memory", Caltech
"Application Tuning at runtime
using Harmony", UMD
"Resource Specification Language
for Harmony", UMD
"Distributed Multi User Dungeon",
Caltech - Design and implementation in Java
"Indexing algorithms for
search engines", Caltech - Theoretical work (some C and Perl code)
"3D photography", Caltech
- scan an object and create a 3D representation of it suitable for manipulation,
processing, and transmission over the web.
"Digital audio recorder",
Caltech - design, build, and program a microprocessor-based system
"Intranet and Internet Software
for Database Access", USTL - Java and C programming
WORK EXPERIENCE
August 2001 - Present, Research
Assistant
Caltech, Computer Science
Department, Prof. Jason Hickey
January 2002 - April 2002,
Teaching
Assistant for CS141 (Distributed Computation Laboratory)
Caltech, Computer Science
Department, Instructor Daniel Zimmerman
Duties: weekly office hours.
Also grade laboratory. (class of 15 students)
September 2001 - December
2001, Teaching Assistant for CS134 (Operating Systems)
Caltech, Computer Science
Department, Prof. Jason Hickey
Duties: weekly recitation
hours (prepare material relevant for the projects). Mostly about kernel
modules and other low level issues related to building an operating system.
Also grade laboratory. (class of 30 students)
August 1999 - May 2001, Research
Assistant
University of Maryland,
College Park, Computer Science Department, Prof. Jeff Hollingsworth
Duties: work on Harmony
research project that involves developing of an infrastructure for monitoring
and actively change distributed application's parameters
August 2000 - January 2001,
Teaching
Assistant for CMSC412 (Operating Systems)
University of Maryland,
College Park, Computer Science Department, Prof. Ashok Agrawala
Duties: weekly recitation
hours for two sections (prepare material relevant for the projects). Mostly
about kernel modules and other low level issues related to building an
operating system. Also grade laboratory. (class of 50 students)
October 1998 - June 1999,
Teaching Assistant for CS147 (Advanced Object Oriented Programming)
Caltech, Computer Science
Department, Prof. Glen George
Duties: help students understand
the class material, grade weekly homework and laboratory, (class of 50
students)
October 1997- July 1998,
Teaching
Assistant for CS140 (Programming Laboratory in C++)
Caltech, Computer Science
Department, Prof. Glen George
Duties: help students understand
the class material, grade weekly laboratory, (class of 37 students)
October 1997 - December 1997,
Lab
Attendant for Information Technology Services, Caltech
Duties: provided user assistance,
technical support in lab of 50 workstations (Sun, WinNT, Mac)
March 1996 - March 1997,
Research
Assistant in Electrical Engineering Research Lab,
Politehnica University
of Bucharest, Romania, Professor Mihai Iordache
Duties: wrote code for Object
Oriented Electric Circuits Design Application
April 1994 - September 1997,
Software
Engineer at Real Time Computers, Bucharest, Romania
Duties: worked in software
developing group, wrote software for real time data acquisition and processing
applications and Windows and DOS interfaces for acquisition software.
June 1993 - June 1996, Network
Administrator at Bucharest High-School of Computer Science
Duties: Linux and Novell
systems administration and maintenance
June 1993 - June 1995, Editor
and publisher of Computer'S Magazine, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Duties: take care of all
the problems that occurred in editing and publishing the magazine, as well
as dealing with Distributors and companies that were interested in investing
in the magazine
HONORS AND AWARDS
Atkison Fellowship, awarded
to top UMD grad students, 1999
Tau Beta Pi (National
Engineering Honor Society) member since May 1999
Albert J. Ferkel Scholarship,
awarded to Caltech outstanding undergraduate students in science and eng.
, 1998
TEMPUS scholarship, awarded
to Politehnica University of Bucharest top Undergraduates, 1997
Represented South-Eastern
Europe at the ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest Finals,San Jose,CA,
1997
Prizes while representing
Romania in international competitions:
2nd at the ACM South-Eastern
Europe Region Programming Contest, Bucharest, Romania, 1996
3rd at the Central European
Olympiad in Computer Science, Hungary, 1995
2nd at the Balcanic Olympiad
in Computer Science, Greece, 1994
1st at the International
Software Competition, Iakutsk, 1994
3rd at the International
Software Competition, Singapore 1992
PUBLICATIONS
Papers
A New Approach to Multi-User
Environments Using Software Distributed Shared Memory
1st Workshop on Software
Distributed Shared Memory, Rhodes, Greece, June 25th, 1999
Applying Distribution to Improve
Scalability in Multi-User Environments
Multi-User Object-Oriented
Environments Workshop (in association with the 13th European
Conference on Objected-Oriented Programming - ECOOP?99), Lisbon, Portugal,
June 14th , 1999
Distributed Scalable Server
Architecture for Multi-User Environments
The 12th International
Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania,
May 26th , 1999
"Applications of the golden
number" by Cristian Tapus and Dan Muresan, Computer?s Magazine,
Volume 1, 1993 (Romania)