Education
- 08/06 – present William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy program in Computer Science.
- 09/03 – 05/06 Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
- Bachelor of Science program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, awarded a degree in June 2006. Thesis: A Search Engine for Mathematical Formulae, published at the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation, 2006.
- 08/05 – 12/05 William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Exchange student for one semester, studied Computer Science.
- 09/99 – 06/03 Moise Nicoara National College, Arad, Romania
- Concentrated on Mathematics, Sciences and English.
Work Experience
- 06/08 – 09/08 Willow Garage, Menlo Park, California, USA
- Developed motion planning software for the PR2 (Personal Robots Program)
- 06/06 – 08/06 Design Science, Long Beach, California, USA
- Converted LaTeX documents into XHTML + Presentation MathML.
- 06/05 – 07/05 Guest Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington DC, USA
- Worked on Digital Library of Mathematical Functions Project; required Perl programming, working with LaTeX, XML.
- 09/03 – 05/05 Teaching Assistant for Computer Science, Jacobs University, Germany
- Tutored, graded homeworks and exams for General Computer Science course.
- 02/02 – 08/03 SC Security Prod SRL, Arad, Romania
- Developed the software for a home security monitoring system based on GSM.
Honors, Awards
Numerous prizes at national contests
Computer Science and Mathematics (2000 - 2003).
Member of president's list
During undergraduate studies (2003 - 2006).
International Computer Science contests
- Associated Computing Machinery (ACM), Lund, Sweden, 2003.
- International 24 hour Programming contest, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, 2004.
- The Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2005 (was awarded honorable mention).
Soft skills
Computer Skills:
- Programming in C/C++, Perl, Delphi, Matlab.
- Experience with object oriented programming, database programming, socket programming, distributed and shared memory parallel programming.
- Basic knowledge of Java, Python, PHP, HTML.
Languages:
- Romanian: mother tongue
- English: fluent in written and spoken
- French: working knowledge