PhD student at Johns Hopkins University
Washington D.C. Metro Area
PhD student at Johns Hopkins University
Washington D.C. Metro Area
I'm a PhD student at Computer Science Department at Johns Hopkins University and a member of Distributed Systems and Networks lab. I'm currently working in Wireless Mesh Networks area, developing the SMesh (http://smesh.org) system.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
September 2004 — Present (4 years 11 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2004 — 2007 (3 years)
I was TA for: Unix Systems programming (Fall 2004), Compilers and Interpreters (Spring 2006, Spring 2007), Intermediate Programming (Fall 2006)
(Computer Software industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years)
I was TA for: Operating Systems, Algorithms Analysis, Data Structures and Algorithms, Functional Programming, Artificial Intelligence.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
February 2003 — August 2003 (7 months)
This research constitutes my thesis for the BS degree awarded by Politehnica University of Bucharest.
(Computer Networking industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years)
CCNA instructor in the Cisco Networking Academy Program at UPB.
PhD , Computer Science , 2004 — 2009
MSE , Computer Science , 2004 — 2007
Awarded as part of the PhD program. My qualifying project is "Fast Handoff for Wireless Mesh Networks".
MS , Computer Science , 2003 — 2004
Concentration: Advanced Systems for Internet Applications.
BS , Computer Science , 1998 — 2003
High School , Informatics , 1994 — 1998
I was in an intensive Informatics class, which taught computer science related subjects for 8 hours a week. This is when I first learned how to program in Pascal, C and assembly language. Also, it was a great time to participate in Informatics, Physics and Mathematics contests.
Building Systems, Networks, Wireless Networks, Operating Systems, Movies, Photography, Formula 1, Spaceflight
IEEE
Student Travel Award for IEEE WoWMoM 2007, by NSF, IEEE TCCC, and IBM.
Romanian Ministry of Education Scholarship for Academic Performance, 1998-2004.
Graduated in 9th place from Computer Science and Engineering Department (about 250 graduating students), 2003.
1st place at the WDG Florida Challenge, programming contest, 2001.
1st place at the Fall USACO Tournament, programming contest, 1999.
8th place at the Spring USACO Tournament, programming contest, 1998.
Mention at the Romanian National Olympiad of Informatics, 1998.
9th place at LEGO, international programming contest (~200 participants), Oradea, Romania, 1998.
One of 10 finalists at Compaq Cup (PCWorld Romania programming contest), December 1997.