Until 2008 he was a member of the Center for Advanced Studies, IBM Toronto Laboratory where he led the research programs in Autonomic Computing, System Management and Software Engineering. He was also the Chair of the Board of CSER, a Canadian Consortium for Software Engineering Research. He was co-organizer of the ICSE workshops ACSE 2003, ACSE 2004, DEAS 2005, SEAMS 2007, and SEAMS 2008 and of the IBM CASCON Workshop Series on Engineering Autonomic Systems 2004-2008. Prior to joining IBM (1997), he was a faculty member with the Department of Computers and Control Systems, University Politechnica of Bucharest. Dr. Litoiu's other research interests include distributed objects; high performance software design; performance modeling, performance evaluation and capacity planning for distributed and real time systems. He was Program Chair of SEAMS 2008.