He received his MSc in Computer Science from the UPB in 2001 and his PhD from the Institute for Scientific Computing at the RWTH-Aachen University in Germany in 2008. His fields of interest include wireless sensor networks, parallel and distributed system architectures and algorithms, automatic differentiation, and computer networks. He coordinated the UPB team in the EUWB FP7 IP project and is currently managing the UPB team in the TWISNet FP7 STREP project