Research interests:

• Formal Methods, in particular Static Software Verification;
• Automated Theorem Proving, in particular First-Order Theorem Proving;
• Symbolic Computation, in particular Polynomial Algebra.

Other interests:

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Technology and Education

NEWS

• In July, my Master students defended their theses in an excellent fashion:
  • Marcus Ilisie. A Symbiosis of Constraint Optimization, Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking for Scalable Cloud Deployment Problems
  • Eduard Laitin. Speeding Up the Deployment in the Cloud of Component-based Applications using Graph Neural Networks and SMT solving
  • Vlad Luca. SAGE - A Tool for Optimal Deployments in Kubernetes Clusters. Paper accepted at IEEE CloudCom 2023.
  • Andreea Postovan. Binarized Neural Networks for Traffic Sign Recognition: Training and Verification. Papers accepted at ICANN 2023 and FROM 2023.
• PC member of TACAS 2024
• Updates on the activities of the R&D project funded by UEFISCDI
• In the next academic year I will be teaching courses on entrepreneurship:
  • Entrepreneurship Skills (mandatory)
  • Entrepreneurship Skills - practical applications (facultative)
  Their content and format are inspired by those followed at University of Rochester during the Fulbright-RAF scholarship. These are the first courses for Computer Science students in our department and I'm glad they were introduced in the 2nd year of Bachelor studies. They follow the slogan Come and see, so if you want to participate and/or contribute, contact me!
• We are organizing Entrepreneurship Café also in the academic year 2022-2023. Check Entrepreneurship page for details!