He is the Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Politehnica University of Bucharest. His main fields of expertise are Distributed Systems, Grid Computing and E-Services.

He is the Director of the National Center for Information Technology, within which he leads the CoLaborator, Distributed Systems and Grid and e-Business/e-Government laboratories. He has a long experience in the development, management and/or coordination of international and national research projects. He collaborates with by Prof. Harvey Newman (from Caltech), Iosif Legrand (from CERN) and Prof. Nicolae Tapus (from PUB-NCIT) to define RoDiCA - Romanian Distributed Collaborative Architectures, which led to the development of MonALISA, MONARC2 and other projects. He also collaborates with University of Wisconsin, USA (NetPy project) and with Rutgers University, USA (VNSim, Prof. Liviu Iftode). He co-supervised the PUB Team in SEE-GRID-SCI (Contract FP7 nr. 211338), EGEE III (Contract FP7), EU-NCIT (Contract INCO-CT-2005-017101), COOPER (Contract no. 027073, FP6), CoLaborator (World Bank and CNCSIS Contract Nr. 26389/2000), and others. In 2003 he received the IBM award for excellence.

He is the Romanian coordinator of the Master program on Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems co-developed with Free University of Amsterdam. He has been a visiting professor in European and US Universities, such as: Free University of Berlin (Germany), Oulu University (Finland), Free University of Amsterdam (The Nederlands), Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and Rutgers University, USA.

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He is the vice-rector of the Politehnica University of Bucharest. His main fields of expertise are Distributed Systems, Local Area Networks, Computer Architecture and Grid Computing. He is also a member of the NCIT board.

He has a long experience in the development, management and/or coordination of research national and international projects. He is actively collaborating with IT Companies (CISCO, Microsoft, HP) and is participating in the elaboration of the strategy for the research development in ICT (including Grid development) in Romania, as a member of the government's Experts Council in these problems. He serves as a coordinator of IEEE Computer Society Chapters for IEEE Region 8 Europe, Middle Asia and Africa. He co-supervised the PUB involvement in several international projects: EGEE III (Contract FP7), P2P-Next (Contract FP7), SENSEI (Contract FP7), EU-NCIT (Contract INCO-CT-2005-017101), SEE-GRID-SCI (Contract FP7 nr. 211338), CoLaborator (World Bank and CNCSIS Contract Nr. 26389/2000) and others. He was a visiting professor in European and US Universities, such as: Grenoble (France), Free University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and Maryland University (USA). He is a member of the IEEE, Chair of Romania Computer Society Chapter and ACM professional organizations, Director of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest for South-Eastern Europe. He manages the organization of yearly ACM programming contests in Romania, within the PUB. He is a member of the New York Science Academy (1991) and member of the Romanian Technical Science Academy (2004).

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He is an assistant professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Politehnica University of Bucharest.

His research interests are oriented to: scheduling in Grid environments (his Ph.D. research), distributed system, parallel computation, communication protocols and numerical methods. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2008 with “Magna cum laudae” distinction. He is member of RoGrid consortium and participates in several research projects in these domains, in collaboration with other universities and research centers from Romania and from abroad developer (in the national projects like CNCSIS, GridMOSI, MedioGRID and international project like EGEE, SEE-GRID, EU-NCIT).

He has received an IBM Ph.D. Assistantship in 2006 (top ranked 1st out from 17 awarded students) and a Ph.D. Excellency Grant from Oracle in 2006-2008.

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He is currently a post-doc researcher and he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Politehnica University of Bucharest in 2008.

His main research interests are Grid Computing, Monitoring and Control of Distributed Systems, Modeling and Simulation, Advanced Networking Architectures, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms. He is member of the RoGrid consortium and is involved in a number of national projects (CNCSIS, GridMOSI, MedioGRID, PEGAF) and international projects (MonALISA, MONARC, VINCI, VNSim, EGEE, SEE-GRID, EU-NCIT). His research activities were awarded with the Innovations in Networking Award for Experimental Applications in 2008 by the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives (CENIC).

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He is a Ph.D. student and Teaching Assistant at the Computer Science department of the Politehnica University of Bucharest.

His research interests include: Grid Computing, Data Storage and Modeling, P2P systems. He is actively involved in several research projects related to these domains, both national and international, from which it worth mentioning MonALISA, MedioGRID, EGEE, P2P-NEXT, BlobSeer.

His Ph.D. thesis is oriented on Data Storage, Representation and Interpretation in Grid Environments. He has received a Ph.D. Excellency Grant from Oracle in 2006-2009 and was awarded an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship in 2009.

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She is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University Politehnica of Bucharest. In July-September 2009 she worked as an INRIA intern, on Dynamic Provisioning of Resources from Clouds in XtreemOS System.

Her research interests are Fault Tolerance, Monitoring and Virtualization in Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing and Peer-to-Peer Systems. She is a participant in several national (PEGAF, Depsys) and international (MonALISA, EU-NCIT, P2P-Next) research projects.

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He is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. He received his Master in Computer Science in 2009.

His research interests include Security of Distributed Systems, Intrusion Detection and Dependability of Large-Scale Distributed Systems. He also works on numerous national and international projects on these subjects.

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He is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.

His research interests include theoretical and practical aspects of Communication Optimization in Distributed Systems, Peer-to-Peer Systems, Multi-core Programming, Distributed Data Storage, Sequential and Distributed Algorithms and Data Structures.

He has participated in several EU and national research projects focused on the previously mentioned topics. He was awarded a Ph.D. research scholarship from Oracle and a Ph.D. Fellowship from IBM.

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