Education

• 1989 - 1994 - Study of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania
• 1993 - 1994 - Study of Statistics, Institute for Statistics, Free university Brussels, Belgium (in French)
• 1994 - Graduation (BSc.) in Computer Science, University of Bucharest
• 1994 - Special licence in Statistics (MSc.), Free university of Brussels, ( Master Thesis, "Comparaison between Kanerva Memories and Neural Networks")
• 1994 - 1995 - Master studies in Computer Science, University of Bucharest
• 1995 - Master in CS, University of Bucharest (Master thesis : "Routing algorithms")
• 1996 - 2000, PH.D Student in CS, University of Bucharest, Romania
• 2000, PH.D in CS, University of Bucharest (Prof. Dr. ioan Tomescu, Thesis "Parallel Algorithms")
• 2002 -2003, Humboldt, Fellow, University of Hamburg, Natural Language Systems Division (Thema "Architectures for Natural Language Systems")

Study and Research Grants

• 1993 -1994 - Individual Tempus Mobility Grant, University of Brussels (Prof. Dr. Marc Hallin, 12 Months)
• 1995 - Individual Tempus Mobility Grant, University Aix-Marseille II, France (Prof. Dr. Traian Muntean)
• 2002 -2003, Humboldt Fellow, University of Hamburg, Natural Language Systems Division (Thema "Architectures for Natural Language Systems", Prof. Dr. Walther v. Hahn)
• 2005 DFG Research Grant, 1 month at Macquarie University Sydney, Australia (Prof. Dr. Robert Dale)

Short research visits

• 1998, University of Sheffield, Dept. of Computer Science (2 weeks)
• 1999, University of aalborg, Dept. of Computer Science ( 2 weeks)
• 1999, University of Granada, Dept. of computer Science (2 weeks)

Summer Schools

• Juli 1993 "Advanced Computing and its Applications", Black Sea university, Costinesti, Romania
• August 1993 “Computational Statistics”, Perugia, Italy
• September 1996 “Parallel Processing”, Triest, Italy
• April 1997, Multidimensional signal processing and analysis, Politechnica University, Bucharest, Romania
• February 2000 “Information Technology”, Warsaw, Poland

Languages

• Romanian (native speaking)
• German (fluent)
• English (fluent)
• French (fluent)
• Spanish (basics)