Education
- 08/06 – 08/11 William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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Doctor of Philosophy program in Computer Science, degree awarded in
December 2011. Thesis: Task and
Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulators.
Part of the Physical and Biological Computing Group (research in robot motion planning, mobile manipulation). Master of Science degree in Computer Science, November 2008. Thesis: Kinodynamic Motion Planning for High-dimensional Physical Systems. - 09/03 – 05/06 Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
- Bachelor of Science program in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, awarded degree in June 2006. Thesis: A Search Engine for Mathematical Formulae.
- 08/05 – 12/05 William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Exchange student for one semester, studied Computer Science.
- 09/99 – 06/03 Moise Nicoara National College, Arad, Romania
- Concentrated on Mathematics, Sciences and English.
Work Experience
- 10/11 – present Willow Garage, Menlo Park, California, USA
- Research Scientist
- 06/09 – 08/09 Willow Garage, Menlo Park, California, USA
- Developed motion planning software for the PR2 (Personal Robots Program), in particular focusing on manipulation.
- 06/08 – 09/08 Willow Garage, Menlo Park, California, USA
- Developed motion planning software for the PR2 (Personal Robots Program).
- 06/06 – 08/06 Design Science, Long Beach, California, USA
- Converted LaTeX documents into XHTML + Presentation MathML, using LaTeXML.The goal was to produce input data for a search engine.
- 06/05 – 07/05 Guest Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington DC, USA
- Worked on Digital Library of Mathematical Functions Project; required Perl programming, working with LaTeX, XML.
- 09/03 – 05/05 Teaching Assistant for Computer Science, Jacobs University, Germany
- Tutored, graded homeworks and exams for General Computer Science course.
- 02/02 – 08/03 SC Security Prod SRL, Arad, Romania
- Developed the software for a home security monitoring system based on GSM.
Honors, Awards
Prizes at national contests (in Romania)
Computer Science and Mathematics (2000 - 2003).
Member of president's list
During undergraduate studies (2003 - 2006).
International Computer Science contests
- Associated Computing Machinery (ACM), Lund, Sweden, 2003.
- International 24 hour Programming contest, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, 2004.
- The Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2005 (was awarded honourable mention).
Soft skills
Computer Skills:
- Programming in C/C++, Perl, Matlab.
- Experience with database programming, web services, socket programming, distributed and shared memory parallel programming.
- Basic knowledge of Java, Python, PHP, HTML.
Languages:
- Romanian: mother tongue
- English: fluent in written and spoken
- French: working knowledge