Background

 


2022 - present  Université Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallée (Greater Paris), Ile-de-France, France

Full Professor (Professeure de l’Université Gustave Eiffel)

                            Teaching Dept.: ESIEE Paris,  DISC

                            Research: 1 - LIGM Lab UMR 8049, UGE, ESIEE Paris, CNRS, ENPC (main)

  2 - ETIS Lab UMR 8051, CY Cergy Paris Université, ENSEA, CNRS (associate researcher)


2018 - 2019     Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France

HDR - French habilitation to direct research: "Contributions to energy-efficient wireless communications exploiting games, online optimization and learning" 

Highest academic degree in France required to become Full Professor or Senior Scientist/Researcher

 ETIS, ENSEA

         Defense date: 29 March 2019

        Jury members: S. Barbarossa, G. Baudoin, G. Caire, P. Duhamel, J-M. Gorce, M. Helard

                              Guarantor: I. Fijalkow


2015 - 2017 Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble, France

Associate Researcher  (délégation complète) in the Mescal and Polaris Inria project teams and LIG lab, UMR 5217, CNRS

Collaborator: Panayotis Mertikopoulos


2011 -2022   ENSEA, Electrical Engineering Graduate School, French Grande École, Cergy-Pontoise, France

                            Associate Professor (Maitre de Conférences)

                            Teaching Dept.: Information Technology 

                            Research: ETIS Laboratory, UMR 8051, CY Cergy Paris Universite, ENSEA, CNRS  


2010 - 2011    Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA and Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

  Post-doc on "Privacy in smart grids"

                             Collaborators: Vince H. Poor and Merouane Debbah


2007 - 2010    Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France (PhD) and  École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France (TA)


                              Ph.D. in Telecommunications : "On resource allocation problems in distributed MIMO wireless channels"

  Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S), Supélec

                              Defense date: 14 December 2010

                              Jury members: T. Basar, P. Duhamel, A. Moustakas, D. Slock, B. Tuffin

                              Advisors: S. Lasaulce and  M. Debbah

                              Area of Study: Wireless Communications & Cognitive Radio

 

Teaching Assistant (Monitrice) in the Physics Dep. at École Polytechnique

MODEX - Sound and speech processing

                          

2006 - 2007     Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France 

                               M.Sc.  Information, Systems, Technologies, System Control, Signal and Image Processing  (M2R ATSI)

                               Area of Study: Digital Communications & Signal and Image Processing

                               Rank: 1/13 (Valedictorian), mention Très Bien


2005 - 2006     École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

                              International Socrates/Erasmus Exchange Program, Third year of the Engineering Program

                              Applied mathematics track


2002 - 2007    Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

                               M.Eng., Engineer Diploma, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers

                                Area of Study: Control theory & Computer science 

    Rank: 6/210

    Academic excellence scholarship 2002-2005

                                Mathematics entry examination (Jul. 2002) score 10/10, max score on both exam tests: Algebra and Calculus, Geometry and Trigonometry


1999 - 2002 Matei Basarab High School, Bucharest, Romania

                              Valedictorian, șefa de promoție

                             Bacalaureat: Mathematics and Physics, July 2002, overall score: 9.2/10    

     

1998 - 1999     Radu Negru High School, Fagaras, Romania