Bio

I am an Associate Professor in Computer Science with a dual academic trajectory spanning France and Romania. 

In 2011, I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, under the supervision of Valentin Cristea (UPB) and Iosif Legrand (California Institute of Technology). The Ph.D. thesis focused on self-adaptive behavior of large-scale distributed systems based on monitoring information, bringing several contributions to the MonALISA monitoring system, developed in collaboration with Caltech and CERN. 

After the Ph.D., I joined Inria as a postdoctoral researcher within the KerData team, working with Gabriel Antoniu and Luc Bougé, on scalable storage in cloud environments. There, I worked on checkpointing mechanisms for cloud platforms and initiated collaborations with Argonne National Laboratory (USA).

In 2012, I was appointed Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at INSA Rennes and became a permanent member of the KerData research team at IRISA. Over more than a decade, I contributed to the development of research axes around Big Data storage and processing in the cloud-to-edge continuum. I created and led the Data Science track within the Computer Science Department and took responsibility for internships and industrial partnerships.

In 2019, I obtained my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Rennes, with a dissertation entitled "From Big Data to Fast Data: Efficient Stream Data Management".

In 2024, I returned to my alma mater, the University Politehnica of Bucharest, as an Associate Professor and member of the MobyLab research group. Here, I continue to teach and conduct research, now with a focus on reproducibility, Federated Learning and the integration of AI and Quantum Computing with large-scale infrastructures.