Alexandru TOPÎRCEANU was born on October 26 1987 in Timisoara, where he lives to this day. He followed the German school Nikolaus Lenau (from Kindergarten to highschool), and then started his bachelor studies at the Politehnica University Timisoara (UPT). Consequently, he finished a bachelor in Computer Science (CTI) in 2010, and followed a master in Software Engineering at the Faculty of Automation and Computers.

His professional activity includes participation at programming contests, like “Noi Info”, where he won 4th and 2nd places in game development; 1st national and 5th international prize at the “Solar Schools” inventics competition. Also, he participated and won, or ranked very good, in many competitions as a student (CEC, iTEC, ACM, BitDefender), and one mentionable accomplishment is the ranking in the world’s top 6 at the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition in Poland 2010.

Currently he occupies the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Technology @UPT. His PhD thesis, which was started in 2012, is entitled “Structural and Behavioral Analysis and Modeling of the Society” and deals with the topics of social networks analysis, network topologies, opinion diffusion, and computer simulation.

He worked as a Java software engineer at Continental Automotive for 1 year, and is currently an active research member of the ACSA group in UPT, and the Morpheus, Inception and Impress teams, dealing with complex networks and network medicine topics. He teaches Android development, Hardware-software Codesign, Computer Organization and Algorithms Design at the Romanian and English sections in the Department of Computer and Software Engineering.