Ph.D. in
Computer Science (GPA 4), University of Virginia
(2003 - 2007)
(Co-)Advisors: Jorg Liebeherr and Almut Burchard
M.Sc. in Computer Science (GPA 4), George Mason University (1999 - 2002)
B.Sc.
in Informatics (GPA 9.65), Faculty of Mathematics,
University of Bucharest (1994 - 1998)
Senior Research Scientist, Telekom Innovation Laboratories / Technische Universitaet Berlin (T-Labs) (2008 - 2013)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (2007 - 2008)
Research
assistant, University of Virginia (2003 - 2007)
Research
assistant, George Mason University (1999 - 2002)
Software design engineer, Ipacri Romania (1998 - 1999)
Mathematics for Computer Scientists, Warwick (Fall 2013-2015)
Stochastic Network Calculus, TU Berlin (WS-2011/12)
Network Optimization by Randomization, TU Berlin (SS-2011)
Performance Evaluation of Telecommunication Networks, TU Berlin (SS-2011)
Network Protocols and Architectures, TU Berlin (WS-2010/11)
Tutor: Network Protocols and Architectures, TU Berlin (WS-2008/09)
Volunteer Teaching Assistant: Bridges and Routers, University of Toronto (2007)
Teaching Assistant: C++ Programming, George Mason University (2002)
IFIP Performance Best Paper Award (2014)
IEEE MMTC E-Letter Best Editor Award (2014)
ACM Sigmetrics Best Student Paper Award (2005)
Third Place at the Virginia Engineering Research Symposium (2005)
Certificate of Achievement in Recognition of Academic Excellence, George Mason University (2001)
Third Place at the ACM Southeastern European Programming Contest, Bucharest (1997)
Third Place at the National Collegiate Programming Contest, Iassy (1996)
Honor Scholarship, University of Bucharest (1994 - 1999)
Third Place at the National Mathematical Contest for Short Problems, Cozia (1991)
First Place at a Regional Chess Contest, Slatina (1986)
3rd Workshop on Network Calculus, A Unified Queueing Analysis of Markov Additive Processes, Apr. 2016
George Mason University, Virtualized Queueing Theory, Aug. 2015
Heriot-Watt University, Virtualized Queueing Theory, Jan. 2015
37th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (SPA), Scheduling with Martingales [contributed talk], Aug. 2014
University of Waterloo, Network Calculus: An Inconvenient Truth and New Perspectives, Feb. 2014
University of Warwick, Unification Day: On the Use of Martingales to Queueing and Caching, Oct. 2013
IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (CCW), Randomness and System Performance Analysis, Nov. 2012
City University of Hong Kong: Randomness and Network Capacity, June 2012
TU Eindhoven, Randomness and Network Capacity, June 2012
IBM Research - NY: Randomness and Network Capacity, Feb. 2012
China Telecom, China Mobile: Queueing for Telekom Industry, Nov. 2011
Tsinghua University, Peking University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing Central University of Finance and Economics: Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Oct. 2011
University of Hannover: On the Scaling of Non-Asymptotic
Capacity in Multi-Access Networks with Bursty Traffic, Aug. 2011
Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, Apr. 2011
ACM Sigmetrics (Student Industry Workshop): Queueing for Telekom Industry, June 2010
Tecnologico de Monterrey: A Modern Tool to Analyze Queueing Systems: Theory and Practice, Mar. 2010
Bonn Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics: A Modern Tool to Analyze Queueing Systems. Theory and Practice, Nov. 2009
Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC): The Stochastic Network Calculus: A Modern Approach to Queueing Using Inequalities, Nov. 2009
INFORMS Annual Meeting: Input-Output Similarities at FIFO Queues, Oct. 2009
Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern: Issues on Stochastic Data Scaling, Sept. 2009
Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern: A Modern Network Queueing Theory with Inequalities, Feb. 2009
Technische Universitaet Hamburg: A (min,+) Algebraic Approach for Networks Analysis, Dec. 2008
University of Waterloo: Scaling Properties of Probabilistic Worst-Case Delays in Networks, Apr. 2008
ETH Zurich: Scaling Properties of Probabilistic Worst-Case Delays in Networks, Dec. 2007
George Mason University: Scaling Properties of Probabilistic Worst-Case Delays in Networks, Dec. 2007
University of Toronto: On The Scaling of Statistical Delay Bounds in Communication Networks, Feb. 2006
ACM Sigmetrics: Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, June 2011
IFIP Performance: A Modern Tool for Approximative Queueing Analysis: Theory and Practice, with J. Schmitt, Nov. 2010
ACM Sigmetrics: A Modern Tool for Approximative Queueing Analysis: Theory and Practice, with J. Schmitt, June 2010
TPC (Co-)Chair: International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) (2016 - Area 5), Dagstuhl Seminar on Network Calculus
(2015), Workshop on Network Calculus (WoNeCa 2012, 2014), Workshop on
Data Center Performance (DCPerf 2012)
TPC Member: IEEE Infocom (2011-2017), ACM Sigmetrics (2012-2014), IFIP Performance (2015), ACM Mobihoc (2014-2016), ITC (2010, 2012-2014), IEEE MASCOTS (2015-2016), QEST (2016), e-Energy (2013-2014, 2016), IFIP Networking (2014-2016), IEEE MASS (2015-2016), IEEE LANMAN (2014-2016), IEEE ICC (2011-2015), WCTT (2012, 2011), IEEE Globecom (2011, 2013), AINTEC (2013-2014)
Worskhops and Tutorial Chair: ACM Sigmetrics (2015)
Publicity Co-Chair: ITC (2013-2016)
E-Letter Board of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (2013-2014)
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Networking, Performance Evaluation, Computer Networks Journal, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Infocom, IEEE IWQoS, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IFIP Networking, ICDCS, ICST ValueTools
Session Chair: IEEE Infocom (2011-2014), ACM Sigmetrics (2012-2013, 2015), IEEE ISIT (2011), Allerton (2010), IEEE Lanman (2014)
Liaison at TU Berlin for the EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology) Master on Internet Technology and Architecture
Ph.D.: Felix Poloczek (2012 - ), Hao Wang (2010 - 2015), Oliver Hohlfeld (2009 - 2013)
M.Sc.: Daniel Berger (2013 - 2014), Jinliang Xue (2012), Ton Godtschalk (2012), Joebke Janssen (2011), Xin Li (2011)
Interns:
Weijun Ding (2013), Sahil Singla (2013), Márton Csernai (2012 - 2013),
Karthik Rajkumar (2012), Yashar Ghiassi (2011), Hao Wang (2010, 2011)
Internal Projects: Philipp Gland (2011, 2013), Paul Hinterberger (2013), Christof Tinnes (2013), Matti Leimbach (2011), Sahil Sachdeva (2010)