CURRICULUM VITAE
1. Surname: Manea
2. Name: Florin Silviu
3. Birth date and place: September 21, 1980; Bucharest; Romania; Romanian Citizen
4. Education:
10. 2005 – 12.2007: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, PhD. Thesis title: Networks of bio-processors. Supervisor: Victor Mitrana. The Committee that approved the thesis was: Prof. Dr. Horia Georgescu (president), Prof. Dr. Victor Mitrana (scientific supervisor), Prof. Dr. Jurgen Dassow (referee), Prof. Dr. Tudor Balanescu (referee), Prof. Dr. Ioan Tomescu (referee). The thesis was evaluated with the maximum grade and with the distinction Summa cum Laude.
10. 2003 – 02. 2005: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Master of Science, (in Theoretical Computer Science). GPA: 10/10
10.1999 – 06. 2003: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. GPA: 10/10.
09. 1995 – 06. 1999: National Computer Science College "T. Vianu", Baccalaureate, GPA: 9.02/10.
5. Jobs:
08.2009 - present: "Alexander von Humboldt Foundation" Research Fellow, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany.
10.2008 - present: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Lecturer, Fundamentals of Computer Science Chair.
02.2007 - 09.2008: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Computer Science Chair.
05. 2006 – 08. 2006: SIVECO Romania, researcher in the team of the project: Advancing Clinico-Genomic Clinical Trials on Cancer: Open Grid Services for improving Medical Knowledge Discovery.
10. 2004 – 02. 2007: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Research Assistant, Fundamentals of Computer Science Chair.
01. 2004 – 10. 2004: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Programmer.
6. Papers:
See Papers
7. Member of:
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS),
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),
Special Interest Group in Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT),
Computability in Europe Association (CiE).
8. Foreign languages:
English, French, German.
9. Interests:
· unconventional computing models
· formal languages
· computability and complexity
· algorithms and data structures
10. Research projects:
· SELF - Integrated System for Educational Content Management (AMCSIT PN II grant)
· SEFIN - Multidisciplinary Research on Intelligent Electronic Learning Systems (CNMP PN II grant)
· GlobalComp: models, semantics, logics and technologies for global computing. (CEEX grant)
· Parallel systems of communicating automata, used in dialog modelling. (CEEX grant for young researchers)
· Contextual parser for Romanian (CNCSIS At grant)
· The specification and management of usage scenarios for socio-technical simulations. An approach based on situation theory. (CNCSIS A grant)
· Advancing Clinico-Genomic Clinical Trials on Cancer: Open Grid Services for improving Medical Knowledge Discovery. (FP6 research project)
11. Miscellaneous:
· Research experience:
2003-2010: I have written (alone or in collaboration) 48 research papers (published or to appear). My graduation papers (both for BSc and MSc) were completely original. I edited one special issue of the journal ROMJIST, and was part of one conference program committee (Advances in the Theory of Computing at SYNASC 2010).
2004-2010: Contributed papers and talks at the conferences Theorietag 2010, ODSA 2010, CiE 2010, DCFS 2010, LATA 2010, FCT 2009, UC 2009, DNA 2009, DCFS 2009, ICAART 2009, DLT 2009, AFL 2008, CiE 2007, MCU 2007, Tomescu65 (workshop in honour of Ioan Tomescu's 65th birthday), DNA 2006, ODSA 2006, CiE 2005, AFL 2005, IWINAC 2005, DCM 2005 (Workshop of ICALP2005), Workshop on Symbolic Networks ECAI 2004, MCU 2004, ESSLLI 2003 Student Session. I participated at the Vilem Mathesius Lecture series (organized by Charles University, Prague) and Theorietag 2009.
2008: I was the president of the Scientific Committee, Romanian National Olympiad in Informatics.
2004-2006: I have given several talks at the University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
2006: I have participated in writing a study on web portal technology, grid portal technology, and e-learning for the project: Advancing Clinico-Genomic Clinical Trials on Cancer: Open Grid Services for improving Medical Knowledge Discovery.
2006: I was a member of the Scientific Committee, Romanian National Olympiad in Informatics, Targoviste 2006.
2002: I was a member of the team that designed a software product for German - Romanian Machine Translation, during a scientific seminar at University of Hamburg, organized by DAAD.
· Fellowships:
· Research fellowship awarded by the "Alexander von Humboldt Foundation"
· Research fellowship for PhD students awarded by CNCSIS (BD Fellowship, awarded after a national contest)
· Participation fellowship at ESSLLI 2003 and ESSLLI 2004 (declined)
· Participation fellowship at Vilem Mathesius Lecture series 2003
· Performance and merit fellowship during BSc and MSc studies.
· Awards:
· The "Tudor Tanasescu" Prize of the Romanian Academy, awarded in 2009 for the research papers written in 2007.
· Places: 4 (first among Romanian teams) in 2004, 6 (first among Romanian teams) in 2005, 2 (first among Romanian teams, qualifying for the World Finals) and 5 (second among Romanian teams) in 2006, 4 (first among Romanian teams) in 2007, 6 (first among Romanian teams) in 2008 at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, South-Eastern Europe Regional, as coach of the University of Bucharest team.
· Honorable Mention at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, as coach of the University of Bucharest team in 2004 (Prague) and 2007 (Tokyo).
· The Prize of the Bucovinean Brothers Sarghie for outstanding undergraduate results, 2003, awarded by "Fundatia Fratii Bucovineni Sarghie", and University of Bucharest.
· Award for the best student of the Computer Science Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2003.
· Honorable Mention at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, South-Eastern Europe Regional, as member of the University of Bucharest team, 2001, 2002.
· Prizes at the National Math Olympiad and National Math Contests. Member of the National Math Team.
