Education
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| Rutgers University |
Piscataway |
| Department of Computer Science |
NJ |
| PhD, Computer Science; expected 2005 |
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| Advisor: Dr. Casimir A. Kulikowski |
| Dissertation: Combinatorial PCA: a method for structural data analysis |
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| Rutgers University |
Piscataway |
| Department of Computer Science |
NJ |
| MS, Computer Science; April 2003 |
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| Advisor: Dr. Casimir A. Kulikowski |
| Dissertation:Combinatorial PCA for Classifier Improvement Using Unlabelled Data |
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| University of Bucharest |
Bucharest, |
| Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science |
Romania |
| BS, Computer Science; BS, Mathematics; July 1998 |
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| Advisor: Dr. Luminita State |
| Dissertation: Genetic Algorithms for Finding the Best Neocognitron Network.
Applications to Optical Character Recognition
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Research and work experience |
| June 2005-August 2005 |
DIMACS |
| Graduate Research Assistant |
Rutgers University |
| Participated in the 2005 KDD Challenge, being responsible for the
development in the ER-1a task
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| PI: Dr. Fred Roberts |
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| July 2004-May 2005 |
Pharmacopeia, |
| Graduate Intern |
Inc. |
| Created a patented technology for estimating molecular 3D
structures using multiple alignments of 1D representations of such molecules
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| Developed a scalable clustering procedure for molecular
fingerprint data |
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| Mentor: Dr. David Diller |
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| July 2002-June 2004 |
DIMACS |
| Graduate Research Assistant |
Rutgers University |
| As part of the Monitoring Message Streams (MMS) project, I developed the
initial version of the Combinatorial PCA (cPCA) technology, using it for feature
selection in text analysis problems
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| Member of the Rutgers team that participated in the Trec 11 adaptive
filtering task (Summer 2002).
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| PI: Dr. Fred Roberts |
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| June 2001-August 2001 |
Dept. of Computer Science |
| Graduate Research Assistant |
Rutgers University |
| Research assistant in the Plant Genome Initiative at Rutgers. Contributed to
the development of a method for automatic functional annotation of proteins, based on
amino-acid sequence similarities
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| Developed a method for the functional annotation of protein domains, with the
main result being a highly annotated version of the Dali Domain Dictionary (DDD)
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| PI: Dr. Casimir A. Kulikowski |
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| September 1999-May 2000 |
Dept. of Computer Science |
| Graduate Research Assistant |
Rutgers University |
| Participated in the development of the project "Vision-Equipped Agents for the
Disabled", designing and implementing the algorithms controlling the communication and
the movements of a robotic agent |
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| PI: Dr. Sven Dickinson |
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| August 1998-June 1999 |
Bouygues Telecom |
| Software engineer |
France |
| designed a software package for automatic cell frequency allocation,
using Monte Carlo methods (Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms); integrated with
PlaNET® and ComOpt®
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| supervised and contributed to the development of a hardware inventory
distributed database, with Oracle® back-end and Delphi®-based front-end
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Teaching experience |
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| Sept 2000-June 2002 |
Dept. of Computer Science |
| Teaching Assistant |
Rutgers University |
| Taught a variety of courses, including Introduction to Computer Science, Data
Structures, Numerical Analysis, Computer Networks, and Computer Graphics
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