Objective
From June 2009 to June 2011, I am working as a postdoctoral reasearcher in the Department of Computer Science of UC Irvine.
Education
2004-2009	Ph.D. student at University of California, San Diego
2003-2004	Ensimag (Grenoble), postgraduate specialization in Software Engineering and Programming Languages
April 2001 – 2003	Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau), majors in Computer Science
1998 – 2003	Politehnica University Bucharest, Computer Science Department
Projects
2009-2011	ASTERIX, a highly scalable parallel platform for semistructured data management and analysis.
summer 2006	DXQ, distributed XQuery scripting language and framework
2005	REFORM, a tool for rewriting XQuery using XQuery views
summer 2004	MARS, publishing proprietary data residing in mixed and redundant storage
2003 – 2006	Galax, the Bell-Labs XQuery implementation
summer 2003	GUPster, user-profile management
Journal Papers
Querying Data Sources That Export Infinite Sets of Views TOCS(to appear), with Bogdan Căutiș, Alin Deutsch
Querying XML Data Sources that Export Very Large Sets of Views TODS(to appear), with Bogdan Căutiș, Alin Deutsch, Vasilis Vassalos
Full Research Papers
Querying Data Sources That Export Infinite Sets of Views ICDT 2009, with Bogdan Căutiș, Alin Deutsch
XML Query Optimization in the Presence of Side Effects SIGMOD 2008, with Giorgio Ghelli, Kristoffer Rose, Jérôme Siméon
Rewriting Nested XML Queries Using Nested Views SIGMOD 2006, with Alin Deutsch, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Emiran Curtmola
XQuery at Your Web Service WWW2004, with Jérôme Siméon
Workshop Papers
XPath Rewriting Using Multiple Views: Achieving Completeness and Efficiency WebDB 2008, with Bogdan Căutiș, Alin Deutsch
A Restful Workflow Implementation on Top of Distributed XQuery XIME-P 2008 (co-located with SIGMOD 2008), with Rania Khalaf, Kristoffer Rose, Jérôme Siméon
A Better Semantics for XQuery with Side-Effects DBPL 2007, with Giorgio Ghelli, Kristoffer Rose, Jérôme Siméon
DXQ: A Distributed XQuery Scripting Language XIME-P 2007 (co-located with SIGMOD 2007) Mary Fernández, Trevor Jim, Kristi Morton, Jérôme Siméon
Industrial Papers
Inverse Functions in the AquaLogic Data Services Platform VLDB 2007, with Vinayak R.Borkar, Michael J. Carey
Query Processing in the AquaLogic Data Services Platform VLDB 2006, with Vinayak R.Borkar, Michael J. Carey, Dmitry Lychagin, Till Westmann, Daniel Engovatov
Demos
Highly Distributed XQuery with DXQ SIGMOD 2004, with Mary Fernández, Trevor Jim, Kristi Morton, Jérôme Siméon
Yoo-Hoo! Building a Presence Service with XQuery and WSDL SIGMOD 2004, with Mary Fernández, Richard Hull, Jérôme Siméon
Share your data, keep your secrets SIGMOD 2004, with Irini Fundulaki, Daniel Lieuwen, Arnaud Sahuguet, Guillaume Giraud, Nicolas Pombourcq
Technical Reports
Querying Data Sources That Export Infinite Sets of Views UCSD, 2007, with Bogdan Căutiș, Alin Deutsch
Teaching
Spring Quarter 2005	Teaching Assistant for CSE132B (Database System Applications)
Languages
Romanian	native language
English	advanced - TOEFL score: 273
French	advanced - TCF level : 6
Spanish	2 years of classes at UCSD Extension
Prizes and Awards
2004-2007	Jacobs Fellowship, awarded in 2004 to 12 graduate students from the Jacobs School of Eng.
2001-2004	French Government Fellowship ( Eiffel Excellence Programme) offered each year to about 800-1300 foreign undergraduate and graduate students that French higher education centers have identified as especially deserving of a place on their courses
1999-2001	Romanian Government Scholarship for very high GPA given to less than 5% of the students each semester
Technical skills
Good skills	Java, OCaml, C#
Competency with	Latex, HTML
Professional experience
June – September 2008	Microsoft Research, Redmond: summer internship
June – September 2007	IBM T.J. Watson: summer internship Implementation of a workflow language in an extension of XQuery with parallelism and side effects (DXQ). The compiler I wrote is also in XQuery.
July – September 2006	IBM T.J. Watson: summer internship Extensions of XQuery with updates, algebraic optimizations for these XQuery extensions, collaborations with the DXQ project
June – September 2005	BEA Systems: summer internship XQuery compiler optimizations for AquaLogic Data Services Platform
July – October 2004	UCSD: RA-ship in the Database Group Extensions of the MARS project for rewriting of RDF queries
April - July 2003	Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ), research internship.
	GUPster, general user profile management in a distributed architecture
	Added Web Service support to Galax, an implementation of the XQuery language
July - September 2000	Popnet Agentscape (Bucharest): developer (Visual C++). Intelligent Internet software (Bonzi Buddy).
April - June 2000	Macroinformatica (Bucharest): developer (Visual Basic, MSAccess). Software for a printer.
Extra-professional experience
Journalism	Former member in the editorial board (2001-2002) and webmaster of XPassion, the cultural magazine of the Ecole Polytechnique students