- Academic positions
- 2002 – present: Full Professor, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Romania
- Curriculum vitae
- Education
- 1993 – PhD in Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania. Thesis’ title: Distributed Grammar Systems. Supervisor: Acad. Gheorghe Păun
- Education
- Research interests
- theory of computation (formal language theory, computability, classic and unconventional models of computation, computational and descriptional complexity, parallel and distributed computing)
- Bio-inspired computing (DNA recombination, theoretical models and experiments, splicing systems, solving problems with DNA-based algorithms, computational models based on bio-operations, language-theoretical models of the genome evolution, structural linguistics of nucleic acids, membrane computing, computing with tissues, networks of bio-inspired processors)
- combinatorics on words (finite and infinite sequences, data structures and algorithms on words, DNA sequence analysis, subword complexity)
- natural language processing (parsing, mathematical developments and applications, pattern interpretation, tree-controlled grammars)
- Research projects
- Publications
- Research impact
- Awards and acknowledgements
- Scientific activity
- Author of two mathematical books in Romanian
- Author of one monograph in English
- Co-editor of five books at Kluwer Academic, Taylor and Francis, and Springer-Verlag (3)
- Author or co-author of more than 225 research papers published in refereed international journals, proceedings of scientific conferences, edited books.
- 167 papers in ISI Web of Science
- 146 papers indexed in MathSciNet
- 160 papers indexed in Zentralblatt MATH (zbMATH)
- 180 papers indexed in Computer Science Bibliography (DBLP)
- unique author for 31 papers
- 78 co-authors
- International recognition
- Total citations / without self-citations (Web of Science): 996/739
- Citing articles / citing articles without self-citations (Web of Science): 436/352
- Average citations per article (Web of Science): 5.96
- H index (Web of Science): 18
- Total citations (Scopus): 1287
- Citing articles (Scopus): 506
- H index (Scopus): 22
- Total citations (Google Scholar): 2753
- H index (Google Scholar): 30
- Member of editorial boards
- Member on the Program Committees
- Supervised PhD thesis
- Positions of trust and administration
- President of the Computer Science Commission of CNATDCU (2010-2011)
- Member of the Computer Science Commission of CNATDCU (2006-2010, 2012-2020)
- Vice-president of the Computer Science Commission of CNATDCU (2016-2018)
- Scientific expert of the Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education and Scientific Research, Ministry of Education and Research from Romania (2006-2011)
- Director of the research center MOCALC (Models of Computation, Algorithms and Cryptography), University of Bucharest (2007-present)
- Director of the Doctoral School of Computer Science, University of Bucharest (2011-2018)
- Member of the Senate of the University of Bucharest (2004-2008, 2012-2016, 2020-present)