1993 – PhD in Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania. Thesis’ title: Distributed Grammar Systems. Supervisor: Acad. Gheorghe Păun
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)
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
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)