Education
- PhD student, under the supervision of Dr. Siegfried Handschuh and Prof. Dr. Stefan Decker, at
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Since Dec.
2005
- M.Sc. in Computer Science, The New Generation of Computers, Technical University of Cluj Napoca,
Romania. Oct. 2004 - August 2005
- Dipl. Eng. in Computer Science, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania. Oct. 1999 - August
2004
- "Mihai Eminescu" National College, Satu Mare, Romania. Oct. 1995 - June 1999
Other education
- Eclipse - Tutorial, December 12th - 15th, IBM Advanced Studies Centre, Dublin, Ireland
- GATE - General Architecture for Text Engineering Tutorial, October 5th & 6th, Galway, Ireland
- Knowledge Web Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW'06), July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006. Cercedilla (Spain)
- Programming in Smalltalk, the Squeak dialect taught by assist. PhD. Markus Gaelli, Technical
University of Berne, Swiss. July 2003
- Microsoft course 2073a: Programming a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database. June 2003
Work and professional experience
- Junior researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland,
Galway, Ireland. Since Dec. 2005
- Intern at DaimlerChrysler AG Research and Technology Center, Knowledge Based Engineering and
Manufacturing Department, Berlin, Germany. March - August 2005
- Master Thesis: "Concept and Implementation of Semantic Query Rewriting for Large Information
Sources"
- Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania.
Oct. 2004 - Feb. 2005
- Topics: Programming techniques (Java programming language) and Formal Languages and
Translators (Lex & Yacc languages).
- Intern at DaimlerChrysler AG Research and Technology Center, Knowledge-based Engineering
Department, Berlin, Germany. March - August 2004
- Diploma Thesis: Concept and implementation of a Knowledge-Based product configuration system
using constraints.
Awards
- TOEFL - Test Of English as a Foreign Language. Oct. 2003
- TWE - Test Of Written English. Oct. 2003
- Certificate of Pedagogical Proficiency, acknowledged by the Romanian Ministry of Education. June 2003