Education

Sept 2008 – now ETH Zürich (Switzerland), PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.
Specialisation: analytical modeling, performance evaluation of Delay Tolerant Networks.
2006 – 2007 Université de Lyon (France), Master of Research in Computer Science.
Specialisation: Networks, Telecommunications and Services. With honours.
2004 – 2007 INSA de Lyon (France), Master of Engineering in Telecommunications.
Specialisation: Wireless Networks. With honours.
2005 – 2006 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), Academic Exchange Year.
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science. GPA 3.84 of 4.00.
2002 – 2004 INSA de Rouen (France), International Bilingual Section.
Broad engineering curriculum. Half of the courses taught in English.
With honours (ranked 2nd of 234).
June 2002 Colegiul Național “Alexandru D. Ghica” Alexandria (Romania), Baccalaureate.
With honours (9.77 of 10).

Honours and Awards

2005 – 2006 Rhône-Alpes Explora'sup Study Abroad Grant
2004 – 2007 Laureate of the “Georges Besse” Foundation
One of twenty selected yearly from a few hundred student engineers in France, to receive financial and moral support until graduation.
2002 – 2004 Upper Normandy IBIS Grant
June 2002 Excellency Diploma of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research.

Relevant Experience

Sept 2008 – now Research Assistant
advisors A/Prof. Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Prof. Bernhard Plattner
institution ETH Zürich, Switzerland; Communication Systems Group
description Analytical modeling and performance evaluation of Delay Tolerant Networks.
Oct 2007 – Aug 2008 Research Engineer
advisor Prof. Eric Fleury
institution INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France; Centre of Innovation in Telecomm. and Integration of services (CITI)
description Wireless Sensor Networks manager. Partly supported by the European Commission, WASP project (6FP-IST-034963).
Feb – Sept 2007 Master Thesis
advisors Prof. Eric Fleury, A/Prof. Antoine Fraboulet
institution INSA de Lyon, France; Centre of Innovation in Telecomm. and Integration of services (CITI)
description Analysis of frequency scaling as a potential power saving technique for wireless sensors networks. Hardware timers frequencies optimisation. Design and implementation of a hardware configuration management tool to enable overall frequency optimisation. Partly supported by the European Commission, WASP project (6FP-IST-034963).

Teaching

since Spring 2009 Technische Informatik 2, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Advanced operating systems concepts.
since Fall 2008 Advanced Topics in Communication Networks, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Future Internet architecture, peer-to-peer networks, wireless mesh networks, mobility modeling, delay tolerant networks, social network theory.

Activities and Interests

event organization: Local chair for ACM MobiOpp 2012.
TPC Member for IEEE AOC 2013.
peer review: Conferences and Workshops: ACM MobiHoc 2009
IEEE AOC 2011
IEEE ICC 2012
IEEE INFOCOM 2012, 2013
IEEE NetSciCom 2012
IEEE VTC Spring 2013
IEEE WCNC 2013.
Journals Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS).
membership: Co-chair for IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Switzerland.
Member in ACM, ACM Sigmobile and Sigcomm, IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE N2 Women.
hobbies: Sport: ice skating, skiing, swimming.
Reading: adventure, sci-fi, crime, historical, romance.
Travelling: Since I left my country for higher education, I enjoy immersing myself in other cultures.
tutoring: Private Mathematics tutoring for baccalaureate, Rouen, France.
Introduction to Computer Science for internal auditors at Kesa Electricals, Paris, France.

Languages

Romanian Native
English Fluent TOEFL 293 of 300 and academic exchange year in the USA
French Fluent Higher education in a French institution
Spanish Good knowledge
German Good knowledge CEFR Level C2
Italian Good knowledge

Computer Skills

programming: C, Linux kernel, Pascal object-oriented: Java, C++, Smalltalk
operating systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac OS X networks: Internet, TCP/IP, wireless networks, sensor networks
publishing: LaTeX, Docbook XML mathematics: Matlab, Mathematica, R

References