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Present

I earned my Ph.D. in September 2010 from the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. The research I conducted here, guided by my advisor Michele Lanza, was mainly directed on software evolution, reengineering and reverse engineering, with a special focus on software visualization.

During my Ph.D. study I explored the potential of the city metaphor for the analysis of large evolving software systems by means of visualization and implemented a tool called CodeCity, which is available for download. My work on this topic, which was presented in a number of publications, is synthesized in my Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Software Systems as Cities" and described through the following word cloud:

Past

I earned both my Engineering Diploma (2004) and Master's Diploma (2005) from the Faculty of Automatics and Computer Science at the "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania. During the last years of undergraduate study, I was member of the LOOSE Research Group and Junior Researcher at the e-Austria research institute in Timisoara, where I focused on code clone detection and implemented a tool called DuDe.

I have also worked for over 2 years in the software industry. During my master study I worked at ETA Industrial Automatizations and after finishing my masters I worked at Sava Technologies. For an extended professional profile, please take a look at my CV.

News

12.06.2011

The slides for my ICSE 2011 talk are now online in the activities page.

6.12.2010

My Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Software Systems as Cities" can be downloaded as PDF or ordered on Amazon.