LIVIU-TEODOR T.L. POPESCU. E-mail:
. CURRICULUM
VITAE. I. Current: • PhD Student - Computer Science Department Cornell;. II.
LIVIU-TEODOR T.L. POPESCU E-mail:
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CURRICULUM VITAE I. Current: • PhD Student - Computer Science Department Cornell; II. Education: • PhD Student - Computer Science Department Cornell 8/2002 - now; • Chair of Doctoral Committee: Golan Yona • University "Politehnica" Bucharest - Department of Engineering Sciences1 - English Division, Advanced studies in Biomedical Engineering - 10/2000 - 06/2001 •
University "Politehnica" Bucharest - Department of Engineering Sciences1 - English Division, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences - 10/1995 - 06/2000 • Graduate major - Computer Science;
III. Research interests • Computational Molecular Biology • Machine Learning IV. Current Research projects: • Metabolic Pathway prediction • Protein Classification in Enzyme Families using machine learning techniques V. Other Research projects: • Empirical comparative assessment of different learning algorithms (class CS778) o Work on Neural network; VI. Working Experience Research • Research assistant - Spring Semester 2004 • Internship at SRI International within the Bioinformatics Research Group - 07/07/2004 – 08/17/2004 Teaching • Teaching assistant: 2000 - 2002 Politechnica University Bucharest o Introduction to Electrical Engineering ( Fall 2000, Spring 2001 and Fall 2001) o Programming Techniques – Java ( Spring 2001 and Fall 2001 ) o Theory of Circuits (Spring 2001) o Parallel architectures ( Spring 2002) • Teaching assistant: Cornell University o CS211 - Computers and Programming Fall 2002 o CS478 - Machine Learning Spring 2003 o CS100 - Introduction to Computer Programming Summer 2003 o CS426 - Introduction to Computational Biology Fall 2003 VII Academic Awards: • Mention at National level of Olympics in Physics in 1993 (Nationwide contest; 80 participants) • III-rd Prize at National level of Olympics of Physics in 1995 (Nationwide contest; 80 participants); • Different prizes (I, II, III) at local and Municipal level of Olympics in Physics in 1993, 1994 and 1995; • Merit Scholarship During the spring semester in 1998, the fall semester in 1999 and the Spring semester of 2001 (awarded to the first 3 percent of the students according to the academic performance) . • March - June 1998 - TEMPUS Scholarship at Darlington College of Technology (UK) (merit based award, the selection included the academic results as well as an interview); • Study Scholarship during the fall semester 1995, the year 1996, the year 1997, fall semester 1998, spring semester 1999 and spring semester 2000 and Fall semester 2000 (awarded to the first 25 percent of the students according to the academic performance)
VIII. Professional Background: A. Operating systems: • UNIX (Linux); • Windows 95/98/NT/2000; • Solaris B. Programming Languages: • C/C++ under UNIX, Windows and DOS; • MATLAB; • JAVA; • PERL; • LISP; IX. Employment: • Between 1992-1999 employed as computer operator at the Romanian publishing house SILEX PUBLISHERS. • 2000 – 2002 employed as Teaching Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering of University “Politehnica” Bucharest; X. Affiliations • Romanian Society for Bioinformatics XI. Commitees • Member of the Organizing Committee of 8th International Workshop on Systems, Signals and Image Processing IWSSIP 2001 June 7 - 9, 2001 - Bucharest, Romania XII. Language proficiency: • Speaking, reading and writing fluently English; • Speaking, reading and writing satisfactory French - 8 years of formal training; • Speaking, reading and writing Romanian, Native speaker. XIV. Personal: • Married
