Florin Ciucu

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada
• Office: 7139 Bahen Center

• Phone: 647-989-2755
• E-mail: florin@virginia.edu
• Web:   www.cs.virginia.edu/~fc9h

• Ph. D. student in Computer Science (GPA 4) at the University of Virginia ('03-'07)
  Thesis: Analysis of Packet Networks with Stochastic Network Calculus
  Advisors: Jörg Liebeherr and Almut Burchard
• M.Sc. in Computer Science (GPA 4) from George Mason University ('99-'02)
• B.Sc. in Informatics (GPA 9.65) from the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania ('94-'98)
  Thesis: Compilation of Object Oriented Programming Languages

• Visiting student in the ECE department at the University of Toronto ('06-'07)
• Research assistant in the CS department at UVA ('03-'07)
  Member of the Multimedia Networks Group.
• Teaching assistant in the CS department at GMU (Fall '02)
  Responsible with lab lectures and grading for a C++ class.
• Research assistant in the CS department at GMU ('99-'02)
  Working in the area of deterministic network calculus under the supervision of Brian Mark (ECE) and Robert Simon (CS). Member of the Learning Agents Laboratory under the supervision of Gheorghe Tecuci; design and development of tools for translating ontologies and inference rules between Disciple and CYC.
• Software design engineer at Ipacri Romania ('98-'99)
  Design and development of mechanisms to deploy Dynasty applications over the Internet.
• Software engineer at Data PC, Romania ('93-'99)
  Developing database applications.
• Independent contractor ('92)
  Design and development of an economical application.

• Best Student Paper Award at ACM Sigmetrics '05
• Third Place at the Virginia Engineering Research Symposium ('05)
• Certificate of Achievement in Recognition of Academic Excellence, School of Information Technology & Engineering, GMU ('01)
• Third Place at the ACM Southeastern European Programming Contest, Bucharest ('97)
• Third Place at the National Collegiate Programming Contest, Iassy ('96)
• Honor Scholarship at the University of Bucharest ('94-'99)
• Third Place at the National Mathematical Contest for Short Problems, Cozia ('91)
• First Place at a Regional Chess Contest, Slatina ('86)

• Network Calculus Delay Bounds in Queueing Networks with Exact Solutions, F. Ciucu, accepted at International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-20), 2007
• On Ω(HlogH) Scaling of Network Delays, with A. Burchard, and J. Liebeherr, accepted at Infocom 2007
• Scaling Properties of Statistical End-to-End Bounds in Network Calculus, F. Ciucu, A. Burchard, and J. Liebeherr, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Joint Special Issue with IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 52(6):2300-2312, June 2006
• A Network Service Curve Approach for the Stochastic Analysis of Networks, F. Ciucu, A. Burchard, and J. Liebeherr, ACM Sigmetrics 2005
• On Multiplexing Gain for Networks with Deterministic Delay Guarantees, F. Ciucu, B. Mark, and R. Simon, IEEE Globecom 2003
• The Partially Stopped Leaky Bucket: An Efficient Traffic Regulator with Constant Time Implementation, F. Ciucu, B. Mark, and R. Simon, SPECTS 2002
• Disciple-COA: From Agent Programming to Agent Teaching, with M. Boicu, G. Tecuci, D. Marcu, M. Bowman, P. Shyr, and C. Levcovici, ICML 2000
• Rapid Development of a High Performance Knowledge Base for Course of Action Critiquing, with G. Tecuci, M. Boicu, D. Marcu, M. Bowman and C. Levcovici, AAAI 2000

• OS: Unix, Windows
• Programming: ASM 80x86, C, C++, Java, SQL, Pascal, Lisp, Prolog, Dynasty
• Middleware: CORBA, TCP/IP, RPC, COM
• Simulation: Matlab, NS-2, CSIM, GPSS-PC
• DBS: Oracle, Paradox, Dbase, FoxPro

• available upon request