Quick Facts
I graduated in 1992 from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, with a major in Aeronautics Engineering. My Master-equivalent thesis was done under the supervision of Prof. Sorin Mitran. I received my Mechanical Engineering PhD in 1998 from the University of Iowa, under the supervision of Prof. Edward J. Haug. I worked until the end of 2004 for MSC.Software (among others, with Rajiv Rampalli, Gisli Ottarsson, Todd McDevitt), in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where, on the side, in 2004 I was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department, thanks to Prof. Robert Kransy's support. In 2005 I became a Visiting Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, working with Dr. Mihai Anitescu on numerical methods for electronic structure computation. Since November of 2005 I'm an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. My research interests are in Computational Science and together with several students we've started a Simulation-Based Engineering Laboratory in the ME department.