Date of Birth: 14th May 1949
Birth place: Cluj, Romania
Married to Eugen. We have three children: Ada Cristiana, Adam Michael, and Beatrice Gloria
Studies: Primary, Secondary and High School: "Apáczai Csere János" High School, Cluj
University: Faculty of Mathematics - "Babes-Bolyai" University (1968-1973)
Graduate Studies: Informatics - "Babes-Bolyai" University (1973-1974)
Work history:

High school teacher at "Tiberiu Popoviciu" High School in Informatics (1974-1998)
Lecturer, "Babes Bolyai" University - Cluj, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
Chair: Programming Languages. (1998 - present)

PhD: March 5, 2003
Subject of the PhD Thesis: Tree Structures and their Applications
supervisor:prof. Ioan Odagescu, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest

Fields of Interest:

Algorithms and programming languages
Data structures
Tree structures
Teaching methods of Informatics in Secondary School and High School

Extracurricular activities: Member in the Scientific Committees and Evaluator Committees of National and International
Olympiads in Informatics:In Romania:

Local, City, County and National stages: 1995-2001
Training Camps and Selection for the National Team in Informatics: 1995-2001
Trainer of Romania's National Team in Informatics: 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000

Official delegations:

Central and Eastern European Olympiad in Informatics, Szeged, Hungary, 1995
Central and Eastern European Olympiad in Informatics, bratislava, Slovakia, 1996
International Olympiad in Informatics, Veszprém, Hungary, 1996
Balkan Olympiad in Informatics, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1996
Central and Eastern European Olympiad in Informatics, Nowy Szancz, Poland, 1997
Central and Eastern European Olympiad in Informatics, Zadar, Croatia, 1998
International Olympiad in Informatics, Setubal, Portugal, 1998
Balkan Olympiad in Informatics, Ioannina, Greece, 1999
Central and Eastern European Olympiad in Informatics, brno, Czech Republic, 1999
International Olympiad in Informatics, Antalya, Turkey, 1999
International Olympiad in Informatics, Beijing, China, 2000
Central and Eastern European Olympiad in Informatics, Cluj, Romania, 2000 (main organiser)
International Olympiad in Informatics, Tampere, Finland, 2001
Central and Eastern European Olympiad in Informatics, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary, 2001
Central and Eastern European Olympiad in Informatics, Kosice, Slovakia, 2002

Others:

Member in Romania's National Committee of Informatics, belonging to Romania's Ministry of Education, where I worked for preparing informatics contests and a several versions of Informatics Curricula for Hihgh Schools' Students
Since 1999 I am the vice-president of this committee
I was part of the editing team of "Gazeta de informatica", a monthly magazine for high-school students focusing on algorithms and programming (editor in chief: prof. dr. Horia Georgescu from the Bucharest University)
Since 1998 I am the editor in chief of this magazine (presently named GInfo)
In 1995 I edited a magazine in English (INFO-STAR), aimed at students preparing for international programming contests
Between 1997 - 1999 I took part in the Tempus project S_JEP 11168-96, "Restructuring of the (re)training of schoolteachers in Computer Sciences"

Papers and books published between 1990-2001:

Structuri arborescente cu aplicatiile lor Ed. Tehnica, 1990, 256 pag.

Optimizari în tehnici de programare
Gazeta de Informatica, numerele din anii

1995, anul V, nr. 1, pp. 41-47
1996 anul VI, nr. 1, pp. 45-51
1996 anul VI, nr. 3, pp. 48-53
1997 anul VII, nr. 2, pp. 16-22
2001 anul XI, nr. 2, pp. 27-29

Internet: instrument de baza în procesul de predare si învatare, în Restructuring of the (re)training of schoolteachers in Computer Sciences, Volum editat în cadrul proiectului TemPUS S_JEP 11168-96, Editura Computer libris Agora, 1997, pp. 222-231

Proiect de programa scolara pentru disciplinele "Tehnologia Informatiei" si "Informatica" (învatamânt preuniversitar) , în Restructuring of the (re)training of schoolteachers in Computer Sciences, Volum II editat în cadrul proiectului TemPUS S_JEP 11168-96, Editura Computer libris Agora, 1998, pp. 186-200

The Introduction of Informatics as a subject in the New Educational Curriculum, volume of National Hellenic Conference "Applied informatics in education", December, 1998, pp. 43-50

Overview of the Computer Science Teaching in Romania in the Past, in Present and in the Future, in the electronic magazine Informatics Methodology (Hungary), vol. I, 1998 http://www.elte.hu

The Method of Dynamic Programming, STUDIA, Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Cluj (1999)

Metode de predare a informaticii & utilizarea tehnologiei informatiei în predarea altor discipline, în Restructuring of the (re)training of schoolteachers in Computer Sciences, Volum III editat în cadrul proiectului TemPUS, Editura Computer libris Agora, 1999, pp. 66-96

Referent, revision and consulting as a coordinator of the series of school text books:

Culegere de probleme rezolvate în Pascal autor: Mihai Oltean (1997)
Culegere de probleme (utila celor care se pregatesc pentru atestatul de informatica) autori: profesori de liceu (1998)
Metode si tehnici de programare autor: Ioan Odagescu si Felix Furtuna (1998)
Informatica (manual pentru clasa a IX-a, profil matematica-informatica, avizat de Comisia de Avizare a manualelor a MEN) autori: Doina Rancea s. a. (1999)
Algoritmi fundamentali - limbajul Pascal (manual pentru clasa a X-a) autori: Doina Rancea (1999)

Referent of the Informatics text-book, author: Dana lica and emil Onea, editura L&S, Bucuresti, 1999

Coordinating editor and translator of chapt. 7, for the Romanian edition (2000) of "Introduction to Algorithms", authors: Th. Cormen, Ch. Leiserson, R. Rivest, MIT Press, Massachussets, SUA

Coauthor of the book BACINFO 2000, aimed at 12^th grade students preparing for the final exam in informatics (pp. 142-152)

Co-author of the book BACINFO 2000, aimed at 12^th grade students preparing for the final exam in informatics (pp. 142-152)

Fringed Quadtrees: A New Kind of Data Structure, STUDIA UNIV. Babes-Bolyai, INFORMATICA, Vol. XLVII, No. 2, pp. 85-98, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj (2002)