Awards and Rankings
2011: Best young researcher in software services, FP7 SPRERS Project, Strengthening the Participation of Romania at European R&D in Software Services (CSA).
2011: “Researcher of the year”, 2nd place, “Fundatia Dinu Patriciu - Gala Premiilor in Educatie, editia 2011” (Dinu Patriciu Foundation - Education Awards Gala, 2011 edition).
2010: "Best Paper Award", for paper A fault-tolerant approach to storing objects in distributed systems presented at 3PGCIC 2010, International Conference on, P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing, Authors: Ciprian Dobre, Florin Pop, Valentin Cristea, pp.: 1-8.
2007: IBM PhD Assistantship, Top ranked 1st in CEMA out from 17 awarded students. Project Title: Optimization of Decentralized Scheduling Strategies in Grid Environments. 2006-2008: Oracle Award. PhD Performance Scholarship for three years, offered by Oracle Academy in an international competition.
2005-2006: Research Fellowship from California Institute of Technology, awarded for major contributions to international scientific research projects, as member of MonALISA project.
2005: First Prize within the Session of Students’ Communication, University Politehnica of Bucharest, section Systems and Internet Applications.
