Honours, Awards
Academic
I was awarded a Clarendon Scholarship in order to read for a DPhil at Oxford. I was also awarded a Scholarship by Trinity College in 2024 for outstanding work in 2023-2024.
The following awards were received during my Undergraduate degree at Oxford; they are also listed here.
- Microsoft Prize for best Computer Science project 2021 (Part C) (joint winner)
- Hoare Prize for best overall performance in Computer Science 2020 (Part A+B)
- bcs Prize in Computer Science 2018 for the best performance in Computer Science papers (Prelims)
Competitive programming
| Contest | Year | Location | Prize | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ioi | 2017 | Tehran 🇮🇷 | Gold 🥇 | RO 🇷🇴 |
| ceoi | 2017 | Ljubljana 🇸🇮 | Gold 🥇 | RO 🇷🇴 |
| InfO(1)Cup | 2017 | Online | Gold 🥇 | RO 🇷🇴 |
| boi | 2016 | Nikosia 🇨🇾 | Silver 🥈 | RO 🇷🇴 |
| acm icpc wf | 2018 | Beijing 🇨🇳 | Participation | Tractor_Specialists |
| nwerc | 2017 | Bath 🇬🇧 | Gold 🥇 | Tractor_Specialists |
| hashcode wf | 2020 | Online | Participation | Rust Team |
| hashcode wf | 2019 | Dublin 🇮🇪 | Participation | Steaklovers |
| hashcode wf | 2018 | Dublin 🇮🇪 | Participation | Tractor_Specialists |
| rnoi | 2017 | Brașov 🇷🇴 | Bronze 🥉 | Bihor |
| rnoi | 2016 | Craiova 🇷🇴 | Gold (3rd place) 🥇 | Bihor |
| rnoi | 2015 | Târgoviște 🇷🇴 | Silver 🥈 | Bihor |
| rnoi | 2014 | Pitești 🇷🇴 | Bronze 🥉 | Bihor |
For more details see this and this.
Other activities
Service
On the program committee for the Theory of Computing track of synasc '24.
Reviewed for:
- Conferences:
- Journals:
Project participations
Participated on- Power of Algorithms in Discrete Optimisation (powalgdo)
- New Approaches to Approximability of Satisfiable Problems (naasp)
Teaching
Helped with teaching Efficient algorithms at Marburg 2025-2026
Taught classes for Algorithms of Bioinformatics at Marburg 2025-2026
Taught classes for Combinatorial Optimization at Oxford in 2022-2023, and in 2024-2025.
Taught tutorials for Imperative programming 1 & 2 and Imperative programming 3 at University College, Oxford in 2022.
Helped with undergraduate admission interviews for University College in 2021 and 2022, and for Exeter College in 2024.
Research seminars, etc.
Conference talks: Workshop/seminar talks:- bctcs 2022
- Dagstuhl Seminar 22201
- lse phd Seminar on Combinatorics, Games and Optimisation, 04/11/2022
- acid seminar, 25/04/2023
- Romanian algorithm days 2023 (Talk recording here)
- csp World Congress 2023
- Birmingham tcs seminar, 11/10/2024
- Dagstuhl Seminar 25211
- puddle seminar (Oxford) 29/05/2025
- Mathematics of Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Durham 2026
- epit 2023: Le Kaléidoscope de la Complexité
- csp World Congress 2022, 2024
- Czech Summer School on Discrete Mathematics, 2024
- lms Computer Science Colloquium 2024
- Workshop 'Combinatorics, Algorithms, and Geometry'
Competitive programming
Deputy team leader for Romania at:
Scientific committee executive chairman for InfO(1)Cup: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
President of the Scientific Committee for the Computer Science section of the ScienceOn contest, 2021.
Scientific committee member for:
- ceoi 2025 (Cluj Napoca)
- boi: 2018 (Timișoara), 2022 (Bucharest)
- jboi: 2022 (Dorohoi), 2023 (Strumica)
- InfO(1)Cup: 2019
- rmi: 2020, 2021 2022 2023, 2024, 2025.
- ejoi 2021
- paio 2025
- Romanian National Olympiad in Informatics (several years)