Ionut Emil Iacob - Curriculum Vitae

• Research Interests
  Semistructured databases, XML, query languages and processing, algorithms and complexity, digital libraries, numerical methods.
• Education
  • Ph.D., Computer Science (November 2005)
    University of Kentucky, Department of Computer Science
    Dissertation Topic: "Algorithms for Management of Document-centric XML Data"
    Advisor: Dr. Alex Dekhtyar
    
  • M.S. in Mathematics, Fall 2000 - Spring 2002
    University of Kentucky, Department of Mathematics
    Degree awarded: May 2002, GPA: 4.0
  • Electrical Engineer, Fall 1988 - Spring 1993
    University "Politehnica" of Bucharest
    Degree awarded: July 1993, GPA: 9.50, Diploma Examination: 10 (on a 10 to 1 basis)
• Experience
  • Fall 2005: Part-time instructor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington.
    Primary instructor for Basic Calculus I and Introduction to Computing and Computer Applications.
  • July, 2001 - July, 2005: Research Assistant in Research in Computing for Humanities for Professor Kevin Kiernan, University of Kentucky. My research was supported by the "Electronic Boethius Project", sponsored by NEH, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) at the University of Kentucky; and by the "ARCHway Project", sponsored by NSF-ITR and CCS.
    Duties included research in computing for humanities, XML databases, querying and indexing document-centric XML data, image-text integration for electronic editions, Java and C++ programming.
  • Fall 2000 - Summer 2001: Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky
    - Recitation leader: Calculus I, Calculus II.
  • Fall 1994 - Summer 2000: Assistant Professor at the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest - Romania (on leave starting with Summer 1999)
    - Laboratory supervisor: Computer Networks (Novell), Programming Languages (C++), Integrated Circuits, Interlocking systems for railways.
    - Recitation leader: Programming Languages (C++), Integrated Circuits.
    - Courses taught: Operating Systems, Information Theory and Coding.
    - Supervisor for undergratuate students Diploma Projects.
  • Summer 1993 - Fall 1994: Research engineer, Romanian Railway Authority (AFER)
    - Research in remote-control systems for railways.
• Publications
• Honors and Awards
  • T. Marshall Hahn Sr. Award for Professional Travel: Summer 2003, Summer 2005.
  • Student Travel Support from Graduate School Fellowship Office, University of Kentucky: Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Summer 2004, Summer 2005.
  • University Graduate Student Development Award, University of Kentucky: Fall 2000.
• Miscellaneous
  • External reviewer: XSDM 2005, AAA 2005, UAI 2005, Special Issue DKE 2005.
  • Membership: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM-SIGMOD, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)
  • Judge for the University of Kentucky Students Programming Contest (UKSPC03)
  • System analyst assistant, Department of Agronomy, University of Kentucky (volunteer collaboration, February 2000 - June 2001)
• Computer Skills
  
  • Languages: in-depth knowledge of Java (including Eclipse platform) and C++, SQL, Perl, Pascal, some use of Unix shell scripts, Matlab.
  • Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac OS X.
• References: available upon request.