Education and Degrees

• Polytechnical University of Bucharest, Romania
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering (1976 - 1981)
  Degree: M.Sc. in Computer Science
  Thesis: ``A firmware implementation of a BASIC compiler''
  Adviser: Prof. Luca Serbanati

• Bucharest University, Romania
  Department of Mathematics (1984 - 1990)
  Degree: M.Sc. in Mathematics
  Thesis: ``On the Lagrange multiplier method in nonlinear programming''
  Adviser: Prof. Corneliu Zidaroiu

• Polytechnical University of Bucharest, Romania
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Degree: Ph.D. in Computer Science (1994)
  Thesis: ``Contributions to the layout design automation of VLSI integrated circuits''
  Adviser: Prof. Mircea Petrescu

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC)
  Degree: Ph.D. in Electrical Eng. (1995)
  Thesis: ``Background memory allocation for multi-dimensional signal processing''
  Advisers: Prof. Hugo De Man & Prof. Francky Catthoor