Dana VRAJITORU

IUSB, Computer & Information Sciences Department
1700 Mishawaka Ave, IN 46634-1711, USA
Office: +1-574-520-4525
E-mail : danav@cs.iusb.edu


Research
Interests

General
Evolutionary computation, artificial life, scientific visualization, graph theory.

Education  

Doctor of Science in Computer Science
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, December 1997.
Title: Apprentissage en recherche d'informations (Learning in Information Retrieval).

Diplomed in Computer Science
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1994.

Diplomed in Mathematics, Specialized in Computer Science
University of Iasi, Romania, 1993.

Academic
Positions

Starting with 01/01
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Indiana Univerity South Bend, USA.

10/98 - Present
Postdoc, Chair of Applied Analysis, Department of Mathematics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

10/94 - 9/97
FNRS Doctoral Fellow
Swiss National Science Foundation doctoral fellow under grant 20-43'217.95, Computer Science Department, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

10/93 - 9/98
Assistant, Computer Science Department, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Teaching
Experience  

Winter 1999 / Spring 2000
Assistant for Analyze III, a year-long course for third-year computer science students, in the Department of Mathematics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Winter 1994 / Spring 1998
Co-Instructor for Programming Seminar, a year-long seminar for fourth-year economical science students, in the Computer Science Department, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Winter 1996 / Spring 1998
Co-Instructor for Introduction to Computer Science I and II, two year-long courses for first and second-year economical science students, in the Computer Science Department, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Winter 1997 / Spring 1998
Assistant for Operating Systems, a year-long course for second cycle, undergraduate computer science students, in the Computer Science Department, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Winter 1997 / Spring 1998
Assistant for Computer Science II, a year-long course for the first cycle, undergraduate computer science students, in the Computer Science Department, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Software
Projects

VBM: Visualization for Bifurcation Manifolds
(with R. Paffenroth and J. Maddocks)
A general scientific visualization code for Multi-point Boundary Value problems. It provides interactive connectivity between the bifurcation diagram and physical configurations as well as data compression and reconstruction. High dimensional systems can be projected down to lower dimensions and interactively rotated. Developed using DataViewer, Python, C++ and Fortran with ~10,000 lines of Python ~3,000 lines of C++.

DataViewer
(with R. Paffenroth, T. Stone, A. Ahearn, and J. Maddocks)
A general object oriented data visualization and processing tool. It is designed to facilitate the development of other, more specific, visualization tools. Developed in C++ and OpenGL with ~27,000 lines of C++.

GAD
An object oriented implementation of several forms of genetic algorithms, provided with a graphical user interface for rapidly setting the parameters and encoding various test functions. Developed in C++ and Python, with ~4500 lines of C++.

Computation of Electric Cables
(project for T&U SA, Neuchâtel, 1992/1993)
Analysis of an industrial FORTRAN program in order to compare it with the ISO standards. Writing a user manual for a new program based on the analysis.

General
Skills

 

Programming Languages
C, C++, Smalltalk, Python, Prolog, Lisp, Modula, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, HTML, SGML, PVM, MPI.

Operating Systems
UNIX, Linux, Macintosh, Windows, VMS, DOS.

Spoken Languages
Fluent in French, fluent in English, notions of German, Spanish and Esperanto.

References 

Prof. J. H. Maddocks
John.Maddocks@epfl.ch, Departement of Mathematics, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Prof. J. Savoy
Jacques.Savoy@seco.unine.ch, Director of the Computer Science Department, University of Neuchâtel, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Prof. H.-H. Naegeli
Hans.Naegeli@info.unine.ch, Computer Science Department, University of Neuchâtel, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.