Bogdan Vasilescu
Associate Professor, Software and Societal Systems Department
Bogdan is an associate professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department of CMU's School of Computer Science.
Prior to joining CMU, he was a postdoc in the Davis Eclectic Computational Analytics Lab (DECAL) at UC Davis, where he worked with Vladimir Filkov and Prem Devanbu. Bogdan obtained his Ph.D. in computer science cum laude at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in October 2014, under the supervision of Alexander Serebrenik and Mark van den Brand (here’s a 10 minute video summary of his thesis). His Ph.D. work won the Best Dissertation Award from the Institute for Programming Research and Algorithmics.
He also holds a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (thesis advisor: Alexander Serebrenik) and an engineer’s degree in systems and computer science from University of Ploieşti, Romania (webpage in Romanian; thesis advisor: Gabriel Rădulescu).