I am a Computer Science PhD student at Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University, Denmark. I completed my Bachelor in Computer Science in 2008 at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania. I moved to Denmark in autumn 2009 and my PhD is scheduled to be finished in October 2014.
I am mainly interested in algorithms and mathematical & statistical models and their applications in bioinformatics. So far my work has been concerned with Stochastic Context Free Grammars for RNA secondary structure prediction, the computation and use of sufficient statistics for continuous time Markov Chains and patterns in the sequence of hidden states in a Hidden Markov Model.
In my spare time I switch between playing the guitar, painting, drawing or developing digital images, though these activities are erratic in their occurrence. Adopting the healthy Danish life style, I have taken up biking and running and I practice them on a regular basis. I also have a Blog where I write about my experiences as an international PhD student.