Professor Dr. Bogdan Vasilescu

Biography

Bogdan Vasilescu is an Associate Professor in the Software and Societal Systems Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), which is part of the School of Computer Science. He joined CMU after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Davis Eclectic Computational Analytics Lab (DECAL), where he collaborated with notable researchers in the field. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science cum laude from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in October 2014, with a thesis supervised by Alexander Serebrenik and Mark van den Brand. His doctoral research received recognition through the Dissertation Award from the Institute for Programming Research and Algorithmics. In addition to his doctorate, Dr. Vasilescu holds a master's degree in computer science engineering from the same institution and an engineer's degree in systems computer science from the University of Ploieşti in Romania. His academic work is heavily focused on the analysis and detection of malware, as well as on the measurement and analysis of software systems. His contributions to the field are supported by a wealth of research interests and publications related to software engineering and systems security.

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