I am a Systems PhD student candidate in the Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago.
I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Shan Lu, and mentored by Prof. Haryadi Gunawi (UChicago), Prof. Kexin Pei (UChicago), Dr. Suman Nath (Microsoft Research) and Dr. Madan Musuvathi (Microsoft Research).
My doctoral studies are supported, in part, by an Eckhardt Scholarship.
My research focuses on improving the correctness and performance of large-scale distributed systems. I build tools that rely on program analysis, code instrumentation, fault injection, execution profiling, and large language models as support for code comprehension, to help developers better reason about their code and isolate bugs faster.
Before joining UChicago, I obtained my MSc degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and my BSc degree from the University of Bucharest. In a previous life, I had a grown-up job working as a Software Engineer for Microsoft and Bitdefender Labs.
Recent News
| Oct 2024 |
Our paper on understanding and identifying bugs in retry functionality was accepted at SOSP'24. See you in Austin, TX! |
| Sep 2024 |
I will give an invited talk about the challenges and opportunities of integrating large language models with traditional bug-finding techniques at PACMI'24. |
| Aug 2024 |
I will serve on the Artifact Evaluation committee of EuroSys'25. Looking forward to trying out your artifacts! |
| June 2024 |
I will co-organize a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session on facilitating systems reproducibility with the Chameleon testbed at OSDI'24. See you in Santa Clara, CA! |
| April 2024 |
I will give a talk about using artifact reproducibility as a classroom tool as part of the "Practical Strategies for Teaching Reproducibility" tutorial at ACM REP'24. |
| July 2023 |
I will serve on the Artifact Evaluation committee of this year's SOSP. Looking forward to seeing your artifacts! |
| April 2023 |
This summer, I will join the Core ML Engineering team at Google as a Research Intern mentored by Gloria Shen and Dr. Ilya Kavalerov. |
| March 2023 |
I will serve on the Artifact Evaluation committee of MLSys'23. Please consider submitting your artifacts. |
| August 2022 |
Our paper on exposing memory order violations using delay injection was accepted at EuroSys'23. See you in Rome! |
| March 2022 |
This summer, I will join the Profiling group at Meta as a Research Intern mentored by Nathan Slingerland. |
| February 2022 |
I will serve on the Artifact Evaluation committees of ASPLOS'22, EuroSys'22 and OSDI'22. Please consider submitting your code. |
| August 2021 |
I will serve on the Artifact Evaluation Committee of SOSP'21. Please consider registring your artifacts. |
| January 2021 |
This winter, I will join Microsoft Research as a PhD Collaborator, mentored by Dr. Suman Nath and Dr. Madan Musuvathi. |