A creative person with good leadership skills and the ability to come up with fresh ideas when tackling new and challenging problems.
Excellent team player, but equally capable of pursuing individual research projects.
A fast learner with demonstrated problem-solving and project management expertise.
Collaborative and customer-oriented professional who strives to deliver the best value for the clients and stakeholders.
Problem-solver with excellent critical thinking skills and a knack for finding original and effective ways to answer research or development questions.
Strong believer in Agile methodologies, with a good record of quickly adapting to changes in the development projects.
A. C. Rusu, “An inquiry into diffusion processes over interaction networks,” phd, University of Southampton, 2024. Accessed: Feb. 26, 2024. Available: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/486201/
A. C. Rusu, K. Farrahi, and M. Niranjan, “EpiCURB: Learning to derive epidemic control policies,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, Nov. 2023, doi: 10.1109/MPRV.2023.3329546.
A. Rusu, K. Farrahi, and M. Niranjan, “Flattening the curve through reinforcement learning driven test and trace policies,” in International conference on pervasive computing technologies for healthcare, A. Tsanas and A. Triantafyllidis, Eds., in Lecture notes of the institute for computer sciences, social informatics and telecommunications engineering. Springer, Cham, Nov. 2023, pp. 174–206. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-34586-9_14.
A. C. Rusu, R. Emonet, and K. Farrahi, “Modelling digital and manual contact tracing for COVID-19.: Are low uptakes and missed contacts deal-breakers?,” PLoS ONE, vol. 16, no. 11, Nov. 2021, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259969.
• Finely analyzed the dynamics of epidemics via network-based propagation models, publishing two journal studies (Rusu et al. 2021, Rusu et al. 2023)
and an award-winning conference paper on the topic (Rusu et al. 2022).
Thesis available online.
• Used graph neural networks and reinforcement learning to derive highly effective and explainable policies for testing, tracing and vaccination in epidemics where limited control resources are available and interventions need to be audited
• Developed a realistic individual-based mean-field model to assess the impact of different manual and digital contact tracing strategies on the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
• Mentored, supervised and demonstrated labs for undergraduate and postgraduate students in several areas, including machine learning, deep learning, data science and software engineering.
• Assisted a company-wide research project aimed at comparing the four main cloud providers in terms of their natural language understanding frameworks
• Built a complete AI chatbot system with Google Dialogflow able to answer queries about weather, traffic, geolocation, personalities, places, and others
• Implemented an Android application as a user interface to our new chatbot system.
• Worked on risk-management trading platforms to maximize traders’ efficiency
• Developed a clear understanding of OOP design and Agile workflows by testing and implementing new features in Kapital, a critical system with several users and a vast codebase
• Frequently interacted with the middle- and front-office staff to diagnose and solve their technical issues with Kapital, improving both efficiency and profits.
• Developed a utility for on-demand compilation of JSP files, offering our users the option to generate personalized PDFs mirroring our help portals
• Manipulated Apache Tomcat to capture the static HTML output from documentation JSP files
• Created a Java Servlet test application that became widely used in the company.
• Offered mentoring and e-mentoring activities to prospective University students
• Delivered campus tours and similar activities to pupils interested in higher education
• Represented the University of Southampton in different events and settlements.
• Obtained: Bachelor of Science with First-Class Honours in Computer Science
• Graduated with the following overall marks:
- 84 - 1st year
- 84.75 - 2nd year
- 85.5 - 3rd year
• Awarded by Netcraft Ltd. for being in the top 10 students of my cohort.
• Had to pass 3 exams, marked from 1 to 10:
Romanian (9.6), Mathematics (9.6) and
Computer Science (C/C++) (9.8)
• Graduated with an overall of 9.66/10.
