1986 -- MSc in Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest,
Romania.
1993 - PhD in Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania.
Career History
1991 - 1994 Assistant Professor, University of Bucharest, Faculty of
Mathematics, Department of Computer Sciences, Romania.
1994 - 1998 Senior Lecturer, University of Bucharest, Faculty of
Mathematics, Department of Computer Sciences, Romania.
1998 - 2002 Associate Professor, University of Bucharest, Faculty of
Mathematics, Department of Computer Sciences, Romania.
2002 - Full Professor, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics,
Department of Computer Science, Romania.
Teaching Activities
Programming languages: Pascal, C, C++ Formal languages Automata and
transducers Theory of parsing, translation and compiling Logics in
computer science Complexity theory Bioinformatics DNA
computing Analysis and design of algorithms Data structures L-systems
and applications in computer graphics
Scientific Activity
Author of three mathematical books in Romanian.
Author of one monograph in English.
Co-editor of three books at Kluwer Academic, Taylor and Francis and Springer.
Author or co-author of more than 140 research papers published in refereed
international journals, proceedings of scientific conferences, edited books.
Repeated lectures at universities from Germany (Magdeburg, Frankfurt,
Hamburg), Finland (Turku), Japan (Kyoto, Tokyo), Italy (Rome, Pisa, Milano),
Spain (Tarragona, Madrid, Valencia, Seville), Hungary (Budapest, Szeged),
Belgium (Gent, Brussels), Czech Republic (Prague, Opava), Holland (Leiden),
Austria (Vienna), Turkey (Istanbul).
Main research fields (and topics):
formal language theory, both mathematical developments and applications
(regulated rewriting, contextual grammars, grammar systems, descriptional
complexity, natural language parsing, tree-adjoining grammars),
DNA recombination and DNA computing, theoretical models and experiments
(splicing systems, language-theoretical models of the genome evolution,
structural linguistics of nucleic acids, membrane computing, solving
problems by DNA),
combinatorics on words (infinite sequences, algorithms on words, DNA
sequence analysis, subword complexity).
Awards, Honors, Grants
"Gheorghe Lazar" Prize of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, 1997, for my
results on grammatical models inspired by the genome evolution.
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany, 1995--1996, 1999.
Fellowship granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science,
1999-2000, 2001, 2002.
Ramon y Cajal researcher at Rovira i Virgili, 2003-2008.
Visiting professor or visiting researcher at universities in Finland,
Germany, Turkey, Czech Republic, Spain, Japan, Italy, Hungary.
Memberships
Associate editor of the International Journal of Computational and Applied
Mathematics.
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Universal Computer
Science.
Office address:
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics Department of Computer
Science, Str. Academiei 14 70109, Bucharest, Romania. E-mail:
mitrana@funinf.cs.unibuc.ro
