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Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFO

Last Name: Popi
First Name: Cristian
Date of birth: July 30th, 1980
Place of birth: Timisoara
Email: cristian.popi@loria.fr

EDUCATION

2004-2005 MS degree in Computer Science at the Computer Science Department of "Politehnica" University in Timisoara, Romania
1999-2004 Engineer degree in Computer Science at the Computer Science Department of "Politehnica" University in Timisoara, Romania
1995-1999 "Grigore Moisil" Highschool in Timisoara, Romania

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

October 2006- Ph.D in Management of Wireless Mesh Networks. In this context I am interested in monitoring and doing fault management for an interconection infrastructure that is based entirely on wireless local networks operating in a public frequency range. I am searching for means of deploying self-management mechanisms to overcome the characteristics of community WMNs: mobility and heterogeneity. See a short description
Supervisor: Olivier Festor
Henri Poincaré University Nancy 1, Centre de Recherche INRIA Nancy - Grand Est
April-September 2006 Internship with the Madynes research group at Loria, INRIA Lorraine, France. I implemented a vulnarability assessment tool, MADVIP, in the context of threats in VoIP protocols.
January 2005 - March 2006 SAGUARO PRINT SRL - software engineer
  • GhostScript engine in the GrandJunction IBM printers
  • Console in the GrandJunction IBM printers
  • IPDS port
March - June 2004 A 4 months internship at National Center for Engineering of Systems with Complex Fluids for the study of message management in MPI based applications.

PUBLICATIONS

International Conferences

  • C.Popi, O. Festor WiMFlow: a distributed, self-adaptive Architecture for Flow Monitoring in Wireless Mesh Networks In the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS2010), 19-23 April 2010, Osaka, Japan - to appear

  • I. Diaz, C. Popi, O. Festor, J. Tourino, R. Doallo Ontological Configuration Management for Wireless Mesh Routers In the 9th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM2009), October 29-30, 2009 Venice, Italy

  • C. Popi, O. Festor Flow Monitoring in Wireless MESH Networks In the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS2009), June 30 - July 2, 2009 University of Twente, The Netherlands. pp. 134-146, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-02626-3. (Best Paper Award)

  • C. Popi, O. Festor Monitorage et journalisation dynamiques des topologies dans les reseaux ad-hoc Colloque Francophone sur l'Ingenierie des Protocoles (CFIP2008), 25-28 March, Les Arcs, France (details)

  • C. Popi, O. Festor A Scheme for Dynamic Monitoring and Logging of Topology Information in Wireless Mesh Networks. In the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS2008), 7-11 April 2008, Salvador, Brazil. pp. 759-762. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN 978-1-4244-2066-7.

  • H. Abdelnur, R. State, I. Chrisment, C. Popi. Assessing the security of VoIP Services. In the 10th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management(IM2007), 21-25 May 2007, Munich, Germany. pp. 373-382. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN 1-4244-0799-0. (details)


Research Reports

  • D. Meddour, C. Popi, O. Festor, H. Aiache, S. Rousseau Interoperability, Monitoring and self-Organization Protocol Prototypes -delivrable - ANR project "Airnet"

  • C. Popi, O. Festor Wireless Mesh Network Monitoring Management Platform Specification -delivrable - ANR project "Airnet"

  • C. Jelger, T. Noel, I. Diaz, C. Popi, O. Festor Wireless Mesh Network Configuration Platform Specification -delivrable - RNRT project "Airnet" (details)

  • C. Popi, O. Festor State of the art in Wireless Mesh Networks Management -delivrable - RNRT project "Airnet" (details)

SUMMER SCHOOLS

RESCOM Corse, France - June 2007; treated theme: Autonomic Networks and the Internet of the Future
  • Bio-inspired networks
  • MANET-DTN integrationManagement of/architectures for/security of autonomous systems
  • Context-aware mobility
  • Pocket-switched networks
ISSNSM 2007 1st International Summer School on Network and Service Management, Bremen, Germany - July 2007
  • BGP
  • Packet Capturing and Time Series Storage
  • Flow Export and Visualisation

PROJECTS

WMN traffic monitor Design and setup of a small scale Wireless Mesh Network Testbed (6 routers running either OpenWrt, or Voyage Linux) and implementation of a probe coordination protocol for monitoring traffic flows in Wireless Mesh Networks
ENSUITE Implementation in Python of a Netconf agent module for static configuration of the OLSR routing protocol on a mesh node.
ENSUITE Implementation in Python of a Netconf manager module for a Netconf/TR69 proxy.
MADVIP A tool I developed while doing an internship in the Madynes team in 2006. It's written in Python and was conceived with the goal of assessing network security.
Master thesis Applying game theory in the management of message passing in an MPI based grid - thesis prepared for the MS degree in CS at the Computer Science Department of "Politehnica" University in Timisoara, 2005
Diploma project Parallel Computing: Performance in Communication - Management of message passing in an MPI based grid. Paper achieved after 4 months work at the National Center for Engineering of Systems with Complex Fluids in 2004
Five Field Kono A 2004 small project for the Artificial Intelligence course in the 5th year of undergraduate studies. An implementation of a competitive game, written in Java.
Kitta A kindergarten management application designed and implemented (in C++) during the LOOSE Software Engineering Laboratory in 2003
Free Way Method This project, written in Delphi, participated in the MECROB 2001 professional contest in industrial robots programming, where it won a special prize.

TEACHING

September 2004 - January 2005 108 hours of Computer Programming - the C language, for 1st year students at the Faculty of Electrotehnics and Telecommunication, "Politehnica" University Timisoara

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Network Protocols:TCP/IP protocol stack, OLSR, SIP
  • Network Configuration and Monitoring: DHCP, Netconf, Cisco Netflow, ntop, nProbe, SNMP
  • Wireless Protocols: 802.11, 802.15.4, 802.16
  • Web Technologies: HTML, XML, SOAP, PHP, Apache
  • Programming Languages: Python, C/C++, Java, Perl, OTcl
  • Editing and IDE: Latex, Eclipse
  • Operating Systems: Linux, Cisco-IOS, OpenWRT

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Wireless Mesh Networks Management
  • Usage of Peer-to-Peer Overlays for Network Management
  • Peer-to-peer systems in general
  • Wireless Networks in general

LANGUAGES

Romanian Native speaker
English Advanced level in reading, writing and speaking
French Fluent in speaking, good reading and writing
Hungarian Fairly good in speaking, basic in reading and writing
German Basic knowledge
Italian Good comprehension

VARIOUS ACTIVITIES

  • Publisher in Enter, the official magazine of "Politehnica" University, Timisoara (2003)
  • Head of the Cultural Department in the Student's League within the Faculty of Automatics and Computer Science (2001-2003)
  • Organizer of the 1999-2002 editions of the international festival for students, ISWinT
  • Prize winner in various mathematics and physics contests for students (1996-1999)

HOBBIES

  • photography
  • astronomy
  • tennis
  • swimming
  • trains
  • movies
...last updated November 13, 2009...