Traian Florin Șerbănuță

Associate Professor

Education

PhD in Computer Science

University of Illinois
2004 – 2010

MSc in Computer Science

University of Bucharest
2002 – 2004

BSc in Computer Science

University of Bucharest
1998 – 2002

Research Interests

  • Logics and their applications to computing
  • Algebraic specification, formal methods for software engineering
  • Algorithms, Programming using logics, Term Rewriting and Rewriting Logic

TEACHING

Declarative Programming - An introductory course on (functional) declarative programming concepts and implementations.
Concurrency in Programming Languages - A hands-on review of concurrency constructs and approaches in various programming languages (Java, C++, Erlang/Elixir, Javascript, Python).
Programming Languages Semantics - An introductory course on (operational) semantics of programming languages. Concepts covered: designing interpreters; defining type systems; proving program equivalence and type safety.
Foundations of Programming Languages - A more hands-on version of the course above (using Haskell and Prolog). Including an introduction to logic programming.
Introduction to Machine Learning (for non computer-scientists) - A hands-on introduction to machine learning techniques using kaggle.com.

Professional Experience

Associate Professor

2013 – Present
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Bucharest

Research Consultant

2012 – Present
Runtime Verification Inc.

Designing state-of-art analysis tools based on cutting-edge research

  • Using the K Framework to build a semantics for the C++ language
  • Sound and maximal causal models for predicting concurrency problems in Java and C

Specifying and proving properties about mathematical models for distributed systems protocols

Postdoctoral Scientific Researcher

2011 – 2013
University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Iași

Project leader for the K semantic framework.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

2011 – 2012
Information Trust Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Assistant

2004 – 2010
Formal Systems Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Summer intern

Summer 2007
Google, New York

Summer intern

Summer 2005
Testing, Verification and Measurement
Microsoft Research, Redmond

Publications

PhD Thesis

A Rewriting Approach to Concurrent Programming Language Design and Semantics. PhD Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. December 2010.

Selected Papers

Operational semantics and program verification (using many-sorted hybrid modal logic). Natalia Moangă, Ioana Leuștean, and Traian Florin Șerbănuță. TABLEAUX'19. 2019
Maximal Causal Models for Sequentially Consistent Systems. Traian Florin Serbanuta, Feng Chen and Grigore Rosu. RV'12, LNCS 7687, pp 136-150. 2012
An Overview of the K Semantic Framework. Grigore Rosu and Traian Florin Serbanuta. J.LAP, Volume 79(6), pp 397-434. 2010
A Rewriting Logic Approach to Operational Semantics. Traian Florin Serbanuta, Grigore Rosu and Jose Meseguer. Information and Computation, Volume 207(2), pp 305-340. 2009
Extending Parikh Matrices. Traian Florin Serbanuta. J. of TCS, Volume 310(1), pp 233-246. 2004