Irina Calciu

I am a PhD candidate at Brown University, working with Maurice Herlihy. Research interests: transactional memory, lock free data structures, scalable synchronization methods and dynamic verification. I got a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Brown in May 2011. Before coming to Brown, I got a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Jacobs University Bremen (Germany) and I did a semester abroad in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Grace Hopper 2011

11/2011 I received a scholarship from Facebook to attend Grace Hopper Conference in Portland, Oregon, after a visit to their HQ office in Palo Alto, CA. more info

Oracle Labs

06/2011-09/2011 Research Assistant in the Burlington Office

Diaspora*

12/12/2010 I joined Diaspora* at joindiaspora.com. It's an open source social networking website with much better privacy policies and social graph organization.

SPLASH Doctoral Symposium 2010

10/18/2010 I attended the SPLASH Doctoral Symposium in Reno, NV.

Google

06/2010 - 08/2010 I was a software engineer intern at Google in the Mountain View, CA, office, working with the Platforms Networking team.

Summer School: Topics in Concurrency

05/23/2010 - 05/30/2010 I attended Third Summer School in Concurrency in Bangalore, India. Topics included: software and hardware transactional memory, parallel programs verification and testing, memory models, parallelism with GPUs, virtual prototyping embedded architectures.

CRA-W Workshop 2010

04/23/2010 - 04/24/2010 I attended the CRA-W mentoring workshop in Bellevue, WA.

Grace Hopper 2009

09/30/2009 - 10/03/2009 I attended Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Tucson, AZ, as a student volunteer.

Brown University

09/09/2009 Started my PhD at Brown. Day #1, at least 1826 more to come.

Mozilla

06/2009 - 08/2009 I was an intern in the Mozilla Platforms team in Mountain View, CA. I worked on implementing and evaluating lock-free data-structures for Firefox web browser.