Catalin NegruSenior Researcher
areas of expertise
- Distributed Systems
- BigData Systems
- Pervasive Systens
- Resource Management
- Open Science
- 2020 – Present: Second Degree Researcher, – PRECIS Institute, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
- 2015-Present: Teaching Associate, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers Faculty, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest
- 2008-2020 – System Engineer, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers Faculty, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest
Catalin NEGRU is Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Innovative Products, Processes, and Services (PRECIS) within the University Politehnica of Bucharest. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Ccience at UPB, in 2016. He has important scientific and scholarly contributions in the field of Large-Scale Distributed Systems (design and performance) and specifically regarding resource management in heterogeneous distributed systems such as Edge and Cloud computing. His research interests also include, Big Data Management, Data Reduction. He published over 60 papers in ISI journals (e.g., FGCS, SOCO, SENSORS, IJSTA), Ranked conferences (e.g., PODC, CISIS, ICCP, ISPDC, AQTR) and book chapters. During his career, he has been involved in national and international research projects in the area of cloud computing, smart city and pervasive services.
Top publications
| Musat, George-Alexandru, Mǎdǎlin Colezea, Florin Pop, Catalin Negru, Mariana Mocanu, Christian Esposito, and Aniello Castiglione. “Advanced services for efficient management of smart farms.” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 116 (2018): 3-17. |
| Vasiliu, Laura, Florin Pop, Catalin Negru, Mariana Mocanu, Valentin Cristea, and Joanna Kolodziej. “A hybrid scheduler for many task computing in big data systems.” International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 27, no. 2 (2017): 385-399. |
| Ciobanu, Radu-Ioan, Catalin Negru, Florin Pop, Ciprian Dobre, Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, and George Mastorakis. “Drop computing: Ad-hoc dynamic collaborative computing.” Future Generation Computer Systems 92 (2019): 889-899. |
| Colezea, Madalin, George Musat, Florin Pop, Catalin Negru, Alexandru Dumitrascu, and Mariana Mocanu. “CLUeFARM: Integrated web-service platform for smart farms.” Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 154 (2018): 134-154. |
| Iordache, George, Adrian Paschke, Mariana Mocanu, and Cătălin NEGRU. “Service Level Agreement Characteristics of Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks for Water Resource Management (SLAs4Water).” Studies in Informatics and Control 26, no. 4 (2017): 379-386. |
| Sotiriadis, Stelios, Nik Bessis, Euripides GM Petrakis, Cristiana Amza, Catalin Negru, and Mariana Mocanu. “Virtual machine cluster mobility in inter-cloud platforms.” Future Generation Computer Systems 74 (2017): 179-189. |
| Catalin Negru, Mariana Mocanu, Valentin Cristea, Stelios Sotiriadis, and Nik Bessis. “Analysis of power consumption in heterogeneous virtual machine environments.” Soft Computing 21, no. 16 (2017): 4531-4542. |
| Stan, Roaxana Gabriela, Catalin Negru, and Florin Pop. “CloudWave: Content gathering network with flying clouds.” Future Generation Computer Systems 98, (2019): 474-486. |
| ȚIGĂNOAIA, Bogdan, George IORDACHE, Catalin Negru, and Florin POP. “Scheduling in CloudSim of Interdependent Tasks for SLA Design.” Studies in Informatics and Control 28, no. 4 (2019): 477-484. |
| Filip, Ion-Dorinel, Andrei Vlad Postoaca, Radu-Dumitru Stochitoiu, Darius-Florentin Neatu, Catalin Negru, and Florin Pop. “Data Capsule: Representation of Heterogeneous Data in Cloud-Edge Computing.” IEEE Access 7 (2019): 49558-49567. |
| Firuți, Bogdan-Cristian, Răzvan-Ștefan Păduraru, Cătălin Negru, Alina Petrescu-Niţă, Octavian Bădescu, and Florin Pop. “Road risk-index analysis using satellite products.” Sensors 23, no. 5 (2023): 2751. |
| Catalin Negru, George Musat, Madalin Colezea, Constantin Anghel, Alexandru Dumitrascu, Florin Pop, Carmen De Maio, and Aniello Castiglione. “Dependable workflow management system for smart farms.” Connection Science 34, no. 1 (2022): 1833-1854. |
| Mocanu, Bogdan-Costel, Ion-Dorinel Filip, Remus-Dan Ungureanu, Catalin Negru, Mihai Dascalu, Stefan-Adrian Toma, Titus-Constantin Balan, Ion Bica, and Florin Pop. “Odin ivr-interactive solution for emergency calls handling.” Applied Sciences 12, no. 21 (2022): 10844. |
| IORDACHE, George-Valentin, Cătălin Negru, Gabriel Neagu, and Florin Pop. “SLA for Cloud processing: use cases for satellite image processing, disaster management and IoT.” Romanian Journal of Information Technology & Automatic Control/Revista Română de Informatică și Automatică 30, no. 4 (2020). |
| Iordache, George Valentin, Bogdan Tiganoaia, Catalin Negru, and Florin Pop. “Implementing SLA constraints in Multi-Cloud environments.” Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics 22, no. 4 (2020): 71-81. |
| Gabriel-Cosmin APOSTOL, Alexandra-Elena MOCANU, Bogdan-Costel MOCANU, Dragoș RĂDULESCU, Cătălin NEGRU, Ionuț PETRE, Florin POP, “A Multi-layer Approach for Mobile Devices: Behavioral Fingerprinting”, Studies in Informatics and Control, ISSN 1220-1766, vol. 32(2), pp. 105-116, 2023. https://doi.org/10.24846/v32i2y202310 |
| Tudorescu, Ana-Maria, Catalin Negru, Bogdan-Costel Mocanu, and Florin Pop. “Quality sustaining vegetation index for natural resources monitoring using satellite images.” Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal 59 (2024): 101847. |
| Stan, Roxana-Gabriela, Lidia Băjenaru, Cătălin Negru, and Florin Pop. “Evaluation of task scheduling algorithms in heterogeneous computing environments.” Sensors 21, no. 17 (2021): 5906. |
| Mihaela Mihaiu; Bogdan-Costel Mocanu; Cătălin Negru; Alina Petrescu-Nița; Florin Pop. “Resource Allocation Optimization Model for Computing Continuum”.Mathematics. |
| Razvan Stoleriu, Catalin Negru, Bogdan-Costel Mocanu, Emil-Andrei Constantinescu, Alexandra-Elena Mocanu, Florin Pop.”Scalable malicious URL detection technique for smishing attacks”. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering. 10.1504/IJCSE.2024.10067011 |
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