• Extensive experience in all stages of the enterprise software development life-cycle. More than 20 years of experience in IT/software and applications field.
• Demonstrated skills in designing and implementing web enterprise applications (IoT, Big Data, relational Databases, Information systems, Java and J2EE applications, GIS).
• 11 years of experience in teaching at university level both Master and License degree classes (Lecturer PhD at Politehnica University of Bucharest, Computer Science Department)
• 9 years of experience as a Software Engineer and Technical Team leader in Industry
• PhD (since 2017) in Computer Science from Politehnica University of Bucharest (Information Systems) with thesis entitled „Methods and tools for efficient decision-making in water pollution control systems”
• Deep experience and knowledge of business analysis with UML, software design methodologies, Agile development, information systems architecture, databases (realtional and NoSQL), IoT, Big Data, Data mining, object oriented design, web services, design patterns and best practices.
• Worked closely with various categories of stakeholders from industry in order to collect and analyze requirements needed for the application implementation.
• Leading and coordinating small and medium sized teams of developers/testers.
• Used both proprietary tools and open source tools on various platforms (Linux and Windows)
• Experienced in working in software development in various types of companies: multinational corporations, small companies, middle-sized companies, Research Institute.
• Extensive exposure with both academic/educational field (University) and IT industry (small and medium companies as well as corporations) in Romania, Ireland and Greece.
• Worked in research and development laboratories: Information Systems Laboratory of F.O.R.T.H (Greece) and Dublin Software Lab (Ireland).

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” – B.F. Skinner

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1. (*) George Iancu, Sorin N. Ciolofan, Monica Dragoicea – Real-time IoT architecture for water management in smart cities – Discover Applied Sciences, vol. 6, no. 4, pages 191, april 2024, Springer International Publishing
2. George Cătălin Voicu, Sorin Ciolofan, Monica Drăgoicea – Making children read more and better by integrating natural language processing and gamification techniques into mobile applications – CSCS24, May 2023, Bucharest
3. Sorin Ciolofan, Monica Drăgoicea, Daniel Popeangă – Enhanced cyber-physical system with semantic technologies and machine learning to support smart farming- CSCS24, May 2023, Bucharest
4. (*) Badawi S, Dragoicea M and Ciolofan S (2021), “Collaborative smart service design for tvet resource management”, EDULEARN21 Proceedings. , pp. 4826-4836. IATED.
5. (*) Badawi S, Ciolofan SN, Badr NG and Drăgoicea M (2020), “A Service Ecosystem Ontology Perspective: SDG Implementation Mechanisms in Public Safety”, Exploring Service Science: 10th International Conference, IESS 2020, Porto, Portugal, February 5-7, 2020, Proceedings 10. , pp. 304-318. Springer International Publishing.
6. (*) Drăgoicea M, Léonard M, Ciolofan SN and Militaru G (2019), “Managing data, information, and technology in cyber physical systems: Public safety as a service and its systems”, IEEE access. Vol. 7, pp. 92672-92692. IEEE. (Q1)
7. (*) Ciolofan SN, Militaru G, Draghia A, Drobot R and Drăgoicea M (2018), “Optimization of water reservoir operation to minimize the economic losses caused by pollution”, IEEE Access. Vol. 6, pp. 67562-67580. IEEE (Q1)
8. (*) Ciolofan SN, Draghia A, Drobot R, Mocanu M and Cristea V (2018), “Decision support tool for accidental pollution management”, Environmental Science and Pollution Research. Vol. 25, pp. 7090-7097. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. (Q2)
9. Ciolofan SN, Mocanu M and Cristea V (2017), “CLOUD BASED LARGE SCALE MULTIDIMENSIONAL CUBIC SPLINE INTERPOLATION FOR WATER QUALITY ESTIMATION”, UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST SCIENTIFIC BULLETIN SERIES C-ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE. Vol. 79(2), pp. 25-36. POLYTECHNIC UNIV BUCHAREST SPLAIUL INDEPENDENTEI 313, SECTOR 6, BUCH, 060042 ….
10. Pop F, Negru C, Ciolofan SN, Mocanu M and Cristea V (2016), “Optimizing intelligent reduction techniques for big data”, Big Data Optimization: Recent Developments and Challenges. , pp. 49-70. Springer International Publishing.
11. Gula T, Grosu C, Nanuti D, Mocanu M and Ciolofan SN (2015), “ArcGIS based visualization tool for assessment of earthquakes impact”, 2015 Ninth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems. , pp. 308-313. IEEE.
12. Pop F, Ciolofan S, Negru C, Mocanu M and Cristea V (2014), “A bio-inspired prediction method for water quality in a cyber-infrastructure architecture”, 2014 Eighth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems. , pp. 367-372. IEEE.
13. Ciolofan SN, Mocanu M, Pop F and Cristea V (2014), “Improving quality of water related data in a cyberinfrastructure”, IWOCPS-Third International Workshop on Cyber Physical Systems.
14. Ciolofan SN, Mocanu M and Ionita A (2013), “Distributed cyberinfrastructure for decision support in risk related environments”, 2013 IEEE 12th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing. , pp. 109-115. IEEE.
15. Ionita AD, Mocanu M and Ciolofan SN (2013), “Modeling with SoaML applied for warning and water management services”, 2013 19th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science. , pp. 624-627. IEEE.
16. Ciolofan SN, Mocanu M and Ionita AD (2013), “Cyberinfrastructure architecture to support decision taking in natural resources management”, 2013 19th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science. , pp. 617-623. IEEE.
17. John S, Ciolofan S, Harding CA and Westerink P (2009), “Recording/archiving in IBM lotus sametime based collaborative environment”, 2009 International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology. , pp. 475-479. IEEE.