Adrian Sandu

Adrian Sandu obtained the Diploma in Electrical Engineering - Control Systems from the Technical University Bucharest, Romania, M.S. in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences from The University of Iowa. He worked as a computer programmer (ICI Bucharest), instructor (T.U. Bucharest), TA&RA (U. Iowa), postdoctoral research associate (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences). Between 1998-2003 he served as a faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Michigan Tech. In 2003 he joined Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science. Sandu's research interests are in the area of computational science and engineering.

Education

Postdoc, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences, The University of Iowa, 1997.
Ph.D. dissertation: Numerical Aspects of Air Quality Modeling.

M.S. in Computer Science, The University of Iowa, 1997.
M.S. Thesis: Sensitivity Analysis of ODEs via Automatic Differentiation.

Engineer Diploma (MS-equivalent) in Electrical Engineering with specialty in Control Systems, Technical University Bucharest, Romania,1990. Diploma thesis: Optimal Regulator Design Using H-infinity Techniques.