Cristian Gatu

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 05/2000-04/2004.
Thesis title: Algorithms for solving statistical model selection problems.
Master in Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania, 1998-1999.
Diploma in Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania, 1994-1998.
"Grigore Moisil" Computer Science High School, Iasi, Romania, 1990-1994.

Academic positions

Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania, 10/2013-.
Lecturer, Faculty of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania, 10/2008-09/2013.
Senior Researcher, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Espoo, Finland, 07/2007-09/2008.
Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 05/2000-05/2007.
Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania, 02-06/1999.
High-School Teacher, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Theoretical High School, Iasi, Romania, 09/1998-04/2000.

Professional activities and affiliations

Associate Editor of the Computational Statistics & Data Analysis journal, Elsevier North-Holland, 04/2004-03/2022.
Referee for the Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Psychological Methods, Technometrics, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Applied Statistics, Computational Economics and various conferences.
Member of the Matrix Computations and Statistics research group, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 05/2000-02/2007.
Member of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) working group on Computational and Methodological Statistics, 05/2001-.
Member of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), 2001-.
Elected member of the Board of Directors of the IASC European Regional Section (terms 2008-2012 and 2016-2020).
Chairman of IASC European Regional Section (term 2020-2022).

Research projects and fellowships

Research Associate of the Swiss National Foundation for Research project 1214-056900.99/1, Computational methods for solving large-scale statistical model selection problems, 1999-2001.
Research Associate of the Swiss National Foundation for Research project 101312-100757/1, Algorithms for solving large-scale statistical model selection problems, 2003-2004.
Research Fellow of the Swiss National Foundation for Research project 101412-105978, Subset VAR model selection: computational aspects, 2004-2007.
Three month visiting fellowship to University of Cyprus, Cyprus from the Swiss National Science Foundation project PIOI1-110144, Subset Vector Autoregressive model selection, 10 August - 9 November 2005.
Two month visiting fellowship to IRISA-INRIA, France co-founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation project PIOI1-115431/1 and IRISA-INRIA, Combinatorial algorithms for statistical model selection, 5 March - 30 April 2007.
Twelve month ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" fellowship to VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Espoo, Finland, 2007-2008.
Principal investigator of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research project PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0242, Numerical estimation and combinatorial strategies for statistical modeling, 2011-2014.
Research Associate of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research project PN-III-P2-2.1-CI-2017-0654, 25 July - 31 December 2017.

Academic and research cooperation

Invited visiting researcher, Department of Econometrics, University of Erfurt, Germany, 13-20 February 2005.
Visiting researcher, Department of Public and Business Administration, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, 10 August - 9 November 2005, 14 May - 6 June 2007 (invited), 13-27 February 2008 and 18 February - 12 March 2009.
Visiting researcher, IRISA-INRIA, France, 5 March - 30 April 2007.
Visiting researcher, Department of Computer Science, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 7 - 16 December 2007, 2-12 March 2008 and 27 April - 11 May 2009.