Stefan D. Bruda - CV

Here comes a brief yet infrequently updated CV (sorry).

Publications

My publications are shown (most of the time including electronic, local versions of the actual papers) on a separate page. Please note that I do not guarantee timely updates to that page.

Employment

Bishop's University, Department of Computer Science, Associate Professor, Jul. 2007 - present
Bishop's University, Department of Computer Science, Assistant Professor, Jul. 2002 - Jun. 2007
Queen's University at Kingston, School of Computing, Teaching Fellow, Jan. 2000 - Apr. 2002
Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Teaching Fellow, Jan. 1996 - Jul. 1997
Romanian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence , Research Associate, Aug. 1995 - Aug. 1997

Education

Queen's University at Kingston, Department of Computing and Information Science PhD, Apr. 2002
- Thesis: Parallel Real-Time Complexity Theory
Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering MSc, Jun. 1996
- Thesis: Computational complexity of context-free parallel communicating grammar systems (in Romanian; extended abstract in English: S. D. Bruda, On the computational complexity of context-free parallel communicating grammar systems, in G. Paun and A. Salomaa, eds., New Trends in Formal Languages, Springer LNCS 1218, 1997, pp. 256-266)
Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering BSc in Engineering (honors), Jun. 1995
- Thesis: Generalized LR Parser for Unification Based Grammars (in Romanian; extended abstract in English: M. Ciocoiu and S. D. Bruda, GULiveR: Generalized unification based LR parser for natural languages in D. Tufis and P. Andersen, eds., Recent Advances in Romanian Language Technology, Romanian Academy of Sciences, 1997, pp. 38-51)

Training of Highly Qualified Personnel

Graduate and post-graduate supervision:
- Chun Dai: MSc student, September 2006 - January 2009 [thesis]
- Md. Tawhid Bin Waez: MSc student, September 2006 - December 2009 [thesis]
- Yuanqiao Zhang: MSc student, September 2006 - December 2009 [thesis]
- Zhiyu Zhang: MSc student, January 2007 - December 2009 [thesis]
- Jianguo Chen: visiting scholar, September 2006 - September 2007
Undergraduate supervision
- USRA research assistantship: Rob Britton (May 2006 - August 2006), Scott Stoddard (May 2004 - August 2004), and Zaheer Bawar (May 2003 - August 2003)
- Research assistanship (non-USRA): Petter Haggholm (May 2004 - August 2004)
- Have supervised two honours theses and two one-year projects in the Department of Computer Science, Bishop's University

Research funding

Two-year grant from the Senate Research Committee of Bishop's University (2009-2010)
Five-year renewal grant from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Discovery grant, individual, 2008 - 2013)
One year grant from the Senate Research Committee of Bishop's University (2008)
Four-year grant from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Discovery grant, individual, 2003-2007)
Three-year grant from the Fond québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (Etablissement de nouveaux chercheurs, volet individuel, 2003-2006)

Other research contributions

Referee for the 2006 and 2007 NSERC grant competitions (committee no. 330)
Editor and past referee, Parallel Processing Letters (World Scientific)
Invited lecturer on advanced Lisp programming and CLOS programming, University of Bucharest, Department of Mathematics (Oct. 1995 and May 1996)

Other contributions

Graduate Coordinator, Dept. of Computer Science (Bishop's University, 2005 - present)
Executive member at large, Faculty Council (Bishop's University, 2005 - present)
Member, Information Technology Policy Committee (Bishop's University 2003 - 2007, 2008 - present)
System administrator, departmental computing facilities (two servers, one 25-machine computing lab; Bishop's University, May 2003 - August 2003, July 2007 - September 2008)
Alternate member, Appeals Committee (Bishop's University, 2005 - 2007)
Chair, Computer Science Appointment Committee (Bishop's University, 2003)
Involved in Folle Course Informatique/Mad Programming Race as member of Bishop's organizing team. Authored one of the problems included in the contest (2003)
Active member of the open source community; sole maintainer of prolog-mode (a major Emacs mode for Prolog programming) and emacs-pilot (synchronizes Emacs data with Palm OS devices)