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My general research interests can be found elsewhere.

• Bishop's University, Department of Computer Science, Professor, Jul. 2013 - present
• Bishop's University, Department of Computer Science, Associate Professor, Jul. 2007 - Jun. 2013
• 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

• Queen's University at Kingston, School of Computing: 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)

• Graduate and post-graduate supervision: More than 20 graduate students supervised 2008, see PART membership for details.
• Have also supervised several undergraduate students on research assistantships, and a few honours theses.

• One-year grants from the Senate Research Committee of Bishop's University (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
• 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)
• Several minor grants (such as conference travel) from the Senate Research Committee of Bishop's University

• Senior Member of the ACM, 2011
• Editor, Parallel Processing Letters
• Referee work
  • Journals: IEEE Signal Processing Letters (1), Information and Computation (1), International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (1), Parallel Processing Letters (2), Theoretical Computer Science (1)
  • Granting agencies: NSERC (Canada), 2006 and 2007 discovery grant competitions, CHIST-ERA (EU) 2012 “from data to new knowledge (D2K)” competition, CFI (Canada) 2012 research infrastructure competition
  • Various conferences (6)
• Invited lecturer on advanced Lisp programming and CLOS programming, University of Bucharest, Department of Mathematics (Oct. 1995 and May 1996)

• Member, Graduate Studies Committee (Bishop's University, 2015 - 2019)
• Member, Senate (Bishop's University, 2015 - 2019)
• Member, Evaluation Committee (Bishop's University, 2010 - 2014)
• UCOSP faculty mentor for Bishop's University (2010 - 2018); continuing deparmental liaison for similar projects after the demise of UCOSP
• Graduate Coordinator, Department of Computer Science (Bishop's University, 2005 - present)
• Executive member at large, Faculty Council (Bishop's University, 2005 - 2009)
• Member, Information Technology Policy Committee (Bishop's University 2003 - 2007, 2008 - 2011)
• 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)