Dan Cristian Marinescu Ernest T. S. Walkton Fellow Professor of Computer Science Provost Research Professor M.S., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest, 1965 M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,  University of California at Berkeley, 1969 Ph.D., EECS, Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest, 1975 Computer Science Department School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, Fl, 32814 Office: Harris Building Room 439 B Phone: (407) 823 4860 FAX:   (407) 823 5419 Email:dcm@cs.ucf.edu

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Dan C. Marinescu is Professor of Computer Science. He is also an adjoint professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. From 1984 until August 2001 he was a Professor of Computer Science and (by courtesy) of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Before coming to Purdue, Dr. Marinescu was an associate professor of EECS at the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest and a senior researcher at the Institute for Atomic Physics of the Romanian Academy of Science, the Joint Nuclear Research Institute at Dubna, and G.S.I. Darmstadt. He was a visiting professor at: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York (1985); Institute of Information Sciences, Beijing (1992);  Scalable Systems Division of Intel Corporation (1993);  Deutsche Telecom (1996); and INRIA Paris (1998, 2000, 2005, 2006). His research interests cover parallel and distributed systems, Petri Nets, scientific computing, and quantum computing and quantum information theory. He has published more than 180 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings in these areas.

In early 1980s Dr. Marinescu was the chief architect of a real-time data acquisition and analysis system used in experiments leading to the discovery of the superheavy elements. Since late 1980s he is leading a project in computational biology  focused on the development of parallel algorithms and methods for the 3-D atomic structure determination of large macromolecules like viruses. He leads an effort to design a Virtual Laboratory for Computational Structural Biology. He is the author of "Internet-Based Workflow Management: Towards a Semantic Web"  published by Wiley in April 2002 and of "Approaching Quantum Computing" published by Prentice Hall in September 2004. He coedited the book "Process Coordination and Ubiquitous Computing" published by CRC Press in October 2002.

Research: The Computing Frontiers Laboratory

I2Lab - Interdisciplinary Information Science and Technology Laboratory

Teaching

Publications

The cover of the April 2006 issue of the Journal of Structural Biology shows a structure

from the paper “A model-based parallel origin and orientation refinement algorithm for

cryoTEM and its application to the study of virus structures” by Yongchang Ji,

Dan C. Marinescu, Wei Zhang, Xing Zhang, Xiaodong Yan and Timothy S. Baker.

Keynote Addresses and Tutorials

Books: Internet-Based Workflow Management Wiley 2002

Approaching Quantum Computing Prentice Hall 2004
Errata to Approaching Quantum Computing

Boole Lecture – University College Cork, February 15, 2007

Current draft of “From Classical to Quantum Information”

(please send comments to dcm@cs.ucf.edu)

The 2004 Prizes of the Romanian Academy of Science for Informatics

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