Talented computer scientist receives EliteForsk scholarship
PhD student Stefan Stanciulescu has received a travel scholarship of 200,000 kroner from EliteForsk. He is soon departing for the US, where he will be studying at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University.
Written 25 February, 2016 12:00 by Vibeke Arildsen
On February 25, Ștefan Stănciulescu, a PhD student in Software Engineering at the IT University of Copenhagen, received an EliteForsk travel stipend of 200,000 kroner at the EliteForsk conference in Copenhagen. The stipends are given to allow particularly talented PhD students to take long-term stays at the world's best research institutions.
Ștefan Stănciulescu will begin his studies at Carnegie Mellon in March.In Ștefan Stănciulescu’s case, the destination will be the United States, more specifically the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University, where he will spend the rest of this year doing research alongside some of the brightest computer scientists in the world.
- Carnegie Mellon has a fantastic research environment with many smart people. This stipend gives me a professional opportunity that I am really grateful for, says Ștefan Stănciulescu, who came to the ITU as a graduate student in 2012.
At ITU, he soon became fascinated by the abstract side of software development, which is about understanding and approaching software problems through models and concepts rather than through practical coding.
Tools for developing software families
In his PhD project, Ștefan aims to develop tools that make it easy to create and evolve the software systems that run in products like smartphones, cars and 3D printers, and at the same time reduce maintenance efforts and costs.
- Companies often make variants of the same product. For example, one smartphone may have a better camera than others, so it needs the corresponding camera software. Variants share most of the software, but specific code is added for each variant to fulfill its requirements. I am trying to find a smarter way to ease and manage the software development of variants, he says.
Ștefan is departing for the US to begin his studies at Carnegie Mellon at the beginning of March.
EliteForsk's travel scholarship
- The Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science hands out up to 20 EliteForsk travel stipends every year.
- The stipends are awarded to talented young researchers in order to give them opportunity to study in the world's leading research environments.
- Applications are assessed by the Danish Council for Independent Research, which selects and nominates the PhD students to the Minister for Higher Education and Science.
- Ștefan Stănciulescu’s project is supervised by Andrzej Wasowski. Both belong to the MODELS research group at ITU.
- Read more about Ștefan Stănciulescu here.
- Read more about the EliteForsk stipends here.