Silviu Panica | Curriculum Vitae

Research Scientist
silviu.ioan.panica@gmail.com, silviu.panica@e-uvt.ro
https://staff.fmi.uvt.ro/~silviu/ silviu001 SilviuPanica silviu.panica

Work experience

04/2004current

Distributed Systems Researcher

Research Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania
  • academic and industrial research
  • distributed systems (gossip protocols)
  • distributed and automated deployments
  • virtualization and SD* (software-defined-*)
  • cloud technologies;
  • distributed monitoring in heterogenous environments
  • team manager for different development activities
  • administrator of the local datacenter (500+ cores x86; 4000+ cores PPC64, 100TB+ distributed data storage)
20192020

Solution Architect

Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) Bucharest, Romania
  • design and implement the cloud solution for hosting emergency response applications
  • OpenStack and Kubernetes cluster deployment with more than 400 CPU cores, GPU accelerators and 130+TB of distributed storage
  • unify hardware compatibility between different vendors (HPE 3PAR Storage, HPE Synergy and DL computes and HPE Synergy networking) and the cloud technologies to ensure industrial level high availability
10/2008current

Scientific researcher

West University of Timisoara Timisoara, Romania
  • academic research in distributed systems and cloud technologies
  • project management
2018current

Lecturer

West University of Timisoara Timisoara, Romania
  • Computer Networks (current)
  • Computer Architecture (former)
01/201008/2010

Virtualization solution architect

VCODyne S.A.S Paris, France
  • design and develop a virtualisation solution to safely use baremetal resources among enterprise users
  • manage the local team involved in the project
  • network administration automation
  • software deployment automation
  • information scrubbing to safely remove data stored on virtualised storage
20052009

Teaching Assistant

West University of Timisoara Timisoara, Romania
  • Operating Systems (Theory)
  • Unix Operating Systems
  • Unix Programming
  • Computer Networks
06/200907/2009

Junior Researcher

European Space Agency - ESRIN Frascati, Italy
  • 1 month ESA internship
  • research in the field of image processing using distributed technologies
  • analyse the possibility of migrating ESA's solutions to use gridenabled technologies for massive distributed data processing
20032007

Network Administrator

West University of Timisoara Timisoara, Romania
  • maintain the data and voice network of the Computer Science Department (more than 1000 clients)
  • define and implement the security policy at university level

Education and training

10/200908/2016

Doctor in Philosophy

West University of Timisoara Timisoara, Romania
  • Domain: Computer Science
  • Thesis: Distributed deployment services for cloud environments
10/200509/2007

Master of Science

West University of Timisoara Timisoara, Romania
  • Domain: Computer Science
  • Thesis: Scientific applications for grid-enabled environments
10/200109/2005

Bachelor of Science

West University of Timisoara Timisoara, Romania
  • Domain: Computer Science
  • Thesis: Security approaches in Unix-like operating systems
07/201808/2018

2nd International School on Deep Learning

University of Genova / IRDTA-London Genova, Italy
  • Domain: deep learning algorithms and techniques; gpu computing

Language skills

Mother tongue

Romanian

Other languages

English
  • Listening: C2
  • Reading: C2
  • Spoken production: C2
  • Spoken interaction: C2
  • Writing: C2

Other languages

French
  • Listening: A2
  • Reading: B1
  • Spoken production: A2
  • Spoken interaction: A2
  • Writing: A2

Driving license

Category: B

Organisational and communication skills

Organisational

  • CS Department team coordinator (five members) and principal investigator complex issues
  • research teams coordinator in multiple international projects (with academic and industrial partners)

Communication

  • good communications skills gained during the participation in multiple research projects with international partners and during private interactions with the industrial partners

Technical skills

Distributed and parallel computing

  • cloud-related: OpenStack, Kubernetes (advanced)
  • distributed technologies (distributed datastores (key/value, columnar), distributed messaging systems) (advanced)
  • IBM BlueGene/P Development/Administration (advanced)
  • HPC development (MPI/OpenMP) (medium-to-advanced)

Virtualization technologies

  • XEN, KVM, VMWare ESXi/VSphere, VirtualBox (advanced)
  • SDN architectures: Open vSwitch (medium)
  • familiar with the following I/O, CPU and memory virtualisation methods: SR-IOV, DPDK, CPU-Pinning, Huge Paging and Transparent Huge Paging

Programming

  • C (Unix programming) (advanced)
  • Scripting Bash/Perl/Awk etc. (advanced)
  • Java/JavaScript (medium)
  • Python (advanced)
  • Go lang (beginner)
  • Web technologies (advanced)

Operating Systems

  • UNIX* (Solaris, FreeBSD, OS X) (advanced)
  • Linux - Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat (advanced)
  • Windows* Server (medium)

Hardware knowledge

  • NetApp FAS2050, IBM DS/DC Series (medium)
  • Cisco fabrics MDS Series (medium)
  • Cisco routing/switching (medium)
  • HPE Synergy/Primera/DL/3PAR products (medium)

Other

  • Networking (advanced)
  • IT security (security policy, vulnerabilities assessment) (advanced)
  • DataBase: Oracle (medium)
  • MySQL (beginner)
  • NoSQL MongoDB (advanced)
  • Hardware knowledge (advanced)

Conference organizer

20042020

Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC)

Local committee

Research Projects

20212023

SERRANO H2020

Transparent Application Deployment in a Secure, Accelerated and Cognitive Cloud Continuum
Responsabilities:
  • principal investigator
  • local project manager
Industrial partners:
  • MELLANOX
  • Chocolate Cloud
  • INTRASOFT
  • INBESTME EUROPE
  • INNOV-ACTS LIMITED
  • IDEKO S COOP
  • NUBIFICUS LTD
20202023

DiPET CHIST-ERA

Distributed Stream Processing on Fog and Edge Systems via Transprecise Computing
Responsabilities:
  • senior researcher
20182020

ASPIDE H2020

exAScale ProgramIng models for extreme Data procEssing
Responsabilities:
  • senior researcher
Industrial partners:
  • BULL Technologies (Atos)
20162018

EO4SEE ESA

ESA Pathfinder Funded development project
Responsabilities:
  • solution architect
  • senior researcher
Industrial partners:
  • European Space Agency (ESA)
20152018

DICE H2020

Developing Data-Intensive Cloud Applications with Iterative Quality Enhancements
Responsabilities:
  • senior researcher
Industrial partners:
  • XLAB Slovenia
  • ProDevelop Spain
  • FlexiOps Cloud Provider UK
20162018

VI-SEEM H2020

Virtual Research Environment (VRE) in Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean (SEEM)
Responsabilities:
  • senior researcher
20132016

SPECS FP7

Secure Provisioning of Cloud Services based on SLA management
Responsabilities:
  • principal investigator
  • cloud security enforcement specifications
  • distributed systems design
  • software development
Industrial partners:
  • EMC
  • Cloud Security Alliance
  • XLAB Slovenia
20122015

MODAClouds FP7

MOdel-Driven Approach for design and execution of applications on multiple Clouds
Responsabilities:
  • researcher
  • distributed systems design
  • software development
Industrial partners:
  • Atos
  • CA
  • Flexiant Cloud Provider UK
  • Siemens
20122015

AMICAS RO-PNII-PCE

Automated Management in Cloud and Sky Computing Environments
Responsabilities:
  • researcher
  • distributed systems design
  • software development
20122014

HOST FP7

High Performance Computing Service Centre
Responsabilities:
  • HPC developer for BlueGene/P
20102013

mOSAIC FP7

Open-Source API and Platform for Multiple Clouds
Responsabilities:
  • researcher
  • cloud technologies investigator
  • software development
20102013

HP-SEE FP7

High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe's Research Communities
Responsabilities:
  • HPC developer
  • infrastructure coordinator (BlueGene/P and IBM BladeCenter Cluster)
20082011

GiSHEO ESA

On demand Grid Services for High Education and Training in Earth Observation
Responsabilities:
  • research in image processing algorithms
Industrial partners:
  • European Space Agency (ESA)
20042010

EGEE FP7

EU EGEE I,II,III Projects
Responsabilities:
  • grid computing developer
  • infrastructure coordinator

Publications

Categories: ◉ - journal, ▣ - proceedings, ◈ - book or chapter, ■ - preprint.
  1. ▣ Neagul, M.; Panica, S.; Selea, T. "Experiences in building a distributed Earth Observation Platform", 15th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), 2019 , pp. 545–550 , doi: 10.1109/ICCP48234.2019.8959718
  2. ◉ Panica, S.; Irimie, B.; Petcu, D. "Enabling and monitoring platform for cloud-based application", International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking 2018, Vol. 12 (4) , pp. 328–338 , doi: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2018.096711
  3. ◈ Iuhasz, G.; Panica, S.; Craciun, C.; Petcu, D. "Deployment of Cloud Supporting Services", Model-Driven Development and Operation of Multi-Cloud Applications. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology., 2017 , pp. 69–80 , ISBN: 978–3–319–46030–7 , doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46031-4_8
  4. ▣ Panica, S.; Petcu, D. "Unattended Deployment of Enabling Platforms for Cloud-Based Applications", 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), 2016 , pp. 144–149 , ISBN: 978-1-5090-2461-2 , doi: 10.1109/WAINA.2016.170
  5. ▣ Petcu, D.; Panica, S.; Irimie, B.; Macarie, G. "On Security SLA-based Monitoring as a Service", 2017 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE), 2016 , pp. 326–336 , ISBN: 978-3-319-47063-4 , doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_34
  6. ◉ Petcu, D.; Panica, S.; Craciun, C.; Neagul, M.; Sandru, C. "Cloud resource orchestration within an open-source component-based platform as a service", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 2015, Vol. 27 , pp. 2443–2469 , doi: 10.1002/cpe.3175
  7. ▣ Panica, S.; Petcu, D. "Distributed Resource Identification Service for Cloud Environments", 2013 15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithm for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), 2013 , pp. 448–453 , ISBN: 978-1-4799-3035-7 , doi: 10.1109/SYNASC.2013.65
  8. ◉ Petcu, D.; Macariu, G.; Panica, S.; Craciun, C. "Portable Cloud Applications - from Theory to Practice", Future Generation Computer Systems 2013, Vol. 29 , pp. 1417–1430 , doi: 10.1016/j.future.2012.01.009
  9. ▣ Petcu, D.; Panica, S.; Sandru, C.; Craciun, C.; Neagul, M. "Experiences in Building an Event-Driven and Deployable Platform as a Service", International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering 2012 (WISE), 2012 , pp. 666–672 , ISBN: 978-3-642-35063-4 , doi: 10.1007%2F978-3-642-35063-4_51
  10. ▣ Petcu, D.; Frincu, M. E.; Panica, S.; Neagul, M. "Towards Programmatic Management of Services from Multiple Clouds", Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems 2012 (INCOS), 2012 , pp. 487–488 , ISBN: 978-1-4673-2279-9 , doi: 10.1109/iNCoS.2012.77
  11. ▣ Panica, S.; Petcu, D.; Lazkanotegi Larrate, I.; Mahr, T. "Sky Computing Platform for Legacy Distributed Application", 11th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), 2012 , pp. 293–300 , doi: 10.1109/ISPDC.2012.47
  12. ◉ Petcu, D.; Panica, S.; Frincu, M.; Neagul, M.; Zaharie, D.; Macariu, G.; Gorgan, D.; Stefanut, T. "Experiences in building a Grid-based platform to serve Earth observation training activities", Computer Standards & Interfaces 2012, Vol. 34 , pp. 493–508 , doi: 10.1016/j.csi.2011.10.010
  13. ◈ Rak, M.; Ficco, M.; Luna, J.; Ghani, H.; Suri, N.; Panica, S.; Petcu, D. "Security Issues in Cloud Federation", Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice, 2012 , pp. 176–194 , ISBN: 978-1-4666-1631-8 , doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1631-8.ch010
  14. ▣ Toma, A.; Panica, S.; Zaharie, D.; Petcu, D. "Computational Challenges in Processing Large Hyperspectral Images", 2012 5th Romania Tier 2 Federation Grid, Cloud High Performance Computing Science (RQLCG), 2012 , pp. 111–114 , ISBN: 978-973-662-701-1 , hyperlink
  15. ▣ Petcu, D.; Frincu, M.; Craciun, C.; Panica, S.; Neagul, M.; Macariu, G. "Towards Open-Source Cloudware", 2011 IEEE 4th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2011 , pp. 330–331 , ISBN: 978-145-772-116-8 , doi: 10.1109/UCC.2011.53
  16. ▣ Petcu, D.; Zaharie, D.; Panica, S.; Hussein, A. S.; Sayed, A.; El-Shishiny, H. "Fuzzy Clustering of Large Satellite Images using High Performance Computing", High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing. Proceedings of SPIE (SPIE), 2011, Vol. 8183 , doi: 10.1117/12.898281
  17. ▣ Panica, S.; Neagul, M.; Craciun, C.; Petcu, D. "Serving Legacy Distributed Applications by a Self-configuring Cloud Processing Platform", 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS), 2011, Vol. 1 , pp. 139–145 , ISBN: 978-1-4577-1426-9 , doi: 10.1109/IDAACS.2011.6072727
  18. ▣ Petcu, D.; Craciun, C.; Neagul, M.; Panica, S.; Di Martino, B.; Venticinque, S.; Rak, M.; Aversa, R. "Architecturing a Sky Computing Platform", Towards a Service-Based Internet. ServiceWave 2010 Workshops, 2011 , pp. 1–13 , ISBN: 978-3-642-22760-8 , doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-22760-8_1
  19. ▣ Petcu, D.; Panica, S.; Neagul, M. "From Grid Computing Towards Sky Computing. Case Study for Earth Observation", Proceedings Cracow Grid Workshop 2010, 2011 , pp. 11–20 , ISBN: 978-83-61433-03-3
  20. ◉ Petcu, D.; Panica, S.; Neagul, M.; Frincu, M.; Zaharie, D.; Ciorba, R.; Dinis, A. "Earth Observation Data Processing in Distributed Systems", Informatica 2010, Vol. 34
  21. ■ Petcu, D.; Zaharie, D.; Panica, S.; Frincu, M.; Neagul, M.; Gorgan, D.; Stefanut, T. "Grid-based platform for training in Earth Observation", Geophysical Research Abstracts, 2010, Vol. 12
  22. ■ Petcu, D.; Zaharie, D.; Gorgan, D.; Panica, S.; Neagul, M.; Frincu, M.; Bacu, V.; Stefanut, T. "On demand Grid services for training in Earth Observation", 5th EGEE User Forum / Contributions book, 2010 , pp. 68–69
  23. ▣ Petcu, D.; Panica, S.; Neagul, M.; Frincu, M.; Zaharie, D.; Gorgan, D.; Stefanut, T.; Bacu, V. "GiSHEO: On-line Platform for Training in Earth Observation", 5th International Conf. on Virtual Learning (ICVL), 2010 , hyperlink
  24. ■ Panica, S.; Neagul, M.; Petcu, D. "Processing remote sensing images on a Grid-based platform", Poster/Demonstration, 2010 , pp. 397–399 , ISBN: 978-972-8939-25-0 , hyperlink
  25. ◈ Petcu, D.; Zaharie, D.; Neagul, M.; Panica, S.; Frincu, M.; Gorgan, D.; Stefanut, T.; Bacu, V. "Remote Sensed Image Processing on Grids for Training in Earth Observation", Image Processing, 2009 , pp. 115–140 , ISBN: 9789533070261 , doi: 10.5772/7049
  26. ▣ Neagul, M.; Panica, S.; Petcu, D.; Zaharie, D.; Gorgan, D. "Web and Grid Services for Training in Earth Observation", IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS), 2009 , pp. 241–246 , ISBN: 9781424449019 , doi: 10.1109/IDAACS.2009.5342986
  27. ▣ Frincu, M.; Panica, S.; Neagul, M.; Petcu, D. "Gisheo: On Demand Grid Service Based Platform for EO Data Processing", 3rd International Workshop on High Performance Grid Middleware (HiperGrid), 2009 , pp. 415–422
  28. ▣ Panica, S.; Neagul, M.; Petcu, D.; Stefanut, T.; Gorgan, D. "Designing a Grid-Based Training Platform for Earth Observation", Proceedings of the 2008 10th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), 2008 , pp. 394–397 , ISBN: 9780769535234 , doi: 10.1109/SYNASC.2008.72
  29. ▣ Zaharie, D.; Petcu, D.; Panica, S. "A Hierarchical Approach in Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms for Multiobjective Optimization", Large-Scale Scientific Computing, 2008 , pp. 516–523 , ISBN: 978-3-540-78827-0 , doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-78827-0_59
  30. ■ Zaharie, D.; Dragan, M.; Panica, S.; Petcu, D.; Stoia-Djeska, M. "Asynchronous master slave parallelization of evolutionary optimization in airfoil shape design", PARA 2008 (PARA), 2008
  31. ◉ Petcu, D.; Panica, S. "Document Conversions Using Grid-based e-Infrastructure for Digital Libraries", Transactions on Automatic Control and Computer Science 2008, Vol. 53 , pp. 139-144
  32. ▣ Panica, S.; Petcu, D.; Zaharie, D. "Evolutionary multi-objective optimization on Grid environments", Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN), 2008 , pp. 81-86 , ISBN: 978-0-88986-713-0 , doi: 10.5555/1722252.1722267
  33. ▣ Panica, S.; Petcu, D.; Eckstein, A. "Solving Computational-Intensive Tasks for Digital Libraries by using Grid-based e-Infrastructures", The 8th International Conference on Technical Informatics (CONTI), 2008, Vol. 2
  34. ■ Petcu, D.; Panica, S. "Porting legacy software codes towards Grid architectures", presented at the National Workshop "Computational Physics and Modelling of Complex Phenomena", 29-20 May 2008, Timisoara, 2008
  35. ■ Petcu, D.; Panica, S. "Using Desktop Grids for Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization", DAPSYS 2008, Debrecen, Hungary, 2008
  36. ▣ Petcu, D.; Panica, S.; Banciu, D.; Negru, V.; Eckstein, A. "Optical character recognition on a Grid infrastructure", 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution (AXMEDIS), 2007 , pp. 21–24 , ISBN: 978-0-7695-3030-7 , doi: 10.1109/AXMEDIS.2007.23
  37. ◉ Petcu, D.; Panica, S.; Eckstein, A. "Land-Cover Classification on Computational Grids", International Journal of Computers (NAUN) 2007, Vol. 1 (2) , pp. 21–26
  38. ▣ Petcu, D.; Panica, S.; Eckstein, A. "Satellite Image Processing on Computational Grids", 9th International Conference on Automatic Control, Modeling & Simulation (ACMOS), 2007 , pp. 216–221 , ISBN: 9789608457744 , doi: 10.5555/1973534.1973578
  39. ▣ Zaharie, D.; Panica, S.; Stoia-Djeska, M.; Dragan, M.; Petcu, D. "Airfoil shape optimization by coupling computational fluid dynamics with evolutionary multiobjective optimization", Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IMCSIT), 2007 , pp. 479–481 , hyperlink
  40. ▣ Panica, S.; Petcu, D.; Zaharie, D. "A Grid-enabled Framework for Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization", 9th International Symposium on Automatic Control and Computer Science (SAACS), 2007