Born September 4th, 1981 in Alba-Iulia, Transylvania, Romania. Received first computer at the age of 13. Started learning programming languages one year later. Joined the 'Horia, Closca & Crisan' National College (high school) from Alba-Iulia in 1995, department of mathematics & physics. Graduated in 1999. Joined the Faculty of Automation & Computer Science, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in 1999, department of Automation & Industrial Informatics. Graduated in 2004. MSc in engineering equivalent diploma. Joined the same department for post-graduate advanced studies (advanced masters). Graduated in 2005.

Been doing a lot of things during 2004-2005... researcher for the Robotics Research Group, teaching assistant at the Faculty of Automation & Computer Science... and working for a software company as a programmer/UNIX administrator. People were asking me if I ever sleep. :)

I moved to Munich in the summer of 2005, and started to work as a researcher at TUM (Technische Universitaet Muenchen), as a part of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems research group, Computer Science department IX.