high studies: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, West University of Timisoara, 1998 – 2002
master: LaBRi, University of Bordeaux 1 Science and Technology, France, 2002 – 2003
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, West University of Timisoara, 2002 – 2004
PhD: West University of Timisoara, Arithmetics and Information Theory in Membrane Computing, 2004 – 2009, prof.dr Ștefan Mărușter (co-advisor prof.dr Gabriel Ciobanu)
Scholarships, postdoc stages: E-Austria Research Institute, PostDoc 2010-2012
Positions:
Lecturer, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, West University of Timisoara, 2010 – present
Researcher, E-Austria Research Institute, 2004 – present
Research areas: Theoretical computer science research: Information Theory, Optimisation Algorithms, Membrane computing, Data compression, Combinatorics
Main results:
Partition into heapable sequences, heap tableaux and a multiset extension of Hammersley’s process
Minimum Entropy Submodular Set Cover Problem
Information theory over multisets
Representative articles:
Gabriel Istrate, Cosmin Bonchis, Heapability, Interactive Particle Systems, Partial Orders: Results and Open Problems, Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9777, pp. 18-28. Springer Verlag, 2016.
G. Istrate, C. Bonchiș, L.P. Dinu, The Minimum Entropy Submodular Set Cover Problem, Language and Automata Theory and Applications, Vol 9618 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, p 295-306, 2016.
Gabriel Istrate, Cosmin Bonchis, Partition into heapable sequences, heap tableaux and a multiset extension of Hammersley’s process. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9133, pp. 261-271. Springer Verlag, 2015.
C. Bonchis, G. Istrate. Improved Approximation Algorithms for Low-Density Instances of the Minimum Entropy Set Cover Problem. Information Processing Letters, 114(7), p. 360–365, 2014.
C. Bonchis, C. Izbasa, G. Ciobanu. Information theory over multisets, Computing and Informatics, Vol. 27, no. 3+ (2008), p. 441-451.
C. Bonchis, C. Izbasa, G. Ciobanu. Compositional asynchronous membrane systems, Progress in Natural Science vol.17(4), 411-416, 2007.
