== Awards ==
 

  * **2025** – Best Paper Award at CODAI'25, CODAI Workshop on Compilers, Deployment and Tooling for AI
  * **2024** – HiPEAC Paper Award for publication in ISCA (flagship conference in computer architecture), HiPEAC
  * **2021** – HiPEAC Paper Award for publication in ISCA (flagship conference in computer architecture), HiPEAC
  * **2020** – First prize in the International Instruction Prefetching Championship (IPC1), Intel, USA
  * **2019** – HiPEAC Paper Award for publication in ISCA (flagship conference in computer architecture), HiPEAC
  * **2018** – The featured paper of the month of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Computer Society
  * **2018** – Best Paper Award at IEEE Computer Architecture Letters - Three Best of 2017, IEEE Computer Society
  * **2018** – HiPEAC Paper Award for publication in PLDI (flagship conference in programming languages), HiPEAC
  * **2017** – People of ACM European Chapters (Featured member), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  * **2016** – Best Paper Award in the 26th International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC)
  * **2014** – Best Presentation Award in the 12th ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)
  * **2013** – Finalist in Gala of Romanian Students and Junior Researchers Abroad, section Excellence in Academia
  * **2012** – Gala of Scientific Prizes of Bistrita (Honorary award)
  * **2011** – Best Poster Award in the 9th ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)
  * **2010** – Laureate of the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship (~3% success rate), Google
  * **2008** – Bachelor of Science -cum laude- First Class Honors Degree (1st / 120 students), Babes Bolyai University
  * **2008** – Special honor for the bachelor thesis Cross-Platform Technologies "BizTalk Server 2006 R2", Committee of Industry
  * **2008** – Award for Technical and Scientific Creativity, National Authority for Scientific Research of Romania and the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Youth
  * **2008** – Third place in Imagine Cup Microsoft Contest for undergraduate students - national level, Microsoft
  * **2004** – First place in the European Contest of Informatics Join Multimedia - European level, Siemens