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