Short Bio
Dan C. Marinescu joined the Computer Science Department at University of Central Florida (UCF) in August 2001 as Provost Professor of Computer Science. From 1984 till 2001 he was an Associate and the Full Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana. Dan Marinescu's work spans several areas: scheduling, workflow management and cloud computing, performance evaluation of parallel and distributed systems, scientific computing, and quantum information processing. He is the author or co-author of more than 220 publications in referred journals and conference proceedings, and book chapters. He is the author of several books including "Internet-Based Workflow Management: Towards a Semantic Web" published by Wiley in 2002 and he co-edited with Craig Lee the volume "Process Coordination and Ubiquitous Computing" published by CRC Press in 2002. The book "Approaching Quantum Computing," co-authored with Gabriela M. Marinescu was published in September 2004 by Prentice Hall and it was awarded the Tudor Tanasescu prize of the Romanian Academy of Science in 2004. The book "Classical and Quantum Information" co-authored with Gabriela M. Marinescu was published by Academic Press in 2012. Lastely, the book "Cloud Computing; Theory and Practice" was published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2013 and it is used by several universities in the US and abroad for graduate level classes on the subject.
For more information see http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~dcm