computo, ergo sum

I’m Adrian, a computer scientist and artificial-intelligence researcher.

Born in Romania, I studied computer science in the United Kingdom. I began my career at Morgan Stanley, where I worked on large-scale financial data processing systems and graph-based analysis. I later joined Google and eventually moved to the United States, where I worked on high-availability distributed global observability infrastructure, graph AI orchestration, and machine learning, and explored how complex systems coordinate, reason, and scale to serve billions.

I have since returned to the UK as a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Manchester. My doctoral research focuses on artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, and reasoning systems, with an emphasis on connecting theory to systems that work at scale and tackle fundamental high-value add problems from the bottom-up.

Beyond research, I am involved in organisations such as the UK Young Academy, IEEE, BCS, GDG on Campus, and the Society of Research Software Engineering, contributing to mentorship, governance, and community-building efforts that support sustainable research software and open collaboration, locally, nationally and internationally.