Skip to content
Adrian Mircea Nenu computo, ergo sum

// Memberships & service

Community

Governance, mentorship and community-building - supporting sustainable research and collaboration locally, nationally and internationally.

UK Young Academy

2026 - 2031 · 5-year mandate
An interdisciplinary organisation of UK-based early-career researchers, innovators and professionals from across society who share a passion to improve our world - in collaboration with The Royal Society, The Academy of Medical Sciences, The British Academy, The Learned Society of Wales, The Royal Academy of Engineering, The Royal Irish Academy, and The Royal Society of Edinburgh.

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Society of Research Software Engineering (SocRSE)

2025 - 2027
Joined the Trustee team for the SocRSE non-profit UK organisation (charity number 1182455) to support software engineering as a super-power for researchers. Founded on the belief that a world which relies on software must recognise the people who develop it.

- Web and Infrastructure
- Mentoring Scheme

ECHO AI

A Romanian initiative linking researchers and specialists based in the UK with students, teachers, and organisations in Romania. It advances AI adoption with an emphasis on ethics and technical rigour through one-to-one mentoring, accessible AI education in pre-university schools, and dialogue on responsible digitalisation.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

  • Lead, manage and maintain the volunteering platform and ambassador program.
  • Develop concept notes for new initiatives.
  • Identify needs and design programs to address them.
  • Coordinate with external stakeholders and subject-matter experts.
  • Select, coordinate, and train ambassadors effectively.
  • Lead and coordinate the volunteering subcommittee, representing it at YP meetings.
  • Delivered a session on Volunteer Value: Inspiring Youth to Lead Through Purposeful Volunteering
Enabling volunteering across IEEE societies through enhancements of the volunteer.ieee.org platform.
- Delivered a session on Volunteer Value: Inspiring Youth to Lead Through Purposeful Volunteering
  • Keep volunteering opportunities up-to-date and relevant.
  • Identify, report, and document platform limitations.
  • Propose and design enhancements to improve the platform.
  • Coordinate with the IEEE IT team and analyse usage patterns.
  • Develop strategies to increase adoption, alongside the Ambassador Program lead.
Mentoring, supporting the elevation of senior members, and paper reviewing.

GDG on Campus

Romanian Brain Bee - Neuroscience Competition

Coaching & Mentoring

Latest videos

YouTube ↗

Latest writing

Substack ↗

Training a 14M GPT to Generate Children Stories in 20 Minutes: Pretraining, SFT, and Direct Preference Optimization

End to end implementation, parameter and architecture analysis, and light evaluation of the checkpoints

Read on Substack ↗

Could Actor Systems Be All We Need for Agentic AI Workflows

Are We Reinventing the Wheel of Actor Systems as We Develop Agentic Orchestration for AI?

Read on Substack ↗

Is Computer Science a Worthwhile Pursuit Today?

As of 2026, It Will Most Certainly Endure the Test of Time, Albeit With a Raised Bar of Expectations

Read on Substack ↗