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Dan Cristian Marinescu is a Romanian-American researcher, academic, and consultant. He was Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana until 2001 and is now Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Dan Marinescu contributions are in several areas of computer science including parallel and distributed computing, computational structural biology, quantum information, computational physics, system complexity, cloud computing, and Petri Nets.

Early life and education Dan Marinescu was born in Craiova, Romania in 1942 and in 1947 moved with his parents to Râmnicu Vâlcea, where he attended Alexandru Lahovari National College (at that time lyceum Nicolae Bălcescu) and graduated in 1960. The same year he was admitted to the Electronics College of the Polytechnic University Bucharest and graduated in July 1965 from the Physics Engineering Department with a thesis on the electron optics design for a linear accelerator of electrons. In December 1969 he got a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1976 he obtained a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University Bucharest with a dissertation on Applications and Optimization of FFT Algorithms.

Career In September 1965 Dan Marinescu started his career a junior researcher at the Cyclotron Laboratory of the Institute for Atomic Physics of the Romanian Academy of Science, now Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN). In 1966 he also started teaching at the Polytechnic University Bucharest. In 1972 he was promoted Senior Researcher in the Computing Department of IFIN. Dan Marinescu defected from the communist Romania in July 1980 and in September 1980 he was hired as Visiting Researcher at GSI Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. At GSI he made important contributions to the design of the real-time data acquisition and analysis system used for the experiments leading to the discovery of superheavy elements 107 (bohrium), 108 (hassium), and 109 (meitnerium). In 1984 he joined the Computer Science Department at Purdue University, arguably the first department of computer science in the world established in September 1962.

In 1984 he joined the Computer Science Department at Purdue University established in September 1962, arguably the first department of computer science in the world. In 1994 Dan Marinescu was promoted Full Professor. At Purdue he collaborated for more than 15 years with the structural biology groups of Professors Michael G. Rossmann and Timothy Baker working on computational aspects of atomic structure determination of viruses. In 2001 Dan Marinescu left Purdue for University of Central Florida where he collaborated with colleagues from the Physics Department working on computational condensed matter physics and introduced to the CS curriculum graduate courses in Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Theory.

During his US academic career Dan Marinescu was a visiting professor at research departments and universities in Asia, Europe, and South America including IBM Research at Yorktown Heights, Intel Supercomputer Systems Division in Beaverton Oregon, INRIA Rocquencourt in France, Tsinghua University in Beijing, USTC (University of Science and Technology of China) in Hefei, Institute of Information Sciences in Beijing, Multi Media Systems, Dresden, Germany, and GSI Darmstadt. He was also a Fulbright Professor at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, in Valparaiso, Chile and National University of Tucuman, in Argentina.