Adrian Caciula,

PhD Student

Department of Computer Science
Georgia State University
Room 1415, 34 Peachtree Street , Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
E-mail: acaciula [at] cs [dot] gsu [dot] edu
Webaddress: www.cs.gsu.edu/~acaciula1

The Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science:
• Thesis Topic: Java Tools For MIDlet Analyses
• Area of Study: Parallel Distribution

• 2012 - 2nd place award for the poster presentations at the 2012 Molecular Basis of Disease Research Day.
• 2011 - Outstanding Teaching By A Graduate Student Award , from Dept. Of Computer Science, Georgia State University.
• 2008 - Full scholarship under the framework of Socrates-Erasmus European. Program to develop the final project in 'Distributed And Parallel Approximations Of The Security Of Java Code Developed For Mobile Phones' in France at the University of Franche-Comte, Besancon.

Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
• Graduate Student - June 2008 to present
• Publicity Chair, GSU Student Chapter of the ACM 2009 - 2010
• Completed the Advanced OPNET Modeler training at OPNET Technologies, Inc. in Bethesda, MD. - December 2009

Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania
• Energy Efficiency Project at Transilvania University of Brasov. Assignments: electrical measurements, data analysis and computational parameters.
• Instructor: Trained in-class undergraduate teaching assistants in laboratory procedure.

S. Mangul, A. Caciula, O. Glebova, I. Mandoiu and A. Zelikovsky "Improved Transcriptome Quantification and Reconstruction from RNA-Seq Reads using Partial Annotations" (submitted), In Silico Biology(ISB), An International Journal on Computational Molecular Biology, 2012
S. Mangul, A. Caciula, O. Glebova, I. Mandoiu and A. Zelikovsky "RNA-Seq based transcriptome quantification and reconstruction guided by protein coding gene annotation"(to appear), book chapter in Algorithmic and AI Methods for Protein Bioinformatics, 2012

Refereed Conference Articles:
S. Mangul, A. Caciula, I. Mandoiu and A. Zelikovsky, "Novel Transcript Reconstruction from Paired-End RNA-Seq Reads Using Fragment Length Distribution", Proc. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS 2012),
S. Mangul, A. Caciula, I. Mandoiu and A. Zelikovsky, "RNA-Seq based discovery and reconstruction of unannotated transcripts in partially annotated genomes", Proc. 1st Workshop on Computational Advances in Molecular Epidemiology (CAME 2011), pp. 118-123, 2011.
X. Cao, Y. Wang, A. Caciula and Yichuan. Wang, “Developing a Multifunctional Network Laboratory for Teaching and Research”, ACM SIGITE, 2009.

Posters:
S. Mangul, A. Caciula, I. Mandoiu and A. Zelikovsky, "RNA-Seq based novel transcripts identification in partially annotated genomes", Poster at 8th International Conference on Bioinformatics "From Genomics to Synthetic Biology"(2011), Atlanta, GA.
S. Mangul, A. Caciula, I. Mandoiu and A. Zelikovsky, "RNA-Seq based discovery and reconstruction of unannotated transcripts in partially annotated genomes", Poster at Workshop on Next-generation Sequencing Technology and Algorithms for Primary Data Analysis(2011), Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.