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Dan Alexandru PLETEA
369 Savin Hill Ave., Apt 1
Boston MA, 02125
Office Phone: (617) 287-6482
Email: [email protected]
Education
University of Massachusetts
PhD candinate, my adviso is Prof. Dan Simovici
Research activity: Data Mining, the use of the waivelests
in clustering, finding partial orders from unordered Data
Universitatea “Alexandru I. Cuza”
1st Year of Masters in Distributed Systems
Fully Financial Aid obtained after the admision exam
Universitatea Tehnica “Gh. Asachi”
B.S. in Computer Engeneering
Dean’s Award in finishing in first 10% from the students.
9/2004 - Present
Boston, Massachusetts
9/2003 - 6/2004
Iasi, Romania
9/1998 - 6/2003
Iasi, Romania
Research Interests
My research interests include Data Mining, Machine learning, Databases Modeling and Web Technologies. I prefer
using WEKA (open source software in Java) for Data Mining tasks like data pre-processing, classification,
regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization.Data structures, Hardware Architecture, Database
programming, Java, JSP, HTML, Struts, XML, Ant, SAX, JDOM.
Technical Skills
PROGRAMMING
JAVA TECHNOLOGIES
XML TECHNOLOGIES
WEB TECHNOLOGIES
DATABASES
DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING TOOLS
JAVA , C, C++
JDBC, SWING
XML, XML SCHEMAS, DTDs, SOAP, SAX, WSDL, JDOM, XSLT, XPATH
APACHE TOMCAT, APACHE AXIS, JSP, HTML, DHTML, FRONT PAGE
ORACLE 8 AND DEVELOPER 2000, SQL SERVER 7.0/2000, MS ACCESS,
PL/SQL, EMBEDDED SQL
APACHE ANT, JBUILDER (IDE), ECLIPSE, KAWA, JUNIT TESTING, BLUEJ
SOFTWARE DESIGN
UML (using Microsoft Visio)
OPERATING SYSTEMS
WINDOWS 95/98/NT/XP, UNIX (Sun Solaris and Red Hat)
Languages
English – very well
Romanian – very well
French – basic level
German – basic level
Profesional Experience
University of Massachusetts Computer Science Department
 Teaching Assistant of Prof. Bob Wilson
9/2004 – Current
o Teaching the cs341 (Computer Arhitecture and Organization) labs
o Grading the Machine Projects
http://www.cs.umb.edu/cs341
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Teaching Summer Position for Summers 05 and 06 6/2005 – 8/2005, 6/2006 – 8/2006
o Teaching the cs110 course (Introduction to Computing with JAVA)
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DotWell Report – Analysis of Diabetes Data
o
9/2005 – 2/2006
Analysis of Diabetes Data using the Data Mining Tool WEKA, from a 5M
records DataBase.
Technical University “Gh. Asachi” of Iasi - Computer Engeneering Department
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9/2003 - 6/2004
Teaching Assistant of Prof. Vasile Manta
o Teaching the labs of Computer Arhitecture and Organization – Fall 2003
o Teaching the labs of OPENGL – Spring 2004
“BIMF” ( Family Doctors Romanian National Newsletter)
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Newsletter Designer (using QuarkXPress)
10/1999 – 2/2004
Iasi, Romania
Research Activities
I am an active member of Data Mining research group. We have weekly seminar to discuss our research
and progress. My lately worked involved the studing of waivelets and their possible aplications in Data
Mining, Clustering Binary Data and Finding Partial Orders from Unordered Data.
Graduate Course Work
Topics in Algorithm Theory and Design, Theory of Computation, Database Management, Arthitecture of
Database Systems, Database Applications, Data Mining, XML and Data on the Web, Probabilities and
Statistics II.
REFERENCES
Available on request