Dr. Radu Marinescu is an associate professor affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at the "Politehnica" University and a senior researcher at the e-Austria Institute in Timisoara (Romania).
He is also the head of the LOOSE Research Group, which he co-founded in 2002. At present Dr. Marinescu is teaching the courses of Foundations of Software Engineering, Advanced Object-Oriented Design and Sofware Quality Assurance for graduate and undergraduate students.
Dr. Marinescu is active in the research fields of quality assurance, software metrics, software evolution and software maintenance, with a special emphasis on object-oriented applications. In 2002 he received a joint PhD ("magna cum
laude") from the Politehnica University of Timisoara and the University of Karlsruhe (Prof. Gerhard
Goos) with a thesis on metrics-based quality assessment. The thesis introduced the concept of detection strategy and developed
a methodology and a
tool for the detection of design flaws in object-oriented systems, based on metrics. As a result of his research, Dr. Marinescu
published more than 20 papers in main international conferences and workshops on software
maintenance, quality, assurance, software evolution. Furthermore his research results on metrics and quality assessment have
been adopted by leading IDEs
such as JBuilder and Together Control Center.
He is co-author of the book entitled Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice (Springer, 2006), currently one of the top-selling books on metrics. In 2006, he received (in a world-wide
competition) an IBM Eclipse Innovation Award ($22,000), for envisioning an enhancement of the Eclipse platform (inCode) that would support programmers with a means of detecting on-the-fly design and code problems. Dr.
Marinescu is also co-author of the iPlasma platform for software analysis and
reengineering.
Over the last years he served in the program committees of the
major conferences related to quality assurance, metrics and maintenance. In 2010 he will be the General Chair of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), which is the premier world-wide event in software
maintenance. In the last years he has been repeatedly invited by the European Commission to serve as a reviewer for the metrics-related
EU FP6 projects.
Since 1997 he has been constantly involved in consultancy projects for several leading European companies such as: Nokia,
Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens VDO
Automotive, Telelogic and Océ.
