Adrian Nenu
PHD Candidate
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdrian Nenu is a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Manchester with 11 years of engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems, graph analytics, and ML-powered production services at Morgan Stanley and Google. He blends research-grade expertise in reinforcement learning and reasoning with hands-on systems work—having built planet-scale monitoring and generative LLM orchestration components in production. Raised in Romania and trained in the UK (with further studies at MIT and Oxford programmes), he brings a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary approach to connecting theory to systems that scale. Outside research he helps shape the research software ecosystem as a trustee of the Society of Research Software Engineering and through leadership roles in IEEE, where he focuses on sustainable collaboration and volunteer-led platform governance. An engineer who still tweets the playful credo “computo, ergo sum,” he combines entrepreneurial roots as a former CTO with a taste for pragmatic, reproducible AI systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at The University of ManchesterArtificial Intelligence Programme Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Programme Artificial Intelligence at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordMicromasters Statistics and Data Science, Micromasters Statistics and Data Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Business Analytics, Master of Science - MS Business Analytics at University of Bath"Nicolae Balcescu" National College, Romania
Github Skills (122)
apps-script10
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prefetch10
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php-library10
google-workspace10
javascript10
seo10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
simonellistonball/hive-azuretables
Dec 2015 - Feb 2023
Connector between Hive and Azure Tables
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 7 years 3 months
connectorazure-tableshiveazure
nenuadrian/Secret-Republic-Hacking-Browser-Game-V3
Feb 2018 - Sep 2022
Secret Republic Hacker simulation ORPG - browser based PHP AND MySQL, text & image futuristic open-source game
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 160 commits in 4 years 8 months
image-textgamesimulationsecret-republicphp-based
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