Bogdan Nicolae
Computer Scientist at University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBogdan Nicolae is a computer scientist with 15 years of experience specializing in scalable storage, data management, and resilience for extreme-scale and cloud architectures. He designs and implements high-performance distributed storage and I/O systems, currently advancing extreme-scale data management at Argonne National Laboratory while holding research roles at the University of Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology. His work spans academia and industry—from a PhD project that produced BlobSeer to research at INRIA, IBM, and Huawei—bridging theoretical research with practical systems engineering. Bogdan focuses on checkpoint-restart efficiency, versioned concurrent access, virtualization-aware storage, and high availability, often targeting the unique I/O patterns of cloud and HPC deployments. Based in Chicago, he combines deep parallel/distributed computing expertise with a track record of turning research prototypes into influential tools and publications.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Université de Rennes IPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Romanian, English, German, French
Github Skills (86)
python10
windows10
multiple-versions10
scientific-computing10
linux10
checkpointing10
macos10
build-tools10
package-manager10
spack10
hpc10
raspberry10
configurations10
linux-kernel9
armv89
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bnicolae/bnicolae.github.io
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:36 pushes in 4 years 8 months
ECP-VeloC/ECP-ST-CAR-PUBLIC
Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
The Exascale Computing Project Software Technologies Capability Assessment Report - Public Version
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 2 months
exascale-computingtechnologiesexascalereportsoftware-technologies
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