Lucian Cojocar
Platform Architect
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucian Cojocar is a Platform Architect with 17 years of experience bridging low-level systems engineering, firmware analysis, and security research. He combines deep C and ARM assembly expertise with practical OS internals knowledge—honed through kernel and VM projects like VMXL4 and teaching operating systems at university. His PhD and postdoctoral work focused on dynamic analysis of embedded devices, including prototyping symbolic-execution techniques to uncover firmware vulnerabilities as IoT adoption grows. Lucian has moved between industry and research at Intel, Microsoft and Qualcomm, bringing a pragmatic, hardware-centric perspective to platform security and architecture. Colleagues value his hands-on curiosity—he often disassembles embedded systems to understand and harden their weakest layers.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, Master of Science - MS, Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems at Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology"Decebal" High School, Constanța
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Github Skills (56)
x869
cpu9
glibc9
x86-649
arm8
mips8
reverse-engineering8
unicorn8
security8
powerpc8
s390x8
checker7
klee7
sparc7
symbolic-execution6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cojocar/bin2llvm
May 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 11 months
cojocar/mag-rw
May 2009 - May 2009
Contributions:19 commits in 25 days
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