Florin Ciucu was educated at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest (B.Sc. in Informatics, 1998), George Mason University (M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2001), and University of Virginia (Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2007). Between 2007 and 2008 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Currently he is a Senior Research Scientist at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories. His research interests are in the stochastic analysis of communication networks, resource allocation, and randomized algorithms. Florin is a recipient of the ACM Sigmetrics 2005 Best Student Paper Award.