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Marin Litoiu

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School of Information Technology

Professor

Office: 3047 Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building (DB)
(Formerly known as Technology Enhanced
Learning Building)
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 20987
Email: mlitoiu@yorku.ca
Primary website: https://marinlitoiu.info.yorku.ca/

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Marin Litoiu is a Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in the School of Information Technology, York University. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Home page at marinlitoiu.info.yorku.ca

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Marin Litoiu is a Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in the School of Information Technology, York University. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Litoiu leads the Adaptive Software Research Lab and focuses on making large software systems more versatile, resilient, energy-efficient, self-healing and self-optimizing. His research won many awards including the IBM Canada CAS Research Project of the Year Award, the IBM CAS Faculty Fellow of the Year Award for his “impact on IBM people, processes and technology,” three Best Paper Awards and two Most Influential Paper Awards. Prior to joining York University, Dr. Litoiu was a Research Staff member with the Centre for Advanced Studies in the IBM Toronto Lab where he led the research programs in software engineering and autonomic computing. He received the Canada NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation in recognition for these collaborative university/industry activities. He was also recipient of the IBM Outstanding Technical Contribution Award for his research vision on Cloud Computing. Dr. Litoiu is one of the founders of the SEAMS Symposium series—ACM/IEEE Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems. He has been the General Chair of SEAMS in 2013 and 2019, General Chair of IEEE ACSOS 2023, Program Chair of SEAMS, ICPE and CASCON, and serves on the steering committees of SEAMS, ACSOS, ICPE and CASCON. Dr. Litoiu is also the Scientific Director of "Dependable Internet of Things Applications (DITA)," an NSERC CREATE program.

Career Highlights
Director of Research, Dependable Internet of Things Applications(DITA)
Graduate Program Director, Information Systems and Technology (IST)
Founder and Chief Scientist of Bitnobi Inc.
Senior Research Staff Member with Centre for Advanced Studies(CAS), IBM Toronto Lab, (see his "The Four Pillars of CAS" article about CAS collaboration model and his time with IBM)
Director of Research for Centre of Excellence for Research in Adaptive Systems (CERAS)
Chair of the Board of Directors for Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER)
Other past jobs: Assistant Professor, University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania); Visiting Scientist, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunia (Spain).

Degrees

PhD, Carleton University
PhD Control Systems, University Politechnica of Bucharest
MSc Field of Electrical Engineering, University of Craiova, Romania

Appointments

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Professional Leadership

2022- to date Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
2023-2024 Member the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) New Directions Award Committee
2022-2023 Member the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) Distinguished Service Award Committee
2021-2022 Chair of the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) Distinguished Service Award Committee
2015-2018 Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE)
2014-2020 Member at-large of IEEE Conference Advisory Committee (CAC), IEEE Computer Science Society
2009-2012 Member of NSERC Strategic Projects Committee

Research Interests

Cloud native software development, Software engineering, adaptive and autonomic software systems, Cloud computing, Internet of Things, AI for Learning Enabled Systems