Dr. Alin Anton

I was interviewed after improving the cost-efficiency of the drinkable water pumping systems in my hometown. The research contract BC27/27.03.2018 lasted until December 2018, so I made efforts in my spare time together with Dr. Eng. Adrian Cococeanu in order to figure out a better strategy for daytime and night-time AMF500 pump function.

"Software Module for Efficiency Assessment of the Hydraulic Pumps in Service for Drinkable Water Systems" where I worked as project director @ Uni.

Research Contract between Politehnica University Timisoara and SC AQUATIM SA

Short list: computer security, computational science and engineering, large-scale high performance numerical computing, supercomputing, numerical simulations, computational fluid dynamics, privacy engineering, free (libre) software, social and ethical implications of technology, reverse engineering, anonymity, covert communication, subversive and disruptive technology;

I'm a computer security, privacy and free software fanatic, with a proven interdisciplinary record track in computational fluid dynamics and scientific computing.

I like programming, computational science and engineering, large-scale high performance numerical computing & supercomputing, numerical simulations, computational fluid dynamics, privacy engineering, free (libre) software, social and ethical implications of computer technology, reverse engineering, more reverse engineering, tough operating system and general security problems, anonymity, covert communication, subversive and disruptive technology... the good news is I'm still with the Jedi 100%. If you think I can help or want to join forces in an interesting project let me know!

Backtracking, greedy, dynamic programming, linked lists. Paragidmes for solving problems.

Robert Sedgewick's books are the classic source for my course. We study performance analysis, algorithm profiling and algorithm engineering; the implementation of graphs and search trees.

Romanian language "Ethics and Academic Integrity. Technoethics"

Proven, solid interdisciplinary experience. I am an IT guy. My PhD thesis is titled "Space-Time Window Reconstruction in Parallel High Performance Numerical Simulations: Application for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)" where I showed, for the first time, that it is possible to capture space-time boundary conditions for regions of interest in big data numerical CFD simulations for later reconstruction on commodity hardware.

My PhD thesis is freely available here.

I also created Bunker jails, a hardened jail version on BSD (an isolation enhancement for lightweight secure virtualization devices on some unix operating systems). This allows for any Internet service daemon, including a web server, to be connected to the world from within a highly compact and secured environment without using network sockets directly. This is controlled at system call level in the host operating system only allowing for unix sockets (files) to work (basically a system call firewall running on the host and enabled on a per jail basis). This allows for a software implementation of the Bell-LaPadula security model which nowadays I study at hardware level using data diodes.

My article on Bunker jails is freely available on Research Outreach or directly downloadable here and here.

1. Alin Anton, Adrian Cococeanu, and Sebastian Muntean. 2022. "Software for Monitoring the In-Service Efficiency of Hydraulic Pumps" Applied Sciences 12, no. 22: 11450. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122211450

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2. Alin Anton, Sebastian Muntean, Romeo F. Susan-Resiga, SWIRL2D: An interface tracking algorithm for computing the two-dimensional swirling flows with stagnant region, Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Volume 17, Number 4/2016, pp. 366–373, ISSN 1454-9069, WOS:000394189900012.

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3. Alin Anton, Vladimir-Ioan Creţu, Albert Ruprecht, Sebastian Muntean, Traffic Replay Compression (TRC): a highly efficient method for handling parallel numerical simulation data, Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Volume 14, Number 4/2013, pp. 385–392, ISSN 1454-9069, WOS:000328441500016.

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4. Alin Anton, Razvan Cioarga, Bunkers: Jail Application Level Firewall for the Mitigation and Identification of Service Takeover Attacks on HardenedBSD, ESORICS 2019 International Workshops, IOSec, MSTEC, and FINSEC, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, in conjunction with the 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), September 26–27, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42051-2.

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5. Alin Anton, Reconstruction of a space-time window in a transient simulation of the breaking of a dam, In Proc. of the 6th Intern. Symp. on Applied Comp. Intel. and Inform. (Timisoara, May 2011), pp. 335–340.

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6. Alin Anton, Vladimir Cretu, Fast algorithm for the extraction of a space-time window in finite volume meshes, In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (Timisoara, May 2011), pp. 327–330.

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