Short Bio. 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).
Awards and Recognitions
- 2023, Accolades from Lassonde School of Engineering for being named on Stanford’s top 2% of the world’s top researcher list
- Most Influential Paper Award, CASCON 2022, for “Partitioning Applications for Hybrid and Federated Clouds CASCON 2012” published at CASCON, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2012
- Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, 2021, for "outstanding achievements and service to the engineering profession in Canada and around the world."
- York President Research Leadership Award, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
- IBM Faculty of the Year Award, for "his outstanding scientific and technical abilities and for delivering innovation that matters," 2020
- Most Influential Paper Award, CASCON 2019, for “Resource Provisioning for Cloud Computing” published at CASCON, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2009
- Best Paper Award, “Enabling DevOps for Containerized Data-Intensive Applications: An Exploratory Study,” International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2016
- Best Demo Award, “A DevOps Architecture for Continuous Delivery of Containerized Cloud Applications,” International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering(CASCON), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2016
- Best Paper Award, “A Framework to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Different Load Testing Analysis Techniques,” IEEE International Conference on Software Testing (ICST), Chicago, Illinois, 2016
- Most Influential Paper Award, CASCON 2015, for “Tracking Time-Varying Parameters in Software Systems with Extended Kalman Filters,” published at CASCON, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2005
- 2nd Place Award at the Cloud Cup 2013 for “Pattern-Based Deployment Service (PDS),” IEEE Cloud, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 2013
- Best Paper Award, "A Business Driven Cloud Optimization Architecture," ACM SAC , Sierre, Switherland, 2010
- 3rd Place Award, at the Cloud Cup 2013, “DaaSPatcher,” IEEE Cloud, Santa Barbara, California, SUA, 2013
- 3rd Place Award, at the Cloud Cup 2012, “CloudyMetrics,” IEEE Cloud, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2012
- 2012 York University Merit Award
- 2011 York University Merit Award
- 2010 IBM Faculty Fellow of the Year Award
- 2010 York University Merit Award
- 2009 IBM CAS Project of the Year Award
- 2009 Dean Outstanding Research Award
- 2009 York University Merit Award
- 2008 York University Merit Award
- 2007 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
- 2007 IBM CAS Project of the Year Award
- 2006 NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation, Leo Derikx Award (for CAS team and 12 partner universities)
- 2006 IBM CAS Project of the Year Award
- 2005 IBM Ovation Award
- 2005 IBM Author Recognition Award
- 2004 IBM Author Recognition Award
- 2003 IBM Author Recognition Award
- 2002 IBM Author Recognition Award
- 2002 IBM Author Recognition Award
- 2002 IBM Bravo Award
- 2002 IBM Innovation Award
My Research in the News
- Interview in Occidentul Romanesc (in Romanian)
- York innovation opens the door to decentralized data sharing(ASCEND Magazine)
- Leviathan (in Romanian)
- YFile article on being elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
- Observatorul (in Romanian)
- Canadian Consulting Engineers Magazine
- YFile article on DITA Program
- Communication of the ACM- News
- York Research Profile
- 2010 IBM Faculty of the Year Award
- IBM/OCE Press Release on TaaS
- An YFile Profile
- IEEE Software Interview
- IT World Article on TaaS
- 2009 IBM Project of the Year Award
My hobbies
I like travelling...(Taj Mahal)
soccer and skiing..(Banff, Canada)
