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Education

Bachelor’s, Computer Science and Physics, Harvard University, 2021
- High Honors in Computer Science
- Highest Honors for Senior Thesis
Cross-registration, MIT, Computer Science, 2021
Summer School, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Economics, 2018

Awards

Undergraduate:
- The Weissman International Internship Award, 2019
- David Rockefeller International Experience Award, 2018
High School, Moldova:
- The National Chemistry Olympiad, Moldova, 2017, 3rd Prize
- National Chemistry Selection for the International Chemistry Olympiad, 2016, 1st Prize
- MoldSEF National Science and Engineering Fair, 2016, 3rd Prize
- Diamond Challenge, 2016, 3rd Prize
- The National Chemistry Olympiad, Moldova, Honorable Mention.
- The State Physics Olympiad, 2015 3rd Prize
- The State Chemistry Olympiad, 2015 2nd Prize
International Chemistry Olympiad, 2016, Tbilisi, Georgia, Certificate of Participation
International Junior Science Olympiad, 2014, Mendoza, Argentina, Certificate of Participation

Work experience

February 2022 - present : Software Engineer
- Zipline International, Spatial Planning, South San Francisco, CA
  - Define system requirements for route planning, given population, ground obstacles, and terrain data
  - Collaborate with geo-spatial team on evaluation of relevant geo-spatial databases
  - Support the System Safety Case framework and documentation, and present to regulators
  - Participate in technical discussions with external stakeholders from the industry (i.e. ASTM)
June 2021 - February 2022 : Software Engineer
- Azure Developer Tools, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
  - Built back-end C# featuring and testing solutions for Change Analysis, a tool for cloud resources monitoring and diagnosis
  - Designed and built a rollout deployment infrastructure using Azure pipelines CDPX.
  - Designed and implemented application a timeout solution for deployments on over 20k VM instances
Summer 2020 : Software Engineering Intern
- Azure Developer Tools, , Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
  - Built a Kubernetes support tool for detecting configuration changes on a Kubernetes cluster app.
  - Collaborated with another team to reduce the latency from 3min to 30 sec which enhanced user experience.
  - Designed and implemented an extension tool, that triggers data pulls only upon changes of the app environment, which helped the team save 25% of memory storage
Summer 2019: Software Engineering, Member of the ATLAS Group, CERN
- European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
  - Ran testing simulations for the New Small Wheel of the Large Hadron Collider.
  - Built software for data transmission via FPGA of high-speed particle signals.
- Supervisor: Professor John Huth, Dr. Lawrence Lee

Leadership

Fall 2019: Harvard Undergraduate Aeronautics Club, Board, Software, Cambridge, MA
- Prospective participant in the Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI) Competition, 2020.
- Built, designed, and tested a search and path-planning algorithm for an unmanned quadcopter flight, accounting for camera and geographic parameters.
- Managed to boost the automation score and performance for the flight by 2x
Fall 2019: WECode (Women Engineers Code) 2019 Conference, Programming Director, Cambridge, MA
- Built a community of technical women at Harvard through organizing the annual WECode Conference.
- Invited guest speakers and plan the panels on different areas of the applications of Computer Science.
- Approved the budget and the operations for the conference and set the strategic objectives of the organization.
- Solicited potential sponsors for the event which impacted more than 500 US undergraduate women
Fall 2018: Project Manager of the Welcome Project, Cambridge, MA
- Led a team of 5 engineers in setting up a salesforce database for a nonprofit which provides services for immigrants.
- Developed a website which will allowed TWP management to direct resources towards immigrant families.
- Grew my technical and leadership expertise in data management while focusing on positive social change.

Other Leadership Positions

Romanian Association (Co-President)

Research

The effects of Caloric restriction on the Biological Indices of Homeostasis

Rotaru, A., Tataru, E. (2016). "The effects of Caloric restriction on the Biological Indices of Homeostasis"

Angiotensin 1-7 blunts in vitro induced acute heart failure

Cobet, V., Rotaru, A., et al., (2017). Angiotensin 1-7 blunts in vitro induced acute heart failure. European Journal of Heart Failure, 19 (S1), 597. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.833

Coronary response in doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy

Cobet, V., Rotaru, A., et al. (2017). Coronary response in doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy. European Journal of Heart Failure, 19 (S1), 165. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.833

Vanhoutte and Bowditch phenomena in heart failure: their relation to ischemia-reperfusion impact

Tacu, L., Rotaru, A., et al. (2018). Vanhoutte and Bowditch phenomena in heart failure: their relation to ischemia-reperfusionimpact. European Journal of Heart Failure, 20 (S1), 335. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.1197

Embedded Dense Neural Networks for Battery Cyclability Prediction on Automotive Microcontroller Devices

Rotaru, A. (2021). "Embedded Dense Neural Networks for Battery Cyclability Prediction on Automotive Microcontroller Devices" Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication

Adriana Rotaru

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