Daniel Danciu

Daniel Danciu has an extensive work experience spanning over multiple companies and roles. Daniel is currently working as the CTO at Cradle Bio since March 2022. Prior to that, they worked as a Software Engineer at ETH Zürich from October 2019 to February 2022.

Before joining ETH Zürich, Daniel served as the CTO at Daedalean AI from March 2018 to August 2019, and as the Head Of Software Development from April 2017 to March 2018. Daniel also worked at Google as a Senior Staff Software Engineer from February 2005 to March 2017.

Daniel co-founded Delsyne Software in 2000, where they served as a Co-Founder until 2003. Daniel started their professional career as an Assistant Professor at Transilvania University, teaching lectures in Algorithms, Data Structures, and Programming. During their time there, they introduced the first computerized evaluation system for students to eliminate human bias.

Overall, Daniel Danciu's work experience demonstrates their expertise in software engineering, leadership, and academia, with a focus on biomedical informatics and algorithm development.

Daniel Danciu began their education in 1988 and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Genetic Algorithms from Universitatea "Babeș-Bolyai" din Cluj-Napoca in 2004. Prior to that, they earned a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Applied Mathematics from Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov in 1998, and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Computer Science from the same institution in 1997.

During their high school years from 1989 to 1993, Daniel attended Colegiul Național de Informatică "Gr. Moisil" Brașov, but no degree or field of study is specified for this period.

In terms of additional certifications, Daniel obtained several certifications in different areas of bioinformatics from Coursera, including "Finding Mutations in DNA and Proteins (Bioinformatics VI)" in January 2020, "Molecular Evolution (Bioinformatics IV) (with Honors)" in November 2019, "Comparing Genes, Proteins, and Genomes (Bioinformatics III) (with Honors)" in October 2019, "Genome Sequencing (Bioinformatics II) (with Honors)" in October 2019, "Genomic Data Science and Clustering (Bioinformatics V) (with Honors)" in October 2019, and "Finding Hidden Messages in DNA (Bioinformatics I) (with Honors)" in September 2019.