Cristina-Sorina Stângaciu is a university lecturer at the Department of Computers and Information Technology at Politehnica University of Timișoara and a research engineer at the DSPLabs research laboratory. Her doctoral research focused on energy-efficient real-time scheduling on embedded systems.
In general, Cristina's research areas and interests cover embedded and real-time hardware-software systems, real-time and mixed-criticality scheduling algorithms, the Internet of Things (IoT), and energy management in embedded devices. Her teaching activities include, among other topics, subjects such as data structures and algorithms, operating systems for IoT, and real-time systems design.
Cristina has been part of several grant-funded research and development projects, some of which represent collaborations with industry — Continental Automotive and Movidius. These projects have covered areas such as advanced multimedia applications on multi-core architectures for mobile phones, time- and energy-efficient interoperability of smart devices, and high-performance cloud platforms.