Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Dumitru-Bogdan Prelipcean
PhD in Computer Science | Manager, Core Threat Protection & Intelligence | Teaching Assistant
🎓 Education
PhD in Computer Science | September 2025
Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), Créteil, France
- Duration: 2020 - September 2025
- Dissertation: “Applications of Formal Methods to Malware Detection”
- Research Focus: Formal verification, cybersecurity, automated threat detection
- Status: Successfully Defended ✅
“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
- Duration: 2011 - 2013
- Specialization: Information Security
- Focus: Advanced cryptography, network security, malware analysis
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science | 2011
“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
- Duration: 2008 - 2011
- Major: Computer Science
- Focus Areas: Software Engineering, Algorithms, Cybersecurity Fundamentals
💼 Professional Experience
Manager, Core Threat Protection & Intelligence | January 2025 - Present
Bitdefender - Iași, Romania
- Strategic Leadership: Lead core threat protection technology initiatives and intelligence operations
- Team Management: Oversee multi-disciplinary teams in threat research and product development
- Innovation Strategy: Drive next-generation threat detection system development
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with product development, engineering, and security research teams
- Industry Expertise: Provide technical leadership for enterprise and consumer security products
Senior Team Lead, Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab | November 2014 - January 2025
Bitdefender - Iași, Romania (10 years 3 months)
- Team Leadership: Led world-class threat intelligence and detection research team
- Technical Expertise: Mentored colleagues and built high-performing teams across technical and managerial roles
- Advanced Detection Systems:
- Developed heuristic detections from generic signatures to ML-based systems
- Built exception engine for improving detection usability
- Created detection engines for non-executable files (JS, VBS, Java bytecode)
- Pioneered file-less attack detection and pre-execution protection systems
- Developed Command Line analysis engine for PowerShell-based threats
- Infrastructure Innovation:
- Designed lightweight antimalware scanner and cloud-based detection framework
- Built caching module for cross-platform correlation framework
- Implemented communication between antimalware scanner and correlation framework
- Developed detection component for security analytics engine based on Apache Flink
- Research & Development: Integrated state-of-the-art technologies and provided technical expertise to EU-funded projects
- Impact: Systems protect millions of users worldwide with excellent results in independent tests
Teaching Assistant | October 2019 - Present
Faculty of Computer Science, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași (6 years 1 month)
- Courses Taught:
- Advanced Programming (Java)
- Formal Languages, Automata and Compilers
- Information Security
- Mobile Application Development
- Student Impact: Mentor undergraduate and graduate students in cybersecurity and software development
- Curriculum Development: Contribute to modern cybersecurity education programs
Teaching Collaborator | October 2013 - October 2019
Faculty of Computer Science, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași (6 years 1 month)
- Courses:
- Advanced Programming Techniques (Java) - practical works
- Android Programming - practical works
- Formal Languages, Automata and Compilers - seminars
- Educational Innovation: Developed hands-on learning modules and practical exercises
- Total Teaching Experience: 12 years 1 month in academic instruction
Malware Researcher | June 2009 - October 2014
Bitdefender - Iași, Romania (5 years 5 months)
- Core Research:
- Advanced malware analysis and reverse engineering
- Development of heuristic detection algorithms
- Fast detection response and threat analysis
- Android malware analysis and detection systems
- Innovation: Researched and developed auto-updating machine learning systems for malware detection
- Foundation: Established expertise in threat detection that formed the basis for future leadership roles
🔬 Research Areas
- Formal Verification: Mathematical approaches to system security validation
- Machine Learning in Security: AI/ML applications for threat detection
- Cloud Security: Scalable security architectures for cloud environments
- Malware Analysis: Advanced persistent threats and evasion techniques
- Threat Intelligence: Automated threat discovery and classification
🏆 Selected Achievements
- PhD Completion: Successfully defended doctoral dissertation (September 2025)
- Leadership Excellence: Promoted to Manager role after 16+ years of technical and team leadership at Bitdefender
- Industry Impact: Led development of detection systems protecting millions of users worldwide
- Academic Contributions: 9 peer-reviewed publications in international conferences and journals
- Teaching Excellence: 12+ years of academic instruction in cybersecurity and software development
- EU Research Leadership: Technical expertise provider for multiple EU-funded cybersecurity projects (CONCORDIA, HEIR)
- Innovation Recognition: Pioneered file-less attack detection and cloud-based security frameworks
- Team Building: Successfully mentored teams and individuals from technical roles to management positions
🌐 International Collaboration
European Research Projects
- Technical Coordinator: CONCORDIA - Cybersecurity Competence Network
- Key Contributor: HEIR - Cybersecurity Skills Framework
- Research Partner: Various EU Framework Programme projects
Industry Partnerships
- Technology Transfer: Academic-industry knowledge exchange programs
- Consulting: Security architecture reviews for enterprise clients
- Standards Development: Contribution to cybersecurity standards and best practices
🌍 Languages
- Romanian: Native or Bilingual
- English: Full Professional Proficiency
- French: Limited Working Proficiency
- German: Elementary Proficiency
💡 Core Competencies
Technical Leadership
- Team Management: 10+ years leading technical teams and research initiatives
- Software Development: Full-stack development and system architecture
- Information Security: Advanced threat detection, malware analysis, and security system design
Specialized Expertise
- Formal Verification: Mathematical approaches to system security validation
- Machine Learning in Security: AI/ML applications for advanced threat detection
- Cloud Security: Scalable security architectures for distributed environments
- Threat Intelligence: Automated threat discovery, analysis, and response systems
Research & Development
- Apache Flink: Security analytics engine development
- Detection Systems: From signature-based to ML-powered threat detection
- Mobile Security: Android malware analysis and protection systems
- Academic-Industry Bridge: Translating research into production security systems
Publications
Barat, Marius and Prelipcean, Dumitru Bogdan and Gavrilut, Dragos Teodor, "An automatic updating perceptron-based system for malware detection." 2013 15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, pages 303-307, IEEE, 2013.
Barat, Marius and Prelipcean, Dumitru-Bogdan and Gavriluț, Dragoș Teodor, "A study on common malware families evolution in 2012." Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques, vol. 9, no. 4, pages 171-178, Springer Paris, 2013.
Barat, Marius and Prelipcean, Dumitru Bogdan and Gavrilut, Dragos Teodor, "A practical approach on cleaning-up large data sets." 2014 16th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, pages 280-284, IEEE, 2014.
Prelipcean, Dumitru Bogdan and Popescu, Adrian Stefan and Gavrilut, Dragos Teodor, "Improving malware detection response time with behavior-based statistical analysis techniques." 2015 17th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), pages 232-239, IEEE, 2015.
Popescu, Adrian Stefan and Prelipcean, Dumitru Bogdan and Gavrilut, Dragos Teodor, "A study on techniques for proactively identifying malicious urls." 2015 17th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), pages 204-211, IEEE, 2015.
Vitel, Silviu Constantin and Balan, Gheorghe and Prelipcean, Dumitru Bogdan, "Improving detection of malicious office documents using one-side classifiers." 2019 21st International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), pages 243-247, IEEE, 2019.
Bucevschi, Alexandru Gabriel and Balan, Gheorghe and Prelipcean, Dumitru Bogdan, "Preventing file-less attacks with machine learning techniques." 2019 21st International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC), pages 248-252, IEEE, 2019.
Smyrlis, Michail and Floros, Evangelos and Basdekis, Ioannis and Prelipcean, Dumitru-Bogdan and Sotiropoulos, Aristeidis and Debar, Herve and Zarras, Apostolis and Spanoudakis, George, "RAMA: a risk assessment solution for healthcare organizations." International Journal of Information Security, vol. 23, no. 3, pages 1821-1838, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2024.
Prelipcean, Dumitru-Bogdan and Dima, Cătălin, "Bridging Threat Models and Detections: Formal Verification via CADP." arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.13035, 2025.
Teaching
Projects
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