Codruț Stancu, PhD

Principal Researcher, Oracle Labs

Bio

I am a Researcher at Oracle Labs, working on program analysis and optimization techniques. I received my PhD from the University of California, Irvine, working under the guidance of Prof. Michael Franz in his Secure Systems and Software Laboratory.

My research interests are in the area of Programming Languages Design and Implementation with a focus on Program Analysis. I am currently a core contributor of GraalVM.

Peer Reviewed Publications

• Christoph Blumschein, Fabio Niephaus, Codrut Stancu, Christian Wimmer, Jens Lincke, and Robert Hirschfeld: Finding Cuts in Static Analysis Graphs to Debloat Software. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA). ACM Press, 2024. doi:10.1145/3650212.3680306

• Christian Wimmer, Codrut Stancu, David Kozak, and Thomas Würthinger: Scaling Type-Based Points-to Analysis with Saturation. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Languages Design and Implementation (PLDI). ACM Press, 2024. doi:10.1145/3656417
  • Presentation by Codrut Stancu at PLDI 2024
• David Kozak, Vojin Jovanovic, Codrut Stancu, Tomáš Vojnar, and Christian Wimmer: Comparing Rapid Type Analysis with Points-To Analysis in GraalVM Native Image. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR), pages 129–142. ACM Press, 2023. doi:10.1145/3617651.3622980
  • Presentation by David Kozak at MPLR 2023
• Christian Wimmer, Codrut Stancu, Peter Hofer, Vojin Jovanovic, Paul Wögerer, Peter B. Kessler, Oleg Pliss, and Thomas Würthinger: Initialize once, start fast: application initialization at build time.. In Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (OOPSLA), Article 184, ACM Press, 2019. doi:10.1145/3360610
  • Presentation by Christian Wimmer at OOPSLA 2019
• Codrut Stancu, Christian Wimmer, Stefan Brunthaler, Per Larsen, Michael Franz: Safe and Efficient Hybrid Memory Management for Java. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), pages 81–92. ACM Press, 2015. doi:10.1145/2754169.2754185
  • Presentation by Christian Wimmer at JVMLS 2015

• Codrut Stancu, Christian Wimmer, Stefan Brunthaler, Per Larsen, Michael Franz: Comparing Points-to Static Analysis with Runtime Recorded Profiling Data. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming on the Java Platform: Virtual Machines, Languages, and Tools (PPPJ), pages 157–168. ACM Press, 2014. doi:10.1145/2647508.2647524

• Codrut Stancu, Luis Bathen, Nikil Dutt, Alex Nicolau: AVid: Annotation Driven Video Decoding for Hybrid Memories. In Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Embedded Systems for Real-time Multimedia (ESTIMedia), pages 2–11. IEEE, 2012. doi:10.1109/ESTIMedia.2012.6507022

Workshops

• Hybrid Memory Management for Java; The SoCal Programing Languages and Systems Workshop; Presentation; University of California, San Diego; December 2014.

• Exploiting Variability for Processor/Memory Power Savings; Variability Expedition NSF Site Visit; Poster Presentation; University of California, San Diego; October 2011

Awards and Honors

• Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, Chair’s Fellowship, 2010-2013
• Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, University of Bologna, 2009

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science (Systems Software), University of California, Irvine, 2010 - 2015, Advisor: Michael Franz

• M.S. in Computer Science (Systems Software), University of California, Irvine, 2010 - 2012, Advisors: Nikil Dutt & Alex Nicolau

• B.S. in Computer Science, University of Craiova, Romania, 2005 - 2009

Professional

• Researcher, Oracle Labs, Redwood City, CA, since July 2015
• Research Assistant, Oracle Labs, Redwood City, CA, 2013-2015
• Research Engineer Intern, Mozilla Labs, Mountain View, CA, Summer 2012
• Software Engineer, Caphyon Ltd., Craiova, Romania, 2009-2010
• Software Engineer, IT Six Global Services, Craiova, Romania, 2007-2009