Marc Frincu is a professor of distributed systems and applied big data teaching modules related to big data technologies, graphics and user interfaces and academic writing. He is working on cutting-edge topics related to cloud computing, smart grids, and Applied Big Data (astronomy, digital heritage, renewables, earth observation, XR). He is an IEEE Senior member. He received his PhD from UVT in 2011 working on Adaptive Scheduling for Distributed Systems. He successfully defended his habilitation thesis in March 2017. As a result, he can now officially advise Ph.D. students in Romania. Previously, he was a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University UK (2020-2023). Between 2012-2015 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Strasbourg in France and later a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Southern California working with Prof. Viktor Prasanna on smart grids and clouds. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Association (FHEA) UK.
Marc co-authored over 80 articles in conferences and journals (many as single or first author) including IPDPS, ICDCS, CCGrid, IEEE TPDS, Future Generation Computing Systems, Springer Computing, and Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. He also served as PC member in many of the aforementioned conferences and journals. He serves as guest co-editor in two special issues related to Big Data and cloud systems in Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, and the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Over the years he has established collaborations with researchers on 5 continents. He also participated/participates as a member and manager in numerous EU and national (ANR France, RO UEFISCDI, US DoE and DARPA) funded projects. He acted as PI/local coordinator in 5 research funded R&D projects.
He is also interested in cultural astronomy, researching and promoting the skies of ancient cultures. He is president of the Romanian Society for Cultural Astronomy (SRPAC) and a fellow of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC). Since 2023 he also serves as the secretary of SEAC. He has published 2 books, 2 edited books and several articles in this field some with colleagues from Romania, Serbia, Armenia, and Mexico.