Hello! I am

Radu Nicolae

About me

About me

Dream. Work. Succeed!

7 Official Websites completed

Education

Academic

2022 - ongoing

Honours Bachelor's Computer Science

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is a leading research university, ranked in top 125 worldwide by the prestigious Times Higher Education 2024. I am in the third year of the Computer Science BSc, currently Cum Laude, with a top 8% GPA. Conducting scientific research with AtLarge Research Team and taking extra courses, part of the Honours Programme, split between Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Universiteit van Amsterdam.

2018 - 2022

Baccalaureate Diploma

"Saint Sava" National College

I studied at the best high school in Romania mathematics-informatics profile.

I sustained the Baccalaureate Exam at Mathematics, Physics, Romanian, Digital Competences and English and obtained the average mark of 9.48 (top 7%).

Courses

Jun 2024 - ongoing

GenAI Bootcamp

Databricks

Participating in a bootcamp focused on AI, ML, and Data Science, organized by Databricks. Focused on data at scale, data lakes, orchestration, pipelines, ML & GenAI tools, with top researchers, contributors, and leads giving workshops, talks, and insights.

Jul 2023 - Aug 2023

Deep Learning Specialization

Stanford University x DeeplearningAI x Coursera

5-course deep learning specialization, completed with a grade of 93%, over 17 weeks, organized by Stanford University and coursera. The specialization was taught by Dr. Andrew Ng, professor at Stanford and co-founder of Coursera and DeepLearning.AI. Through 25 practical projects, I learned about Neural Networks, CNNs, RNNs, Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization, Sequence Models, and other advanced aspects of ML/DL. link to certification.

Jun 2021 - Sep 2021

Web Programming with Python and JavaScript

Harvard CS50

The course covers the following chapters: HTML, CSS, Git, Python, Django, MySQL, Javascript, User Interfaces, Testing and Scalability and Security.

Apr 2021 - Jun 2021

Pre-University Calculus

TU Delft

Final Grade 91%.

Mar 2020 - Nov 2020

Java Courses

Jademy - Oracle Silver Partner

Graduated with the final grade of excellent and gained deep knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming, Coding Style principles, Data Structures, Collections, Exceptions, JDBC, MySQL, Multithreading, Design Patterns, Functional Programming, Java FX.

Research

May 2023 - ongoing

Scientific Researcher in Computer Systems

@Large Research x VU Amsterdam

Scientific Research towards massiving computer systems, making (distributed) computer systems scalable, reliable, and performant, focusing on datacenter simulation, cloud computing, and ICT digital twins. Our team represents the largest proportion of the Computer Systems research output in the Netherlands.

Teaching

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Course Coordinator (May 2023 - ongoing)
Hiring and coordinating teams of 20-30 teaching assistants, teaching cohorts of 350 students, giving lectures, tutorials, and seminars, creating theoretical and practical course materials, preparing assignments, and creating exams.
  • Computer Organization (2024, 2025)
  • Computer Programming (2023, 2024)
  • Computational Thinking (2023)
Teaching Assistant (Aug 2023 - Oct 2023)

Taught seminars and graded assignments for Data Structures and Algorithms (course for Artificial Intelligence Bachelors).

Student Ambassador (Oct 2022 - ongoing)

Giving future Computer Science students an overall view of what this domain involves, emphasizing excellent organization, communication, and presentation skills, alongside teamwork abilities for collaboration.

Mar 2023 - Mar 2024

Programming Trainer

Logiscool Amsterdam

Empowering future programmers, aged 8-14, with the fundamentals of software development and algorithmic thinking, fostering a solution-oriented mindset that prepares them for success in the computer science industry.

May 2020 - Oct 2021

Trainer Internship

Jademy - Oracle Silver Partner

I structured, created and implemented a 25 module front end course containg notions and exercises of Javascript, HTML and CSS for Jademy - Oracle Silver Partner. The course can be found here. I also participated as a trainer assistant at Java Courses.

Engineering

Jun 2024 - ongoing

Technology Developer

Network Institute

The Network Institute is hub for interdisciplinary research at VU Amsterdam. Currently founding "Code for Humanity" and building research tools.

Nov 2022 - May 2023

Healthcare Data Science and Front-End

Oxaigen

Oxaigen is a company working towards revolutionizing healthcare and ICU activities using AI. I developed medical applications using React, GraphQL, Strawberry, Python, and PostgreSQL, API endpoints using Python and Strawberry, data charts using D3js and Javascript, oxaigen.com website using Webflow and Relume, including animations and responsiveness, SEO optimization.

Oct 2019 - Jun 2023

Front-End Developer

Github

Github is the platform where I upload all my projects.

Other

Robotics

Oct 2019 - Jun 2021

National Robotics Team Member

Autovortex

Autovortex is the national robotics team, representing Romania in one of the biggest international contest of robotics, FIRST Tech Challenge.

Principal activities: robot designing, construction and programming.

Earned Awards:

  • 1st place at FIRST Tech Challenge Russia 2021 - April 2021
  • 1st place at FIRST Tech Challenge Russia 2020 - February 2020
  • 1st place at FIRST Tech Challenge Russia 2019 - December 2019
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019

Team Leader

Gamma Robotics

Gamma is my high school's robotics team and we participated at the international contest FIRST Tech Challenge.

I was team leader and driver during the season. We passed the regional stage and we competed against the best robotics teams in Romania in the national stage.

Achievements

Top 8%

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, BSc Computer Science, GPA Top 8%, Cum Laude, and Honours

1st place

FIRST Tech Challenge (Robotics) Russia
- April 2021,
-February 2020,
-December 2019

Volunteering

2020

Volunteer

Red Cross Bucharest

Contact

Contact Me!

LinkedIn

@rnicolae

City

Amsterdam, The Netherands