Denial-of-service resistance, authentication protocols, GSM network security and scalable content distribution.
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Curriculum vitae
Valer Bocan, PhD, CSSLP. Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Politehnica University of Timișoara, and an IEEE Senior Member.
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Education
PhD in Engineering Sciences
2000–2009 · Politehnica University of Timișoara · Doctor în Științe Inginerești
Engineer, five-year diploma
1994–1999 · Politehnica University of Timișoara · Inginer diplomat
Software application analysis and development. Equivalent to an M.Eng.
Credentials
Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional
ISC2 · member 822155 · held since 18 September 2020
Roughly 3,000 holders worldwide, about 50× rarer than the CISSP.
Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy (ALTA)
Admitted for significant impact and contribution to the company’s development.
Experience
Lecturer, Politehnica University of Timișoara
Sep 2021 – present · Faculty of Automation and Computing
- Seven undergraduate and master’s courses in computing, software engineering and subject didactics.
- Supervises semester projects, bachelor’s theses and master’s dissertations.
- Directs and contributes to national and international research (PNCDI IV, EUREKA, COST).
CTO and co-founder, Storya Soft
Jan 2018 – present
- Software development for major telecom industry clients.
- Microservice architectures on document-database backends; security audits of existing codebases.
- Built IPFees and the IPFLang DSL for intellectual-property fee computation across 118 jurisdictions.
Software architect, Canon Romania
Apr 2011 – Jan 2019 · formerly Océ Software Romania
- Rebuilt a monolithic print order-management system as microservices with asynchronous messaging, decoupling it in both time and space.
- Led the rewrite onto Azure: web apps, storage, logic apps, service bus.
- Sat on the multinational working group that defined the Océ Technical Standard for product software security.
- Introduced formal threat analysis across the product lifecycle: data-flow discovery, threat ranking, attack trees, mitigation.
Software analyst, Nokia
Sep 2003 – Apr 2011 · formerly Alcatel-Lucent
- Designed AnaQoS, a GSM performance analyser reading raw OMC files, used by hundreds of radio network engineers across every continent.
- Co-designed AMT, a tool for GSM and other network architecture with graphical topology and transport capacity estimation.
- Introduced .NET development to Alcatel-Lucent Romania.
- Published the GSM denial-of-service work that Alcatel University staff first judged impossible, and later accepted.
Software developer, Computer Voice Systems
Feb 1999 – Sep 2003 · Chicago, Illinois
- Customer-care systems for the United States telecom market.
Service
Reviewer · Q1, fully open access, IEEE Computer Society
Reviewer · Inderscience Publishers
National Management Committee member · European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Funded research
6G-PHYSEC: Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems
2023 · Member, National Management Committee · European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) · COST Action CA22168
Covert audio-video systems for authorised national-security measures
2024–2026 · Project director · PNCDI IV: Economic RDI activities · PN-IV-P6-6.3-SOL-2024-2-0265 · ~370,000 EUR
Mobile System for Drone Identification and Localization
2025 · Project member - software development and implementation · EUREKA, with national funding via UEFISCDI · UEFISCDI no. 14/09.07.2025 · 298,900 EUR
Machine-driven optimizations for embedded instruction set and software
2024 · Researcher · IPCEI on Microelectronics and Communication Technologies (ME/CT) - indirect participants, Investment I4 / Component C9 · 8.PI/I4/C9, Theme 4
Teaching
7 courses at Politehnica University of Timișoara, most of them in theDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering. Full list on theteaching page.
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Publications
148
Citations
7
h-index
5
i10-index
23
Works
Journals · 5Conferences · 12Preprints · 1Book chapter · 1Thesis · 1Reports · 3
Full list with abstracts, DOIs and full texts on the publications page. Citation and i10 counts from Google Scholar, 2026-08.
Skills
Programming
C#RustGoF#ForthJavaScript / Vue.jsSQLPython
Platforms
.NET / ASP.NET CoreAzureLinuxAndroid
Architecture
MicroservicesDomain-driven designEvent-driven architectureCloud-nativeEnterprise engineering
Security
Secure Development LifecycleThreat modelingAttack treesSecurity auditsSTRIDEBell–LaPadula
Data
MongoDBSQL ServerPostgreSQLDocument stores
Protocols and IoT
SRTRTSPRTMP4G/5GGPS / NMEAFFmpegMediaMTX
Operations
GitDockerCI/CDLinux server administration
Languages
Romanian (Native) · English (C2, all competences)