Liviu Iftode *98

Liviu Iftode, professor of computer science at Rutgers University, died peacefully Feb. 16, 2017, at the age of 57.

Born in Romania, Iftode graduated from the Technical University of Bucharest in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He became a software engineer at the Research Institute for Computer Technology, Bucharest, and headed a development team.

Starting in 1991, Iftode was a doctoral student at Princeton, earning a Ph.D. in computer science in 1998. From 1997 until his death, he was on the faculty of the computer science department at Rutgers. He achieved full professor status in 2009.

During his career, Iftode earned many honors and awards, received significant funding through prestigious grants, and published impressive work. But mostly he cherished the mentoring of young people, from high school students to Ph.D. candidates. For Princeton, he was a Regional Schools Committee chair for continental Europe for much of the past decade.

Iftode is survived by his wife of 33 years, Cristina, an associate professor of genetics at Rowan University, whom he met in high school.

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