Andrei Olar

Still writing his own code after two decades, Andrei Olar was drawn early on to the fundamentals that tend to outlast the moment: software architecture, design patterns, and eXtreme Programming — the kind of discipline that makes systems worth maintaining long after the initial excitement fades.

More recently, he made the leap from industry to academia, finding a different but equally rewarding set of challenges. He is currently a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, with a research focus on entity resolution under the HRIA umbrella. As an Assistant Researcher on Twin4Dem — a Horizon Europe project — he leads the architectural design of the system and implements its core simulation engine: an expert system that applies structured knowledge to real-world data to reason about what outcomes might have unfolded under different conditions.