Mihai Patrascu (July 17, 1982 to June 5, 2012) was a Romanian American computer scientist at AT&T Labs in Florham Park, New Jersey. As a high school student at Carol I National College in Craiova he won two gold medals and a silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics, then attended the University of Craiova for a year before completing his undergraduate and graduate studies in computer science at MIT, defending his MS and PhD theses under Erik Demaine in 2007 and 2008. His work concerned fundamental questions about basic data structures. He received the Machtey Award for best student paper at the Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science in 2008, and the Presburger Award from the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science in 2012 for breaking many old barriers on fundamental data structure problems. He died in 2012 at age twenty nine after a year and a half battling brain cancer.
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