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**Bio**: \\
I am a Software Engineer at Microsoft, where I work on the standard C++ library and the C++ AMP programming model. Before becoming a programmer in earnest, I spent a number of years doing academic research; in June 2014, I earned a Ph.D. in Economics. To this day, whenever I have the time, I still flip bits in anger, trying to solve a constrained optimization problem or to find a Nash equilibrium. Therefore, it is no surprise that I am a Luddite who still believes that it is all about algorithms and data structures.\\
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Location: Cambridge, UK\\
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**Email**: alvoicu@microsoft.com\\
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