Darius Bufnea is a lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania. He received the Ph.D. degree from Babeș-Bolyai University in 2008. He was the director of one research grant funded by the Romanian funding agency and a member of another six. He has authored over 40 research papers on networking, congestion control, information retrieval, parallel computing, and web technologies. He is the coauthor of four books that cover different computer science related topics. His current focus and interest is on cybersecurity, leading several cyber security related educational programs at UBB.