Mihaela Malita, Ph.D.

Background

Dr. Mihaela Malita’s teaching philosophy emphasizes deep understanding, curiosity, and innovation. She fosters a learning environment that promotes critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration, while blending theory with practice to prepare students for an evolving technological landscape and inspire lifelong learning and the ethical use of technology.

Dr. Malita conducted her doctoral research on learning models and is the author of Coding Contest Problems: Workbook, a collection of programming problems available on Amazon designed to help students write cleaner, more efficient code and develop new programming skills.

Formerly a faculty member at Saint Anselm College, she holds the distinguished title of Professor Emerita. Dr. Malita has taught as a visiting professor at Smith College and Amherst College in Massachusetts and was a leading member of the technical team that helped establish Bright Scale, a Silicon Valley company.

She also co-founded the New Hampshire chapter of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA-NH) in 2010 and organized high school programming contests from 2006 to 2022.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Bucharest, Romania
  • M.S., University of Bucharest, Romania
  • B.S., University of Bucharest, Romania

Specialties

  • Parallel programming
  • Programming languages
  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • Intro to Programming through Art

Courses Taught

  • COMP 101/COMP 103 Coding Adventures I/ II
  • COMP 505 Computer Science Fundamentals
  • COMP 560 Python Programming
  • COMP 585 Java Programming
  • COMP 597 Multimedia and Web Development
  • COMP 612 Information Technology
  • COMP 699 Professional Seminar

Recent Publications, Grants, and Proceedings

  • Mihaela Malita, Book: Coding Contest Problems: Workbook on Amazon.com, 2026.
  • Mihaela Malita, Gheorghe M. Stefan, In-memory Parallel Processing for Matrix Transpose, InSight: Rivier Academic Journal Fall 2023.
  • Mihai Antonescu, Mihaela Malita, Gheorghe M. Stefan, “Avoiding Latencies of Log-Depth Parallel Computational Patterns”, ISPDC 2023, The 22nd IEEE International Symposium On Parallel and Distributed Computing, Bucharest, July 10-13, 2023.
  • Mihaela Malita, Gheorghe M. Stefan, “A Recursive Hierarchy for Accelerator-Level Parallelism”, Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems and Sciences (EECSS’22), Prague, Czech Republic – July 28- 30, 2022. Best Award Paper.
  • Mihaela Malita, George-Vladut Popescu, Gheorghe M. Stefan, “Pseudo-Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Solution for Accelerating Spectral Clustering”, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Dec 10-13, 2020.
  • Mihaela Malita, Ethel Schuster, “From Drawing to Coding: Teaching Programming with Processing”, The Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Region (CCSCNE), 2020.
  • Monica Dascalu, Mihaela Malita, Adrian Barbilian, Eduard Franti, Gheorghe M. Stefan “Enhanced Cellular Automata with Autonomous Agents for Covid-19 Pandemic Modeling”, ROMJIST Vol 23, No. S, 2020, pp. S15-S27.
  • Mihaela Malita, Gheorghe M. Stefan,”Accelerating Clustering: “An Architectural Approach”, Computer and Information Science and Technology (CIST’20) August 13-15, 2020 (remote) CIST’20.