Raul has been working with Bitdefender since 2005, building a strong technical background in fields like malware research, kernel driver development and virtualization. In the past years he's been researching how hardware virtualization technologies can be leveraged to strengthen operating systems security. He's also PhD student and lab attendant at Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, and he has been granted more than 10 US patents.