Florin's research interests lie in the area of databases and large scale data management in general, with a particular focus on designing and building infrastructure for Big Data analytics. Specific topics include approximate query processing, scientific data processing, and scalable analytics. Florin has designed and implemented several data processing systems over the past ten years, including DBO/TurboDBO, DataPath, GLADE, and EXTASCID. He has been an active member of the database research community, publishing articles and serving in the program committees of prestigious conferences and journals such as SIGMOD, VLDB, TODS, and TKDE. Florin is the recipient of a Hellman Faculty Fellowship in 2013 and a DOE Early Career Award in 2014.