Ilinca Stanciulescu holds a B.Eng (1995) and a M.A.Sc (1996) from the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, a B.S. in Applied Mathematics (2000) from Bucharest University and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (2005) from Duke University.

Before joining the Ph.D. Program at Duke University, she served as a junior lecturer (1996-2000) in the Department of Strength of Materials of the Technical University of Civil Engineering (T.U.C.E.) in Bucharest, Romania.  During that time, she taught several classes (Strength of Materials, Elasticity Theory, Finite Element Analysis, Nonlinear Analysis of Structures), participated in various research projects, and co-authored a textbook, "Post-Elastic Analysis of Structures".  She has also worked as a structural design engineer (full-time in 1995 before joining the faculty at T.U.C.E., and part-time thereafter).  Prior to coming to the University of Illinois, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Duke University.

Dr Stanciulescu has research interests in computational mechanics (non-linear finite elements), constitutive modelling of materials, structural analysis, and non-linear dynamics. She is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers  (ASCE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).