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Departamentul Automatică, Calculatoare și Electronică

Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploiești

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Assoc. prof. Sanda Florentina Mihalache

Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești
B-dul București nr. 39, Ploiești
Office Room: B III 4
Tel: +40-244-573171/ext. 131
E-mail: sfrancu [at] upg-ploiesti [dot] ro

Short bio

  • Bachelor’s degree in Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics (1998), Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești
  • Research engineer at the Automatic Control, Computers and Electronics Department, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești (1998-1999)
  • Teaching assistant at the Automatic Control, Computers and Electronics Department, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești (1999-2001)
  • Research stage in control systems dynamics for distillation columns at Institut für Regelungstechnik, Universität Stuttgart (2001)
  • Assistant professor at the Automatic Control, Computers and Electronics Department, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești (2001-2004)
  • Lecturer at the Automatic Control, Computers and Electronics Department, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești (2004-2008)
  • PhD Degree in Systems Engineering (April 2005) with thesis "Hierarchical Control System for a Gas Processing Unit"
  • Associate professor at the Automatic Control, Computers and Electronics Department, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești (2008-present)
  • Secretary of the Romanian Society of Automatic Control and Technical Informatics – Ploiești subsidiary
  • Head of the Automatic Control Group from the Automatic Control, Computers and Electronics Department, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești (since 2017)

Research interests

  • Cyber physical systems, Industrial Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, Resilience, Cybersecurity of control systems, WSAN
  • Numerical Computing: Numerical algorithms library of numerical methods, optimization algorithms
  • Modelling and simulation of control systems for chemical processes
  • Building knowledge bases, fuzzy rule bases and models based on intelligent agents, Decision Support Systems, Machine Learning, Fuzzy Control Systems
  • Prediction and Forecasting models for Environmental Pollution Control

Teaching courses

  • Sensors and Transducers
  • Actuators
  • Automatic Control Engineering
  • Industrial Automation
  • Advanced Control Algorithms
  • Multimedia Systems

Scientific activity, publications and research projects

  • over 50 scientific papers in process control area, in national and international conferences and journals
  • Project manager in 1 project, member of research team in more than 40 research projects (www.rokidair.ro)
  • Reviewer for relevant journals for industrial control systems area from SAGE Publishing, Elsevier, IEEE Sensor Letters MDPI etc.
  • Member in scientific committees for International Conference on Electronics, Computers & Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2015-2021), International Conference on Enterprise Architecture and Information Systems (EAIS 2016-2021) etc.

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