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.

Relevant online profiles

• Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1768297
• Scopus AuthorID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=14630655200
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8738-5091
• Google Academic: https://scholar.google.ro/citations?user=Ylu90KAAAAAJ&hl=en