Staff

Professor Theodor BORANGIU obtained the MSc. degree in Automatic Control in 1971 and the Ph.D. degree in "Control Systems" in 1979 of the University Politehnica of Bucharest. He is professor since 1991 in the Dept. of Automatics and Applied Informatics, Head of the "Robotics & AI" Laboratory of the University Politehnica of Bucharest. Director of Ph.D. theses since 1992 in "Control Systems". Member of the Senate of University Politehnica of Bucharest (2004-present). Visiting professor at the universities of Vienna (1992-1994), Krems (1994), Cartagena (1996-1998), Toluca (1996), Darmstadt (1990), Konstanz (1992, 2002-2003), Valenciennes (1996-2009). He has published 38 monographs, 238 scientific papers and is author of 5 patents, all in the field of advanced robot control, machine vision, multiprocessor control, CIM, FMS, PLC systems, and AI applied in holonic, multi-agent manufacturing control and robotics. Scientific Director of 106 scientific projects of national and international grants and contracts with industry. Member of the IFAC Technical Committees MIR (Robotics, 1991 – present), MIT (Manufacturing Technologies, 1991 – 2003), MPC (Manufacturing Plant Control, 2003 – present) and of President of the International Scientific Committee RAAD (1994 – present). Member of 88 International Program Committees since 1990. IPC Chairman of two IFAC Workshops (1995, 2003) and of two RAAD 2005 Conferences (2005, 2009). IT and Science "Tudor Tanasescu" award of the Romanian Academy (2003). University Relations Coordinator of IBM Romania.
E-mail: theodor.borangiu@cimr.pub.ro

Professor Radu Nicolae DOBRESCU obtained the M.Sc. degree in Automatic Control from the Faculty of Control and Computers of the Polytehnical Institute of Bucharest in 1968 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytehnical Institute of Bucharest, Romania in 1976. Currently he is Professor, head of the Automation and Industrial Informatics Department of the Faculty of Control and Computers within the University Politehnica of Bucharest, and also head of the laboratory "Data Transmission and Industrial Communication". Professor Dobrescu is Ph.D. thesis director since 1992 in the field of Automatic Control. His research interests and scientific works are in three main domains: modern structures for numeric control of machine tools and flexible manufacturing systems; intelligent data acquisition, processing and transmission; local area networks and fault-tolerant industrial communication. He is IEEE Member since 1991, IEEE Senior Member since 2005, and acted as IPC member in more than 48 international conferences.
E-mail: radud@isis.pub.ro

Professor Valentin SGARCIU received in 1972 the MSc degree in Industrial Automation and the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control from the University Politehnica of Bucharest. He is currently Professor in the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers of the University Politehnica of Bucharest and since 2001 Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. He is director of Ph.D. theses since 2008 in "Control Systems". He acted as member of international scientific committees of international scientific events: CAD/CAM'93 "Sensors & Systems" chairman, 8th Symposium "Technologies, Plants and Equipment for Improvement of Environment Quality", "Control Systems and Computer Science"). Professor Sgarciu is President of the organizing committee of "SCADA/DCS Solutions" workshop. His main research interests are in the areas: nondeterminist process identification systems, real time data processing, intelligent sensors, information processing, embedded measuring systems, automated distributed systems for process control, SCADA solutions.
E-mail: vsgarciu@aii.pub.ro

Professor Dan POPESCU obtained the MSc degree in Automatic Control in 1974, MS in mathematics in 1980, PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987. Currently Professor, in the Department of Automation and Industrial Informatics of the Faculty of Control and Computers, Politehnica University of Bucharest, head of the laboratory Artificial Vision and responsible for master program Complex Signal Processing in Multimedia Applications. He is PhD adviser in the field of Automatic Control. The competence domains are: Data and signal processing, Image acquisition and processing, Pattern recognition, Sensors for robots, Digital circuit design. Current scientific areas are: equipments for complex measurements, data acquisition and remote control, wireless sensor networks, alerting systems, pattern recognition and complex image processing, interdisciplinary approaches. He is author of 15 books, more than 120 papers, and director of five national research grants. He is IEEE member, SRAIT member, and he received the 2008 IBM Faculty Award.
E-mail: dan_popescu_2002@yahoo.com

Associate professor Nick Andrei IVANESCU develop activities of scientific and applied research in the field of industrial process control using PLCs and microcontrollers, data acquisition and processing, discrete event systems, robot control systems, artificial vision systems in robotics. He is also involved in teaching activities at the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty in the University Politehnica of Bucharest. Those research activities had as a result an amount of scientific publications in the world, one research project in progress, and also building of some control equipments for industrial processes, designing of data acquisition and processing circuits, software systems used in computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) and high level image processing in Robotic and Automated Visual Inspection tasks.
E-mail: nik@cimr.pub.ro

Lecturer Florin Daniel ANTON obtained his MSc. degree in Automatic Control in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in "Automatic Control" in 2008 of the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. Socrates scholarship at the "Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (UVHC)", ENSIAME faculty (2003). Since 2003 he is engineer at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers where he teaches courses and laboratory classes for: Robot Control Systems, Artificial Intelligence in Robotics and Equipments and Systems for Industrial Robot Control. Scientific Director of two national research grants, and team member in 16 scientific projects in national R&D programs. Author and co author of over 40 scientific papers in the field of robotics, artificial vision, distributed information systems, high availability and fault-tolerant systems, disaster recovery published in national and international monographs, journals and conference proceedings. Member of the National Organizing Committees of IFAC IAD 2003, RAAD 2005 and 2009 conferences. Session chairman in the conferences: RAAD 2006 and MITIP 2007. System engineer and Linux trainer in the IBM Linux Competency Centre in Bucharest, he received the RedHat Certified System Engineer diploma in 2008.
E-mail: florin.anton@cimr.pub.ro

Lecturer Silvia ANTON obtained her MSc. degree in Automatic Control in 2003, and the PhD degree in "Automatic Control" in 2008 of the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. Socrates scholarship at the "Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (UVHC)", ENSIAME faculty (2003). Since 2003 she is engineer at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers where she teaches courses and laboratory classes for: Robot Control Systems, Design of Digital Devices, Equipments and Systems for Industrial Robot Control and Industrial Robots. Scientific Director of one national research grant, and team member in 16 scientific projects in national R&D programs. Author and co author of over 40 scientific papers in the field of robotics, artificial vision, distributed information systems, high availability and fault-tolerant systems, disaster recovery published in national and international monographs, journals and conference proceedings. Member of the National Organizing Committees of IFAC IAD 2003, RAAD 2005 and 2009 conferences.
E-mail: silvia.anton@cimr.pub.ro

Lecturer Stefan Alexandru MOCANU obtained the MSc degree in Automatic Control in 2000, in 2001 he graduated the 1-year specialization program "Open Architecture Systems, Standardization, Networking" and in 2005 he obtained the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control. The thesis was focused on Wireless communications – 802.11, programming, and data transmissions. From 2001 he teaches laboratories and seminars for Computer Programming in C language, and laboratories for Real Time Operation Systems as Associate Professor. In 2006 he became scientific researcher at University Politehnica of Bucharest, in the Department of Automatics and Industrial Informatics.From 2007 he became lecturer in the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers within the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania.In addition to the earlier mentioned disciplines, his interests focused on Multimedia Applications and Data Mining. He has published more than 40 articles and papers in national and international revues and conference proceedings volumes. He was co-author of several books. His main research areas are: multimedia, wireless networks, data processing, data mining. Member of: SRAIT, IEEE organisations.
E-mail: smocanu@rdslink.ro

Lecturer Maximilian NICOLAE obtained his B.Sc. in Systems Engineering and Computers in 2004 from “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Faculty of Automation and Computers. A year after he obtained his M.Sc. in Open Architecture Systems from the same faculty. He has finished his PhD thesis on “Hardware and Software Architectures for Mobile Sensor Networks” and his main research interests are in embedded hardware and software design, digital signal processing and communications. After his graduation he remained as teaching assistant in the Department of Automation and Industrial Informatics, and since then he teaches laboratories on “Data Transmission”, “Digital Devices Design” and a master course on “Digital Signal Processors and Real Time Data Processing for Audio and Video Signals”. During this period he was a member in several research projects and project manager on a grant related to his doctoral field. Author and co-author of over 30 scientific papers in his research field published in international journals and conference proceedings. He is also an IEEE member.
Email: max@aii.pub.ro

Silviu RAILEANU (PhD) is currently a lecturer at the University Politehnica Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. He received both his engineering degree (2005) and his master's degree (2009) in automatics from the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. In 2011 he obtained a double degree PhD from University Politehnica Bucharest (RO) and Universite de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambresis (FR) in Systems Engineering. He is in charge of the courses Supply Chain Management and Multi-agent Systems in Manufacturing Control and also of the laboratory Robot Control Systems. His interests include distributed and heterarchical control of discrete event systems, scheduling and planning of flexible fabrication systems, the application of multi-agent and holonic theories for the control of flexible manufacturing systems, domains in which he published and contributed to several publications.
E-mail: silviu.raileanu@cimr.pub.ro

Collaborators,PhD :

Mihai PARLEA obtained the MSc. degree in Automatic Control in 2007 (having prepared his engineering thesis at Universite de Valenciennes, France – Production Systems Research Group) and his Master Degree in 2009, both from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatics and Computer Science, Automatics Specialisations. He is currently working on his PhD. studies, for which he obtained a European Union financed scholarship (with an 8 month abroad period, also at Universite de Valenciennes, France). He has published 8 scientific papers, participated at 3 research projects and is an active member in all of CIMR’s research activities (which include but are not limited to advanced robotic control, machine vision, advanced PLC control, holonic and multi-agent manufacturing control).
E-mail: mihai.parlea@cimr.pub.ro

Andrei ROSU obtained his MSc. degree in Automatic Control in 2007, and he is a Ph.D. student in "Automatic Control" since 2007 at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. Socrates scholarship at the "Ecole Polytech de Lille", Universite de Sciences et Technologie - Lille 1 , France (2007). He is involved in teaching activities at the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty in the University Politehnica of Bucharest. His area of expertise is process control using PLCs, microcontrollers and discrete event systems.
E-mail: andrei.rosu@cimr.pub.ro

PhD.eng. Iulia IACOB obtained her MSc. degree (2009) and her Master degree (2011), both from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, Automatic Control and System Engineering Department. In 2014 obtained her PhD. degree in Service Science Management and Engineering. She obtained a European Union financed scholarship with a 6 month abroad period at Porto University, Portugal. Currently she is a member in several research projects and she acts as NOC member for the 14th edition of IFAC's triennal symposium INCOM’12.
E-mail iulia.iacob@cimr.pub.ro

PhD. eng. Octavian MORARIU Octavian Morariu has obtained the MSc. degree in Computer Science in 2007 at Technical University of Cluj-napoca, in 2014 he obtained the PhD. degree in automatic control at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. His research work is focused on Cloud Computing systems and their optimization for the use in eLearning activities.
E-mail: octavian.morariu@cimr.pub.ro

PhD. eng. Cristina MORARIU, has obtained the MSc. degree in Computer Science in 2008 at Technical University of Cluj-napoca, in 2013 obtained her PhD. degree in automatic control at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. With over four years experience in business processes at IBM, her search work is focused on implementing service oriented architecture paradigms in manufacturing systems domain.
E-mail: cristina.morariu@cimr.pub.ro

PhD. eng. Stefan RADULESCU, has obtained the MSc. degree in Systems and Computer Engineering in 2009 from the Politehnica University of Bucharest. In 2011 he obtained a master degree in Engineering field, Politehnica University of Bucharest. In the same year he obtained his master degree in Business Administration, offered by Faculty of Business Administration (taught in foreign languages), the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. In 2014 he obtained his PhD. degree in systems engineering at Politehnica University of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science. The research work is focused on cloud systems and the possibilities of using them for eLearning and improving business processes.
E-mail: stefan.radulescu@cimr.pub.ro

PhD student eng. Andrei SILISTEANU, has obtained the MSc. degree in “Data communication, multimedia and Hi-Fi systems” in 2003 from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, University Politehnica of Bucharest. Between 2009 and 2011 he attended the “E-Business” master classes at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies aiming for the development of new flexible business architectures based on modern technologies. Starting from 2013 he is a PhD student of The Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, Systems Engineering department, his research work being focused on holonic and multi-agent systems and their application into the radiopharmaceutical production industry.
E-mail: andrei.silisteanu@cimr.pub.ro