Florin Stoican received his Electrical Engineering Degree University Politehnica of Bucharest (2008) and his Ph. D. in Control Engineering from Ecole Superieure d’Electricite (SUPELEC), France (2011). He has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, Norway (2012). Research interests are in fault tolerant control of dynamical systems, set theoretic characterizations, mixed integer programming and robotics (motion planning and control).
Tudor C. Ionescu received an M.Sc. in Systems and Control Engineering from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania (2004) and the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (2009). He has been a visiting researcher at Supelec, Paris, France (2005 and 2007) and at Nagoya University, Japan (2008). He was a Research Associate at Imperial College London, UK (2009-2013) and at the University of Sheffield, UK (2013-2015). Research interests are modelling and complexity reduction of large scale systems and networks, distributed parameter and nonlinear systems.
Andreea Ion received her M.Sc. (2014) in Intelligent Control Systems and a B.Sc. (2011) in Control Engineering. She is currently a Ph.D. student at University Politehnica of Bucharest. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems applied in the fields of intelligent control systems, design methodologies for self-organization between and inside system-of-systems, learning and evolutionary algorithms.
Vlad Constantinescu has received a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from University Politehnica of Bucharest in 2019, an M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems in 2009 and a B.Sc. in Systems and Computer Science from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Research interests include intelligent control systems, multi-agent systems, emergent systems, evolutionary computing, complex systems and neural networks.
Dragos Popescu has studied control engineering at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, where he received an M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in 2015 and 2014. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. Research interests include intelligent control systems, complex systems theory and modelling, real time optimization, neural networks, image processing, projective geometry.
Cristian Berceanu received his M.Sc. degree in Advanced Computer Architectures from University Politehnica of Bucharest (2017) and is currently undergoing his doctoral studies in development of simulation models for particle systems using agent based technologies. His research interests include multi-agent systems, amorphous computing, and high performance computing.
Ioan Marica received an M.Sc. degree in Intelligent Control Systems at University Politehnica of Bucharest in 2018. He has received his B.Sc. in Systems Engineering in 2016. For his Master Dissertation, Ioan has developed a the CRIS robot with wireless communication. Research interests include robotics, electronics, embedded control systems, evolutionary computing, neural networks, and 3D printing.
Dorin Petre has studied Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, where he received a B.Sc in 2013, and an M.Sc. degree in Advanced Control and Real Time Systems at University Politehnica of Bucharest in 2018. Research interests include embedded systems, internet of things, artificial intelligence and control systems (PLC).
Ionuț Banu has studied Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, where he received a B.Sc in 2017. He is currently studying toward an M.Sc. in Complex Systems at University Politehnica of Bucharest. Research interests include multi-agent systems, object oriented programming, control systems, evolutionary computing, multiobjective optimization.
Adrian Pătrașcu has a PhD degree in Sport Science and has received an M.A. in Training and Sport Performance in 2011 and a B.A. in Physical Education and Sport in 2009. Adrian Patrascu is a junior researcher at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research in Physical Education and Sport at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Babeș-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca. Research interests include intelligent control systems, human balance, sport performance and instrument development in sport.
Ioan Ștefan Sacală holds a B.Sc. in Systems Engineering and a degree in Political Geography, an M.Sc. in Information Systems, and a Ph.D. degree obtained at University Politehnica of Bucharest in 2011. His main fields of research are Information Systems, Discrete Event Dynamical Systems, Project Management, Advanced Communication Systems, Internet of Future, Future Internet Enteprise Systems.
Viorel Gheorghe has a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (University Politehnica of Bucharest 2012), an M.Sc. in Advanced Mechatronics (UPB 2004) and a B.Sc in Mechatronics (UPB 2003). Dodecarob, the original biomimetic morphing robot developed during his Ph.D. studies, has been selected to participate at “Robot Safari Festival” held by the Science Museum, London, in 2013. He is a senior lecturer at the Dept. of Mechatronics and Precision Mechanics (UPB). The research interests reside at the intersection between Morphing Structures and Service Robotics.
Monica Patrascu received a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering in 2012, an M.Sc. in Intelligent Control Systems in 2009 and a B.Sc. in Control Engineering in 2007. Dr. Patrascu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest. Research interests include intelligent control, evolutionary computing, large scale systems, heuristic optimization, emergent systems, multi-agent systems, and complex systems.