Studies

    Theoretic High School, Paşcani, Romania, 1961

    “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University , Iaşi; Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Engineer's Diploma in Electrical Engineering, 1966

Doctor-Engineer of Automatic Control, 1974

    “Fridericiana” Technical University , Karsruhe; Institute of Feedback Control and Remote Systems

Specialization in automatic control and systems theory, 1972/73

    “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University , Iaşi; Faculty of Mathematics

Diploma in Mathematics – Mechanics, 1977

Professional Experience

    2012 – present:  Professor emeritus, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University , Iaşi

Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science

Department of Automatic Control and Applied Informatics

    1990 – 2012:       Professor, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University

    1986 – 1990:       Associate Professor, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University

    1975 – 1986:       Assistant Professor,  “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University

    1967 – 1975:       Professor Assistant,  “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University

Higher Education and Research Manager

  2014 - present:   President of Romanian Academy - Branch Iasi

    2010 – 2014:        Scientific secretary of the Romanian Academy – Branch Iaşi

    2008 – 2012:       President of the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University , Iaşi

    2006 – 2012:       President of the Commission for Quality of Education   

    2004 – 2008:       Vice-Rector of the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University , Iaşi

    1992 – 2004:       Dean of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science

    1990 – 1992:       Head of the Department of Automatic Control and Applied Informatics

    2005 – 2012:       Director of the Research Centre on Systems Theory and Engineering

    1996 – 2012:       Director of the Politehnium Publishing House

    1995 – 2005:       Director of the Research Centre on Automatic Control and Technical Informatics

    1991 – 1993:       Rector of the  “Mihail Kogălniceanu” University , Iaşi

Awards

    Romanian Academy: Aurel Vlaicu Prize, 1990 (for two papers published in 1987).

    European Union: Copernicus Fellow; European Res. Grant No. ERB3510PL920636 / 93,

Technical University, Karlsruhe;

Scientific Report: Voicu M, Pastravanu O., Non - Recursive Models in Control

System Analysis and Design. Editura Dosoftei, Iaşi, 1997; 144 pp.

    Romanian Presidency: Great Officer of the Order Merit for Teaching, 2004

Experience Abroad

•  Technical University of Karlsruhe

•  Czech Technical University of Prague

•  Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble

•  University of Duisburg – Essen

•  Vienna University of Technology

Professional Honours

    Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy, Section of Information Science  & Technology

    Member in Scientific Societies:

•  Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences (ASTR);

Vice-president of the Automatic Control & Electronics Section;

President of Branch Iaşi

•  Committee of Control Theory of the Romanian Academy – Branch Iaşi; vice-president

•  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Control Systems Society; Senior Member

•   American Mathematical Society

• International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC); Technical Committees

• Romanian Society of Automation and Technical Informatics (SRAIT); founder, vice-president

• Forum of the Knowledge Society (with Information Science and Technology Section

  of the Romanian Academy)

    Editor

• Politehnium, Director; Publishing House (accredited by CNCS)

  of the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University , Iaşi

• Proceedings of the Romanian Academy – series A (Mathematics, Physics, Technical Sciences, Information Sciences) (ISI journal, accredited A by CNCS)

• Control Engineering and Applied Informatics (CEAI); Journal  of SRAIT (ISI journal, accredited A by CNCS

• Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology (ROMJIST); Journal  of the Romanian Academy (ISI journal, accredited A by CNCS)

•  Buletinului Institutului Politehnic din Iaşi, Editor in chief; Journal (accredited B+ by CNCS)

of the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University , Iaşi

•  Revista Română de Informatică şi Automatică; Journal of the Institute of Informatics – ICI, Bucharest

• Quality Assurance Review for Higher Education; Journal of ARACIS

• IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Toronto, 2005

• Int. Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, Sinaia, 2011; technically co-sponsored by IEEE

    Reviewer and evaluator

•  Zentralblatt für Mathematik (Zbl)

• Mathematical Reviews (MR)

•  IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control

•  Automatica

• Linear Algebra and Its Applications (LA&Appl.)

• European Journal of Control (EJC)

• Journal of Franklin Institute

• Control Engineering and Applied Informatics (SRAIT)

• Tamkang Journal of Mathematics

• Studies in Informatics and Control

• Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization

• IFAC World Congresses and Symposia (IFAC)

• European Control Conference

• IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control

• IEEE Conference on Control Applications

• Journal of Science (e-journal, Süleyman Demirel University)

• Int. Conf. on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Brasov

• International Conf. on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics, Cluj-Napoca

• Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), Bucureşti

• Int. Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, Sinaia

• National Council of Scientific Research in the Higher Education

• National Council for Academic Evaluation and Accreditation

• Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS)

• Tempus National Office

• Over 40 boards for doctoral thesis evaluation