Distinctions & Awards
- "Tudor Tanasescu" Romanian Academy
Award 2005, (see diploma) for
the book entitled "Microarchitectures
simulation and optimization" (in Romanian), MatrixRom Publishing
House, Bucharest, 2003 (co-author: Lucian Vintan, 443 pg., CD attached)
- "AD AUGUSTA
PER ANGUSTA" Award for young researcher (Through trial
to triumph), (see diploma)
received from "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu in June 2007,
for special results obtained in scientifical research.
- The "SIVECO Popularity"
Award (see diploma) representing
an Portable Hard Disk USB and The
"Excellency CNIV 2009” Award (see
diploma) for recognizing the novel ideas in research and development,
both received at "EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE" Contest during the 7th
National Conference for Virtual Learning - Virtual Reality, News Technologies
in Education and Research, Models & Methodologies, Technologies, Software
Solutions (CNIV – 2009): 30 oct.-1 nov. 2009, Iasi, Romania. The
Prize was awarded in 24th november 2009, at Bucharest University , Chemistry
Faculty.
- SILVER MEDAL (as coordinator
of the ULBS team) got at the Programming section in the final of the international
contest of informatics projects “INFOMATRIX 2010”
– the 8th edition, 23-26 of April 2010, Bucharest, Romania, organized
by the Education, Research, Youth and Sport Executive Department, the
group of education institutions “Lumina” and The School Inspectorate of
Bucharest. In the final phase 108 projects out of 384 have been chosen,
the contest getting together teams from 32 countries, being structured
on 5 sections: Photography, Programming, Digital Content, Hardware Control,
and Computer Art. See
the Jury’s comment on the project
- Diploma of Excellence for
meritorious scientific research activity in 2012 and 2014,
awarded by the Faculty of Engineering, University "Lucian Blaga"
of Sibiu.
- BRONZE MEDAL (as coordinator
of the ACAPS Research
Centre (ULBS) team) got at the Programming section of the 11th International
Informatics Project Competition “INFOMATRIX 2013”, 16-20 of May 2013,
Bucharest, Romania, organized by the Ministry of Education of Romania,
the Group of Education Institutions “Lumina” and The School Inspectorate
of Bucharest. In the international final phase participated 182 projects,
the contest getting together teams from 45 countries on 5 continents -
Asia, Africa, America, Australia and Europe, being structured on 5 sections:
Robotics (70), Programming (28), Short movie (28), Hardware Control (42),
Computer Art (24). At national selection contest of InfoMatrix 2013, the
project won the gold
medal finishing in first place in the 51 romanian projects participating
in the Programming section.
- Gold Medal, (as coordinator
of the Tech-Spirits II (ULBS) team) got at the Hardware Control section,
the National Phase of the 13th International Informatics Project Competition
“INFOMATRIX 2015”, 27 of March 2015, Bucharest, Romania, organized by
the Ministry of Education of Romania, the Group of Education Institutions
“Lumina” and The School Inspectorate of Bucharest.
- Best Paper Award
received for the article "Low Cost Mobile Embedded System for
Air Quality Monitoring", presented during SMART 2017, The Sixth International
Conference on Smart Cities, Systems, Devices and Technologies, held in
Venice, Italy during June 25 - 29, 2017.
- The prize "The
team with the best experiment" was received at the contest "Sibiu
of researchers: science, technology and culture", 2017, organized
at the "Night of Researchers" event, awarded by the research
department of Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu.
- Best
Paper Award received for the article "A Strategy for Drone Traffic
Planning - Dynamic Flight-paths for Drones in Smart Cities", presented
during SMART 2019, The Eighth International Conference on Smart Cities,
Systems, Devices and Technologies, held in Nice, France during July 28
- 01 August 2019.
- Best
Paper Award obținut pentru articolul "Design Thinking Applied
to the Internet of Things - A Project on Technological Innovation in Agriculture
and Food Processing", ICDS 2022, The Sixteenth International Conference
on Digital Society, Porto, Portugal, 26-30 June 2022.
- Best
Paper Award received for the article "Selective High-Latency Arithmetic Instruction Reuse in Multicore Processors", presented
during ICSTCC 2023, The 27th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing, held in Timisoara, Romania during October 11
- 13 2023.
National and International Acknowledgement
- Member of the International Program Committee for the
International Conferences: * International Conference on the Business
and Digital Enterprises (ICBDE 2010),
Gopalan Educational Society, Bangalore, India; * The 2010 International
Conference on Informatics, Cybernetics, and Computer Applications (ICICCA
2010), Bangalore, India; * The Second International Conference on
Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2010),
Praga, Cehia; * The Third International Conference on the Applications
of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT
2010), Fatih University, Buyukcekmece, Istanbul, Turkey; * The 9-th
International Conference Romanian Educational Network (RoEduNet2010),
Sibiu, Romania; * The International Conference on Digital
Information and Communication Technology and its Applications, Dijon,
France 2011; * The 2nd International Conference on Software
Engineering and Computer Systems, Pahang, Malaysia, 2011; * The 9th
Annual Industrial Simulation Conference, 2011, Venice, Italy; * The 6th
International Conference on Digital Information Management, 2011, Melbourne,
Australia; * The 10th Annual Industrial
Simulation Conference, 2012, Brno, Czech Republic; * The Fifth International
Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies
(ICADIWT 2012), Nicosia, Cypru; * The Fourth International Conference
on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2012), Canadian University of Dubai,
Dubai, United Emirates of Arabia; * The 7th International Conference on
Digital Information Management (ICDIM), 2012, University of Macau, Macau;
* The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST),
2013, Algarve, Portugal; * The 8th International Conference on Digital
Information Management (ICDIM), 2013, Islamabad, Pakistan; * The 1st International
Conference SIMEX'2013, September 2013, Brussels, Belgium;* The 2014 World
Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST), 2014,
Madeira, Portugal; * The 17th International Conference on Business Information
Systems (BIS), 2014, Larnaca, Cyprus; * The Fifth International Conference
on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT),
2014, Bengaluru, India; * The Fourth International Students Conference
on Computer Science: Imagination, Creativity, Design, Development(ICDD),
2014, Sibiu, Romania; * The 2nd International Conference on Computer Applications
in Education (ICCAE), 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; * The 2nd International
Conference SIMEX'2014, December 2014, Brussels, Belgium; * The 9th International
Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM), September, 2014,
Phitsanulok, Thailand; * The 2015 World Conference on Information Systems
and Technologies (WorldCIST), 2015, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores,
Portugal; * The 18th International Conference on Business Information
Systems (BIS), 2015, Poznań, Poland; * The 17th IEEE Conference on Business
Informatics (CBI), 2015, Lisbon, Portugal; * International Conference
on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT),
2015, Macau, Hong Kong; * The Fifth International Students Conference
on Computer Science: Imagination, Creativity, Design, Development(ICDD),
2015, Sibiu, Romania; The 14-th International Conference Romanian Educational
Network (RoEduNet2015), Craiova, Romania; * Reviewer for ICSTCC 2015 (19th
International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing), Cheile
Grădiştei, Romania; * The 1st International Conference on Big Data Applications
and Services (BigDAS), Jeju Island, Korea, 2015; * The 3rd International
Conference SIMEX'2016, February 2016, Brussels, Belgium; * The 2016 World
Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST), March
2016, Recife, Brazil; * The Seventh International Conference on the Applications
of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016); * The 19th
International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS), 2016,
Leipzig, Germany; * The 2017 World Conference on Information Systems and
Technologies (WorldCIST), April 2017, Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal;
* The 20th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS),
2017, Poznań, Poland; * The Seventh International Students Conference
on Computer Science: Imagination, Creativity, Design, Development (ICDD),
2017, Sibiu, Romania; * The Sixth International Conference on Smart Cities,
Systems, Devices and Technologies (SMART) 2017, Venice, Italy; *The 2017
International Conference on Advanced Technologies Enhancing Education
(ICAT2E), 2017, Qingdao, China; * The Sixth International Conference on
Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT), 2017, Dublin, Ireland;
* The 5th „Smart Cities” Conference, 2017, Bucharest, Romania; * The Ninth
International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL), 2017,
Athens, Greece; * The Twelfth International Conference on Digital Information
Management (ICDIM), September 12-14, 2017 at Fukuoka, Japan; * First International
Workshop on Entrepreneurship in Electronic and Mobile Business (IWEMB)
8-9 November, 2017, Bangkok Thailand.
- Co-chair at International Conference “Future
Generation Communication Technology (FGCT 2012)” organized by British
Computer Society and supported by IEEE UK & RI, Londra 12-14 Decembrie
2012, UK; * Program Chair at The 9th International Conference
on Digital Information Management (ICDIM), 2014, SIAM University, Bangkok,
Thailand; Chair of the session Blockchain and Knowledge
Graphs, PRO-VE 2020, 21st IFIP / SOCOLNET, Working Conference on
Virtual Enterprises, held in Valencia (Spain), 23th-25th November 2020;
Co-Chair of the session Real-Time Applications and Fault Detection,
24th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing
(ICSTCC 2020), 8-10 October, Sinaia, Romania.
- Scientific Reviewer Journal
of Circuits, Systems and Computers (a World Scientific Scientific
Publishing Company journal), 2008.
- Scientific Reviewer for Applied
Soft Computing Journal since November 2016..
- Scientific Reviewer for international conference The
Thirteenth IEEE Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference
(ACSAC 2008), Taiwan 2008 (http://www.ccrc.nthu.edu.tw/acsac2008/OrganizingCommittee.htm).
- Scientific Reviewer for – The 3rd International
Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2009), Cyprus, 2009.
- Scientific Reviewer for – The IEEE International
Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP09),
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2009.
- Scientific Reviewer for – The International Conference
on Engineering and Meta-Engineering: ICEME
2010, ICEME2011, Orlando, Florida, 2011.
- Scientific Reviewer for – The International Conference
on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2010), Hannover, Germany, 2010.
- Scientific Reviewer for - The International Conference
– The 14th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics:
WMSCI 2010 and The 16th International Conference on Information Systems
Analysis and Synthesis: ISAS
2010, the last two organized in Orlando, Florida, 2010.
- Scientific Reviewer for book entitled "Analysis
and design of algorithms. A pragmatic approach by Java applications"
(in Romanian, author - Arpad Gellert), TechnoMedia Publishing Hall, 2010.
- Scientific Reviewer, Review Board member and
Associate Editor for Journal of Digital Information
Management (ISSN 0972-7272), 2010-2017 (http://www.dirf.org/jdim/editor.htm).
- 2017-2019 - Editor in chief for the Journal
of E-Technology, Print ISSN: 0976-3503.
- January 2015 - Scientific Reviewer for for the IEEE
Transactions on Education journal (ISSN 0018-9359) (see reference,
pg. 76).
- September 2018 - Scientific Reviewer for for the IEEE
Access journal (ISSN 2169-3536).
- November 2015 - March 2016 - Scientific Reviewer
for the Vehicle
System Dynamics journal (ISSN 0042-3114).
- January 2019 - December 2019 - Scientific Reviewer
for the Algorithms
- MDPI journal (ISSN 1999-4893).
- Scientific Reviewer and Editorial
Board member for Journal of Data Processing
(http://www.dline.info/jdp/eb.php
), 2011.
- Scientific Reviewer and Editorial
Board member for Computer Science and Engineering
journal, (p-ISSN: 2163-1484, e-ISSN: 2163-1492), 2011, http://journal.sapub.org/computer,
http://www.sapub.org/journal/editorialdetails.aspx?JournalID=1081&PersonID=14099
- There are more than 329 (up to 2022) scientifically
papers or books that make citations
.
- For the paper "An alternative to branch
prediction: pre-computed branches", published in ACM SIGARCH
Computer Architecture News, Volume 31, Issue 3, June 2003, the authors
(L. Vintan, I.Z. Mihu, M. Sbera, Adrian Florea) were included in "Friends
of SimpleScalar LLC", the list of processor architects that
have used SimpleScalar tools to evaluate their designs (see http://www.simplescalar.com/friends.html
- We are considered among the researchers which have found that Jikes
RVM provides a useful vehicle for research on the frontiers of virtual
machine technologies. Our paper "The Impact
of Java Applications at Microarchitectural Level from Branch Prediction
Perspective" having as authors Adrian Florea, Arpad Gellert, Lucian
Vintan, Marius Veltan and appeared in International Journal of Computers,
Communications & Control, ISSN 1841-9836, E-ISSN 1841-9844 Vol. IV
(2009), No. 1, pp. 27-40 - was included in the list of all publications
that use Jikes RVM. This list includes both papers written by Jikes RVM
developers, as well as users http://jikesrvm.org/Publications).
- Short Time Expert in DOCIS (2008-2011) project development
team - "The Development of the National Qualifications Framework
for Higher Education in Romania", for describing the qualifications
of license program: Multimedia Systems. DOCIS Project is financed
by Social European Fund and Romanian Guvern (POS DRU) based on POSDRU/2/1.2/S/2
contract http://docis.acpart.ro/uploads/Fisiere/anunt_experti_TS_admins.pdf).
- Coordinator Teacher, REF – 2010/TIS/T10/FLOREA, in
EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET Project, in order to coordinate peer team for creation
of a module of four teaching units of two hours developing a theme linked
to INTERNET SAFETY (Theme assigned: T10 - Social Networking - use by teachers
(points to watch e.g. privacy, photos...)).
- Member of PhD board of examiners (Sibiu, etc), Member
of competition commissions related to teaching and research positions
('Transilvania' University of Brasov)
- Elected member in Faculty Council of
Engineering Faculty, 2012-2016.
- Secretary of the admissions committee at the Faculty
of Engineering, 'Lucian Blaga' University of Sibiu, 2014
- Member in Organisation Committee and Chairman at International
Symposium "TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN MODERN SCHOOL", for sections
"Extra-school activities - examples of good practices related
by traditions and customs and their educative values" and "Traditional
family versus modern family - educational partner", symposium organized
by "Queen Mary" School from Sibiu having partners "Lucian
Blaga" University of Sibiu, The District School Inspectorate of Sibiu
and Schools from Romania, Italy, Ireland and Spain, Sibiu, 20 november
2009.
- Member in Technical Committee and Chairman at 9-th
International Conference “Romanian
Educational Network” (RoEduNet2010), Section 4: Data Mining and Semantic
Web – DMSW, „Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania, 24th – 26th June,
2010.
- Chairman at 18-th International Conference on "System
Theory, Control and Computing” (ICSTCC 2014), Regular Session FrA24: Hardware
Design, Sinaia, România, 17-19 October, 2014.
- Member of jury for evaluating the scientifically papers
presented by young researchers from most important universities of Romania
within “Student Paper Contest” organized in conjunction with
RoEduNet 2010 Conference (http://roedu2010.ulbsibiu.ro/paper_contest/
).
- Expert Evaluator of "The Romanian Agency for
Quality Assurance in Higher Education" (ARACIS) - see http://pfe.aracis.ro/inscriere/registru/lista_c_d/13/43/.
I passed the specific exam in 2010.
- External expert evaluator of National
Qualifications Authority (http://www.anc.gov.ro
), since 2011. National Committee Member of the validation master qualification
/ skills in the areas of Systems Engineering (SE) and Computer and Information
Technology (CTI).
- 25.07.2012 – 30.09.2013: Expert on study program -
Multimedia Systems Engineering, in project development team “Capacity
building for implementation of the system of higher education qualifications
- DECIS” (POSDRU /86/1.2/S/61152 contract) implemented by National Authority
for Qualifications (ANC), in partnership with Technical University of
Cluj-Napoca, University of Pitești, Engineers and Managers Association
of Economists from Romania - AMIER, Association for Knowledge Transfer
in Romania - ATCR și Dublin Institute of Technology. Budget 17.171.035
lei. http://www.anc.gov.ro/uploads/Anunturi/call5/anunt%20rezultate%20selectie%20apel%20I.pdf
- 1.04.2013 – 31 December 2013: Short Time Expert (CS5
Trainer - "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu) in DidaTec project
– POSDRU/87/1.3/S/60891, “University school for initial and continuing
training of teachers and trainers in the field of engineering and technical
specialties - Școală universitară de formare inițială și continuă a personalului
didactic și a trainerilor din domeniul specializărilor tehnice și inginerești
– DidaTec”, part time individual work contract no. 32851/08.04.2013 and
no. 33940/31.10.2013
- Expert reviewer of the Executive Agency for Higher
Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) for
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4 program (2013-2014).
- 1.04.2014 – 1 October 2015: Long Time Expert for
activities with Target Group - "Lucian Blaga" University
of Sibiu – in FormING project – „Insertie activa pe piata muncii prin
FORmare profesionala inovativa in domeniul INGineriei”, Partener 3 – ULBSIBIU,
contract POSDRU /125/5.1/S/134003, strategic project funded by Fondul
Social European and Romanian Guvern through Operational Program Developing
Human Resource POS DRU 2007 – 2013.
- 27.03.2017-26.03.2020: Researcher
in iREAD - Infrastructure and integrated
tools for personalized learning of reading skill, Proposal number:
731724, H2020-ICT-2016-2017, Topic Topic ICT-22-2016, 2016-2017, Buget
ULBS 192725 Euro (ULBS - Mihu P. Ioan project manager).
- 01.01.2019-31.12.2021: Researcher (Technical Coordinator),
“The FoF-Designer: Digital Design Skills
for Factories of the Future”, Project Nr. 601089-EPP-1-2018-1-RO-EPPKA2-KA,
EACEA,Erasmus+ strategic project, Knowledge Alliiances, Total Budget 999,259
Euro (ULBS 135,858 Euro).
- In October 2020, I was selected by the Romanian Digitalization
Authority in the National Council for Digital Transformation, the Digital
Transformation working group.
- In 30.10.2020, I was elected by CLUJ IT Cluster member
organizations as member of Board
of Directors for two years until November 2022. Since 30.10.2023 until October 2024 I am vicepresident of ClujIT cluster.
- Member of the joint commission for digitalization and Smart City Sibiu
strategy at the level of the Local Council of Sibiu Municipality, Decision
no. 60 of 25.02.2021, until 2024.
- 01.12.2021 - 30.11.2023, I am Project manager of "Modernizing
agricultural practice using Internet of Things", Grant ANPCDEFP
20-COP-0019 ESAYEP nr. F-SEE-026/06.2021 - EEA Grants, 87547 Euro (evaluated
at 101p. Third place of 21, the first 5 were financed).
- 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2024, I am Project manager of “Engineers
of the Future – Smart, Skilled, Secure”, 2022-1-PL01-KA220-VET-000086326,
under Erasmus+ Programme KA2 PARTNERSHIP IN VET, 51000 Euro.
Fields of Professional Interest
- Advanced Computer Architecture, numerical processing algorithms, Prediction
and Speculation in Advanced Architectures, Embedded Systems, Microprocessors
and Microsystems, Multicore architecture, New computing paradigms, Visual
and object-oriented programming techniques, Compilers, Software scheduling,
Simulation instruments and Benchmarking, Linux programming, Evolutionary
Computing, Genetics Algorithms, Multi-objective Optimization Problems,
Educational software, Parallel programming models, Automatic Parallelization
models, Automatic learning and fault tolerant systems, History of Computer
Science.