Research Contracts and Grants

         2020-2022: Director of the national research grant National Research Grant Human Resources Young Teams Research Projects 2019 entitled "Fuzzy controllers for shape memory alloys systems", 89000 EUR, financed by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (TE, UEFISCDI)  (please visit the project website, link)

         2023-2025: Member of the reasearch grant, Electric Multimodal Transport Systems for Enhancing Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (e-MATS), 699469 EUR to the European partners, 250000 EUR to UPT, 4000000 RMB (equivalent 510509.63 EUR) to the Chinese partners, director of the project coordinator China: Prof. Sheng Jin (Zhejiang UniversityChina), partners: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (Sweden), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Chongqing University (China), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute (China), WSP Sverige AB (Sweden), FellowBot AB (Sweden), Hangzhou Comprehensive Transportation Center (China), Enjoyor Ltd Co. (China) (JPI Urban Europe ERA-Net Co-fund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (EN-UAC) Sino-European call), director coordinator Europe: Prof. Dr. Engr. Radu-Emil PRECUP, Politehnica University of Timisoara (please visit the project website, link)

         2021 - 2023: Member of the UPT partner in the research project "Data-driven fuzzy control with experimental validation”, 249844.58 EUR, national exploratory research grant (PCE, Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding - UEFISCDI) (please visit the project website, link)

         2019 - 2023: Member in the non-research project POCU-AP nr.6 PI 10.ii. - cod SMIS nr. 122333, Program Operațional Capital Uman (Fonduri Structurale Europene), director of UTCB: Giorgian NECULOIU, director of the UPT partner: Florin DRĂGAN

         2017 - 2018: Director of the Institutional Research Grant "Research and development projects for young researchers" (in Romanian, Proiecte de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru tineri cercetatori) PCD-TC-2017, entitled "Tensor product model transformation-based adaptive control techniques with mechatronics applications", 10000 EUR, competition organized and financed by Politehnica University of Timisoara

         2014 - 2017: Member of the UPT partner in the research project "Advanced control system of a biorefinery plant" (BIOCON), 284091 EUR, national joint applied research project (PCCA, UEFISCDI), director: Prof. Sergiu Caraman, "Lower Danube" University of Galati, director of the UPT partner: Prof. Radu-Emil Precup (please visit the project website)

         2014 - 2017: Member of the UPT partner in the research project "Advanced control systems for bioprocesses in food industry" (ADCOSBIO), 238637 EUR, national joint applied research project (PCCA, UEFISCDI), director: Prof. Dan Selisteanu, University of Craiova, director of the UPT partner: Prof. Radu-Emil Precup. (please visit the project website)

         2014 - 2017: Member in the research project "Experimental model for an automatic capacitive compensator designed for improving the power factor and for load balancing in low-voltage electricity distribution networks" (CAEREDJT), 235102 EUR, national joint applied research project (PCCA, UEFISCDI), director: Assoc. Prof. Adrian Pana, UPT (please visit the project website)

         2012 - 2016: Member of the UPT partner in the research project "Software products based on artificial intelligence algorithms applied to modelling and optimization of chemical systems" (AISoftChim), 362903 EUR, national joint applied research project, director: Prof. Silvia Curteanu, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, director of the UPT partner: Prof. Radu-Emil Precup (please visit the project website, link)

         2011 - 2016: Member of the UPT partner in the research project "New performance improvement techniques of control systems using experiment-based tuning", 339907 EUR, national exploratory research grant (PCE, UEFISCDI), director of the UPT partner: Prof. Radu-Emil Precup (please visit the project website)

         2008 - 2011: Doctoral researcher, member of the UPT research team (director of the UPT partner: Prof. Radu-Emil Precup), "Real-time informatics technologies for embedded-system-control of power-train in automotive design and applications" (SICONA), 500000 EUR, Romanian research contract, The National Centre for Programme Management (CNMP), Prof. Corneliu Lazar, director of the project coordinator, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania