Doctoral School of Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology

Congratulations to Adrian PETCU for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Migrating to Web3.0: The Impact of Scaling and Decentralisation on Software Applications" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/AdrianPETCU2024-01-12.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Mihai CIUC. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Dan Marius DOBREA, Prof. Cristian GRAVA, Prof. Bogdan Cristian FLOREA, and Prof. Ion MARGHESCU for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Universitatea Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iaşi, Universitatea din Oradea.

Congratulations to Anca Mihaela DRĂGAN for successfully defending her PhD thesis on "Integrated Circuits with Low Power for Sensors" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/AncaMihaelaDR%C4%82GAN(VASILE)2023-01-12.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Gheorghe BREZEANU. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Adrian GRAUR, SR Raluca MULLER, Prof. Gheorghe PRISTAVU, and Prof. Ion MARGHESCU for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Universitatea „Ștefan cel Mare” din Suceava, National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies.

Congratulations to Omid GHOZATLOU for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Learning with Adversarial Samples for Earth Observation Multi-spectral Images" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/OmidGHOZATLOU2024-01-10.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Mihai DATCU. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Cosmin ANCUȚI, SR Miguel HEREDIA CONDE, Prof. Mihai CIUC, and Prof. Gheorghe BREZEANU for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, Universität Siegen.

check out our mechanical cycling test results conducted on Zircaloy-4 samples used in SEU43 type nuclear fuel sealing, covering a temperature range from 25°C to 400°C and total deformations of 1%, 2%, and 3%, see M. Matei, V. Olaru, V. Radu, Al. Nitu, L. Stoica, A. Jinga, D. Toma and V. Ionescu, "Generalization of the Coffin-Manson Relationship to Assess the Low Cycle Fatigue for the Zircaloy-4 Fuel Sheath", in Journal of Nuclear Research and Development, 2023. For more information see https://lnkd.in/dGDyv3Wx Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, , .

check out our analysis of the environmentally assisted cracking mechanism (EAC) of the 15-15Ti austenitic steel used in the fuel elements manufacturing, see Al. Nitu, V. Radu, L. Stoica, D. Toma, A. Jinga, V. Ionescu and M. Matei, "Study on Environmentally Assisted Cracking of Structural Material for LFR Reactor by SSRT Mechanical Tests", in Journal of Nuclear Research and Development, 2023. For more information seehttps://www.jnrd-nuclear.ro/images/JNRD/No.25/jnrd-258_art4.pdf Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, , .

check out our preliminary weldability tests on 316L austenitic steel samples by two processes, TIG and A-TIG, aiming to implement the second method within RATEN ICN, see Al. Nitu, V. Radu, L. Stoica, D. Toma, A. Jinga, V. Ionescu and C. Ionescu, "Preliminary Research for Development of A-TIG Welding Process of 316L Stainless Steel in RATEN ICN", in Journal of Nuclear Research and Development, 2023. For more information seehttps://www.jnrd-nuclear.ro/images/JNRD/No.25/jnrd-257_art1.pdf Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, , .

we released an analysis of the unintended propagation of audio signal emitted by wireless headphones, ones of the most ubiquitous IT&C devices that has increased and demand in recent years’ market, see A.-M. Vizitiu, B.-C. Trip, V.-F. Butnariu, V. Velicu, L. Dobrescu and S. Halunga, "Analysis of the unintended propagation of audio signal emitted by wireless headphones", in R***e Roumaine des Sciences Techniques, Série Électrotechnique et Énergétique, 67(4), 2022. For more information see https://journal.iem.pub.ro/rrst-ee/article/view/268 Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, STS - Serviciul de Telecomunicaţii Speciale.

we released a solution to identify key fracture mechanics parameters by conducting specific tests on the cladding tube material - Zircaloy-4 alloy, see Al. Nitu, V. Radu, L. Stoica and D. Toma, "Characterization of the DHC crack parameters in zirconium alloys", in Romanian Journal of Physics, 68(7-8), 2023. For more information see https://doi.org/10.59277/RomJPhys.2023.68.910 , Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.

check out our comparative numerical analysis of energy storage utilizing two superconducting materials, BSCCO & YBCO, through the design and validation of a modular toroidal coil, see R. Jubleanu and D. Cazacu, "Design and Numerical Study of Magnetic Energy Storage in Toroidal Superconducting Magnets Made of YBCO and BSCCO", in Magnetochemistry, 9(10), 2023. For more information see https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry9100216 Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.

we released a novel power-following strategy for a fuel cell- electrolyzer unit in an electric vehicle charging system, see F. M. Enescu, F.G. Birleanu, M.S. Raboaca, M. Raceanu, N. Bizon and P. Thounthong, "Electric Vehicle Charging Station Based on Photovoltaic Energy with or without the Support of a Fuel Cell–Electrolyzer Unit", in Energies, 16(2), 2023. For more information see https://doi.org/10.3390/en16020762 Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, , , , , Université de Lorraine.

we released an innovative protocol for obtaining nitrogen-doped graphene oxide through a time-efficient method, see A. Marinoiu, M. Raceanu, E. Carcadea and M. Varlam, "Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Oxide as Efficient Metal-Free Electrocatalyst in PEM Fuel Cells", in Nanomaterials, 13(7), 2023. For more information see https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13071233 Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, .

we released an innovative clock circuit concept that overcomes existing obstacles, compensating with temperature and power supply variations, see C. Stanciu, A. Neacsu, O. Profirescu, D. Dobrescu, and L. Dobrescu, "Temperature and Power Supply Compensated CMOS Clock Circuit Based on Ring Oscillator", in Electronics, 12(3), 2023. For more information see https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12030507 Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.

check out our approach for enhancing the performance of supervised methods in face expression analysis, see M. Badea, C. Florea, A. Racovițeanu, L. Florea, and C. Vertan, "Timid semi–supervised learning for face expression analysis", in Pattern Recognition, 2023. For more information see https://lnkd.in/drG9ZyXw Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.

Congratulations to Silvia OVREIU for successfully defending her PhD thesis on "Retinal Image Analysis using Deep Learning Algorithms" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/SilviaOVREIU2023-12-20.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Mihai CIUC. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Liviu GORAȘ, Prof. Cristian GRAVA, Prof. Alina SULTANA, and Prof. Ion MARGHESCU for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Universitatea Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iaşi, Universitatea din Oradea.

Congratulations to Andrei-Cosmin JITARU for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Machine Learning-based Visual Analysis of Human-to-Human Interaction" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/Andrei-CosminJITARU2023-12-20.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Bogdan IONESCU. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: SR. Adrian POPESCU, Prof. Ioan BUCIU, Prof. Ruxandra ȚAPU, and Prof. Mihai CIUC for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, CEA-LIST, Universitatea din Oradea.

Congratulations to Cosmin Andrei CONȚU for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Resource Management in Virtualization Solutions for Networks and Services" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/CosminAndreiCON%C8%9AU2023-12-15.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Eugen BORCOCI. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Virgil DOBROTĂ, Prof. Florin ALEXA, Prof. Sorin ZOICAN, and Prof. Ion MARGHESCU for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara.

Congratulations to Ileana-Mădălina CIUCĂ for successfully defending her PhD thesis on "Methods for Monostatic and Bistatic Polarimetric SAR Image Analysis" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/Ileana-M%C4%83d%C4%83linaCIUC%C4%822023-11-29.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Silviu CIOCHINĂ. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Ioan NICOLAESCU, Prof. Ion BOGDAN, Prof. Andrei ANGHEL, and Prof. Ion MARGHESCU for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Academia Tehnică Militară "Ferdinand I"- www.mta.ro, Universitatea Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iaşi.

Congratulations to Ana-Antonia NEACȘU for successfully defending her PhD thesis on "Robust Deep Learning Methods Inspired from Signal Processing Algorithms" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/Ana-AntoniaNEAC%C8%98U2023-12-04.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Corneliu BURILEANU and Prof. Jean-Christophe PESQUET. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Daniela TĂRNICERIU, Prof. Nicu SEBE, Prof. Corneliu RUSU, SR Jean-Phillipe OVARLEZ, SR Franck MAMALET, and Prof. Mihai CIUC for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Université Paris-Saclay, Università di Trento, Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca, Universitatea Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iaşi, IRT Saint Exupéry.

Congratulations to Nazir SAQIB for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Deep Depth from Defocus for Near Range and In-situ 3D Exploration" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/NazirSAQIB2023-12-08.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Daniela COLȚUC. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Victor Manuel Brea SANCHEZ, SR Miguel HEREDIA CONDE, Prof. Mihai DATCU, and Prof. Gheorghe BREZEANU for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Universität Siegen.

Congratulations to Reza Mohammadi ASIYABI for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Deep Learning for SAR Data in Presence of Adversarial Samples" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/RezaMohammadiASIYABI2023-12-04.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Mihai DATCU. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Emanuel PUSCHIȚĂ, Prof. Ștefan-Adrian TOMA, SR Michele MARTONE, Prof. Andrei ANGHEL, and Prof. Ion MARGHESCU for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Military Technical Academy Ferdinand I, Microwaves and Radar Institute German Aerospace Center.

Congratulations to Alexandru-George Rusu and Prof. Silviu Ciochină, as well as to the PhD supervision committee Prof. Constantin Paleologu, Prof. Mihnea Udrea & Prof. Andrei Anghel, for receiving the 2022 award, domain --- this is a recognition of the & of the PhD thesis defended in 2022 "Adaptive Algorithms with Applications in Audio and Voice Communications" https://lnkd.in/dsy6Ay_K Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.

Congratulations to Ana-Maria Claudia Drăgulinescu and Prof. Simona Halunga, as well as to the PhD supervision committee Prof. Dragoș Vizireanu, Prof. Nicolae Militaru, Prof. Radu Preda, Dr. Mircea Popescu & Prof. Ioana Marcu, for receiving the 2022 award, domain --- this is a recognition of the & of the PhD thesis defended in 2022 "Sensor-based Automatic Systems Optimisation" https://lnkd.in/eVZYWBUm Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.

Congratulations to Mihai-Sorin Badea and Prof. Constantin Vertan, as well as to the PhD supervision committee Prof. Bogdan Ionescu, Prof. Mihai Ciuc & Prof. Laura-Maria Florea, for receiving the 2022 award, domain --- this is a recognition of the & of the PhD thesis defended in 2022 "The Development of Intelligent Systems for Visual Human-Machine Interfaces" https://lnkd.in/gJj8a699 Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.

Congratulations to Alexandra-Maria Tăuțan and Prof. Bogdan Ionescu, as well as to the PhD supervision committee Prof. Mihai Ciuc, Prof. Mihaela Neagu & Prof. Dragoș Țarălungă, for receiving the 2022 award, domain --- this is a recognition of the & of the PhD thesis defended in 2022 "Automatic Analysis of Physiological Signals for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Neurological Disorders" https://lnkd.in/dKNPhG8H Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.

Congratulations to Filip-Alexandru Roșu and Prof. Mihai Datcu, as well as to the PhD supervision committee Prof. Remus Cacoveanu, Prof. Daniela Faur & Prof. Andrei Anghel, for receiving the 2022 award, domain --- this is a recognition of the & of the PhD thesis defended in 2022 "A Study on Multistatic SAR Configurations" https://lnkd.in/dVs-B3tU Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.

Congratulations to Elena-Diana Grosu-Șandru and Prof. Corneliu Burileanu, as well as to the PhD supervision committee Prof. Dragoș Burileanu, Prof. Horia Cucu & Dr. Andi Buzo, for receiving the 2022 award, domain --- this is a recognition of the & of the PhD thesis defended in 2022 "Data-driven Fabrication Process Variation Assessment in Circuit Design Analysis using Machine Learning" https://lnkd.in/d6cCkH-G Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.

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- We had 62 new PhD students in 2023-2024 i.e., https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/admitere-doctorat2023.html.
- We have 58 PhD supervisors https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/en/PhD_supervisors.html.
- We supervise >300 PhD students yearly.
- We have >30 graduates per year.
- Our PhD students are authors for >2,000 publications (some of them are here https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/en/publications.html).
- We implement/implemented over 100 R&D projects (some of them are here https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/en/projects.html).
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Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București.

Congratulations to Alexandru DINU for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Statistical Models and Methods used in Life Sciences" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/AlexandruDINU2023-10-31.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Adriana VLAD. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Mihai MITREA, Prof. Victor Adrian GRIGORAȘ, Prof. Corneliu BURILEANU, and Prof. Gheorghe BREZEANU for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, TELECOM SudParis, Universitatea Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iaşi.

Congratulations to Cosmin-Alexandru IORDACHE for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Contributions in the Field of Integrated Testing Systems of Electronic Components and Devices" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/Cosmin-AlexandruIORDACHE2023-10-23.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Mircea BODEA. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Marius NEAG, Prof. Henri COANDĂ, Prof. Claudius DAN, and Prof. Gheorghe BREZEANU for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca, Universitatea Valahia.

Congratulations to Andrei-Mircea RACOVIȚEANU for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Large Margin Learning for Image Analysis" https://www.sdetti.upb.ro/Andrei-MirceaRACOVI%C8%9AEANU2023-10-17.html. PhD supervisor Prof. Corneliu-Nicolae FLOREA. We so appreciate the contribution of the thesis committee: Prof. Cătălin CĂLEANU, Prof. Ioan BUCIU, Prof. Constantin VERTAN, and Prof. Mihai CIUC for taking the time to examine the thesis Facultatea de Electronică, Telecomunicații și Tehnologia Informației Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București, Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara, Universitatea din Oradea.