Our team includes several professors, experienced researchers, PhD and master students from 2 faculties of Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania: Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering and Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology.
Member of INTERACT (TUIASI)
Member of INTERACT (TUIASI)
Member of INTERACT (TUIASI)
Member of INTERACT (TUIASI)
Member of INTERACT (TUIASI)
Member of INTERACT (TUIASI)
Member of INTERACT (TUIASI)
Member of INTERACT (TUIASI)
Member of INTERACT (TUIASI)
Constantin Caruntu is founder of the Automated Vehicles laboratory at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi (TUIASI) and has been lecturing and doing research at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering since 2008. He currently has a position of Full Professor and holds courses and laboratory classes in Data transmission – remote process control, Modeling and predictive control, and Automotive control systems. During his academic career, he has been involved in several international and national research projects in the field of Networked control systems, Model predictive control, Vehicle platooning, Distributed control systems, Swarm intelligence for cooperative automated driving, Automotive control systems and System theory and practice. His bibliography consists of more than 80 research titles. Constantin Caruntu also holds a position of control systems design engineer at Continental Automotive Romania.
Ciprian Comsa is currently Associate Professor at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași. As part-time job, he is also Academic Liaison & Innovation Manager at Continental Automotive Romania SRL. After receiving the B. Sc. degree and M. Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, in 2000 and 2001, he pursued a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2006 to 2011. He conducted research activities on wireless communication systems design, source localization and compressive sensing. He participated in various research projects in Romania and Unites States and he published and presented part of his work at prestigious international conferences. His research interests include automotive electronic control systems, functional safety management, radio localization and signal processing algorithms, inter-vehicular communications, and artificial intelligence applied in the fields of automotive and communications.
Nicolae Cleju is an associate profess or at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași, Romania. He obtained the Ph.D. degree summa cum laude in 2012, with a thesis on signal processing using sparse approximations and compressed sensing. The research interests of Dr. Cleju are centered on signal processing, optimization problems, and neural networks. The publications of Dr. Cleju (which include two articles in the red zone of the UEFISCDI journal list) reflect its interest and expertise in the wide domain of signal processing.
As an early adopter and technological trendsetter, Carlos Pascal focuses on the real application of distributed artificial intelligence. He has an M.Sc. (2008) and a Ph.D. (2011) in Systems Engineering from Technical University of Iasi, Romania, conducting researches under the title “Agent-based adaptive architecture for workflow control.” His research path involved modeling, analyzing, and developing manufacturing systems, and applications of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Cloud/Edge computing in Robotics and Industrial Systems, being involved as director/member of teams for four research projects. Lastly, his focus is on the multi-autonomous vehicle systems when he started to work in the “Grid platooning by swarm intelligence” project. Since 2018, he helps local companies to adopt and integrate industrial robots and solutions based on artificial intelligence. He is author and co-author of several reviewed publications.
He received B. SC. Degree and M. SC. Degree in electrical engineering from Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in 2003 and 2004, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2012. His research interests include MIMO Radar, active and passive localization, functional safety analyses, inter-vehicular communications. He has more than 5 years of experience in the signal processing area and more than 5 years of experience in the automotive industry. During this time, he successfully managed safety projects from automotive industry. From 2019, he is assistant professor at Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology from Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania. As assistant professor, he teaches Embedded Signaling, Communication and Networking (master) and Software Engineering and Model Based Design (master).
She received her M. Sc. Degree (2013) in Systems Engineering from Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania, and was awarded in 2019 a joint PhD from Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania in System Engineering and Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium in Control Engineering. She currently has a position of Assistant Professor and holds a course in Control Engineering and laboratory classes in Control Engineering Systems and Systems Identification. During her academic career, she has been involved in several national research projects in the field of Vehicle platooning, Distributed control systems and Swarm intelligence for cooperative automated driving. Her bibliography consists of more than 25 research titles with interests in Distributed Model Predictive Control, Model Predictive Control, coalitional control, multi-agent systems, multivariable control and vehicle platooning applications.
Ovidiu Pauca started his PhD studies in 2019, and his thesis entitled “Cooperating automated vehicles through communication networks” is performed under the supervision of Prof. C.F. Caruntu.
Razvan Lazar started his PhD studies in 2020, and his thesis entitled “Reliability assessment of networked communications for interconnected vehicles” is performed under the supervision of Prof. C.F. Caruntu.
Paulina Guraliuc started her PhD studies in 2020, and her thesis entitled “Optimal sensor fusion for comprehensive environment model creation in a world of connected vehicles and intelligent infrastructures” is performed under the supervision of Prof. C.F. Caruntu.
Student of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies, and working student of He[a]t Department at Continental. During her activity on the faculty, she participated in an international competition organized by ERTICO, under the supervision of Assoc.prof. C.R. Comsa and Prof. C.F. Caruntu, called European Mobility Challenge, in which the scope was to find a smart, green and efficient solution to improve the mobility in Iasi and to increase the safety of the VRUs. The idea „Connected road users for increased safety and optimized traffic flow ” was presented as a worthy concept for urban mobility solution during the pitch session along with another two teams from Bucharest and Bologna. After the competition appeared the opportunity to provide for ERTICO, in the program # Womenonthemove2020, an interview that aims to promote women in the transport sector and celebrate their success.
Currently in the first year of master studies at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies, recently started working as an intern for He[a]t Department at Continental. My bachelor thesis, “Elderly monitoring device”, was done abroad, at Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal, thanks to the European Project Semester, along with remote supervision and help from prof. N. Cleju.
Our solution is based on creating the ability of passenger cars to coordinate
their driving behavior when passing through intelligent intersections equipped with smart
infrastructure.
Let’s improve safety and efficiency by developing collaborative traffic functions in
smart intersections!
