Education

PhD in Mathematics/Computer Science, September 1984.

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania.

Dissertation Topic: Syntactic and Informational Aspects of Pattern Recognition.

Advisor: Solomon Marcus, Fellow of the Romanian Academy.

 

I can trace my PhD adviser relations back 14 generations over 350 years, in forward chronological order:

Erhard Weigel (1650)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1666)
Jacob Bernoulli
Johann Bernoulli (1694)
Leonhard Euler (1726)
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Simeon Denis Poisson
Michel Chasles (1814)
Gaston Darboux (1866)
Emil Borel (1893) and Henri Lebesque (1902)
Paul Montel (1907)
Miron Nicolescu (1928)
Solomon Marcus (1956)
Razvan Andonie (1984)

Master of Science in Mathematics/Computer Science, July 1977.

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Professional Experience

2003 - present    Associate Professor

                             Computer Science Department, Central Washington University, USA

 

1996 - present    Full Professor

                            Department of Electronics and Computers, Transylvania University of Brasov, Romania

 

1999 - 2000        Visiting Professor

                            Division of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio

 

1997 - 1999        Visiting Professor

                            Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

 

1992 - 1996        Associate Professor

                            Department of Electronics and Computers, Transylvania University of Brasov, Romania

 

1984 - 1992        Senior Research Scientist

                            Research Institute for Computer Technique, Brasov, Romania

Short-term visiting positions

Jan. - Feb., 1996    Visiting Professor, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, U.K

 

Feb. - March, 1996    Visiting Professor, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

 

July - Aug., 1997    Visiting Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Professional Affiliations

Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, ACM, IASTED Technical Committee on Neural Networks.