Partner universities, Joint Ph.D. theses

The Doctoral school of Automatic Control and Computers (SD_AC) within University Politehnica of Bucharest signed Joint-Ph.D. Agreements with foreign universities for a number of doctoral theses which are realized at present by Romanian Ph.D. students in the domains of System Engineering (SE) and Computers and Information Technology (CIT).

Agreements with foreign universities for joint Ph.D. theses

Joint Ph.D. Agreement UPB – University of Twente (The Netherlands)

Ph.D. students and theses:

• Ph.D. student Cristian Chilipirea, Admission year: 2014
  Thesis title: Data gathering for crowd sensing systems
  Doctorate domain: CIT
  Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eng. Ciprian Dobre, Prof. Dr. Eng. Valentin Cristea (UPB),
  Prof. Dr. Eng. Maarteen van Steen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Ph.D. student Andreea Petre, Admission year: 2014
  Thesis title: Crowd sensing
  Doctorate domain: CIT
  Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eng. Ciprian Dobre, Prof. Dr. Eng. Valentin Cristea (UPB),
  Prof. Dr. Eng. Maarteen van Steen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Ph.D. student Valeriu Stanciu, Admission year: 2015
  Thesis title: Privacy-preserving crowd analytics
  Doctorate domain: CIT
  Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eng. Ciprian Dobre, Prof. Dr. Eng. Valentin Cristea (UPB),
  Prof.dr.ing. Maarteen van Steen, Dr. Andreas Peter (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Joint Ph.D. Agreement UPB – Normandie Université (France)

Ph.D. students and theses:

• Ph.D. student Lavinius Gliga, Admission year: 2016
  Thesis title: The diagnosis and control of Aeolian turbines
  Doctorate domain: SE
  Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eng. Dumitru Popescu (UPB), Prof. Dr. Eng. Houcine Chafuk (Normandie Université, France)

Joint Ph.D. Agreement UPB – Lugwig Maximilians Universität München (Germany)

Ph.D. students and theses:

• Ph.D. student Iulia Pasov, Admission year: 2017
  Thesis title: Newcomer Integration Analysis in Online Knowledge Building Communities
  Doctorate domain: CIT
  Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eng. Stefan Trăusan-Matu (UPB), Prof. Dr. Eng. Nicolae Nistor (Lugwig Maximilians Universität München)

Joint Ph.D. Agreement UPB – University of Seville (Spain)

Ph.D. students and theses:

• Ph.D. student: Radu Dragan, Admission year: 2017
  Thesis title: Resource management over ad-hoc wireless networks
  Doctorate domain: CIT
  Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eng. Ciprian Dobre (UPB), Prof. Dr. Eng. Sergio Toral Marin,
  (University of Seville)

Joint Ph.D. Agreement UPB – University of Lille, France

Ph.D. students and theses:

• Ph.D. student: Cristian Miron, Admission year: 2014, Public defence: 2018
  Thesis title: Robust tolerant control of power systems
  Doctorate domain: SE
  Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eng. Dumitru Popescu (UPB), Prof. Dr. Eng. Nicolai Christov (University of Lille)

Joint Ph.D. Agreement UPB – Université de Sorbonne, Paris, France

Ph.D. students and theses:

• Ph.D. student Tudor Marius Benea, Admission year: 2014, Public defence: 2018
  Thesis title: Collective Intelligence in AmI Environments
  Doctorate domain: CIT
  Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eng. Adina Magda Florea (UPB), Prof. Dr. Eng. Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (Université de Sorbonne, Paris, France)

PhD graduation / Early Stage Researcher (ESR) positions within A-WEAR European Joint Doctorate network

A-WEAR is an international, multidisciplinary and multi-sectorial training network and joint doctorate program on wearable computing. A-WEAR is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement No. 813278. The Ph.D. / ESR positions are offered within the A-WEAR European Joint Doctorate action.

The following universities participate in the A-WEAR European Joint Doctorate program: Tampere University, Finland; University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania; Universita Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy; Universitat Jaume I, Spain; Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic.

Ph.D. students and theses:

• Ph.D. student Laura Stefania Flueratoru, Admission year: 2019
  Thesis title: Centimetre-level accuracy for IoT localization of wearable devices
  Doctorate domain: CIT
  Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eng. Dragos Niculescu (UPB), Prof. Dr. Eng. Simona Lohan
  (Tampere University, Finland)
• Ph.D. student Asma Channa, Admission year: 2019
  Thesis title: Wearables for e-Health
  Doctorate domain: CIT
  Thesis supervisors: Prof. Dr. Eng. Nirvana Popescu (UPB), Prof. Dr. Eng. Antonio Iera
  (Universita Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy)