Theses defended publicly in 2018

In 2018 there have been defended publicly 19 Ph.D. theses by Romanian students and 2 theses by foreign students. From the 21 finalized theses, 8 are in the SE domain and 13 in the CIT domain. There was 1 double Ph.D. degree thesis.

Ph.D. theses in the System Engineering domain finalized and defended in 2018:

• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Theodor Borangiu
• Ph.D. student: Octavian Andrei Silişteanu
  Thesis title: Holonic hybrid supervised control of radiopharmaceutical production with service-oriented architercture
  Date of public defence: 09.11.2018 publicity
• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Cătălin Buiu
• Ph.D. student:  George Andrei Florea
  Thesis title: Contributions to the control of collective robotic systems using membrane computing
  Date of public defence: 05.07.2018
• Scientific coordinator: Acad. Florin Filip
• Ph.D. student:  Isabela Andreea Iiescu
  Thesis title: The “Quick Progress” management method  for teams developing application software for publicity and finance performance analysis using Big Data
  Date of public defence: 29.01.2018
• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Sergiu Stelian Iliescu
• Ph.D. student:  Mihaela Puianu
  Thesis title: The control of distribution processes with renewable power sources

Date of public defence: 23.11.2018

• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Costică Nitu
• Ph.D. student:  Sabin Popescu
  Thesis title: Optimal control of renewable power source networks(photovoltaic)
  Date of public defence: 15.11.2018
• Conducător ştiinţific: Prof.dr.ing. Cristian Oară
• Ph.D. student:  Florin Sebastian Tudor
  Thesis title: Robust and optimal control theory for algebraic dynamical systems
  Date of public defence: 16.10.2018
• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Dumitru Popescu
• Ph.D. student:  Cristian Miron
  Thesis title: Robust tolerant control of power systems
  Date of public defence: 06.11.2018
• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Valentin Sgârciu
• Ph.D. student:  Bogdan Nedelcu
  Thesis title: Information technologies for the analysis of business processes
  Date of public defence: 04.10.2018

Ph.D. theses in the Computers and Information Technology domain finalized and defended in 2018:

• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Valentin Cristea
• Ph.D. student: Cătălin Gosman
  Thesis title: Security mechanisms for intelligent transportation systems
  Date of public defence: 11.10.2018
• Scientific coordinators: Prof.Dr.Eng. Adina Magda Florea, UPB and Prof. Dr. Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Sorbonne University, Paris, France (double Ph.D degree)
• Ph.D. student: Tudor Marius Benea
  Thesis title: Collective intelligence in AmI environments
  Date of public defence: 10.12.2018
• Ph.D. student: Dan-Marius Novischi
  Thesis title: Non-holonomic self-organizing robot swarm with visual perception in support of indoor exploration applications
  Date of public defence: 12.10.2018
• Ph.D. student: Sameer Feras Alhaijawy
  Thesis title: Automatic planning system for activity management to help people with special needs
  Date of public defence: 26.07.2018
• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Florica Moldoveanu
• Ph.D. student: Oana Maria Ferche
  Thesis title: A system for neuromotor rehabilitation using virtual reality
  Date of public defence: 02.11.2018
• Ph.D. student: Oana Alexandra Voinea
  Thesis title: Augmented and virtual reality in the study of biomechanics
  Date of public defence: 02.11.2018
• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Mircea Petrescu
• Ph.D. student: Ciprian-Octavian Truică
  Thesis title: A scalable document-oriented architecture for text mining and analysis
  Date of public defence: 09.07.2018
• Ph.D. student: Marius Rafailescu
  Thesis title: Consensus problem – distributed transaction commit
  Date of public defence: 09.07.2018
• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Răzvan Rughiniş
• Ph.D. student: Dumitru-Cristian Trancă
  Thesis title: Optimizations in Industriat Internet of Things
  Date of public defence: 30.10.2018
• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Ştefan Trăuşan-Matu
• Ph.D. student: Abdullah Munef Ahmed
  Thesis title: Machine learning and natural language processing for the analysis and classification of Arabic language poems
  Date of public defence: 25.09.2018
• Scientific coordinator: Prof.Dr.Eng. Nicolae Ţăpuş
• Ph.D. student: Răzvan Tătăroiu
  Thesis title: Optimized architectures for wireless, self-configurasble sensor networks
  Date of public defence: 10.12.2018
• Ph.D. student: Adriana Drăghici
  Thesis title: Contributions to the management of mobility data
  Date of public defence: 10.12.2018
• Ph.D. student: Silvia Cristina Stegaru
  Thesis title: Modeling, monitoring and optimizing energy consumption in buildings
  Date of public defence: 30.10.2018

All the theses defended in 2018 have been validated by the CNATDCU specialty commission granting doctor titles at national level in the SE and CIT domains; hence the percentage of obtaining the doctor title after public defence is 100%. For both SE and CIT domains all Ph.D. titles were validated by the CNATDCU commission without any delay or request to extend or modify the theses.

The titles of doctor have been validated in 2018 through Decision of the Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research (OMENCŞ) as follows: