Dr. Dan Pescaru
   Associate Professor

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Research 

My research interests are in artificial inteligence, cyberphisical systems, wireless sensor networks. 
I am the coordinator of the Sensor Networks 
SeNT research team.

Current Research Topics

  • Visual programming for massively distributed systems (Cyber Physical Systems) - started in 2009
     Team: D. Pescaru, G. Magureanu, M. Gavrila
     in collaboration with a team coordinated by dr. Alex Doboli at State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • Infrastructure services for Wireless Sensor Networks - started in 2007
     Team: D. Pescaru, I. Codruta, F. Naghiu, B. Ciubotariu, V. Gavrila
     in collaboration with a team coordinated by dr. Alex Doboli at State University of New York at Stony Brook


Projects, Grants and Programs 
  • International Mobility Projects
    Socrate-Erasmus Project 2006 and 2007. Patrners: "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania,  Dublin City University, Ireland (coordinators: D. Pescaru (UPT) and G. Muntean(DCU))
  • Research Projects and Grants:
    • UEFISCDI grant PN-III-P2-2.1-CI-2017-0427, contr. 51CI/25.07.2017 - "Parking assitance system for TPark", (D. Pescaru, C. Istin, M. Baba)
    • RC Everseen Ireland, nr. 1/2012 - "Algorithms on Video Analytics for Incident Detection and Classification for Retailer Industry", (D. Pescaru, O. Parvu, D. Seres)
    • CNCSIS MedC A, cod 378/2007 - "Tehnologii Bazate pe Inteligenta Artificiala pentru Software-ul si Infrastructura de Retea Specifice Retelelor Radio de Urmatoarea Generatie", (D. Todinca, V. Cretu, I. Sora, D. Pescaru, D. Cosma, C. Marinescu)
    • CNCSIS MEdC nr. 2739 din 19.05.2006  (and GR76/377 tema 25 din 23.05.2007) - Video Surveillance Applications Platform Based on Wireless Sensor Networks, (D. Pescaru, S. Serau, D. Cosma, B. Ciubotariu, P. Mierlutiu)
    • MedC CEEX Module 3, no. 6 din 7.09.2005 - "PROWEST - Promovarea activitatii de cercetare in informatica in vestul Romaniei", (D. Petcu, M. Minea, R. Marinescu, C. Marinescu, P. Mihancea, I. Sora, D. Pescaru, D. Cosma, D. Todinca)
    • CNCSIS MedC nr. 27688/2005  - Integrated Evolutive Environment for Software Quality Assesment, (R. Marinescu, M. Minea, I. Sora, C. Marinescu, P. Mihancea, D. Pescaru, R. Wettel)
    • MedC CEEX nr. 3147/2005 - Design Quality Assurance for Enterprise Software Systems (R. Marinescu, C. Marinescu, P. Mihancea, D. Pescaru, C. Jebelean, I. Sora)
    • CNCSIS MedC A,  32940 / 22 iunie 2004 - Modeling, analysis and verification of software systems, (M. Minea, R. Marinescu, D. Pescaru, C. Marinescu, I. Sora)
    • UNSA-CNRS (France) OCL - "Objets et Composants Logiciels - Objects and Software Components", 2000-2003 (R. Rousseau, P. Lahire, P. Crescenzo, D. Pescaru, C. Chirila)
    • MedC CTIC InfoSoc Inf-45/07.11.2001 "Crearea si dezvoltarea unui centru de tehnologie si creativitare",  2001-2002
    • MedC CC nr. 2039GR/23.10.96 tema B3, "Metode de compresie utilizate in transmiterea informatiilor multimedia prin retele B-ISDN", 1996-1997 

Profesional Service 

  • Associate Editorial Secretary of Scientific Bulletin of "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Transactions on Automatic Control and Computer Science, ISSN 1224-600X
  • Member of Technical Program Committee (TPC) at
    • IEEE International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, SACI'2011, Timisoara, Romania, 2011
    • ACM Simutools OMNeT++ Workshop, Malaga, Spain, 2010
    • ACM Simutools OMNeT++ Workshop, Rome, Italy, 2009
    • International Conference on Technical Informatics - CONTI'2008, Timisoara, Romania, 2008
    • ACM Simutools OMNeT++ Workshop, Marseille, France, 2008
    • International Conference on Sensor Networks - SN 2008, Crete, Greece, 2008
    • International Symposium on Distributed Sensor Networks - DSN'2008, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2008
    • IEEE International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, SACI'2007, Timisoara, Romania, 2007
    • International Conference on Technical Informatics - CONTI'2006, Timisoara, Romania, 2006
  • Member of Local Organization Committee (LOC) at
    • International Conference on Technical Informatics - CONTI'2000,CONTI'2002, CONTI'2004, CONTI'2006, CONTI'2008, CONTI'2010Timisoara, Romania
  • Topic Chair at
    • International Conference on Technical Informatics - CONTI'2004(DB) and CONTI'2006(WSN), Timisoara, Romania
  • Peer Reviewer at
    • IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, ISSN: 0018-9316, Impact factor: 1.7, 2012
    • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing,ISSN: 1057-7149, Impact factor: 3.04, 2012
    • MDPI Sensors, ISSN 1424-8220 , ISI Impact factor: 1.9, 2009
    • Elsevier AUTOCON, ISSN: 0926-5805, Impact factor: 1.7, 2009
    • Scientific Bulletin of "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, TACCS, ISSN 1224-600X, 2006-2009
    • International Conference on Technical Informatics - CONTI'2000,CONTI'2002, CONTI'2004, CONTI'2006, CONTI'2008, Romania
    • International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, SACI'2005, SACI'2009, SACI'2011 Timisoara, Romania
  • Project Reviewer as CNCSIS Expert (A and At projects) since 2005
  • Project Reviewer at UEFISCSU (PNII projects) since 2008

Profesional Experience

  • Invited professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, I taught an intensive course on "Developing Java Web Applications", and I had an invited talk on "Issues and Challenges in Developing Wireless Video-Sensor Networks" at RINCE Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland, June 2006
  • Invited professor at "Sophia Antipolis" University of Nice, France, I work in research on "Variability in Software Product Lines " with the Familiar project Team, UNSA, Fr, September 2011.

 

Last update: 20.02.2010

Computers Department, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania

 

 

 

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