Lucian PRODAN, Public presentation of the Habilitation Thesis

Title of the habilitation thesis: Stochastic Plasticity: Biologically-Inspired Approaches in Computer Engineering and Information Technology

Committee Members:

• Prof. Dr. Eng. Mihai Micea, UPT – Chair

• Prof. Dr. Eng. Nicolae Țăpuș, UNST Politehnica Bucharest – Member

• Prof. Dr. Eng. Vasile Manta, UTGA Iași – Member

Alternate Members:

• Prof. Univ. Dr. Darian Onchiș, UVT – Alternate Member

• Prof. Dr. Eng. Vladimir Crețu, UPT – Alternate Member

Essential to any research path, the defining roadway for this work cannot be assimilated to a straight line, with influences and incursions related to a range of fields that are seemingly disjoint. Drawing its vitals from the field of bio-inspired computing, this thesis reunites results from research in the uncertainty-dominated world of stochastic processes, which are crucial for understanding and mastering the reliability of computing processes and systems, with those coming from harnessing the power of information plasticity. The contributions described relate to challenging multi-objective optimisation problems , such as that of urban traffic, and machine learning applications providing a better understanding of the complexity of human gestures for detecting violence or monitoring treatment compliance.