Our team
Faculty, PhD students and research students working across computational intelligence, embedded systems and computer vision at Politehnica University Timișoara.
Structure
Faculty
Received the Master’s degree in Electronics of Intelligent Systems and the doctoral degree in Electronics Engineering, both from University Politehnica Timişoara. His is currently Prof. dr. habil. eng. with Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies form UPT, Timişoara, Romania where he is currently teaching Deep Neural Networks, Bioinspired Systems, Embedded System courses. He has authored more than 100 technical journal and conference papers and co-authored ten books mainly in the neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, computer vision and embedded systems fields. The main research directions are in deep learning applications for medical imaging, biometrics, video surveillance and automotive.
Received the doctoral degree in Electronics Engineering, from University Politehnica Timişoara. She is currently Associate Professor in Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies form UPT, Timişoara, Romania. She is teaching Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Applied Electronics department. Her interest research topics are in 2D and 3D hand gesture recognition, with applications in the development of smart interfaces, medical imaging and autonomous driving. Her work is recognized and validated by over 30 scientific papers (conference and journals papers) published and indexed in international databases, 3 books and more laboratory notes. She was member in 6 grants e.g. Rain Simulator – General Concept, Standards, Components Simulation, Siemens VDO Automotive, and international research contracts, and project manager of a TD type grant. During her postdoctoral grant she was in Universitat de Girona, Spain where she worked with Underwater Vision and Robotics team. She was rewarded with Premiul Ecricsson – Excelență în Telecomunicații in 2007, Diploamă Cercetător eminent 2011 by Orizonturi Universitare and Speranța PatriotFest 2022.
The entire research and educational experience of Radu Mirsu is centred around the fields of artificial intelligence, neural networks, digital and analogue hardware, embedded systems and parallel data processing. During graduate studies at Purdue University USA he has been involved in several projects regarding artificial intelligence and information processing. In collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory Chicago a neural controller has been developed for intelligent battery charge management for hybrid cars. While at Fraunhofer IPA Germany, Radu Mirsu used GPU parallel data processing for visualising large datasets acquired from a computer tomograph. This experience was extremely useful for later PhD studies when a GPU accelerated framework for simulating Liquid State Machines of Spiking Neurons was developed from scratch.â
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Codruta O. Ancuti is a senior researcher/lecturer at University Politehnica Timisoara, Faculty of Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering. She obtained the PhD degree at Hasselt University, Belgium (2011) and between 2015 and 2017 she was a research fellow at University of Girona, Spain (ViCOROB group). Her work received the best paper award at NTIRE 2017 (CVPR workshop). Her main interest of research includes image understanding and visual perception. She is the first that introduced several single images-based enhancing techniques built on the multi-scale fusion (e.g. color-to grayscale, image dehazing, underwater image and video restoration).
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Cosmin Ancuti received the PhD degree at Hasselt University, Belgium (2009). He was a post-doctoral fellow at IMINDS and Intel Exascience Lab (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium (2010-2012) and a research fellow at University Catholique of Louvain, Belgium (2015-2017). Currently, he is a senior researcher/lecturer at University Politehnica Timisoara. He is the author of more than 50 papers published in international conference proceedings and journals. His area of interests includes image and video enhancement techniques, computational photography and low level computer vision.
Ph.D Students
Ioan Lucan Orășan has graduated (BSc) the Applied Electronics program at “1 December 1918” University of Alba Iulia and he got his MSc degree in Electronics of Intelligent Systems from Politehnica University Timişoara. Currently he is a PhD student at Politehnica University Timişoara researching local processing systems for deep learning paradigms under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Habil. Eng. Cătălin Daniel Căleanu. He is also working as Embedded Software Developer at Vitesco Technologies Engineering Romania, Electronic Components department, by having the main responsibilities focused on input/output functionalities mapping on the peripheral devices of an Engine Control Unit. For the PhD program, the activity is centered on the implementation of deep learning paradigms on embedded systems (microcontrollers) due to his main interests: Embedded Systems, Embedded Software Architectures, Deep Learning Neural Networks, Image Classification, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence Techniques for motor control applications using embedded hardware.
Research Students
Former members
Patrick Schmiedt, Patricia Lungu, Adrina Popa, Tiberiu Dumitrescu, Calin Dumitrescu, Marian Iacob, Eliza Tomodan, Serban Maduta, Timotei Dariciuc, Zoltan Boros, Daniela Laura Popescu, Andreea Safta, Horatiu Belei, Sebastian Avram, Andreea Nagat.