- Artificial Intelligence;
- UAVs;
- Biomedical Engineering;
- Brain Computer Interface Systems;
- Bio-inspired Systems;
- IoT;
- Intelligent Embedded Systems.
- 90+ publications
- Conference papers, journal articles, books, patents:
- Featured speaker at Impact Spotlights: smart agriculture & sustainable farming (37:54 time index), September 26, 2024, organized by Hackster.io
- At the Apache NuttX International Workshop 2024, held in Sony City Osaki, Tokyo, Japan, 13-14th Jun 2024. I gave a lecture entitled: “NuttX and PX4 – a synergy able to generate practical UAV’ applications”
- At the PX4 Autopilot Developer Summit international conference, organized by “The Linux Foundation” in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, October 21-22, 2023. I gave a lecture entitled: “An L-Band EMI Analysis of a UAV System Sustained by a PX4 Autopilot”
- 1st place, in the international Pervasive AI Developer Contest, organized by AMD Inc., 2024, Robotics AI, project title: “An autonomous shieldUAV to protect and save lives”
- 1st place, in the international competition HoverGames Challenge 3: Land, Sky, Food Supply, organized by NXP Semiconductors, 2023, project title: “agriHoverGames – a smart drone that solves farmers' problems”
- 2nd place, in the international competition HoverGames Challenge 2: Help Drones, Help Others During Pandemics, organized by NXP Semiconductors, 2021, project title: “A HoverGames Drone to Sustain a Quarantine Zone”
- 1st place, in the international competition HoverGames Challenge 1: Fight Fire with Flyers, organized by NXP Semiconductors, 2020, project title: “A Video Warning HoverGames Drone to Fight with the Fire”
- “Most Practical Real World Application” award in the international competition “Revolutionize Your IoT Prototyping with NXP”, 2019, project title: "A Guardian Angel (gAngel) for the Indoor Generation".
- "Constantin Budeanu" Award of the Romanian Academy, December 19, 2006.
- I took 2nd place in the international competition “The Innovact Awards for Innovation”, 2005 organized by the European Union through the European Commission and the European Foundation for Management Development, which took place on October 4-5, 2005, Reims, France, during the tenth edition of the Innovact forum (European forum for innovative growth companies).
- Diploma of merit awarded by the Steering Committee of the Romanian Society of Fuzzy Systems, September 27, 2000 for “Outstanding research results”.
- Guest Editor, Axioms (ISSN 2075-1680, IF = 2.0), Advances in Mathematical Methods in Signal Processing and Its Applications;
- Editor Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Iași. Electrical Engineering. Power Engineering. Electronics Section, 2023-present.