Honours of Dr. Theodor D. Popescu

Awards

• 2004 Australian Research Council (ARC) citation as "expert of international standing" .
• 2001 Award for the best paper, New Method for Change Detection in Systems Operating in Nonstationary Environment , presented at the Fourth ICSC International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems for Industry, Paisley, Scotland, UK, 26-29 June, 2001.
• 2000 General Association of Engineers in Romania Prize on 2000 in the field of Information Technology for the book Time Series. Applications in Systems Analysis , Technical Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2000, 567 pp. picture1, picture2.
• 1995 "Tudor Tanasescu" Prize of the Romanian Academy , for the works in the field of Detection of Changes in Dynamics of Signals and Systems , received in 1997. picture.

Memberships

• Since 1993 Member of the DAAD Alumni (Romanian Association of Former Scholarship Holders of the DAAD)
• 1996-1999 Member of IFAC Technical Committee SAFEPROCESS (Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes)
• Since 1996 Member of IEEE Control Systems Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society
• 1998-2002 Member of IEEE Process Control Committee
• Since 2001 Member of IEEE Romanian Section .
• Since 2002 Senior Member IEEE
• Since 2002 Member of Global Development Network .
• Since 2003 Member of WSEAS Automatic Control Technical Committee .
• Since 2004 Member of College of Experts, The Australian Research Council (ARC)
• Since 2011 Member of JSPS Alumni (Japan Society for Promotion of Science)

Conference Organization Related Activities

Invited Sessions Organizer

• Engineering Techniques and Development of Intelligent Systems , Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems Conference (KES'2004), Wellington, New Zealand, September, 20-24, 2004.
• Estimation and Fault Detection , The 3-rd International Symposium on Intelligent Automation and Control (ISIAC'2000), World Automation Congress (WAC'2000), Maui, Hawaii, SUA, June 11-16, 2000.
• Fault Detection and Diagnosis , IEEE Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD'99), Cohala Coast, Hawaii, SUA, August 22-27, 1999.
• Fault Detection and Isolation in Dynamical Systems - Applications , IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA'99), Cohala Coast, Hawaii, SUA, August 22-27, 1999.
• System Change Detection, Robustness and Isolation , The 2-nd International Symposium on Intelligent Automation and Control (ISIAC'98), World Automation Congress (WAC'98), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 9-14, 1998.
• CACSD for Fault Detection – Applications , IEEE Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD'96), Dearborn, Michigan, SUA, September, Michigan, SUA, September 15-17, 1996.

Member of International Program Committees

• IEEE Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SysTol’13), Nisa, October 9-11, 2013.
• IEEE-TTTC International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR2012) , Cluj-Napoca, May 24-27, 2012.
• IEEE-TTTC International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR2010) , Cluj-Napoca, May 28-30, 2010.
• The 13-th WSEAS International Conference on CIRCUITS (part of 13th WSEAS Multiconference CSCC (CSCC 09) Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers) , Rodos Island, Greece, July 22-24, 2009.
• The World Congress on Engineering (WCE'07, WCE’08, WCE’09, WCE'10, WCE'12) , London, UK, 2-4 July 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
• The 10-th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering, MMACTEE’08 , Corfu, Greece, October 26-28, 2008.
• The 10-th International Conference on Knowledge Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES'06) , Bournemouth, UK, 9-11 October 2006.
• The IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA' 06) , 4-6 October 2006, Munich, Germany (Associate Editor).
• The 4-th WSEAS International Conference on System Science and Simulation in Engineering (ICOSSSE'05) , Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, December 16-18, 2005.
• The WSEAS International Conference on Electronics, Control and Signal Processing (ICECS'05) , Miami, Florida, USA, November 17-19, 2005.
• The 5-th WSEAS International Conference on Systems Theory and Scientific Computation (ISTASC'2005) , Malta, September 15-17, 2005.
• The WSEAS International Conference on Engineering Education , Venice, Italy, November 15-17, 2004.
• The Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems Conference (KES'2004) , Wellington, New Zealand, September, 20-24, 2004.
• The 8-th WSEAS International Conference on Systems , Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece, July 12-15, 2004.
• The 4-th WSEAS International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ISA'2004) , Miami, Florida, USA, April 21-23, 2004.
• The 4-th International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (EIS'2004) , Funchal, Island of Madeira, Portugal, February 29 - March 3, 2004.
• The 1st NAISO Congress on Information Technology in the Environmental Engineering , Technical University of Gdansk, June 24 - 27, 2003.
• The 3-rd WSEAS International Conference on Systems Theory and Scientific Computation , Rhodes, November 15-17, 2003.
• The IEEE Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD'2000) , Anchorage, Alaska, USA, September 25-27, 2000.
• The UKACC International Conference on CONTROL'98, University of Wales , Swansea, UK, 1 - 4 September 1998.

Chairman Sessions

• “Advanced Mathematical Models II”, Mathematical Models for Engineering Science(MMES'10), International conference of the Institute for Environment, Engineering, Economics and Applied Mathematics (IEEEAM) , Puerto De La Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, November 30- December 2, 2010.
• “Modelling of Control Systems”, The 14-th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference MELECON'2008 , Ajaccio, France, May 5-7, 2008
• “Poster Session” organized by Industrial Information Technology Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics ISIE'06 , ETS-Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 9-13 July 2006.
• “Speech and Image Processing Systems - Analysis and Segmentation”, The 11-th WSEAS International Conference on Systems , July 23-25, 2007, Agios Nikolaos, Crete Island, Greece.
• “Estimation and Identification III”, The 6-th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (IEEE ICCA'07) , May 30-June 1, 2007, Guangzhou, China.
• "Signal Processing Systems”, The 7-nd International Multiconference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers (CSCC'2003) , Corfu Island,Greece, July 7-10, 2003.
• “Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques and Applications”, The 2-nd International Symposium on Intelligent Automation and Control (ISIAC'98), World Automation Congress (WAC'98) , Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 9-14, 1998.
• “System Change Detection, Robustness and Isolation”, The 2-nd International Symposium on Intelligent Automation and Control (ISIAC'98), World Automation Congress (WAC'98) , Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 9-14, 1998
• “Applications I”, The 4-th IFAC Conference on System Structure and Control (SSC'97) , Bucharest, Romania, October 23-25, 1997. “CACSD for Fault Detection – Applications”, IEEE Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD'96) , Dearborn, Michigan, SUA, September 15-17, 1996.
• “Model Based Diagnosis”, IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technological Processes, SAFEPROCESS'94 , Espoo, Finland, June 1994.
• “Application of Computer Control in Science”, The 2-nd IFAC/IFIP Symposium on Software for Computer Control SOCOCO'79 , Prague, Czechoslovakia, June 1979.

Others

• Since 1995 Member of the Scientific Board of the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics
• 2005-2009 President of the Scientific Board of the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics
• Since 2006 Member of the Consultative Board for Research Development and Innovation