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Background:
I received the Diploma in Control Engineering (1972), from the Polytechnical Institute of Bucharest (IPB), Bucharest, Romania, and the Diploma in Mathematics (1978) from the University of Bucharest, Romania. My Ph.D. thesis in Control Engineering at IPB was entitled "Contributions to the Realization of Model Reference Adaptive Systems" (in Romanian), IPB, 1983.

Position:
First Degree Senior Research Worker (equivalent to full professor) at National Institute for Research & Development in Informatics (ICI), Applied Research Department.

Honors/Awards:

  • "Tudor Tanasescu" Romanian Academy Prize, 1992, for works in applied mathematics (awarded in 1994).
  • General Association of Engineers in Romania Award for works in linear-quadratic optimization (awarded in 1997).
  • Mentioned in the Editions 16, 17 and 18 of Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who, 121 Chanlon Road, New Providence, NJ 07974, U.S.A.
  • Mentioned in the 2002 Edition of Who's Who in Romania (in Romanian), Pegasus Press, Bucuresti, Romania.

    Areas of interest:
  • Adaptive Control;
  • Computer Aided Control Systems Design;
  • Nonlinear Optimization;
  • Numerical Linear Algebra;
  • Numerical Methods in System Theory;
  • Optimal Control;
  • Structure-exploiting Algorithms;
  • System Identification by Subspace Techniques.


    Main Achievements:

    Author or co-author of several software packages, books, papers, and technical reports in the control engineering field and, more generally, applied mathematics:

  • Software packages;
  • Books;
  • Papers;
  • Technical Reports;
  • Foreign grants.


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    Mail: Vasile Sima, National Institute for Research & Development in Informatics (ICI), Lab.07,
    8-10 Averescu Ave., Bucharest 1, Romania, code 011455.
    Phone: +(40)-21-316.07.65, Fax: +(40)-21-316.05.39.

    E-mail:vsima@u3.ici.ro
    Last update: 2004, June 30