Ciprian Dobre
Prof. dr. eng. with habilitation, Vice-Dean of Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers at UPB
Ciprian Dobre (Prof. dr. eng. with habilitation, Vice-Dean of Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, UPB), has scientific and scholarly contributions on Data Science, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things, Wireless Networks, Modeling / Simulation, Mobile and Urban Smart Technologies. Leading the MobyLab laboratory at UPB, he managed projects in fields like mobile communication (TTOff/MONROE, SPRINT, SENSE), sensing&monitoring (MonALISA), high-speed networking (VINCI, FDT), modelling and simulation (MONARC2, VNSim, Sim2Car), intelligent traffic management and data collection and analytics for urban congestion and air pollution reduction (MobiWay, TRANSYS, TEL-MONAER), working in close collaboration with Caltech and CERN (MONARC 2, MonALISA, FDT), Rutgers University (VNSim project), INRIA Rennes (self-adaptive distributed systems), Univ. of Twente (crowd monitoring) and others.
He was awarded the Award “Gheorghe Cartianu” of the Romanian Science Academy, for work on “Optimised communication using people-centric ad-hoc networks” (in 2016), and as main developer for projects MONARC 2 simulator (officially used to evaluate computing models at CERN) and lead developer of MonALISA (the official platform for monitoring production parameters to support physics experiments at CERN) he was Fellow for California Institute of Technology for over 10 years. He was awarded an Oracle PhD fellowship during his doctoral studies.
His results received one IBM Faculty Award, two CENIC Awards (for worldwide records in high-speed networking demonstrated at SuperComputing), and four Best Paper Awards. His results were published in over 100 books, chapters in edited books, articles in major international peer-reviewed journal, and well-established international conferences and workshops. He works closely with the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalisation, developing digital tools for the National Research Strategy and previously working as Cabinet Director and IT officer for the organisation.
Ciprian DOBRE also runs SmartRDI, a spin-off of UPB, that develops technologies like NETIoT, an IoT app-driven platform versatile to support from smart agriculture (used in the H2020 SmartAgriHubs), or for smart city and smart buildings applications, Sim2Car, a smart city simulation, or Opportunity, phone-to-phone 5G platform for contextual mobile app, are all examples of open-source SmartRDI technologies. He is the UPB representative as member in EOSC and CESAER (the forum of universities of science and technology in Europe), Scientific Evaluator for European Commission and for national funding agencies in different programmes.
He is a member of EUA Research and Innovation Strategy Group (RISG), the board developing the research and innovation strategy and policy for all topics of relevance to European HEIs, providing advice and support to the EUA Board on strategic horizon scanning and policy review.