Date and place of birth: 02/10/1952, Iasi, Romania
Address: “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi
Department of Automatic Control and Applied Informatics
Prof.dr.doc. D. Mangeron Street 27, Iasi, RO-700050, Romania
E-mail: clazar@ac.tuiasi.ro
a) education and training
- pre-university studies: “Costache Negruzzi” High School, Iasi, Baccalaureate diploma (1971)
- faculty studies: “Gh. Asachi” Polytechnic Institute (currently Technical University) of Iasi, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering Specialization – Engineering diploma (1971 – 1976)
- PhD studies: “Gh. Asachi” Polytechnic Institute (currently Technical University) of Iasi, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering – PhD diploma in Control Engineering (1985 – 1991)
- training in: ● “Control systems for heavy forging” at the Heavy Plant Company, Beijing, China (8 weeks, 1978); ● “Model based predictive control” at the Adaptive Control Systems Laboratory, University of Florence, Italy (4 weeks, 1993, host: Prof. Edoardo Mosca); ● “Advances in control systems design” at (LAAS) Laboratoire d’Automatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes, Toulouse, France, (4 weeks, 1994, host: Prof. Joseph Aguilar-Martin); ● “Data communications” at Akademisches Auslandsamt – Fachhochschule, Regensburg, Germany (2 weeks, 1998, host: Prof. Alexandru Soceanu)
b) professional experience
- engineer (field – Control engineering) – Heavy Equipment Plant, Iasi (1976 -1982)
- educator and researcher (field – Control engineering)
- “Gheorghe Asachi” Polytechnic Institute of Iasi, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electric Drives and Automation: (i) teaching assistant (1982 – 1990); (ii) assistant professor (1990 – 1992)
- “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering, Department of Automatic Control and Applied Informatics (i) associate professor (1992 – 1997); (ii) full professor (1997 – present)
– research coordinator:
- director of the Centre for Research in Automatic Control and Technical Informatics accredited by CNCSIS (2005 – 2011)
- director of the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering (2016-2018), director of the Coordination Council of doctoral programs of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering (2018-2020)
- director of the research laboratory Automotive Control Systems from the Doctoral School of the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi (2016 – present)
– administrative positions:
- Scientific secretary of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering (1996 -2004)
- Head of the Department of Automatic Control and Applied Informatics (March 2008 – March 2012)
- Vice Dean (March 2004 – March 2008) and Dean (March 2012 – March 2016) of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering.
c) research
- ResearcherID profile: https://publons.com/researcher/2744956/corneliu-lazar/
- Scopus profile: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7005713410
- Scholar Google profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=ro&user=exM6cOsAAAAJ
- h-index: ● Web of Science 10, ● Scopus 13, ● Google-Scholar 16.
- Citations: ● Web of Science 447/399, ● Scopus 609/518, ● Google-Scholar 1138.
- Indexed articles: ● Web of Science (ISI) 90 (18 journals, 72 conferences), ● Scopus 117 (20 journals, 97 conferences), ● Google-Scholar 172 (37 journals, 120 conferences, 15 books and book chapters)
- Publications: ● Journal papers 57, ● Conference papers 213 ● Book chapters edited by international publishing houses 11, ● Books and book chapters edited by national publishing houses 18.
- Intellectual property – Patents 7.
- Research and development grants: ● Coordinator 9, ● Partner team leader 1, ● Team member 27.
- Research interests: ● Predictive control, ● Automotive control systems, ● Visual servoing for image-based robot control, ● Networked control systems.
- Full list of publications 2012-2021
d) teaching experience
- Taught courses Bachelor: Control systems design, Data transmission, Control engineering, Computer vision and pattern recognition; Master: Model based predictive control, Automotive control systems, Machine vision
- Laboratory work: Control systems design, Data transmission, Control engineering, Model based predictive control
e) invited lectures
University of Gent, Department of Electrical energy, systems and automation: ● Undergraduate course module on “Model based predictive control” for the students of Electromechanical Engineering specialization (April 2002, May 2003, April 2004 and May 2006 – Socrates); ● Undergraduate course module on “Tuning rules for PID controllers” for the students of Chemical Engineering specialization (April 2004 – Socrates).
f) Miscellanea
- Correspondent member of the Romanian Academy of Technical Science (2012-present)
- Member of the IFAC Technical Committee TC 4.1 Components and Technologies for Control (2008-2016) and TC 7.1 Automotive Control (2016-2020)
- IEEE Member: Control Systems Society
- Member of the Romanian Society of Control Engineering and Technical Informatics
- Member of the Robotics Society of Romania
- ARACIS evaluator, UEFISCDI expert evaluator
- Paper “Distributed control systems for educational training based on Lookout and FieldPoint” (Carari S., Chirea O., Lazar C.) awarded by National Instruments as Academic Category Finalist at NIWeek 2003 Virtual Instrumentation Applications Paper Contest, Austin, USA
- Bronze Medal – „Salon International des Inventions et des Techniques Nouvelles”, Jassy, 1992
- Languages: English (independent user), French (proficient user).
February 2022