Prof. Petru Caşcaval, PhD
Updated April 2018
Personal information
Name: Petru Caşcaval
Nationality: Romanian
Date of birth: July 14, 1962
Civil status: Married
Telefon / Fax: +40-232-232430
E-mail: cascaval@cs.tuiasi.ro
Management
Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DCSE), Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering (FACCE), „Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi (TUIASI), 2005-present
Member of the Senate of TUIASI, 2006 – present
Vice-Dean with academic affairs, FACCE, TUIASI, 2002-2004
Fields of interest
RAM memory testing, Modelling and simulation of discrete-event systems, Markov chains, Petri Nets, Reliability and fault-tolerance, Performance evaluation, Digital system testing and testable design
Work experience
Period: February 2007 – present
Position: Professor
Subjects taught: Modelling and simulation, Real-Time systems, Reliability and safety operation, Reliability of distributed systems
Place, institution: FACCE, DCSE, TUIASI
Period: October 2002 – February 2007
Position: Associate professor
Subjects taught: Modelling and simulation, Real-Time systems, Performance evaluation
Place, institution: FACCE, DCSE, TUIASI
Period: October 1994 – September 2002
Position: Lecturer
Subjects taught: Modelling and simulation, Software engineering
Place, institution: FACCE, DCSE, TUIASI
Period: October 1991 – October 1994
Position: Teaching assistant
Subjects taught: Computer testing, Fault-tolerant systems, Computer programming
Place, institution: FACCE, DCSE, TUIASI
Period: October 1987 – October 1991
Position: System engineer
Place, institution: Bacau, Romania, Machine Tools Company
Education and qualifications
Period: October 1993 – July 2001
Qualification/diploma obtained: PhD diploma, thesis title: “ New results in digital system testing”, scientific advisor: Prof. Corneliu Huţanu, PhD
Place, institution: FACCE, TUIASI
Period: October 1982 – July 1987
Qualification/diploma obtained: Engineer diploma
Place, institution: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, TUIASI (Specialization on Automatic control and computers)
Period: October 1977 – July 1981
Qualification/diploma obtained: High school diploma
Place, institution: „Costache Negruzzi” National College of Iaşi
Language skills
Mother language: Romanian
Foreign languages: English
Mobilities
Warsaw University of Technology, June 1994
National Technical University of Athens, May 1997
University of Sheffield, May – July 1999
Member in the scientific programme committees of conferences
IEEE 24th Int. Conf. on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, 2020; http://ace.ucv.ro/icstcc2020/
X International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computing, ICECCO – 2019, Chişinău, October 2019, http://www.icmcs.utm.md/
IEEE 23th Int. Conf. on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC) Sinaia, 2019; http://icstcc2019.cs.upt.ro/
IEEE 22th Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS’22), Bucureşti, May 2019; http://cscs22.hpc.pub.ro/
IEEE 22th Int. Conf. on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC) Sinaia, 2018; http://www.icstcc.ugal.ro/2018/ (ISI Proceedings)
IEEE 21th Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS’21), Bucureşti, 2017; http://cscs21.hpc.pub.ro/ (ISI Proceedings)
IX Int. Conf. on Microelectronics and Computer Science, Chişinău, 2017; http://www.icmcs.utm.md/
IEEE 18th International Carpathian Control Conference, Craiova, 2017; http://ace.ucv.ro/iccc2017/ (ISI Proceedings)
IEEE 21th Int. Conf. on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, 2017; www.icstcc2017.ac.tuiasi.ro/ (ISI Proceedings)
IEEE 20th Int. Conf. on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, 2016. http://ace.ucv.ro/icstcc2016/ (ISI Proceedings)
IEEE 20th Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS’20), Bucureşti, 2015; http://cscs20.hpc.pub.ro/ (ISI Proceedings)
IEEE 19th Int. Conf. on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Cheile Gradiştei – Fundata, 2015. http://www.aie.ugal.ro/icstcc/icstcc2015/ (ISI Proceedings)
The 7th Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI 2015), Craiova, 2015; http://software.ucv.ro/BCI2015/
IEEE 19th Int. Conf. on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucureşti, 2014; http://cscs19.acs.pub.ro/ (ISI Proceedings)
VIII Int. Conf. on Microelectronics and Computer Science, Chişinău, 2014; http://www.icmcs.utm.md/icmcs_2014/
IEEE 18th Int. Conf. on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, 2014; http://www.ace.tuiasi.ro/icstcc2014/
IEEE 17th Int. Conf. on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, 2013 ; http://ace.ucv.ro/icstcc2013/ (ISI Proceedings)
IEEE 16th Int. Conf. on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, 2012; http://www.aie.ugal.ro/icstcc2012/
IEEE 15th Int. Conf. on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia, 2011; http://www.ace.tuiasi.ro/icstcc2011/
VII Int. Conf. on Microelectronics and Computer Science, Chişinău, 2011;
IEEE 14th Int. Conf. on System Theory and Control (ICSTC), Sinaia, 2010;
Int. Conf. on Advances in Electro-Techologies, Oradea, 2010;
Int. Conf. on Engineering of Modern Electric Systems, Oradea, 2009;
VI Int. Conf. on Microelectronics and Computer Science, Chişinău, 2009;
V Int. Conf. on Microelectronics and Computer Science, Chişinău, 2007;
Member in Editorial Advisory Board
Journal of Engineering Science, ISSN 2587-3474
Buletinul Institutului Politehnic din Iaşi – Automatic Control and Computer Science Section, ISSN: 1220 – 2169; Associated Editor, 1998 – 2008;
Journal of Computer Science and Control Systems, ISSN: 1844-6043
Other activities
Coordinator of the „Computers” study programme, Bachelor’s level, FACCE, TUIASI
Responsible for the master’s domain in „Computers and Information Technology” FACCE, TUIASI
ARACIS Evaluator (2010) – (ARACIS – The Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education)
Awards
Best paper award: P. Caşcaval, S.A. Floria, „SDP Algorithm for network reliability evaluation”, IEEE Conf. on INnovations in Intelligent Systems ans Applications (INISTA2017), Gdynia, Poland, 3-5 July 2017, DOI: 10.1109/INISTA.2017.8001143
Promotor of the PhD Thesis:
„New test algoritms for coupling faults in random-access memories”, Dr. Cristina Huzum (Neculiţă), FACCE, DCSE, TUIASI, 2011
Member in the jury of the PhD Thesis:
„Development of Applications in Cryptography, Testing and Detecting/Correcting Error Codes”, Dr. Mirella Amelia MIOC, The University „Ştefan cel Mare” of Suceava, 2016.
„Contributions to parallelization of pattern-recognition algorithms”, Dr. Ştefania Iuliana ISAC (ŞOIMAN), The University „Ştefan cel Mare” of Suceava, 2015.
„Applications of artificial intelligence in heterogeneously distributed systems”, Dr. Adrian Alexandrescu, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, 2012