Our Team
Current members
Aurel Gontean
PhD Advisor
Aurel GONTEAN graduated the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania in 1986. He received the PhD degree in 1998, from the same university. He became a full professor in 2005. He is IEEE Senior Member and PhD Advisor since 2008 (field: Electronics and Telecommunications); 6 PhD thesis were delivered meanwhile.
Starting 2009, he is visiting professor at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach, Germany. From 2004 till 2012 he was vice dean of the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Timisoara, Romania.
He published over 150 papers, 8 books, 3 chapters in international books, has over 25 contracts and grants and holds 2 patents.
His current research interests are Non Volatile Memories Error Correction, Energy Harvesting.
Szilard Bularka
PhD student
Ciprian Seiculescu
Lecturer
Ciprian Seiculescu is a lecturer and researcher at Uiversity "Politehnica" of Timisoara, Romania. The research and educational experience of Ciprian Seiculescu is geared towards the fields of embedded software, integrated hardware design and high-level synthesis.
He received his PhD in 2012 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in the field of On-Chip interconnect. He has industrial experience in software development as intern at iNoCs SaRL, Lausanne CH, and as system engineer at Continental Automotive in Timisoara, RO.
He published 1 book and 2 book chapters, 3 WoS journal papers, 11 conference papers and holds 2 patents. His research interests are parallel computing, AI accelerators, hardware-software codesign and microarchitecture design.
Alexandru Amaricai
Associate Professor
Dr. Alexandru Amaricai has obtained his PhD in 2009, in the field of floating point arithmetic, in the Computer and Information Technology Department of the University Politehnica Timisoara. Since then, he has been Teaching Assistant (2009-2012), Lecturer (2012 -2016), and Associate Professor (2016 - present) at the University Politehnica Timisoara.
His main research interests represent FPGA acceleration for signal processing and error correction decoding, as well as fault tolerant digital systems. He has published more than 60 papers, including 10 ISI rated journals, and has Principal Investigator for University Politehnica Timisoara for 3 research grants, including the FP7 FET-Open I-Risc "Innovative Reliable Chip Design from Low Power Unreliable Components".
Radu Ricman
PhD student
Radu RICMAN graduated from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Infomation Technology, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, in 2014, he obtained her Master's degree in Biomedical Electronic Engineering from the same university in 2017.
Since 2017 he is a PhD Student in the Applied Electronics department of the same faculty and his research is focusing on Autonomous Greenhouse with Transparent Photovoltaic Cells.
He also has 9 years experience in Automotive Engineering working on hardware development and software testing in three well known international automotive corporations and is a ISTQ Certified Tester.
Corina Covaci
PhD student
Corina COVACI graduated from the Electronics, Telecommunications and Infomation Technology, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, in 2017 with valedictorian title, and she obtained her Master's degree in Intelligent Systems Electronics from the same university in 2019.
Since then, she is a PhD student in the Applied Electronics department of the "Politehnica" University of Timisoara. Her study, focusing on piezoelectric energy harvesting, can be read in 5 ISI papers published in the last three years.
At the same time, she is working for Driver Monitoring Systems at Continental Automotive Timisoara, as a hardware engineer since 2017.
Elisei Ilies
MSc
Elisei ILIEȘ obtained in 2020 his bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunication and Information Technologies ("Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania) with a specialization in Applied Electronics. His diploma project was Smart Greenhouse with Automatization.
Currently he is studying for a master's degree in Intelligent Systems Electronics at the same faculty. Starting with 2021 he is vice-chair of EPS IEEE Student Chapter of Timisoara.
In the present he works in the Non Volatile Memories Error Correction field.
Magdalena Marinca
MSc
Magdalena MARINCA is a master student at ETcTI faculty, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania.
She is a member in the IEEE Student Branch Timișoara.
She is co-author of 3 WoS papers and worked in 4 research projects (with Continental Automotive Romania); starting 2020 she is member in a PED national grant.
Her current research interests are Error Correction Codes for Non Volatile Memories, Matlab simulation, FPGA implementations of secure modules.
Dragota Darius
Dragota Darius graduated "Mihai Viteazul" High School in Ineu and is currently in his second year, studying Electronics and Telecommunications at "Politehnica" University of Timisoara.
He begun to participate into various competitions in 2017 and, since then, he has obtained a few awards like 1st place at the Infoeducatie Regionals in 2018, 3rd place at the Oradea Robotics Championship 8 and honourable mention award at the Infoeducatie National in 2018.
His current interests are smart charging for electric cars and EVSE developing.
Mătea Samuel
Mătea Samuel graduated from "Carmen Sylva" National College of Infomatics in Petroșani and is currently studying at Electronics and Telecommunications and Information Technologies faculty ,"Politehnica" University of Timisoara with a specialization in Applied Electronics.
Former members
Laszlo Molnar
PhD
Laszlo Molnar is a hardware design engineer at Vitesco Timisoara since 2011 and received a Ph.D. degree in 2019.
He has experience in automotive mixed-signal ASIC development, High-Pressure Fuel Pump Control methods and circuits, Electrically Heater Catalysts Control methods and circuits, Electronic Resettable Fuse circuits for Hybrid and Battery Electric Vehicles, and recently started to work for power conversion circuits like AC-DC and DC-DC converters for Electric Vehicles.
He published 7 papers and holds 2 patents. His research interests are: Digital Control methods for Power Conversion Circuits.
Simona Lazăr
MSc
Lazar Simona obtained her bachelor's degree at the Facultaty of Electronics, Telecommunication and Information Technologies, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, in 2021, with a specialization in Applied Electronics. Her diploma project was Automatic Touchless Hand Sanitizer Dispenser with Temperature Detector.
Currently she is studying for a master's degree in Intelligent Systems Electronics at the same faculty.
She started working in the Sample Shop at Continental Automotive Timisoara in 2020 and now she is working for Driver Monitoring Systems in the VNI HMI Department.
Manuela Jula
Jula Manuela-Ruxandra graduated from the “Grigore Moisil” High School of Timisoara in 2019 and is currently studying at Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania.
She conceived website that helps students learn for the Faculty of Medicine admission and in 2019 she received the Certificate of Professional Competence.
She is currently involved in a project which is targeting a control application via Ethernet of a climate chamber.
Cioabă Denisa
Cioabă Denisa graduated from "George Coșbuc" National College in Motru and is currently studying at Electronics and Telecommunications and Information Technologies faculty, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara with a specialization in Applied Electronics.
Research Projects
Proposals
| No. | Title | Description | Expertise | Estimated effort | Number of persons | Candidate profile | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balancing ball Easy | Build a system to levitate a ping-pong ball at a desired height with the use of a fuzzy control system running on a microcontroller. | Electronics, programming and mechanics knowledge | 100 hrs | 1 | Bachelor student | |
| 2 | Balancing ball Medium | Build a balance that is controlled with a servo motor and a microcontroller using a PID code in order to hold a ping pong ball in the middle. | Electronics, programming and mechanics knowledge | 200 hrs | 1 | Bachelor student | |
| 3 | Balancing ball Premium | Build a ball and plate system which can solve hand-drown maze. The mechanical parts are controlled by a microcontroller using PID algorithm and the location of the ball is detected using a touch screen. | Electronics, programming and mechanics knowledge | 300 hrs | 2 | Bachelor student |
Completed Tasks
| No. | Title | Description | Expertise | Estimated effort | Number of persons | Candidate profile | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Climate chamber Control | Implement a web server to remotely control a Vötsch climatic chamber | Python, Raspberry Pi | 200 hrs | 1 | Bachelor student | Home activity possible |
On going projects
- Contractul subsecvent 04 / RISC-V ARCH - Development of innovative solutions for microcontroller architectures based on RISC-V ISA, Ian 2022 - Dec 2022, 23798 Euro, Continental Automotive
- Contractul subsecvent 05 / Development, simulation and testing of a RISC-V core followed by a FPGA implementation of a secured data processing solution, Ian 2022 - Dec 2022, 63925 Euro, Continental Automotive
- 479 PED din 05/11/2020, Sera inteligenta cu absorbtie selectiva a radiatiei solare utilizand celule solare sensibilizate cu colorant (DSSCs), independenta si automatizata, 2020 – 2022, 599.888 lei, din care cota UPT este 185.078 lei.
Closed projects
- 66 PED din 30.01.2017, TESS Sistem solar termo-electric hibrid PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-0074, 2017 – 2018, 499700 lei.
- Contractul subsecvent 15 / Test Strategy Specification / Continental ASIC Testing, Jan 2019 - Jun 2019, 21246 Euro, Continental Automotive
- Contractul subsecvent 17 / p and g Prototype Sensors Analysis for Mass Production Introduction, Jul 2019 - Dec 2019, 23314 Euro, Continental Automotive
- Contractul subsecvent 20 / Hybrid Polymer Electrolytic Capacitor Aging Prediction for Validation, Jan 2020 - Jul 2020, 26322 Euro, Continental Automotive
- Contractul subsecvent 25 / FPGA Use for Image Processing. Reconfigurability Analysis, Aug 2020 - Dec 2020, 24447 Euro, Continental Automotive
- Contractul subsecvent 27 / HMECS - HPC Memory Errors Solution 1st Part, Jan 2021 - Jul 2021, 28048 Euro, Continental Automotive
- Contractul subsecvent 29 / HMECS - HPC Memory Errors Solution 2nd Part, Apr 2021 - Jul 2021, 9662 Euro, Continental Automotive
- Contractul subsecvent 02 / HMECS - HPC Memory Errors Solution 3rd Part, Aug 2021 - Dec 2021, 47764 Euro, Continental Automotive
- Contract de cercetare - dezvoltare 192 din 30.09.2021 / Dezvoltarea unei arhitecturi particularizate de microcontroler RISC, cu simulare si validare conform specificațiilor beneficiarului, Oct 2021 – Oct 2022, 8788 Euro, Allengra SRL
Papers
Books
- C. Seiculescu, Design Framework and Methodology for Synthesis of Networks-On-Chip, VDM Verlag, EAN: 9783639241655, ISBN: 3639241657
Patents
- DE-102015207783-B4, Gegen Überspannung geschütztes elektronisches Steuergerät, Continental Automotive Gmbh, L. Molnar, O. Luca, H. Schmauss, B. Dan, 2019-01-31
- DE-102014216786-B3, Integrated diagnostic circuit and circuit arrangement with the diagnostic circuit and a switching element, Continental Automotive Gmbh, L. Molnar, O. Luca, 2015-10-22
- EP3274968A1, Apparatus and Method for Recording Data Associated with a Vehicle, Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH, Continental Automotive GmbH, A. Botusescu, C. Buerger, C. Seiculescu, D. Vladaia, 16709364.0-1953
- EP3176725B1, Method and Device for Detecting a Braking Application of a Vehicle, Continental Automotive GmbH, A. Botusescu, I. Jivet, C. Seiculescu, D. Vladaia, C. Blaj, 15465562.5-1901
Journals
- Covaci, Corina; Gontean, Aurel, Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Solutions: A Review, SENSORS, Q1, Volume: 20, Issue: 12 Article Number: 3512, 2020, highly cited paper: 117 WoS citations, 215 Scholar citations (11/01/2022).
- Szabo, Roland; Gontean, Aurel; Photovoltaic Cell and Module I-V Characteristic Approximation Using Bezier Curves, APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL Q2 Volume: 8, Issue: 5, Article Number: 655, Published: MAY 2018, 10 WoS citations.
- Gontean, Aurel; Lica, Septimiu; Bularka, Szilard; et al., A Novel High Accuracy PV Cell Model Including Self Heating and Parameter Variation, ENERGIES Q2, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Article Number: 36, Published: JAN 2018, 17 WoS citations.
- Cernaianu M., Gontean A., Parasitic elements modelling in thermoelectric modules, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems Q4, Vol. 7, Issue 4, ISSN 1751-858X, pp. 177-184, July 2013.
- Cernaianu M., Gontean A., High-accuracy thermoelectrical module model for energy-harvesting systems, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems Q4, Vol. 7, Issue 3 , ISSN 1751-858X, pp. 114–123, May 2013.
- C. Seiculescu, S. Murali, L. Benini, G. De Micheli, SunFloor 3D: A Tool for Networks on Chip Topology Synthesis for 3D Systems on Chip, IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Volume: 29, Issue: 12, Publication Year: 2010, Page(s): 1987- 2000
- C. Seiculescu, S. Murali, L. Benini, G. De Micheli, Comparative Analysis of NoCs for Two-Dimensional Versus Three-Dimensional SoCs Supporting Multiple Voltage and Frequency Islands, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 57(5):364 - 368, 2010.
- C. Seiculescu, D. Rahmati, S. Murali, L. Benini, G. De Micheli, H. Sarbazi-Azad, Designing Best Effort NoCs to Meet Hard Latency Constraints, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computers and Systems (TECS) 12(4): 108:1-108:23 (2013.
Conferences
- E. Ilies, M. Marinca, S. Bularka, R. Ricman, M. Vajda, D. Albulescu, An Automated Data Acquisition System for the Characterization of Photovoltaic Cells, IEEE 28th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), București, 2022
- C. Barbulescu, M. Marinca, E. Ilies, Microsystem for Measuring Audio PCB Vibrations, IEEE 28th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), București, 2022
- S. Bularka, E. Ilies, M. Marinca, R. Ricman, M. Vajda, D. Albulescu, Study of Dye-Sensitized Solar Roof Tile under Partial Shading Conditions, IEEE 28th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), București, 2022
- M. Vajda, D. Albulescu, D. Ursu, E. Ilies, M. Marinca, A. Gontean, N. Miclau, N. Duteanu, S. Bularka, M. Miclau, Preliminary study for outdoor testing: Effect of Moisture and Temperature on the Stability of UV Dye Sensitized Solar Cells, IEEE 28th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), București, 2022
- E. Ilies, M. Marinca, S. Bularka, M. Vajda, D. Albulescu, C. Seiculescu, Proposal of Energy Independent Greenhouse, IEEE 27th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), DOI: 10.1109/SIITME53254.2021.9663621, 2021
- M. Marinca, E. Ilies, C. Barbulescu, A. Gontean, In-circuit ESR Measurement Method for Electrolytic Capacitors, IEEE 27th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), DOI: 10.1109/SIITME53254.2021.9663652, 2021
- C. Barbulescu, M. Marinca, E. Ilies, In-circuit Signal Measurement Method for Interleave Uniformly Spaced Sampling, IEEE 27th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), DOI: 10.1109/SIITME53254.2021.9663689, 2021
- M. Vajda, D. Albulescu, D. Ursu, E. Ilieş, M. Marinca, A. Gontean, N. Miclău, M. Miclău, N. Duţeanu, Effect of Water on the Photovoltaic Performance of TiO2 Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using I−/I3− Redox Couple, IEEE 27th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), DOI: 10.1109/SIITME53254.2021.9663424, 2021
- C. Seiculescu, Efficient Unaligned Memory Access of Tightly Packed Weights for Deep Neural Network Inference on Edge Devices, IEEE 27th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), DOI: 10.1109/SIITME53254.2021.9663723, 2021
- L. Molnar, O. Luca and A. Gontean, Simulation Method to Evaluate Thermal Runaway of MOSFETs, 2018 41st International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology (ISSE), Zlatibor, 2018, pp. 1-6. (WOS:000449866600011)
- L. Molnar and A. Gontean, Functional Simulation methodes, 2016 12th IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications (ISETC), Timisoara, 2016, pp. 198-202. (WOS:000390717800044)
- L. Molnar and A. Gontean, Fault simulation methodes, 2016 12th IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications (ISETC), Timisoara, 2016, pp. 194-197. (WOS:000390717800043)
- R. Szabó, A. Gontean, The development process of an UART chip on FPGA for driving embedded devices, IEEE 21st International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), pp. 175-179, DOI: 10.1109/SIITME.2015.7342320, 2015
- S. Popescu, A. Gontean, G. Budura, Hardware Cosimulation of the BPSK & QPSK Systems on FPGA, 11th IFAC/IEEE International Conf. on Programmable Devices and Embedded Systems, 2012
- C. Cirstea, M. Cernaianu, A. Gontean, Packet loss analysis in wireless sensor networks routing protocols, 35th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), pp. 37-41, DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2012.6256248, 2012
- S. Volos, C. Seiculescu, B. Grot, N.K. Pour, B. Falsafi, G. De Micheli, CCNoC: Specializing On-Chip Interconnects for Energy Efficiency in Cache-Coherent Servers, Sixth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks on Chip (NoCS), 2012
- C. Seiculescu, L. Benini, G. De Micheli, A Distributed Interleaving Scheme for Efficient Access to WideIO DRAM Memory, CODES+ISSS’12, October 7-12, 2012, Tampere, Finland.
- C. Seiculescu, S. Murali, L. Benini, G. De Micheli, A Method to Remove Deadlocks in Networks-on-Chips with Wormhole Flow Control, DATE 2010, 2010.
- C. Seiculescu, S. Murali, L. Benini, G. De Micheli, NoC Topology Synthesis for Supporting Shutdown of Voltage Islands in SoCs, DAC 2009, pp 822-825, 2009.
Open Positions
- PhD thesis offers
- MSc Dissertation proposals
- Diploma work proposals
- Internship positions
- A Continental custom compiler: Bring C/C++ to Custom Hardware Accelerator Architectures
- Microelectronics - 3 open positions at Continental Automotive Timisoara
- Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on Microelectronics
- 20 open positions for undergraduate students, Master’s students, PhD students, professors and researchers.
- Summer Practice
- Balancing ball Easy, Medium and Premium
- Small research and development work
- Automatically checking the polarity of the electrolytic capacitors
- Continental Scholarship Program 2022/2023 - 3 open positions
- - a scholarship allowance of 2050 RON / month, each university year, until graduation;
- the possibility to develop the diploma project inside Continental Automotive Timisoara;
- a paid summer practice of minimum 6 weeks during each year of the scholarship;
News
In February 2022, Politehnica University Timișoara was admitted as an indirect partner for Continental and NXP (acting as direct partners) in RRRP (Romania's Recovery and Resilience Plan) in the microelectronics domain.
In January 2022, Politehnica University Timișoara became a Europractice member.
On September 27, 2021, Romania's PNRR (recovery and resilience plan) was approved by the European Commission. It supports with 500 million Euros Romania's participation in a multinational project: Important Projects of Common European Interest“ (IPCEI) on Microelectronics.
In August 2021, Politehnica University Timișoara became a Community Organization Member in RISC-V Association.
Awards
The 28th International Computers Contest for Students: HARD & SOFT Suceava 2023 - 1st prize
The Gold Medal for the invention "Photovoltaic tile based on dye sensitized solar cells for wavelength-selective greenhouse 4.1", at the 7th annual edition of the International Invention Innovation competition in Canada, 2022.
Best Poster Award for Young Scientist at IEEE 28th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), București, 2022
2022 Best Paper Award.
The 27th International Computers Contest for Students: HARD & SOFT Suceava 2022.
The 11th Edition of Digilent Design Contest Europe Region 2015.
The 21th International Computers Contest for Students: HARD & SOFT Suceava 2014.
The 7th Edition of Digilent Design Contest Europe Region 2011.
The 16th International Computers Contest for Students: HARD & SOFT Suceava 2009.
The 15th International Computers Contest for Students: HARD & SOFT Suceava 2008.
