The current composition of the SD_AC Council is established in accordance with the Bylaw for the organization of elections in Doctoral Schools at UPB, approved by the UPB Senate in 2016. The Council comprises 7 core members (4 doctoral supervisors, 2 PhD students, and 1 external scientific personality) and 4 honorary members.

Core Members

Prof.dr.ing. Florin Pop Director SD_AC Departamentul de Calculatoare, UPB florin.pop@upb.ro
Prof.dr.ing. Florica Moldoveanu Membru Departamentul de Calculatoare, UPB florica.moldoveanu@cs.pub.ro
Prof.dr.ing. Dan Popescu Membru Departamentul de Automatică și Informatică Industrială, UPB dan.popescu@upb.ro
Prof.dr.ing. Bogdan Dumitrescu Membru Departamentul de Automatică și Ingineria Sistemelor, UPB bogdan.dumitrescu@upb.ro
Prof.dr.ing. Radu Precup Membru Universitatea Politehnica din Timișoara radu.precup@aut.upt.ro
Drd.ing. Vlad-Andrei Bădoiu Membru (doctorand CTI) Domeniul Calculatoare și Tehnologia Informației vlad_andrei.badoiu@upb.ro
Drd.ing. Ana-Sophia Schuler Membru (doctorand IS) Domeniul Ingineria Sistemelor ana_sophia.schuler@upb.ro

Honorary Members

Prof.dr.ing. Traian Muntean Honorary Member Universitatea Aix-Marseille, Franța traian.muntean@univ-amu.fr
Prof.dr.ing. Alexandru Soceanu Honorary Member Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germania alexandru.soceanu@hm.edu
Professor Duncan McFarlane Honorary Member University of Cambridge, UK dm114@cam.ac.uk
Prof.dr.ing. Vladimir Răsvan Honorary Member Universitatea din Craiova, România Vladimir.Rasvan@automation.ucv.ro

Duties of the SD_AC Director

  • Executive management of doctoral study programs
  • Monitoring compliance with the activities calendar
  • Coordinating annual doctoral admission sessions
  • Approving supervision committees and public defence commissions
  • Verifying institutional protocols for joint and co-supervised doctoral programs
  • Representing SD_AC within UPB's Council for Doctoral Studies (CSUD)

Duties of the SD_AC Council

  • Developing and coordinating the doctoral research strategy in SE and CIT domains
  • Coordinating the full doctoral study program in both domains
  • Ensuring quality standards in accordance with applicable law
  • Setting the doctoral activities calendar
  • Approving credit equivalences for doctoral students
  • Approving affiliation of new habilitated researchers or faculty
  • Managing the SD_AC budget
  • Supervising co-supervised doctoral programs and research stages abroad
  • Allocating funded and fee-based positions per domain and supervisor