Gheorghe M. STEFAN's CV
Webpage: http://users.dcae.pub.ro/~gstefan/
Office: Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology Faculty (ETTI): Bd. Iuliu Maniu 1-3, Bucharest 6, 061071 Romania;
Room A420
Home address:
- Romania: Popa Savu 36, sect. 1, Bucuresti, 011433
- USA: 39 Swart Terrace, Nashua, NH 03064
Electronic address:
EDUCATION:
1980 Ph.D. in Electronics, Politehnica University of Bucharest (PUB), coordinator: Professor
Mihai Draganescu
1971 BS & MS in Electronics, Politehnica University of Bucharest
EXPERIENCE:
2018-to date: Emeritus Professor, PUB, ETTI, EDCA
2012-2016: Head of EDCA Department, ETTI, PUB
2011-to date: Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy
2003-2009: Chief Scientist & co-Founder, BrightScale (formerly Connex Technology
(formerly Gemicer )), CA
2001-2003: Visiting (research & teaching), St. Marry's College of Maryland University, MD
2001-2003: Senior Consultant, Infocruiser, MD
2001: Visiting (research), Smith College, Northampton, MA
2000-2001: Senior Consultant, NoBug Consulting, Sunnyvale CA (Bucharest office)
1997- 2018: Professor, PUB, ETTI, EDCA
1992-2000: Adjunct Professor, University Transilvania of Brasov
1991- to date: Scientific coordinator, Center of New Electronic Architectures of the Romanian Academy
1990 (June 28) - 1991 (October 16): Minister of Education & Science in the Romanian Government
1990-97: Associate Professor, PUB, ETTI, EDCA
1988-90: Assistant Professor, PUB, ETTI, EDCA
1972-88: Teaching Assistant, Politehnica University of Bucharest (PUB), Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ETTI}, Department of Electronic Devices, Circuits and Architectures (EDCA)
1971-72: Assistant Researcher, Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
- Digital Integrated Circuits (Politehnica University of Bucharest)
- Computer Architecture (St. Marry's College of Maryland University & University Transilvania of Brasov)
- Functional Electronics (master course at Politehnica University of Bucharest)
- Self-Organizing Systems (master course at Politehnica University of Bucharest)
- Advanced Digital Systems (master course at Politehnica University of Bucharest)
- Theory of Computation (St. Marry's College of Maryland University)
MAIN TECHNICAL PROJECTS:
- 1985- ...: CONNEX PROJECT
- Dec. 2003: CA4096 - the first prototipe produced at TSMC (the first ever made one-chip having 4096 16-bit PEs)
- Febr. 2007: BA1024 - a SoC for the HDTV market, containing CA1024 (a ConnexArray of 1024 PEs) produced at TSMC (90 nm standard process) is the first one chip parallel machine with the following performances:
- 200 GOPS (Giga 16-bit OPerations per Second)
- >60 GOPS/Watt
- >2 GOPS/mm2
- July 2007: the first real & complex application (HDTV postprocessing) running on BA1024 in Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti (the software team coordinated by Bogdan Mitu, Marius Stoian, and Radu Weiss)
- March 2008: BA1024B - a SoC for the HDTV market, containing CA1024 (a ConnexArray of 1024 PEs) produced at TSMC (65 nm standard process) with the following performances:
- 400 GOPS (Giga 16-bit OPerations per Second)
- >120 GOPS/Watt
- >6.25 GOPS/mm2
- 1982-1986: DIALISP system
- 1976-1985: DIAGRAM system
- 1969-1973: initial stages of the CORAL system (an unlicensed clone of PDP-11) project
PATENTS & PUBLICATIONS & TALKS
in digital design, computer architecture, education, epistemology of information and noetic sciences.
GRANTS
- 2014-2016: "Remote controlled robotic hand with intelligent sensory feedback for outside Earth interventions in
hazardous environments" – STARHAND, Finantare: Buget de stat / ROSA, Contract STAR 82 / 2013,
Beneficiar Agentia Spatiala Romana, Contractor UPB, Project manager
- 2009-2011: “Simulator pentru studiul mecanismelor socio-politice” (ARTSOC), Contract nr. 1253/2009,
Finantare: Buget de stat, Beneficiar CNMP, Project manager
- 2007-2010: “Sistem Interactiv pentru Monitorizarea si Optimizarea Traficului Rutier” (OPTIMTRAF),
Contract: Nr. 71_114/14.09.2007, Finantare: Buget de stat, Beneficiar: CNMP - PNCDI2, Beneficiar: CNMP, PNCDI2,
responsabil din partea UPB
- 2001-2003: In-Memory Data-Base with Connex Technology, granted by Infocruiser at St. Marry's College of Maryland University
- 1999-2000: Information Society Starts from School, in the TEMPUS program
- 1995: Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Self-Organizing Systems, from the
Scientific Research Council of Romania
- 1993: research stage in ENPG, Grenoble, France, in the TEMPUS program
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Academia Romana, IEEE, ACM, The World Academy of Arts and Science.
HOBBY:
singing: Bach, Haendel, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Rossini, Verdi.