ROVISLAB - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Student
- Student / Transilvania University of Brasov
Catalin Dragomir is currently studying Robotics at Transilvania University in Brasov. Since february 2018 he is also affiliated with Elektrobit Automotive Romania as an Apprentice Programmer.
Ing. Bogdan Muntean received his Bachelor Degree in Control Engineering and Information Technology from the Transilvania University of Brasov in 2022. Since 2022, he is an associate and administrator at Muntefor, where he is a automation engineer and deals with the repair of spindles and servomotors. Since October 2022 he is affiliated with the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics and the Department of Robotics at UTBv, where he teaches several Laboratories such as: Computer Vision Systems, Discrete event systems, System Theory and Control Theory, and starting November 2022, he's participating in research projects at UTBv.
Ing. Cosmin George Ginerica received his Bachelor Degree in Control Engineering and Information Technology from the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania and in 2016 his Master's Degree in Control Engineering, in 2014. Since August 2013 he is affiliated with Elektrobit Automotive Romania, where he is a software engineer in the Driver Assistance Department.
Dr. Badea received a M.D. from Iuliu Hatieganu Medical University in Cluj, Romania, a M.A. in Biological Sciences from Columbia University in New York, under the mentorship of Rafael Yuste and Darcy Kelley, and a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins Medical School, under the mentorship of Jeremy Nathans. He then completed postdoctoral training in the lab of Jeremy Nathans, working on molecular genetic approaches for the study of neuronal cell type identification, development, and function. He joined the National Eye Institute as a Tenure Track Investigator in 2010, and is heading the Retinal Circuits Development and Genetics Unit of the Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory. His major interest is in the development and functional significance of neuronal morphology, with a specific focus on Retinal Ganglion Cells.
Dr. Badea's lab is using molecular genetic tools, electrophysiology and behavior assays to understand Retinal Ganglion Cell (RGC) Type specification. Novel neuronal labeling strategies involving random sparse recombination, or sequential recombination involving Cre, Dre and Flp recombinases are being deployed in order to uniquely label specific neuronal cell types. Their anatomy and physiology is then studied using genetic reporter lines, and the molecular mechanisms of RGC type formation are studied using in vivo and in vitro approaches. The functions of identified RGC types are studied at the whole organism level using a battery of visual behavior tests.
Dr. Tiberiu Teodor Cocias received the Dipl.-Eng. Degree in Control Engineering and Computer Science from the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in Process Control from the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, in 2013. Since June 2009 he is affiliated with the Department of Automation at UTBv, where he teached several Laboratories such as: Computer Vision Systems, Microcontrollers, Robotics and Expert systems in Robotics. Since October 2013 he is also affiliated with Elektrobit Automotive Romania, where he is a project manager in the Driver Assistance Department. For 4 months, in 2011, Tiberiu Teodor Cocias was an exchange researcher at Media technology Group (Technical University Munich). In 2012 he colaborated with in a robotic project. He is a member of the Romanian Society for Automatic Control and Applied Informatics (SRAIT).
Ing. Liviu Alexandru Marina received the Bachelor's Degree in Control Engineering and Computer Science from the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, in 2010, and the Master's degree in Advance Control Systems and Information Technology from the same university in 2012. Since October 2015 he is a Ph.D. student at Transilvania University of Brasov, Systems Engineering field. His main areas of interest are Deep Neural Networks applications for autonomous driving field, artificial intelligence and object detection and recognition. During the university, he participated in the Scientific Sessions, with the studies "Robust Control Systems. Linear Quadratic Gaussian Control" and "Smith Predictor for Hybrid Remote Control Systems"
Ing. Zaha Mihai received the Dipl.-Eng. Degree in Control Engineering and Computer Science from the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, in 2019, and the Masters degree in System Engineering from the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, in 2021. Since October 2021 he is affiliated with the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics at UTBv, where he teaches several Laboratories such as: Computer Vision Systems, System Theory and Control Theory, and starting November 2022, he's participating in research projects at UTBv. Since March 2016 he is also affiliated with Elektrobit Automotive Romania, where he developed Driver Assistance software solutions, autonomous control and state estimation for robots.