Theodor Dan Popescu

Dr. Theodor Dan Popescu is born on July 4, 1949 in Rosiori de Vede, Teleorman, Romania. He received M.Sc. degree and Eng.Sc.D. (PhD) degree, both in Automatic Control, from "Politehnica" University of Bucharest in 1972 and 1983, respectively. Since 1972 he was with Central Institute for Management and Informatics, now National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Bucharest. He had different functions and responsabilities and presently he is senior research scientist of first degree; he was member of the Scientific Council in the period 1995-2006, and president of Scientific Council in the period 2006-2009.

Since 1975 till 2000 he held various teaching positions at the Department of Automatic Control and Computers, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Academy of Military High Studies, Bucharest and at the Center for Training in Informatics, Bucharest.

The research activity was mainly concentrated in the fields of system identification and parameter estimation, adaptive and self-tuning control, time series analysis, signal processing, change detection and diagnosis in signals and systems, independent component analysis, time-frequency analysis, with application in industrial process control, vibration analysis, geophysics, civil engineering, analysis of biomedical signals.

He is author or co-author of some software tools in the fields mentioned above and of more than 140
papers published in international journals IFAC J Automatica, Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Simulation in System Analysis, Annual Review in Automatic Programming (continued as Annual Reviews in Control), International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Neural Network World, or in volumes published by Pergamon Press, IEEE Press, Springer, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ICSC-NAISO Academic Press, AMSE Press. Also, he is author sau co-author of the following books: "Modeling and Forecasting of Time Series", Academic Publishing House,Bucharest, 1985, "Computer-Aided Identification of Systems", Technical Publishing House, Bucharest, 1987, "Adaptive and Flexible Control of Industrial Processes", Technical Publishing House, Bucharest, 1988, "Practice of Modeling and Forecasting of Time Series. Box-Jenkins Approach", Technical Publishing House, Bucharest, 1991, "Time Series. Applications in System Analysis", Technical Publishing House, Bucharest, 2000.

He has been awarded with "Tudor Tanasescu" Prize of the Romanian Academy on 1995 for the works in the field of detection of changes in dynamics of signals and systems, General Association of
Engineers in Romania Prize on 2000 in the field of Information Technology for the book "Time Series. Applications in Systems Analysis" and received one of the prizes offered for the best
papers presented at the Fourth ICSC International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems for Industry, Paisley, Scotland, UK, June 26-29, 2001. He received from Australian Research Council (ARC) citation as "expert of international standing". He served as member of some International Program Committees of international conferences and symposia, in the framework of IFAC, IEEE, ICSC-NAISO, etc., chair person and organizer of some invited sessions.

He is member of the Association of Former Scholarship Holders of the DAAD since 1993, Of the JSPS Alumni since 2011, of the IFAC Romanian National Committee, since 1995 and of the GDNet since 2003, member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society, since 1997 and Senior Member since 2002. He was member of IFAC Technical Committee SAFEPROCESS (1996-1999) and of the IEEE Industrial Process Control Committee (1998-2002). He was granted by Academia Sinica (1988), The Royal Society (1992), DAAD (1992, 1995, 1999), JSPS (1996, 1999), Melbourne University (2002), CERGE-EI (2002), Soros Foundation (1994, 1997), Spatial Co Kuwait (2009), ICONIP’2012, Doha, Qatar (2012).

He held conferences and seminars in the Institute of Systems Science, Beijing, Institute of Technology, Beijing, University of Lancaster, Wuppertal University, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Oita University, Saga University, Tottori University, Kyoto Institute of Technology, CERGE-EI Prague and Spatial Co. Kuwait.

National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics , Bucharest, .

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Nascut(a) in: 1949

Interese: System identification and parameter estimation, change detection and diagnosis in signals and systems, independent component analysis, time-frequency analysis, biomedical data analysis

Publicații selectate:

* D. Aiordachioaie, Th. D. Popescu, Change Detection by Feature Extraction and Processing from Time-Frequency Images, IEEE, Proc. of the 10th IEEE International conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Iasi, June 28 – 30, 2018, 2018.

* Th. D. Popescu, A. Aiordachioaie, Fault detection of rolling element bearings using optimal segmentation of vibrating signals, Elsevier, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 116, 2019.

* Th. D. Popescu, A. Aiordachioaie, New Procedure for Change Detection Operating on Renyi Entropy with Application in Seismic Signals Processing, Springer, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 36, 2017.

* Th. D. Popescu, A. Aiordachioaie, Rolling Element Bearing Fault Detection Using Vibrating Signals Segmentation, Proc. of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Torino, Italy, September 4 - 7, 2018, 2018.

* Th. D. Popescu, A. Alexandru, Blind Source Separation: A Preprocessing Tool for Monitoring of Structures”, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR), Cluj-Napoca, May 24-26, 2018, IEEE, Proc. The IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR), Cluj-Napoca, May 24-26, 2018, 2018.

* Th. D. Popescu, D. Aiordachioaie, M. Manolescu, Change Detection in Vibration Analysis - A Review of Problems and Solutions, IEEE Explore, Electronics Engineering (ISEEE), 20-22 October, 2017, Galati, Romania ., 1, 2017.

* B. Dumitrascu, D. Aiordachioaie, Th. D. Popescu, VIBROTOOL - A Matlab Toolbox for Change Detection and Diagnosis in Vibration Engineering, IEEE Explorer, Proc. 13th IEEE International Conference on Development and Application Systems (DAS), Suceava, May 19-21, 2016, 1, 2016.

* Th. D. Popescu, D. Aiordachioaie, Robust Change Detection in Signals Using Energy Concentration and Regression Models, IEEE Explorer, Proc. of The 13th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP), Chengdu, China, November 6-10, 2016., 2, 2016.

* D. Aiordachioaie, Th. D. Popescu, A Method to Detect and Filter the Cross Terms in the Wigner- Ville Distribution, IEEE Explorer, Proc. of The 13-th IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems. ISSCS 2017, Iasi, July 13-14 , 2017., 1, 2017.

* Th. D. Popescu, M. Manolescu, Blind Source Separation - A Tool for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting, IEEE Explore, The 9th IEEE International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC 2017), July 10-12, 2017, Kunming, China., 1, 2017.

* Th. D. Popescu, D. Aiordachioaie, VIBROTOOL - Software Tool for Change Detection and Diagnosis in Vibration Signals, IEEE Explore, Proc. of 59th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2016) , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 16-19, 2016., 1, 2016.

* D. Aiordachioaie, Th. D. Popescu, VIBROMOD An experimental model for Change Detection and Diagnosis Problems, IMECO, Proc. 17th IMEKO TC 10 Workshop on Technical Diagnostics "New Perspectives in Measurements, Tools and Techniques for System’s Reliability, Maintainability and Safety, Milan, Italy, June 27-28, 2016., 1, 2016.

* Th. D. Popescu, B. Dumitrascu, An Application of Renyi Entropy Segmentation in Fault Detection of Rotating Machinery, IEEE Explore, R. Biesenbach and A. Weinert, Proc. of The 16th IEEE International Conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics (REM2015), Bochum, Germany, November 18-20, 2015, 1, 2015.

* Th. D. Popescu, M. Andrei, Multiple Hypothesis Testing with Application in Vibrating Signals Analysis, IEEE Explore, Proc. of The IEEE International Symposium on System Engineering (ISSE), Roma, Italy, September 24-26, 2015, 1, 2015.

* Th. D. Popescu, M. Manolescu, Blind Separation of Vibration Components in Machine Monitoring, Inderscience Publishers, Int. J. Vehicle Noise and Vibration, 8, 2012.

* Th. D. Popescu, D. D. Cioboata, Performance Evaluation of Some Change Detection and Data Segmentation Algorithms, IARAS Publications, International Journal of Mathematical and Computational Methods, 1, 2016.

* Th. D. Popescu, Signal Segmentation using Maximum a Posteriori Probability Estimator, IEEE, Proc. of The 7-th International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT2013), Baku, Azerbaijan, October 23-25, 2013., 1, 2013.

* Th. D. Popescu, D. Aiordachioaie, New Procedure for Change Detection Operating on Renyi Entropy with Application in Seismic Signals Processing, Springer, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 36, 2017.

* Theodor D. Popescu , Signal segmentation using changing regression models with application in seismic engineering, Elsevier, Digital Signal Processing, 24 (1), 2014.

* Th. D. Popescu, D. Aiordachioaie, Signal Segmentation in Time-Frequency Plane Using Renyi Entropy - Application in Seismic Signal Processing, IEEE Press, Proc. of The 2-nd IEEE International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SysTol13), Nice, France, October 9-11, 2013, 1, 2013.

* Th. D. Popescu, Neural Network Learning for Blind Source Separation With Application in Dam Safety Monitoring, Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 7666, Subseries Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, Springer Berlin Heiderberg, Proc. of The 19-th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2012) , Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012, IV, 2012.

* Th. D. Popescu , Blind Source Separation in Machine Monitoring, Proc. of The 54th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2011), Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, August 7-10, 2011, 2011.

* Theodor D. Popescu, New Approach in Machine Monitoring Using Blind Source Separation, IEEE Computer Society, Andres Iglesias, Bernady O. Apduhan, Osvaldo Gervasi, David Taniar, Marina Gavrilova, Proc. of The 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, 2011.

* Theodor D. Popescu, A New Approach for Dam Monitoring and Surveillance Using Blind Source Separation, ICIC International, International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control (IJICIC), Vol.7, No.7, 2011.

* Theodor D. Popescu, Detection and Diagnosis of Model Parameter and Noise Variance Changes with Application in Seismic Signal Processing, Elsevier, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 25, Nr. 5, 2011.

* Theodor D. Popescu, Some Experiences with Detection and Diagnosis of Model Parameter and Variance Changes, V. Mladenov, K. Psarris, N. Mastorakis, A. Caballero, G. Vachtsevanos, Mathematical Models for Engineering Science, 1, 2010.

* Th. D. Popescu, Analysis of Traffic-Induced Vibrations by Blind Source Separation with Application in Building Monitoring, North-Holland, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 80, 2010.

* Th. D. Popescu, Blind Separation of Vibration Signals and Source Change Detection - Application to Machine Monitoring, Elsevier, Applied Mathematical Modelling, ISSN 0307-904X, 34, 2010.

* Th. D. Popescu, Time-frequency Analysis with Application in Earthquake Engineering, ICIC International, ICIC Express Letters, An International Journal of Research and Surveys, ISSN 1881-803X, Vol. 4, 2010.

* Th. D. Popescu, Machine Vibration Monitoring by Blind Source Separation and Change Detection, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, M. Novak, Neural Network World, 9, 2009.

* Th. Popescu, Independent Component Analysis with Application to Behavior Surveillance of Large Dams, WSEAS Press, The 12-th WSEAS International Conference on Systems, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 22-24, 2008.

* Th. Popescu , Robust Change Detection Procedure with Application in Structures Subject to Extreme Dynamic Loads, The 14-th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference MELECON'2008, Ajaccio, France, May 5-7, 2008.

* Th. Popescu, Time Frequency Analysis in Structures Monitoring Subject to Extreme Dynamic Loads, The 9-th WSEAS International conference on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering, Arcachon, France, October 13-15, 2007.

* Th. Popescu, M. Manolescu , Blind Source Separation of Traffic-Induced Vibrations in Building Monitoring, The 6-th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Guangzhou, China, May 30 - June 1, 2007.

* Th. Popescu , New Approach for Machine Vibration Analysis and Health Monitoring, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics ISIE'06, ETC-Dowtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 9-13 July, 2006.

* Th. Popescu, Performance Evaluation of Some Change Detection and Data Segmentation Methods, The 3-rd IASC World Conference on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Limassol, Cyprus, 28-31 October, 2005.

* Th. Popescu , A New Statistical Approach for Robust Change Detection in Dynamical Systems, The 26-th Conference on Applied Statistics CASI 2006, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland, 2006.

* Th. Popescu, Some Experiences with Change Detection in Dynamical Systems , Springer-Verlag, M. Gh. Negoita, R. J. Howlett, L. C. Jain, Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 8th International Conference, KES 2004, Wellington, New Zealand, September 20-25, 1, 2004.

* Th. Popescu, Robust Change Detection Method Using Akaike Information Criterion for Signal Segmentation, Springer Verlag, Miguel Lopez-Diaz, Maria A. Gil, Prezemyslaw Grzegorzewski, Olgierd Hyrniewicz, Jonathan Lawry, Soft Methodology and Random Information Systems. Series Advances in Soft Computing, 2004.

* Th. Popescu, Change Detection Procedure with Application in Structures Monitoring Subject to Seismic Motions, ICIC International Press, International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control (IJICIC), ISSN 1349-4198, Vol 5, No 5, May, 2009.

* Th. Popescu , Independent Component Analysis with Application to Dams Displacement Monitoring, Kluwer Academic Publishers, M. Voicu, Advances in Automatic Control, 2004.

* Th. Popescu, New Method for Time Series Forecasting, WSEAS Press, WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 2, 2003.

* Th. Popescu , Change Detection in Nonstationary Time Series in Linear Regression Framework, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Neural Network World, ISSN 1210-0552, 13, 2003.

* Th. Popescu, Change Detection in Systems. Time and Frequency Approaches, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Neural Network World, ISSN 1210-0552, 10, 2000.