Professor Dr. Eng. Octavian Creţ

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RESEARCH

Interest Fields

• Reconfigurable Computing Systems
• VHDL-based Design
• Logic Design
• FPGA-based Design
• Automata and microprogramming
• Artificial Intelligence, Multiagents

Ph. D. Thesis

„Contributions to the Design of Reconfigurable Computing Systems”.
Scientific supervisor: Prof. dr. eng. Kalman Pusztai.
Public presentation: July 9, 2004, “CUM LAUDAE”.

Research contracts in Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

1. Contract with National Instruments Romania company, Cluj-Napoca branch, entitled: „Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration for FPGA Devices - 3”, 2012-2013, 20948/06.09.2012. Contract director : prof. dr. eng. Octavian Creţ. Team members: prof. dr. ing. Horia Hedeşiu, Senior Lecturer dr. ing. Lucia Văcariu, ing. Tamas Gyorfi, Zalan Borsos. Financing level: 15.000 USD.

2. Member of the research team working on the PCCA project type 1, „Prototype Cyberinfrastructure-based System for Decision-Making in Water Resources Management” (CyberWater).Contract director for partner 2 UTCN: Senior Lecturer dr. eng. Lucia Văcariu, 2012 – 2015, nr. 47/2012. Team members: prof. dr. eng. Octavian Creţ, prof. dr. eng. Horia Hedeşiu, conf. dr. eng. Anca Rarău, drd. eng. Anca Hângan.
3. Contract with National Instruments Romania company, Cluj-Napoca branch, entitled: „Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration for FPGA Devices - 2”, 2011-2012, 23391/09.09.2011. Contract director : prof. dr. eng. Octavian Creţ. Team members: prof. dr. ing. Horia Hedeşiu, Senior Lecturer dr. ing. Lucia Văcariu, Senior Lecturer dr. ing. Claudiu Nedezki, ing. Tamas Gyorfi. Financing level: 15.000 USD.

4. Contract with National Instruments Romania company, Cluj-Napoca branch, entitled: „Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration for FPGA Devices”, 2009-2010, 24222 / 09.10.2009. Contract director : prof. dr. eng. Octavian Creţ. Team members: prof. dr. ing. Horia Hedeşiu, as. ing. drd. Lucia Văcariu, Dan Hoţoleanu, Tamas Gyorfi. Financing level: 15.000 USD.

5. Member of the research team working on the Integrated actions programme (PAI) “Brâncuşi” Romania–France, “Generation, test and efficient management of large size random sequences, using Grid-based technologies”, nr. 169 / 2009-2010. Contract director: Assoc. Prof. dr. eng. Alin Dumitru Suciu. Team members: Octavian Creţ, Kinga Marton.
6. Member of the research team working on the PN 2 PARTNERSHIPS contract, no.11-020 / sept.2007 „CryptoRand - A High Performance System for Generation and Testing of Random Number Sequences for Cryptographic Applications” (http://cryptorand.utcluj.ro/), 2007-2010. Contract director: Assoc. Prof. dr. eng. Alin Dumitru Suciu, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.
7. Type A contract, partner: Romanian Ministry of Research and Education (CNCSIS Department): „Intelligent space of heterogeneous and context aware agents - SmartHouse”, 2007-2008, code 1566, theme A5 no. 24 / 2007. Contract director: Assoc. Prof. dr. eng. Octavian Creţ. Team members: Alin Suciu, Anca Rarău, Lucia Văcariu, Adrian Dărăbant, Ramona Marfievici, Cristian Vancea, Cristina Grama, Zsolt Mathe, Mihai Schiţcu, Flaviu Roman.

8. Integrated actions programme (PAI) “Brâncuşi” Romania–France, “Systèmes reconfigurables pour applications biomédicales”, nr. 14914RL, 2007-2008. Contract director: Assoc. Prof. dr. eng. Octavian Creţ. Team members: Lucia Văcariu, Laura Creţ, Dan Micu, Zsolt Mathe, Flaviu Roman.
9. Member of the research team working on the Type AT contract, partner: Romanian Ministry of Research and Education (CNCSIS Department): „Researches on modeling and building a distributed information system with mobile access points in wireless environments with intermittent communication”, 2007-2008, theme AT 67. Contract director: lector dr. Adrian Sergiu Dărăbant, Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca.

10. Type AT contract, partner: Romanian Ministry of Research and Education (CNCSIS Department): “Hardware multi-agent system”, 2006. Contract director: s. l. dr. eng. Octavian Creţ. Team members: Alin Suciu, Adrian Dărăbant, Ramona Marfievici, Cristian Vancea, Cristina Grama, Zsolt Mathe, Flaviu Roman.

11. Type AT contract, partner: Romanian Ministry of Research and Education (CNCSIS Department): “Hardware implementation of a gene sequences alignment device based on the general Smith-Waterman algorithm”, 2005, nr. 27702 / 2005, theme number 102 / 2005. Contract director: s. l. dr. eng. Octavian Creţ. Team members: Alin Suciu, Pangyu Jeong, Ştefan Mathe, Balint Szente, Zsolt Mathe.

12. Type AT contract, partner: Romanian Ministry of Research and Education (CNCSIS Department): “Implementation of a Reconfigurable Computer in FPGA Technology”, nr. 33532 / 2003, theme number 140, 2003-2004. Contract director: s. l. dr. eng. Octavian Creţ. Team members: Alin Suciu, Radu Dănescu, Pangyu Jeong, Balint Szente, Cristian Vancea.
    • Phase 1: “Elaboration of the CREC Reconfigurable Computer Specifications”, contract nr. 33532 / 2003.
    • Phase 2: “Implementation and Testing of the CREC Reconfigurable Computer”, contract nr. 33518 / 2004.

13. Member of the research team working on the Type A contract, partner: Romanian Ministry of Research and Education (CNCSIS Department): „Distributed System For the Acquisition, Processing, Archiving and Retrieval  of Medical Images in Hospital Environment, Compatible with the DICOM Standard”, Contract nr. 34970, theme number 53, CNCSIS code 1228, 2001. Contract director: Prof. dr. eng. Sergiu Nedevschi.

14. Member of the research team working on the Type A contract, partner: Romanian Ministry of Research and Education (CNCSU Department): „QBE-to-SQL Translator SQL3 Compliant”, Contract nr. 34 / 1998, theme number 5, CNCSU code 28, 1998. Contract director: Assoc. prof. dr. eng. Robert Dollinger.

15. Member of the research team working on the Type A contract, partner: Romanian Ministry of Research and Education (CNCSIS Department): “Introducing the FPGA Technology in Romanian Education, Research and Industry“, 1998-2000. Contract director: Prof. dr. eng. Sergiu Nedevschi.
    • Phase 1: “Introducing the FPGA Technology in Romanian Education, Research and Industry”, 1998, Contract nr. 34/1998, theme number 54 / 175. Contract goal: study of the possibilities of applying the FPGA technology in industry and research, realization of didactical materials and demonstrators.
    • Phase 2: “Researches in the field of reconfigurable architectures, elaboration of didactical materials and demonstrators“, 1999, Contract nr. 33830/1999, theme number 17 / 619. Contract goal: realization of some demonstrators of digital systems in FPGA technology.
    • Phase 3: “Researches and applications in the field of reconfigurable architectures reconfigurabile and rapid prototyping”, 2000, Contract nr. 37118/2000, theme number 11 / 631. Contract goal: realization of some demonstrators of reconfigurable systems in FPGA technology.

16. Member of the research team working on the Type A contract, partner: Romanian Ministry of Research and Education (CNCSU Department): “Designing and Implementing Digital Systems with FPGA Devices“, 1996-1997. Contract director:  Prof. dr. eng. Kalman Pusztai.
    • Phase 2: “Automatic Configuration of FPGA Circuits”. Contract Nr. 5003/1995‑124, 1996. Contract goal: realizing a program for the automatic configuration of Atmel 6002 FPGA devices.
    • Phase 3: “CAD System for FPGA Design”. Contract Nr. 7003/1997‑32/484, 1997. Contract goal: realization of a CAD integrated environment for Atmel 6002 FPGA Design.

 

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