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CURRICULUM VITAE

Name

OCTAVIAN CREŢ

Address

Technical University, Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Computer Science Department
26-28 G. Bariţiu str., 400027 Cluj-Napoca, România
Phone: +40-(0)264-401477, +40-(0)264-401940
Fax: +40-(0)264-594491
Email: Octavian.Cret@cs.utcluj.ro

Professional education

High school: “Emil Racoviţă” High School, Cluj-Napoca, România (1985-1989)

University: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science (1990-1995), “Computer Science” Department.

Master: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science (1995-1996), “The New Generation of Computers” Department.

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

Academic position

Associate Professor, PhD, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Computer Science Department

Professional experience

1. 1990-1996 Student at the Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Computer Science section, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

2. 1995 Computers Engineer

3. 1995-1996 Master student, section  “New Generation of Computers”

4. 1996 Master degree, section  “New Generation of Computers”

5. 1996-1998 Junior Lecturer at the Computer Science Department of the Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Computer Science section, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, teaching Logic Design and Automata and microprogramming. VHDL.

6. 1998-2002 Lecturer, in the Computer Science Department of the Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Computer Science section, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, teaching Logic Design and Automata and microprogramming. VHDL

7. 2002-2006 Senior Lecturer, in the Computer Science Department of the Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Computer Science section, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, teaching Logic Design and Automata and microprogramming. VHDL

8. July 2004 – PhD degree at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. Thesis title: “Contributions to the Design of Reconfigurable Computing Systems”. Scientific supervisor: Prof. Dr. eng. Kalman Pusztai. Specialisation: Computer Science.

9. 2006-2009 Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Computer Science section, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, teaching Logic Design, Digital Systems Design. VHDL and Designing with FPGAs.

10. 2009 – Professor in the Computer Science Department of the Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Computer Science section, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, teaching Logic Design, Digital Systems Design. VHDL and Designing with FPGAs.

International Cooperation Experience

TEMPUS grant in Grenoble, France, at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), TIMA laboratory (Techniques d’Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées), February  –  March, 2001.

 

Other relevant activities

• Additional reviewer for The International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL-2003), Lisbon, 2003.

• Reviewer for The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES 2004), September 19-21, 2004, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Logic Design section.

• Chairman of the Logic Design sectionat The 8th International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES 2004), September 19-21, 2004, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

• CNCSIS expert-evaluator, 2004-2006

• IWTexpert-evaluator (The Research Funding and Innovation Stimulation Agency of the Flanders (Belgium) government), 2006 and 2009, SBO (Strategic Basic Research) programme

• Publications Chair at the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer and Communication Processing (ICCP 2007), September 6-8, 2007, Cluj-Napoca, România.

• Publications Chair at the IEEE 4th International Conference on Intelligent Computer and Communication Processing (ICCP 2008), August 28-30, 2008, Cluj-Napoca, România.

• Research citations: course support at the University of Brno, Czech Republic (slide 13) http://merlin.fit.vutbr.cz/DNA/doc/dna_architectures.pdf#search=%22cret%20mathe%22

• Quality Insurance responsible in the Automation and Computer Science Faculty, 2007-2012.
• Member of the Quality Insurance Department of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 2007-2012.
• Publications Chair at the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer and Communication Processing (ICCP 2007), September 6-8, 2007, Cluj-Napoca, România.
• Active ARACIS evaluator, 2008-2012.
• Member in the Automation and Computer Science Faculty Board, 2008 – 2012.
• Responsabil RNCIS pe Facultatea de Automatică şi Calculatoare, 2012 - .

• Program Committee member, ReConfig 2011, 2012 http://www.reconfig.org/committee.html
• Member of the Editorial Committee of ROMJIST http://www.imt.ro/romjist/

Scientific work, publications

Research contracts in the 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.

 

Publications

BOOKS (all available only in Romanian)

1. Octavian Creţ, Alin Suciu - Information Protection on PCs. Antivirus and Intellectual Property methods. Mediamira Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, ROMÂNIA, 1998, ISBN 973-9358-07-1, 178 pages.

2. Aurel Neţin, Octavian Creţ – Logic Design. Laboratory Works. U.T. Pres Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 1998, ISBN 973-98701-1-2, 210 pages.

3. S. Nedevschi, Z. Baruch, Octavian Creţ – Designing Digital Systems in FPGA Technology. Mediamira Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, ROMÂNIA, 1999, ISBN 973-9358-26-8, 298 pages.

4. Octavian Creţ, Lucia Văcariu, Aurel Neţin – The VHDL Language. Laboratory Works. U.T. Pres Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2002, ISBN 973-8335-38-8, 227 pages.

5. Lucia Văcariu, Aurel Neţin, Octavian Creţ – Logic Design. Laboratory Works, second edition. U.T. Pres Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2003, ISBN 973-662-027-1, 198 pages.

6. Octavian Creţ, Lucia Văcariu, Aurel Neţin – The VHDL Language. Laboratory Works, Second edition, completed and revised. U.T. Pres Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, ROMÂNIA, 2005, ISBN 973-662-145-6, 227 pagini.

7. Octavian Creţ – Sisteme de calcul reconfigurabile. U.T. Pres Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, ROMÂNIA, 2005, ISBN 973-662-157-X, 207 pagini

8. Lucia Văcariu, Octavian Creţ, Aurel Neţin – Logic Design. Laboratory Works. Second edition, completed and revised. U.T. Pres Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2003, ISBN 973-662-180-4, 198 pagini.

9. Octavian Creţ, Lucia Văcariu, VHDL Language –Laboratory Works, 3th edition, completed and revised. U.T. Pres Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, ROMÂNIA, 2007, ISBN 978-973-662-286-1, 228 pages.
10. Octavian Creţ, Lucia Văcariu – Probleme de proiectare logică a sistemelor numerice. Logic Design Problems for Digital Systems. Editura UTPres, Cluj-Napoca, ROMÂNIA, 2008, ISBN 978-973-662-412-4, 258 pages.

11. Lucia Văcariu, Octavian Creţ – Analiza şi sinteza dispozitivelor numerice. Îndrumător de laborator, ediţia a treia. Editura UTPres, Cluj-Napoca, 2009, ISBN 978-973-662-490-2, 190 pages.

BOOK Chapter

Octavian Creţ, Radu Tudoran, Alin Suciu, and Tamas Gyorfi. Exploiting Crosstalk Effects in FPGAs for Generating True Random Numbers. e-Business and Telecommunications. Obaidat, Mohammad S.; Filipe, Joaquim (Eds.). Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 130, Springer, 2011, pp. 159-173. ISBN: 978-3-642-20076-2, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20077-9.

PAPERS (selection)

1. Kinga Márton, Alin Suciu, Christian Săcărea, Octavian Creţ. Generation and Testing of Random Numbers for Cryptographic Applications. Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A, Volume 13, Number 4/2012, pp. 368–377, ISSN: 1454-9069. [ISI]

2. Genţiana Laţiu, Octavian Creţ, Lucia Văcariu. A New Evolutionary Approach for the Structural Testing of Switch-Case Constructs. Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, IJCCI 2012, 4th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications, ECTA 2012, October 5-7, 2012, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 42-51, ISBN: 978-989-8565-33-4. [DBLP]

3. Genţiana Laţiu, Octavian Creţ, Lucia Văcariu. Automatic Test Data Generation for Software Path Testing Using Evolutionary Algorithms. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies EIDWT-2012, September 19th− 21st, 2012, Bucharest, Romania, pp. 1-8, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4734-3.

4. Tamas Györfi, Octavian Creţ, Guillaume Hanrot, Nicolas Brisebarre. High-Throughput Hardware Architecture for the SWIFFT / SWIFFTX Hash Functions. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 2012: 343 (2012). [DBLP]

5. Andrei Ceclan, Vasile Ţopa, Dan D. Micu, Levente Czumbil, Anca Şimon and Octavian Creţ. Improved framework for Monte Carlo numerical evaluations in field interference problems. International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics 38:4 (2012) pp. 1–6, IOS Press, ISSN 1383-5416, DOI 10.3233/JAE-2012-1530. [ISI]

6. Anca Şimon, Radu Tudoran, Octavian Creţ, Andrei Ceclan, Lucia Văcariu, Alin Suciu. FPGA-based Monte-Carlo Computation of the Electric Potential in Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Spaces. Proceedings of the FPGA World 2011 Conference, September 14-15, 2011, Munchen, Germany. [ACM].

7. Dan Hoţoleanu, Octavian Creţ, Alin Suciu, Tamas Gyorfi, Lucia Văcariu. Real-time Testing of True Random Number Generators through Dynamic Reconfiguration. Proceedings of the 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2010, September 1-3, 2010, Lille, France, pp. 247-250, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4171-6, DOI 10.1109/DSD.2010.56 [DBLP], [IEEE].

8. Lucia Văcariu, George Fodor, Gheorghe Lazea, Octavian Creţ. Distributed Optimization by Weighted Ontologies in Mobile Robot Systems. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2010, June 15-18, 2010, Funchal Madeira, Portugal, pp. 180-185, ISBN: 978-989-8425-01-0. [DBLP]

9. Radu Tudoran, Octavian Creţ, Sebastian Bănescu, Alin Suciu. Implementing true random number generators by generating crosstalk effects in FPGA chips. Proceedings of the International FPGA World 2009 Conference. September 7-10, 2009, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 25-31,      ISBN 978-1-60558-879-7. [ACM]

10. Octavian Creţ, Radu Tudoran, Alin Suciu, Tamas Gyorfi. Implementing True Random Number Generators in FPGAs by Chip Filling. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecomunication, ICETE 2009 (SECRYPT), July 7 -10, 2009, Milan, Italy, pp 62-67, ISBN 978-989-674-005-4. [DBLP].
11. Tamas Györfi, Octavian Creţ, Alin Suciu. High Performance True Random Number Generator Based on FPGA Block RAMs. Proceedings of the 24th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009), 16th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW), Rome, Italy, May 22-26, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4244-3750-4. [IEEE].
12. L. Văcariu, G. Fodor, G. Lazea, O. Creţ. Quantified ontologies for real life applications. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2009, July 2-5, 2009, Milan, Italy, pp. 383-386, ISBN: 978-989-8111-99-9. [DBLP].
13. Florent de Dinechin, Bogdan Paşca, Octavian Creţ, Radu Tudoran. An FPGA-specific Approach to Floating-Point Accumulation and Sum-of-Products. Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), December 8-10, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 33-40, ISBN 978-1-4244-2796-3.
14. Cristian Klein, Octavian Creţ, Alin Suciu. Design and Implementation of a High Quality and High Throughput TRNG in FPGA. Proceedings of the DASIP 2008
    Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing, November 24 -26, 2008, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, pp. 52-56. [DBLP].
15. Octavian Creţ, Alin Suciu, Tamas Györfi. Practical Issues in Implementing TRNGs in FPGAs based on the Ring Oscillator Sampling Method. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, GTA-RNS’08 workshop (Workshop on Generation, Testing and Applications of Random Number Sequences), Timişoara, Romania, September 26-29, 2008, pp. 5-10.
16. Cristian Klein, Octavian Creţ, Alin Suciu. Design and Implementation of a High Quality TRNG in FPGA. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE 4th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 28-30, 2008, pp. 311-314. IEEE Catalog Number CFP0809D-PRT, ISBN 978-1-4244-2673-7, Library of Congress 2008905553. [IEEE].
17. Octavian Creţ, Ionuţ Trestian, Florent De Dinechin, Laura Darabant, Radu Tudoran, Lucia Vacariu. FPGA-based Acceleration of the Computations Involved in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Proceedings of the IVth Southern Conference on Programmable Logic, SPL 2008, March 26-28, 2008, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, pp. 43- 48, IEEE Catalog Number CFP0821B, ISBN 978-1-4244-1992-0, Library of Congress 2007943351.
18. Florent de Dinechin, Jérémie Detrey, Octavian Creţ, Radu Tudoran: When FPGAs are better at floating-point than microprocessors. Sixteenth ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Monterey, California, February 24-26, 2008.
19. Octavian Creţ, Ionuţ Trestian, Florent De Dinechin, Laura Darabant, Radu Tudoran, Lucia Văcariu.Accelerating The Computation of The Physical Parameters Involved in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Using FPGA Devices. Romanian Journal of Information, Science and Technology, vol. 10, no.4, 2008, pp. 361-379, ISSN: 1453-8245.
    Lucrare indexată ISI (se poate verifica la: http://thomsonscientific.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/).

20. Octavian Creţ, Ionuţ Trestian, Florent de Dinechin, Laura Creţ, Lucia Văcariu, Radu Tudoran. Computing the Inductance of Coils Used for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation With FPGA Devices. Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BIOMED 2008, February 13-15, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 327-333, ISBN 978-0-88986-722-2.
21. Ionuţ Trestian, Octavian Creţ, Laura Creţ, Lucia Văcariu, Radu Tudoran. FPGA-based Computation of the Inductance of Coils Used for the Magnetic Stimulation of the Nervous System. Proceedings of the BIODEVICES 2008 - International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices, volume 1, January 28-31, 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, pp. 151-155, ISBN 978-989-8111-19-7.
22. Lucia Văcariu, Flaviu Roman, Mihai Timar, Tudor Stanciu, Radu Banabic, Octavian Creţ. Mobile Robot Path Planning Software and Hardware Implementations. Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Mobile Robots, ECMR 2007, September 19-21, 2007, Freiburg, Germany, pp. 108-113.
23. Octavian Creţ, Zsolt Mathe, Paul Ciobanu, Sonia Mărginean, Cristian Leluţiu.
    A Hardware Algorithm for Intron and Exon String Detection in DNA Chains. Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic an Applications, pp. 260-266, Amsterdam, 2007, IEEE Catalog Number 07EX1708C, ISBN 1-4244-1060-6, Library of Congress 2007921419.
24. Lucia Văcariu, Mihai Chintoanu, Gheorghe Lazea, Octavian Creţ. Ontological Communication in Cooperative Mobile Robots System. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, vol. 2, CSCS16 2007, May 22-25, 2007, Bucharest, Romania, pp.315-321, ISBN: 978-973-718-741-3 and ISBN: 978-973-718-742-0.
25. Lucia Vacariu, Mihai Chintoanu, Gheorghe Lazea, Octavian Creţ. Communication at Ontological Level in Cooperative Mobile Robots System.Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2007, pp. 455-460, Angers, France, 9-12 May, 2007, ISBN: 978-972-8865-87-0.

26. Zsolt Mathe, Octavian Creţ, Cristina Grama, Flaviu Roman, Lucia Văcariu. A hardware agents-based implementation of the Kadane algorithm for the maximum subsequence problem. Proceedings of the IEEE 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing ICCP 2006, pp. 187-193, UT Pres Publishing House, ISBN (10) 973-662-233-9, ISBN (13) 978-973-662-233-5, ISBN (10) 973-662-235-5, ISBN (13) 978-973-662-235-9, September 1-2, 2006, Cluj-Napoca.

27. Octavian Creţ, Zsolt Mathe, Lucia Văcariu, Cristina Grama, Adrian Dărăbant, Levente-Karoly Gorog. A Hardware Implementation of the Kadane’s Algorithm for the Maximum Subsequence Problem. Proceedings of The 5th European Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, Patras, Greece, July 7-9, 2006.

28. Balint Szente, Octavian Creţ, Zsolt Mathe, Cristian Vancea, Florin Rusu. A General Smith-Waterman Algorithm Implementation Using the CREC Reconfigurable Computer. ACAM Scientific Journal, Volume 14 (2005), Number 2, p. 227-232, Mediamira Science Publisher, Cluj-Napoca, România, ISSN 1221-437X.

29. Octavian Creţ, Zsolt Mathe, Balint Szente, Ştefan Mathe, Lucia Văcariu and Adrian Dărăbant. Three Implementations of the General Smith-Waterman Algorithm: A Comparative Study. CSCS15 International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucureşti, p. 743, May 27-29, 2005, ISBN 973-8449-89-8, 973-8449-91-x.

30. Octavian Creţ, Ştefan Mathe, Balint Szente, Zsolt Mathe, Cristian Vancea, Florin Rusu and Adrian Dărăbant. FPGA-Based Scalable Implementation of the General Smith-Waterman Algorithm. IASTED Parallel and Distributed computing Symposium (PDCS) 2004, p. 410-415, November 9-11, 2004, Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, ISBN 0-88986-421-7, ISSN 1027-2658.

31. Balint Szente, Cristian Vancea, Ligiu Uiorean, Florin Rusu, Octavian Creţ, Kalman Pusztai. The CREC general purpose reconfigurable computer. Proceedings of the IP Based Design Workshop, p. 217, November 13-14, Grenoble, France, 2003.

32. Aurel Neţin, Dumitru Roman, Octavian Creţ, Kalman Pusztai, Lucia Văcariu. Hardware/Software CoDesign of an Expert System. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3203 (Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications), p. 1067, September 1-3, Lisbon, Portugal, Springer-Verlag Publishing House, 2003, ISSN 0302-9743.
    Lucrare indexată ISI (se poate verifica la:
    http://www.ad-astra.ro/cartea-alba/author.php?author_id=11166).

33. Octavian Creţ, Kalman Pusztai, Cristian Vancea, Balint Szente. CREC: A Novel reconfiguranble Computing Design Methodology. Proceedings of the 17th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2003), Nice, France, April 22-26, 2003, p. 175.

34. Octavian Creţ, Zoltan Baruch, Kalman Pusztai. FPGAW: FPGA Configuration over the Internet, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mathematical & Computational Applications, p. 263 – 270, Konya, Turkey, September 4-6, 2002.

35. Zoltan Baruch, Octavian Creţ, Kalman Pusztai. Configurable Processor. Proceedings of the IEEE-TTTC International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics, May 23-25, 2002, Tome II, pp. 236 – 242, Editura Mediamira, Cluj-Napoca, ISBN 973-9357-11-1.

36. Radu Balaban, Horia Hopârtean, Octavian Creţ, Zoltan Baruch, The Optium Microprocessor – an FPGA-based Implementation, 4th International Conference on Technical Informatics CONTI’ 2000, volume 45 (59), p.105, Timişoara, October, 2000, ISSN 1224-600X.

37. Octavian Creţ, Zoltan Baruch, Kalman Pusztai, Aurel Neţin. Reconfigurable System for Data Encryption. In Proceedings of SINTES 10: The International Symposium on Systems Theory, Automation, Robotics, Computers, Informatics, Electronic and Instrumentation, X-th Edition, May 25-26, 2000, Craiova, pp. C42-C45.

38. Zoltan Baruch, Octavian Creţ, Kalman Pusztai. An Efficient Sequence To Applying Slicing lines in FPGA Placement. Proceedings of the International Conference on Quality Control, Automation and Robotic, May 18-20, 2000, Tome I, pp. 267 – 272, Editura Mediamira, Cluj-Napoca, ISBN 973-9357-11-1.

39. Sergiu Nedevschi, Octavian Creţ, Zoltan Baruch, Reconfigurable, Real Time, Single Chip Convolution Device For Image Processing. Proceedings of International Conference on Quality Control, Automation and Robotic, May 18-20, 2000, Tome II, pp. 261 – 268, Editura Mediamira, Cluj-Napoca, ISBN 973-9357-11-1.

40. Zoltan Baruch, Octavian Creţ, Kalman Pusztai. A Comparative Study of Different Partition Algorithms. MicroCAD’2000 International Computer Science Conference, Section F: Electrotechnics-Electronics,p. 7-11, Miskolc, Hungary, February 23-24, 2000.

41. Zoltan Baruch, Octavian Creţ, Horia Giurgiu. Genetic Algorithm for FPGA Placement. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS12), p. 121-126. Bucuresti, May 26-29, 1999.

42. Zoltan Baruch, Octavian Creţ, Kalman Pusztai. CAD System for the Atmel FPGA circuits. CONTI’98 International conference on Technical Informatics, volume 43 (57), p.228, Timişoara, ROMÂNIA, 1998, , ISSN 1224-600X.

43. Zoltan Baruch, Octavian Creţ, Kalman Pusztai. Technology Mapping for the Atmel FPGA circuits. CONTI’98 International conference on Technical Informatics, volume 43 (57), p.218, Timişoara, ROMÂNIA, 1998, ISSN 1224-600X.

44. Zoltan Baruch, Octavian Creţ, Kalman Pusztai. Routing for FPGA circuits. A&Q ‘98 International conference on Automation and Quality Control, p. Q214, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Mediamira, ROMÂNIA, 1998, ISBN 973-9358-15-2.

45. Zoltan Baruch, Octavian Creţ, Kalman Pusztai. Partitioning for FPGA circuits. MicroCAD International computer conference, Section D: Measurement and Automation, p. 113, Miskolc, Hungary, 1997.

Main Research Areas

• Reconfigurable Computing Systems
  
• VHDL-based Design
  
• Logic Design
  
• FPGA-based Design
  
• Automata and microprogramming

Foreign languages

French, English, Italian

 

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