University of Ottawa |
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Dr. Voicu Groza
DEGREES
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara, Romania, 1985
Dipl. Eng. in Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara, Romania, 1972
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2011 - Full Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Univ. of Ottawa
2005 - 2006 Visiting Professor, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria and
Department of Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania
2003 - 2011 Associate Professor, SITE, University of Ottawa
1999 - 2003 Assistant Professor (tenure track), School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE
1997 - 1999 Replacement Professor, SITE, University of Ottawa
1996 - 1997 Research Associate, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Ottawa
1996 Part-time Professor, Sheridan College, Toronto
1995 Visiting Professor, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Switzerland
1993 - 1995 Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University of Timisoara
1990 - 1992 Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University of Timisoara
1979 - 1989 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara
HONOURS and AWARDS:
2017 - IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society Certificate of Appreciation in recognition as a Subcommittee Chair of TC-25 Medical and Biological Measurements, as a member of TC-15 Virtual Systems in Measurements and TC-20 Transportation Systems in Measurements
2012 - Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada for contributions to signal quantization and outstanding service to the engineering profession
2011 - Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE fellow) "for contributions to floating-point analog-to-digital conversion"
2011 Best Paper Award at IARIA Third International Conference on Advances in Multimedia, MMEDIA 2011, Budapest, Hungary
2010 Paper Award at IEEE EPEC 2010, August 2010, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2007 - IEEE Ottawa Section Outstanding Volunteer Award for leadership in establishing the international Noninvasive Blood Pressure Measurements & Standardization initiative.
2002 - Professional Engineers Ontario
1997 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, with alternate partaking in societies of Electrical and Power Energy, Instrumentation and Measurement and Computational Intelligence.
SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Committees of Scientific Societies
2014 - Member, Administrative Committee of IEEE Biometrics Council
2014 - IEEE Canada representative at Partnership Group for Science and Engineering (PAGSE)
2014 - Member, External Relations Group, IEEE Region 7, Canada
2012 - Member, IMEKO TC4 – Technical Committee for Measurement of Electrical Quantities
2009 - 2013 and 2004-2005 – I2MTC Board of Directors, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
2009 - 2012 Member, Administrative Committee of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
2008 - Chair, P1721 Working Group on Standard for Objective Measurement of Arterial Blood Pressure
2008 - Member, Steering Committee, IEEE Symposium of Medical Measurements and Applications
2007 - Chair, Subcommittee on Blood Pressure Measurement of the IEEE TC-25 Biological Measurements
2000 - Chair, Ottawa Chapter of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
Technical Program Chair or Co-chair
IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC): 2016 Ottawa, Ontario; 2013, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 2010, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 2009, Montreal, Quebec
IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing WISP: 2015 Siena, Italy; 2013, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; 2011, Floriana, Malta
IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurement and Applications (MeMeA): 2015, Torino, Italy; 2013 Gatineau, QC; 2012, Budapest, Hungary; 2011, Bari, Italy; 2010, Ottawa, ON; 2009, Cetraro, Italy; 2008, Ottawa, Canada
IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM) 2015, Ottawa, Canada
IEEE - Workshop on Adverse Response to Medication (WARM), 2008, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, (CCECE’06) Ottawa, ON
IEEE International Conference on Instrumentation & Measurement (IMTC 2005), Ottawa, ON, 2005
Keynote addresses and invited lectures on applications of data acquisition systems
2016 - University of Benevento, Italy
2014 - Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary
2013 - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain
2012 - IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurement and Applications, Budapest, Hungary
2011 - Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, Università della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy
2010 - Seminario di Eccellenza “Italo Gorini,” Scuola di Dottorato, Università degli studi di Firenze, Pistoia, Italy
Administrative Experience
2015 - present Associate Director, Computer Engineering, School of EECS, University of Ottawa
2003 - 2014 Program Coordinator, Computer Engineering Program, SITE, University of Ottawa, responsible for the accreditation of the CEG program at the University of Ottawa by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB)
2005 - present Program Coordinator, International Exchange Program between the University of Ottawa and the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Lörrach, Germany
2000 – 2011 Representative of University of Ottawa at Canadian Microelectronics Corporation,
1992 - 1996 Dean, Faculty of Automation and Computers, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania
Other Professional Activities
2016 Referee in the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes
2016 Member in the Selection Committee of members of the National Council for Attestation of University Degrees, Romanian Minister of Education and Research
2013 Reviewer for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) of projects in the frame of the Physical Sciences TOP-grants program, compartment 1
2013 Referee in the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes
2013 External reviewer for the evaluation of the program of Computer Engineering at Western University.
2011-2012 Member of the National Council for Attestation of University Degrees, Romanian Minister of Education and Research
2004, 2008, 2013 Expert Witness in computer engineering at Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT)
- Research contracts and grants...................................................................... 54
- Patents.......................................................................................................... 5
- Papers in refereed journals........................................................................... 66
- Papers in refereed conference proceedings................................................. 253
- Major invited contributions and/or technical reports........................................ 22
- Other conferences and workshops................................................................ 70
- Textbooks and chapters in books................................................................... 6