Curriculum Vitae

Work experience

Jan. 2006 - present. Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering March 2000-Dec. 2005. Senior Designer and Project Manager at Melexis Belgium. Main task: MEMS-based gyroscope systems development. Externally-funded research projects (more than € 640,000 Euro):   Partner in "PRODIGY" EU-financed  project Coordinator  of "INSENSIC" and "INDIGO" IWT research projects, in collaboration with University of Ghent Users’ committee member in several research projects at TU Delft, supported by the Dutch Science Foundation (STW): "Micro-instrumentation system in silicon", project DEL-3733 "Development of deep dry-etching technology for intelligent micromachined devices", project DEL-4577 "Development of post-processing micromachining modules for integrated sensor and actuator applications", project DMF-5103 Nov. 1994 - July 2000. Associate Assistant (AIO) at TU Delft, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Laboratory for Electronic Instrumentation. 1990-1994.  Researcher in Romanian Academy of Science, Geodynamics Institute, Bucharest - Topics: nonlinear/complex systems - nonlinear signal processing using fractal theory, chaos and self-organized criticality 1990-1994. (Assoc.) Assistant at the Faculty of Electronics, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest 1989-1990. Developer Engineer at FEPER (Enterprise for Computer Peripheral Equipment), Bucharest

Courses in Microsystems Design, Signals and Systems, Electrical Circuits at The University of British Columbia Lectures in Information Theory, Power Semiconductor Devices, Chaos and Fractal Theory, Instrumentation Systems Coordinate and supervise graduate students and post-doctoral researchers (topics: chaotic circuits in electronics, Functional integration of bipolar and MOS structures in power semiconductor devices, inertial MEMS systems) at Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands, Univ. of Ghent, Belgium, and "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania