- E-mailmonica.patrascu@uib.no
- Visitor AddressAlrek helseklynge, blokk D, Årstadveien 175009 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78045020 Bergen
Education
2012 PhD: Doctoral degree in Systems Engineering; Defense date: 09.12.2011, University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB), Romania
2009 MSc: Master of Science in Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, Head of Promotion
2007 Pedagogical training for teaching in higher education institutions, University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB), Romania
2007 BSc: Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest
Current and previous positions
2022- Postodctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway
2021-2022 Researcher, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway
2017-2021 Associate professor, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
2011- Coordinator, Complex Systems Laboratory (xLab), University Politehnica of Bucharest (http://complex.upb.ro)
2012-2017 Assistant professor/Lecturer, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest
2007-2012 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest
2007-2021 Researcher, Center for Intelligent Control and Bioengineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest
Supervision
5 PhD candidates (1 finalized), 20 Master students, 39 Bachelor dissertations
Past projects (PI)
2016-2017 Evolutionary Algorithms for Intelligent Route Generation for Emergency Vehicles in Urban Traffic (EvoIR) – "Excellence Research Grants", University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
2016-2018 Cylindrical Robots In a Swarm (CRIS), Complex Systems Laboratory, University Politehnica of Bucharest
2017-2018 Motor Velocity and Torque Control (MoVe), Complex Systems Laboratory, University Politehnica of Bucharest
2016-2017 Genetic Algorithms with Immune Adaptation (GAIA), Complex Systems Laboratory, University Politehnica of Bucharest
2013-2014 A Heterogenous Encoding Lifelike Genetic Algorithm (HELGA), Complex Systems Laboratory, University Politehnica of Bucharest
2006-2017 Structural Seismic Vibration Control (ViCo), Complex Systems Laboratory, University Politehnica of Bucharest
Past projects (team)
2018-2019 Control of Complex Systems using Dimension Reduction (RSCTRD), ARUT, Romania
2010-2013 Strategic program to promote innovation in services through open, continuous education (INSEED), European Social Fund for Romania
2008-2011 Development of bio-inspired cognitive architectures, Romania, Exploratory Research
2005-2006 Autonomous advanced systems for the control of structural oscillations, with University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.
Awards and recognition of research and professional activities
2020 Five-Year Merit Award for professional excellence at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania (UPB)
2019 Invited Talk, FNSSPRI 2019, Forum on Smart State, Romanian Senate, Bucharest, Romania, The Future of (Smart) Work Panel, "Smart Intelligence sau Inteligenta Desteapta"
2017 Award for Research Results (scientific articles) offered by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)
2017 Elevation to the grade of IEEE Senior Member
2015 Five-Year Merit Award for professional excellence at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania (UPB)
2015 Two Awards for Research Results (scientific articles) offered by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)
2007 Award, 3rd place at the Student Scientific Communications Session, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania (UPB)
2006 Award, 1st place at the Student Scientific Communications Session, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania (UPB)
Outreach, organisation and management
2018-2019 Coordinator of the Workshop series "InGear for the Future" (Complex Systems Laboratory, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania) bringing together alumni and students for professional advice and guidance.
2016-2021 Development and organization of a master program in Complex Systems (in English) at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania (UPB).
2012-2021 Coordinator of two education awareness advertising campaigns at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, for bachelor and master studies, which include conceptual planning, live presentations, graphics and other materials (posters, banners, brochures, flyers); the campaigns are ongoing and have been designed to popularize the field of Systems Engineering among students.
2012-2021 Implementing department and faculty recognition through branding techniques (posters, flyers, photoshoots, brochures, business cards, tags and personalized department paraphernalia, book covers).
2008-2015 Organization/committee member for various conferences and workshops: CSCS-20 (20th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science), CSCS-19, IWoCPS (International Workshop on Cyber Physical Systems), IFAC Workshop SWIIS (Supplementary Ways for Improving International Stability), CSCS-17, IESS 1.6 (International Conference on Exploring Service Science).
Lectures (bachelor and master): Control Systems Engineering, Complex Systems Automation, Introduction to Complex Systems (in English), Control Systems in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence.
Individualized Lectures (doctoral studies): Self-organizing systems, Multi-agent systems, Complex Systems.
Laboratory Practice and Seminars: Control Systems Engineering, Complex Systems Automation, Control Systems in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation, Intelligent Control Systems, Basics of Automated Systems.
Founder of the Master Program in Complex Systems, University Politehnica of Bucharest (in English); Administrator and Member of the Research Advisory Committees.
Institutional Responsibilities (selected): Member of Research Advisory Committees for Doctoral Studies, Graduate Student Advisor (Masters dissertation) and Member of the Master Dissertation Examination Committee; Member of the Bachelor Thesis Examination Committee; Undergraduate Student Advisor (Bachelor dissertation); Laboratory manager (LIRA); Coordinator of summer practice stages for 3rd years.
- (2023). Stability Analysis for Single-Lane Traffic with a Relay Controller in a Closed Loop. Electronics.
- (2022). Understanding pain and agitation through system analysis algorithms in people with dementia. A novel explorative approach by the DIGI.PAIN study. Frontiers in Pain Research.
- (2022). Predictive Agent-Based Crowd Model Design Using Decentralized Control Systems. IEEE Systems Journal.
- (2022). Engineering Emergence: A Survey on Control in the World of Complex Networks. Automation.
- (2022). Digital phenotyping by wearable-driven artificial intelligence in older adults and people with Parkinson's disease: Protocol of the mixed method, cyclic ActiveAgeing study. PLOS ONE. 1-19.
- (2022). Initial Conditions Sensitivity Analysis of a Two-Species Butterfly-Effect Agent-Based Model. 19 pages.
- (2021). Smith Predictor Approximation for Industrial Control Applications with Genetic Algorithms.
- (2021). Robust Position Control for High Slip Risk Tricycle Robots with Real-coded Genetic Algorithms. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Proceedings.
- (2021). Deterministic matrix-based radiative design using a new general formulation of exergy and exergy efficiency for hybrid solar collectors. Applied Thermal Engineering.
- (2021). Design of Stabilizing Predictor-based Controller for Closed Loop Traffic Control with Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms.
- (2020). Performance Analysis of Genetic Algorithms for Route Computation Applied to Emergency Vehicles in Uncertain Traffic. UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series C: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
- (2019). Control System Design for Unicycle Robots Using Genetic Algorithms with Pareto Immunization.
- (2019). AI and Individualized Education in Phys Ed and Sport.
- (2019). A Scalable Algorithm for Self-Organization in Event-Triggered Networked Control Systems.
- (2018). Sisteme de conducere a proceselor cu timp mort (Control systems for time delay processes).
- (2018). Plug-and-play Self-configuration and Integration in Swarm Robotics.
- (2018). On the design and optimization of constructal networks of heat exchangers by considering entropy generation minimization and thermoeconomics. Proceedings of the Romanian Academy. Series A Mathematics, Physics, Technical Sciences, Information Science.
- (2018). Modeling air leakage in buildings caused by the cyclic variation of the atmospheric pressure. Building Services Engineering Research & Technology.
- (2018). Mobile Robot Control Systems (Sisteme de Conducere pentru Roboti Mobili). Editura Politehnica.
- (2018). Design of Semi-Active Seismic Vibration Controllers Using Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Optimization.
- (2018). Controlling Emergency Vehicles in Urban Traffic with Genetic Algorithms.
- (2017). Self-Adaptation in Genetic Algorithms for Control Engineering: The Case of Time Delay Systems.
- (2017). Route encoding in evolutionary control systems for emergency vehicles.
- (2017). Encoder-based path tracking with adaptive cascaded control for a three omni-wheel robot.
- (2017). Consideration of a new extended power law of air infiltration through the building’s envelope providing estimations of the leakage area. Energy and Buildings.
- (2017). An immune evolution mechanism for the study of stress factors in supervised and controlled systems.
- (2017). Agent Based Modelling of Smart Structures: The Challenges of a New Research Domain.
- (2017). A geno-neural approach to data fusion for fixed infrared sensor arrays.
- (2016). MOTION-AE: an Intelligent Mobile Application for Aerobic Endurance Training. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence.
- (2016). Evolutionary Modeling of Industrial Plants and Design of PID Controllers.
- (2016). Development of a data acquisition and command board for the control of a didactic 3D crane system.
- (2016). Applying Agent Based Simulation to the Design of Traffic Control Systems with Respect to Real-World Urban Complexity.
- (2016). A Scalable Agent Based Model for Building Security Simulation. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence.
- (2015). Value Co-Creation In A Virtual Smart Building Service Enterprise For Energy Efficiency And Economic Sustainability. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal.
- (2015). Three omni-wheel ballbot optimum implementation.
- (2015). Self-organising socio-technical description in service systems for supporting smart user decisions in public transport. Expert Systems With Applications.
- (2015). Intelligent decision making tool for aiding the setting of optimal intensity in aerobic endurance training. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Educatio Artis Gymnasticae.
- (2015). Genetic decision mechanism for reasoning and behaviour generation in adaptive intelligent agents.
- (2015). Controlul vibratiilor seismice cu amortizoare semi-active (Seismic Vibration Control with Semi-Active Dampers).
- (2015). An Agent Based Simulation Model Applied to Emergency Vehicles in High Traffic Urban Environments.
- (2015). Agent based simulation applied to the design of control systems for emergency vehicles access.
- (2014). Real time agent based simulation for smart city emergency protocols.
- (2014). Nonlinear fuzzy control of human heart rate during aerobic endurance training with respect to significant model variations.
- (2014). Integrating Agents and Services for Control and Monitoring: Managing Emergencies in Smart Buildings. Studies in Computational Intelligence.
- (2014). HELGA: a heterogeneous encoding lifelike genetic algorithm for population evolution modeling and simulation. Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications.
- (2014). Genetically enhanced modal controller design for seismic vibration in nonlinear multi-damper configuration . Proceedings of the Institution of mechanical engineers. Part I, journal of systems and control engineering.
- (2014). Emergent intelligence in agents: A scalable architecture for smart cities.
- (2013). A Service Oriented Simulation Architecture for Intelligent Building Management. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing.
- (2012). Hybrid geno-fuzzy controller for seismic vibration control.
- (2012). A hybrid PID-fuzzy control for linear SISO systems with variant communication delays. Advances in Fuzzy Systems.
- (2012). A comparative study for advanced seismic vibration control algorithms. UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series C: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
- (2011). Tuning of PID Controllers for Non-Linear MIMO Systems Using Genetic Algorithms. Elsevier IFAC Publications / IFAC Proceedings series.
- (2011). Control Engineering: Laboratory Practice (Ingineria Reglării Automate: Îndrumar de laborator). Editura Politehnica.
- (2011). Advanced Control Systems: Laboratory Practice (Sisteme Avansate de Conducere: Îndrumar de laborator). Editura Politehnica.
- (2011). A software tool for modeling and simulation of numerical P systems. Biosystems (Amsterdam. Print).
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
2021- Digital phenotyping in Parkinson’s disease (DIGI.PARK), Reasearch Council of Norway (RCN), Norway
2020- Robust trajectory planning for nonlinar incert systems (REPLAN), Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), Romania
2014- Evolutionary Computing in Control Engineering (ECCE), Complex Systems Laboratory (xLab), University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania (UPB)
2013- Ballbots, by xLab in collaboration with the Department of Mechatronics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania (UPB)
2012- Smart Training Systems (RunCoSy & Motion-AE), Complex Systems Laboratory (xLab), University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania (UPB), in collaboration with University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj, Romania
2011- CitySCAPE: Citywide Synergic Control Archit. for Protection during Emergencies, Complex Systems Laboratory (xLab), University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania (UPB)