Florin Popențiu Vlădicescu
Romanian computer scientist
Florin Popenţiu Vlădicescu is Professor of Software Engineering.
Career
He is an associated Professor at University "Politehnica" of Bucharest and since the academic year of 1997/98, he has been appointed as "UNESCO professor" at City University, London. Before that, he was a visiting professor at a number of renowned European technical universities such as the ENST- Telecom ParisTech, the ETH-Zurich or Technical University of Denmark.
Prof. Florin POPENTIU VLÃDICESCU has published over 100 papers in International Journals and Conference Proceedings and is co-author of 4 books.
He has worked for many years on problems associated with software reliability and has been Co-Director of two NATO research projects involving collaboration with partner institutions throughout Europe. He is on advisory board of several international journals, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory & Applications. He is reviewer for ACM Computing Reviews, IJCSIS, and Associated Editor to IJICT.
Also he is a member of ENBIS, IEE, IEEE and IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Florin POPENTIU has been elected Fellow of the Academy of Romanian Scientists in 2008.
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