Education, Research and Business Technologies

Cristian CIUREA is Professor and Head of the Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics from Bucharest University of Economic Studies. He graduated the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies in 2007. He has a master in Informatics Project Management (2010) and a PhD in Economic Informatics (2011) from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Cristian has a solid background in computer science and is interested in collaborative systems related issues. Other fields of interest include virtual exhibitions, software metrics, data structures, object-oriented programming, windows applications programming, mobile devices programming and testing automation for software quality assurance. Catalin BOJA is Professor at the Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics from Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania. In June 2004 he has graduated the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. He is a team member in various undergoing university research projects where he applied most of his project management knowledge. His work currently focuses on the analysis of mobile computing, information security, artificial intelligence and cryptography. He is currently holding a PhD degree on software optimization and on improvement of software applications performance.Paul POCATILU graduated the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics in 1998. He achieved the PhD in Economics in 2003 with thesis on Software Testing Cost Assessment Models. He has published as author and co-author over 45 articles in journals and over 40 articles on national and international conferences. He is author and co-author of 10 books, Mobile Devices Programming and Software Testing Costs are two of them. He is professor at the Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest. He teaches courses, seminars and laboratories on Mobile Devices Programming and Object-Oriented Programming to graduate and postgraduate students. His current research areas are software testing, software quality, project management, and mobile application development. Mihai DOINEA has a PhD (2011) in the field of Economic Informatics, from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania. The addressed topics are related to Cybersecurity and Information Security, with objectives for identifying security optimization methods in distributed applications. His research is also backed up by a master diploma in ICT - Cybersecurity (2008). He is an Associated Professor, teaching Data Structures and Mobile Applications and Devices at the Academy of Economic Studies. He published more than 50 articles in collaboration or as a single author in journal papers and international conferences and his research interests are directed to areas such as security on embedded devices, mobile programming, multimedia security, smart cards and biometrics.