Curriculum Vitae Eugen Horaţiu GURBAN

PERSONAL INFORMATION Horaţiu Eugen GURBAN

Timișoara,Timiș, Romania

Sex male | Date of birth | Nationality Romanian

WORK EXPERIENCE

July 2007 - October 2010 Software Verification Engineer - Software Verification Team Leader
AUTOLIV ELECTRONICS Romania: R&D Software Engineering Department
Software Verification Engineer
▪ Analyse and approve software specifications.
▪ Write/review software verification test specifications ensuring best coverage of requirements.
▪ Implement test scripts (Specific test language - Jscript).
▪ Execute all tests linked to software release.
▪ Generate issue report.
▪ Manage different tools MKS, DOORS. Suggest tool improvements.
Software Verification Team Leader
▪ ensure the interface between SV Engineers and test stakeholders
▪ identify and point out and the risk associated for each SW Verification phase
▪ ensure proper HW/SW tools for each SW testing phase
▪ participate to the project meetings
▪ organize team meetings, Start/End of SW Verification meetings
▪ review the software verification test specification/scripts
▪ assign, coordinate and keep track of assignments inside the team
▪ ensure the quality of SW Verification reports

Business or sector Automotive

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

October 2010 – February 2014 PhD

Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Automation and Computers,
“Politehnica” University Timisoara, Romania
POSDRU/CPP107/DMI1.5/S/77265
Field of interest: Greenhouse climate control
Software used: MATLAB/Simulink, NI LabVIEW, Siemens TIA
Hardware used: Siemens S7-200/S7-300 PLC, PIC microcontrollers
October 2007 –July 2009 Master Automotive Embedded Software
Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Automation and Computers,
“Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania

October 2002 –July 2007 Dipl. Eng.

“Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Automation and Computers Faculty,
Automation and Applied Informatics Department
September 1998 – June 2002 “Grigore Moisil” High School, Timisoara

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PERSONAL SKILLS

Mother tongue(s) Romanian

Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING

Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production

English C1 C1 C1 C1 B2

German A2 A2 A1 A1 A1

Levels: A1/2: Basic user - B1/2: Independent user - C1/2 Proficient user
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Communication skills ▪ ability to communicate efficiently with colleagues, supervisors

▪ gained and refined communication skills while coordinating software verification teams, audits and
customer meetings
▪ Able to express with clarity and concision ideas and solutions

Organisational / managerial skills ▪ leadership (as Software Verification Team Leader in Autoliv Timisoara I was responsible for a team
of 3 - 8 people)
▪ successfully coordinated and managed 3 software verification projects in the same time

Job-related skills ▪ proactive by finding automated solutions to daily problems

▪ dynamic
▪ flexible in the work dynamic
▪ ambitious
▪ creative
▪ sociable
▪ passionate
▪ eager to learn
▪ perfectionist

Computer skills ▪ good knowledge of C, C++

▪ familiar with Jscript, PHP, database MySQL
▪ NI LabVIEW, Simulink
▪ VHDL

Other skills ▪ Passionate photographer

Driving licence ▪ A, B

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Publications/Presentations 10 scientific papers and the PhD thesis

▪ 5 papers presented and published at international conferences, 2 journal papers
▪ 3 research papers presented at workshops organized by the management of
POSDRU/CPP107/DMI1.5/S/77265 project.
Trainings Developed the training material and presented several training sessions about the functionalities, the
hardware and the software of pretensioner products

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ANNEXES

PhD thesis E. H. Gurban, Control Solutions for Greenhouse Climate Systems, Editura Politehnica, Timisoara,
Romania, Feb. 2014, ISBN: 978-606-554-791-1.

Journal papers E. H. Gurban, G.-D. Andreescu, “Greenhouse Environment Monitoring and Control: State of the Art
and Current Trends”, Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, in press. (ISI)
E. H. Gurban, T.-L. Dragomir, G.-D. Andreescu, “Greenhouse Climate Control Enhancement by Using
Genetic Algorithms”, Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 35-45,
2014. (ISI)

Conference papers E. H. Gurban and G.-D. Andreescu, “SCADA Element Solutions using Ethernet and Mobile Phone
Network”, Proc. 9th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics, SISY 2011,
Subotica, Serbia, pp. 303-308, Sept. 2011. (IEEE Xplore, INSPEC, Scopus)
E. H. Gurban and G. -D. Andreescu, “Comparison Study of PID Controller Tuning for Greenhouse
Climate with Feedback-Feedforward Linearization and Decoupling”, Proc. 16th International
Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC 2012), Sinaia, Romania, pp. 1-6,
Oct. 2012. (IEEE Xplore, INSPEC, Scopus)
E. H. Gurban and G.-D. Andreescu, „Employing 2DoF PID Controllers to Improve Greenhouse
Climate System Robustness”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on System Science and
Engineering (ICSSE 2013), Budapest, Hungary, pp. 93-98, July 2013. (IEEE Xplore, INSPEC,
Scopus, ISI)
E. H. Gurban, M. Iacob and G.-D. Andreescu, “SCADA system and hardware-in-the-loop for
greenhouse climate control implementation”, Proc. 5th IEEE International Symposium on Logistics
and Industrial Informatics (LINDI 2013), Wildau, Germania, pp. 125-130, Sept. 2013.
E. H. Gurban, G.-D. Andreescu, “Comparison of Modified Smith Predictor and PID Controller Tuned
by Genetic Algorithms for Greenhouse Climate Control”, Proc. 9th IEEE International Symposium on
Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, SACI 2014, . (IEEE Xplore,ISI)

Workshop papers E. H. GURBAN, “SCADA Element Solutions for Greenhouse Automation”, Workshop no.1
Interdisciplinary and Research Management in Doctoral Studies, Politehnica University of Timişoara,
24-25 november 2011.
E. H. GURBAN, ”Greenhouse Climate Control”, Workshop no.2 Interdisciplinary and Research
Management in Doctoral Studies, University of Oradea 7 - 8 june 2012.
E. H. GURBAN, “Greenhouse Facilities Monitoring and Control”, Workshop no.3 Interdisciplinary
and Research Management in Doctoral Studies, University of Piteşti, 30-31 may 2013.

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