Curriculum vitae

Dr. Mihai Huzmezan



Education

  • 1998- UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, PULP AND PAPER CENTRE, DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
    Post doctoral research programme (PFD) developed together with Prof. Guy A. Dumont

  • 1995-1998 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, CONTROL GROUP, DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING, PEMBROKE COLLEGE
    Ph.D. research programme supervised by Dr. J. M. Maciejowski

  • 1994-1995 UNIVERSITY "POLITECHNICA" BUCHAREST, ROMANIA, DEPARTMENT OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL
    Research programme supervised by Professor V.Ionescu: "Automatic Flight Control Systems in Uncertainty Conditions"

  • 1988-1993 UNIVERSITY "POLITECHNICA" BUCHAREST, ROMANIA, AEROSPACE DEPARTMENT (AVIONICS)
    BSc. June 1991 and MSc. June 1993, 1st Class

  • 1987-1988 NATIONAL SERVICE, ROMANIA
  • 1983-1988 COMPUTER SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL - CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA
    Baccalaureate July 1987, placed in top 5% of the school


  • Working Experience

  • 1998- UNIVERSAL DYNAMICS LTD, VANCOUVER, CANADA
    Contract UDT 9030 on the topic of "Advances In Adaptive Control Using Laguerre Based Identification and Model Based Predictive Control"

  • 1998- MIH CONSULTING GROUP, VANCOUVER, CANADA
    "Applied Adaptive Control To Small Vessels", project amounting 30.000 CAN $

  • 1997-1998 DEFENCE AND EVALUATION RESEARCH AGENCY (DERA), MoD, BEDFORD, U.K.
    Contract ASF/3455/U on the topic of "Reconfiguring Flight Controls Using Model Based Predictive Control" amounting 33.000 pounds

  • 1994-1995 ROMANIAN AIR TRAFFIC SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (ROMATSA), BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
    Formulated a complete system for AIS and Meteo Self Briefing using Windows NT, Microsoft SQL and FoxPro. Managed both software and hardware national projects having a total cost of 100,000 USD

  • 1993-1995 R.A. AIRPORT CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA
    Deputy managing director (operational and technical issues)

  • 1993-1994 MH-HARDWARE & SOFTWARE, CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA
    Designed data acquisition systems, stability augmentation systems, developed a flight simulator automatic pilot

  • 1991-1995 NAPOCA S.A. CONSTRUCTION COMPANY CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA
    Computer consultant full time in summer and part time during academic year. Installed PC networks and set-up program to manage payroll accounts. Taught two teams of people to run the system


  • Languages

    Fluent in English, French and Romanian

    Software

    operating systems: DOS, WINDOWS, WINDOWS NT, UNIX

    engineering: MATLAB, SIMULINK, MATHCAD, PASCAL, MAPLE

    data base: FOXPRO, EXCEL, SQL servers

    Hardware

    PCs, SUN-Workstations, DSPACE

    Personal

    Canadian Permanent Resident, Romanian Citizen, Born: 27.09.1968

    Interests

    skiing, tennis, swimming, basketball, mountaineering, travel (travelled extensively on European, Asian, African and American continents), Romania (politics, social, culture)

    Reference

    Available upon request