Systems & control engineering · Biomedical applications
Researcher, Automation Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
I design fractional-order and event-based control strategies for closed-loop drug delivery in general anesthesia. My work runs from patient modelling and simulation to controllers validated on clinical data.
Research focus
Multivariable regulation of hypnosis, analgesia and hemodynamics, treating the anesthesia–hemodynamic system as one coupled process from induction through maintenance.
Robust fractional-order controllers and autotuners that hold performance under strong inter- and intra-patient variability.
Controllers triggered by measured surgical events, plus open patient simulators built on clinical records for reproducible validation.
Funded research
Two consecutive national grants from the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, through CNCS – UEFISCDI.
A full anesthesia–hemodynamic patient simulator with patient variability, blood-loss effects and surgery-specific disturbance profiles, used to design fractional-order control for the induction-to-maintenance transition.
Event-based fractional-order control of the combined anesthesia–hemodynamic system, where surgical stimuli and boluses trigger new control actions. Validated on a configurable patient simulator.
Open science
Research outputs released openly so that results can be reproduced and extended.
An open, extensible MATLAB/Simulink patient simulator for closed-loop anesthesia research and teaching, with native access to VitalDB clinical records.
22,229 intraoperative events taken from 193 VitalDB cases, with the extraction code and closed-loop results for fractional-order and integer-order event-based controllers.
Publications
All my peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, with citation metrics, are on my Web of Science researcher profile.
About & contact
I have worked at the Automation Department of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca since 2016. From 2018 to 2022 I was an FWO-SB doctoral fellow in the Dynamical Systems and Control Research Group at Ghent University, Belgium.
I welcome enquiries about research collaboration, the AnestheSIM simulator and the released datasets.