52 Notable alumni of
Politehnica University of Bucharest
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The Politehnica University of Bucharest is 1052nd in the world, 361st in Europe, and 6th in Romania by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 52 notable alumni from the Politehnica University of Bucharest sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ion Iliescu
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- bloggerrevolutionarynon-fiction writerstatespersonpropagandist
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Ion Iliescu is a Romanian politician and engineer who served as President of Romania from 1989 until 1996 and from 2000 until 2004. Between 1996 and 2000 and also from 2004 to 2008, the year in which he retired, Iliescu was a senator for the Social Democratic Party (PSD), of which he is the founder and honorary president to this day.
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Nicolae-Liviu Dragnea
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- YouTuberTikTokercookpoliticiandrummer
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Liviu Nicolae Dragnea is a Romanian engineer and former politician. Starting his career in the Democratic Party (PD), he joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD), eventually becoming its leader. After holding several positions as Minister, he resigned from the cabinet in May 2015, following a conviction in a case involving electoral fraud, for which he received a two-year suspended sentence in April 2016.
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Henri Coandă
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- aerospace engineerphysicistinventorengineeraircraft pilot
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Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.
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Ion Mihai Pacepa
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- journalistintelligence officeropinion journalist
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Ion Mihai Pacepa was a Romanian lieutenant general in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter's approval of his request for political asylum. He was the highest-ranking defector from the former Eastern Bloc, and wrote books and articles on the inner workings of communist intelligence services. His best-known works are the books Disinformation and Red Horizons.
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Petre Roman
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- professorengineerpoliticiandiplomat
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Petre Roman is a Romanian engineer and politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 1989 to 1991, when his government was overthrown by the intervention of the miners led by Miron Cozma in the September 1991 Mineriad. Although regarded as the first Romanian prime minister since 1945 who was not a communist or communist sympathiser, he was a socialist. He was also the president of the Senate from 1996 to 1999 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2000.
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Sergiu Nicolaescu
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- film directordirectorpoliticianfilm actorscreenwriter
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Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu was a Romanian film director, actor and politician.
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Mircea Geoană
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- politician
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Dan Mircea Geoană is a Romanian politician and former ambassador who served as president of the Senate of Romania from 20 December 2008 until he was revoked on 23 November 2011. From 21 April 2005 until 21 February 2010, he was the head of the Social Democratic Party (PSD, Romanian: Partidul Social Democrat). Furthermore, he was the candidate of the party for the position of President of Romania in the 2009 presidential election which he narrowly lost to Traian Băsescu.
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Dumitru Prunariu
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- diplomataerospace engineerastronautengineeraircraft pilot
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Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu is a Romanian cosmonaut. He flew in space aboard Soyuz 40 spacecraft and Salyut 6 space laboratory. He teamed with the Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Popov. The backup crew was made of Romanian candidate cosmonaut Dumitru Dediu and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko.
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Dan Barna
- Enrolled in the Politehnica University of Bucharest
- Graduated with master's degree
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- politicianlawyerformateur
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Dan Barna is a Romanian politician and lawyer. He served as the president of the Save Romania Union (USR), and as co-president of USR-PLUS until 1 October 2021. He was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 2016.
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Andrei Alexandrescu
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- computer scientistengineerprogrammer
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Andrei Alexandrescu is a Romanian-American C++ and D language programmer and author. He is particularly known for his pioneering work on policy-based design implemented via template metaprogramming. These ideas are articulated in his book Modern C++ Design and were first implemented in his programming library, Loki. He also implemented the "move constructors" concept in his MOJO library. He contributed to the C/C++ Users Journal under the byline "Generic<Programming>".
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Cristian Tudor Popescu
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- science fiction writerliterary critictranslatorlinguistjournalist
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Cristian Tudor Popescu is a Romanian journalist, essayist, engineer, short-story writer and political commentator. Author of science fiction stories during his youth, he also hosted talk shows for various television stations, and had contributions as a literary critic and translator.
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Dan Diaconescu
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- politicianjournalist
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Dan Cristian Diaconescu is a Romanian journalist, politician, presenter, the founder and owner of the former DDTV and OTV television channels. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, part of the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. In 2010, together with OTV show presenters, he formed the People's Party – Dan Diaconescu (PP-DD).
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Ecaterina Andronescu
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- engineerresearcherpoliticianchemist
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Ecaterina Andronescu is a Romanian engineer, professor, and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), she sat in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 2008, representing Bucharest, and was a Senator from 2008 until 2020, for the same city. In the Adrian Năstase cabinet, she was Education Minister from 2000 until June 2003. She held the same position in the cabinet of Emil Boc from 2008 to 2009, in the Victor Ponta cabinet during 2012, and finally in the Viorica Dăncilă cabinet for under 9 months between November 2018 and August 2019. She is married and has one child.
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Grigore Moisil
- Enrolled in the Politehnica University of Bucharest
- Studied in 1924-1929
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- computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacherdiplomat
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Grigore Constantin Moisil was a Romanian mathematician, computer pioneer, and titular member of the Romanian Academy. His research was mainly in the fields of mathematical logic (Łukasiewicz–Moisil algebra), algebraic logic, MV-algebra, and differential equations. He is viewed as the father of computer science in Romania.
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Ion Stoica
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- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- computer scientist
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Ion Stoica is a Romanian–American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking. He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and co-director of AMPLab. He co-founded Conviva and Databricks with other original developers of Apache Spark.
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Rovana Plumb
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- politician
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Rovana Plumb is a Romanian politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). She was appointed Minister of Environment and Forests (now Minister of Environment and Climate Change) on 7 May 2012. From 5 March 2014 to 9 November 2015, she was the Minister of Labor, Family, Social Protection and Elderly in the Government of Romania. In March 2015, Rovana Plumb was elected President of the National Council of PSD.
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Jafar Towfighi
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- university teacherpoliticianengineer
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Jafar Towfighi is an Iranian chemical engineer, academic, politician and senior consultant of the ministry of science, research and technology who served as minister of science, research and technology for two terms. First in the cabinet headed by President Mohammad Khatami from 2003 till 2005, and second in 2013 as acting minister.
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Lia Manoliu
- Enrolled in the Politehnica University of Bucharest
- In 1956 studied energetics
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- athletics competitorpolitician
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Lia Manoliu was a Romanian discus thrower who won one gold and two bronze Olympic medals. She was the first track and field athlete to compete at six Olympics (1952–1972).
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Alexandru Bârlădeanu
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- economistpolitician
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Alexandru Bârlădeanu was a Romanian Marxian economist and statesman who was prominent during the communist regime until being sidelined in 1968. In his later years, following the collapse of the regime, he served as Senate President.
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Adriean Videanu
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- politicianbusinesspersonengineer
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Adriean Marian Videanu is a businessman and former mayor of Bucharest, Romania. He is also a vice president of the Democratic Liberal Party of Romania, which was led by Emil Boc and the Minister of Economy in the Boc Cabinet, since 22 December 2008.
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Gheorghe Nichita
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- diplomatpoliticianengineer
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Gheorghe Nichita is a Romanian politician, who served as the mayor of Iași from 2003 to 2015, when he was suspended over allegations of corruption. A member of the Social Democratic Party, Nichita was the national vice-president of the party, and the leader of the party's county organization.
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Dinu Brătianu
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- politicianengineer
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Dinu Brătianu, born Constantin I. C. Brătianu, was a Romanian engineer and politician who led the National Liberal Party (PNL) starting in 1934.
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Ion Diaconescu
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- politicianengineer
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Ion Diaconescu was a Romanian anti-communist activist and politician. He was imprisoned as a political prisoner for seventeen years from 1947 to 1964 during Romania's Communist era. Diaconescu later became a leader of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD).
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Traian Lalescu
- Enrolled in the Politehnica University of Bucharest
- 1900-1903 studied civil engineering
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- university teachermathematician
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Traian Lalescu was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics.
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Ștefan Voitec
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- diplomatjournalistpolitician
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Ștefan Voitec was a Romanian Marxist journalist and politician who held important positions in the state apparatus of Communist Romania. Debuting as a member of the Socialist Party of Romania in his late teens, he formed the Socialist Workers Party of Romania, then the United Socialist Party, while also engaging in human rights activism and advocating prison reform. The mid-1930s brought him into contact with the Romanian Communist Party, with whom he formed tactical alliances; however, he rejected its political line, and was for a while known as a Trotskyist. In 1939, he joined the consolidated Social Democratic Party, which reunited various socialist groups outlawed by the National Renaissance Front. During World War II, despite ostensibly withdrawing form political life to do research, Voitec served as the party's Secretary and joined the anti-fascist underground. Some reports suggest that he was also a committed anti-communist, critical of the Soviet Union to the point on endorsing war in the East. As a war correspondent, Voitec made contributions to Nazi propaganda, an issue which made him vulnerable to blackmail in later decades.
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Sorin Frunzăverde
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- politician
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Sorin Frunzăverde was a Romanian politician. He served as the Minister of National Defense of Romania on two occasions as well as the Minister of Tourism and Ministry of Water, Forestry and Environmental Protection. He was also the President of the Caraș-Severin County Council a member of the Parliament of Romania and a Member of the European Parliament from 2007 to 2009. Formerly a member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), he joined the National Liberal Party (PNL) in 2012.
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Attila Verestóy
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- politicianengineer
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Attila Verestóy was a Romanian chemical engineer and politician. A member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he was also an elected member of the Romanian Senate for Harghita County from 1990 until 2018.
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Mircea Florian
- Enrolled in the Politehnica University of Bucharest
- Studied cybernetics
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposercomputer scientistengineermandolinist
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Mircea Florian, also known as Florian din Transilvania, M. A. N. Florian, and FloriMAN, is a Romanian multi-instrumentalist musician, multimedia artist and computer scientist, based in Germany. Having started his musical career as a folk rock singer, in the late 1960s, he developed a fusion between Romanian folklore and Eastern music, especially Indian sound, moving into psychedelic music. He founded Ceata Melopoică ensemble, with whom he recorded a concept album. These and his solo acts earned him a cult following among rebellious youth, establishing his reputation as one of the most original contributors to Romanian pop music. Florian was also an early member of Cenaclul Flacăra, a traveling music and literature circle, but parted with it when it became increasingly nationalistic.
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Elie Carafoli
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- aerospace engineerengineer
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Elie Carafoli was an accomplished Romanian engineer and aircraft designer. He is considered a pioneering contributor to the field of Aerodynamics.
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Radu Filipescu
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- engineerdissident
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Radu Filipescu is a former Romanian anti-Communist dissident. During Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime, Filipescu was imprisoned for several years for "propaganda against the socialist order".
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Corneliu Chisu
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- politicianengineer
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Corneliu Emil Eugen Chișu is a Romanian-born Canadian politician, who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election. He represented the riding of Pickering—Scarborough East as a member of the Conservative Party before being defeated by Jennifer O'Connell in the 2015 Canadian federal election in the redistributed riding of Pickering—Uxbridge.
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Marian-Jean Marinescu
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- politicianengineer
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Marian-Jean Marinescu is a Romanian politician and member of PNL, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Dolj County, he became a Member of the European Parliament in January 2007, with the accession of Romania to the European Union. He is a Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania. Marian-Jean Marinescu has been vice-president of the PPE Group for two legislatures, chair of the PPE Working Group "Budgets and Structural Policies", coordinator of the PPE working group for the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021–2027, Vice-Coordinator of the Transport and Tourism Commission (TRAN), vice-president of the "Sky and Space" Intergroup, member of the Board of Directors of the European Agency for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GSA), ambassador and founding member of the Erasmus program for entrepreneurs. In the new legislature 2019 - 2024, Marian-Jean Marinescu continues his activity in the committees of which he was a member previously, namely: member in the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN), alternate member in the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and an alternate member of the Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT), as well as coordinator of the PPE group for transport policies. A fluent speaker of French and English, Marian-Jean Marinescu has a solid administrative experience at national level, being deputy in the Romanian Parliament, County Councilor - Dolj County Council - Municipal Councilor Local Craiova and Prefect - Dolj County Prefect Institution. During the activity, Marian-Jean Marinescu was twice awarded the MEP of the Year (2014 and 2016), in the Research - Innovation section, the Personality of the Year Award in the field of aviation, granted by the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) in 2017, Red Arrow Award 2017 for Europe's Essential Commitment - Future Business Austria Conference. In the 2014 - 2019 legislature Marinescu was ranked the most active Romanian MEP, with a portfolio of 15 reports as principal rapporteur, 20 alternative reports and 5 opinion reports, as well as one of the ones more influential Romanian MEPs, according to VoteWatch's April 2019 ranking.
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Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu
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- science fiction writerliterary criticphilologist
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Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu was a Romanian literary critic and science fiction writer.
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George Necula
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- engineercomputer scientist
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George Ciprian Necula is a Romanian computer scientist, engineer at Google, and former professor at the University of California, Berkeley who does research in the area of programming languages and software engineering, with a particular focus on software verification and formal methods. He is best known for his Ph.D. thesis work first describing proof-carrying code, a work that received the 2007 SIGPLAN Most Influential POPL Paper Award.
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George Ciamba
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- diplomat
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George Ciamba was a Romanian diplomat who served, from November 2018 to November 2019, as the Romanian Minister for European Affairs, including during Romania's 2019 first presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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Peter Stoica
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- engineer
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Peter Stoica (born 1949) is a researcher and educator in the field of signal processing and its applications to radar/sonar, communications and bio-medicine. He is a professor of Signals and Systems Modeling at Uppsala University in Sweden, and a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the United States National Academy of Engineering (International Member), the Romanian Academy (Honorary Member), the European Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of IEEE, EURASIP, IETI, and the Royal Statistical Society.
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Alexandru Balaban
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Alexandru T. Balaban is a Romanian chemist who made significant contributions to the fields of organic chemistry, theoretical chemistry, mathematical chemistry, and chemical graph theory.
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Andrei Chiliman
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- politician
- Biography
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Andrei Chiliman is a Romanian sailor. He competed in the Tornado event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
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Mircea Gheorghe Drăghici
- Enrolled in the Politehnica University of Bucharest
- In 1989 graduated with bachelor's degree in automotive engineering
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
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Mircea Gheorghe Drăghici, treasurer of the Social Democratic Party has been Deputy in the Parliament of Romania in the 2008-2012, and 2012-2016 mandates; he continues to hold this position today, having been re-elected for the 2016-2020 mandate on behalf of PSD Argeș.
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Mihail Roco
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Mihail C. Roco is the founding chair of the US National Science and Technology Council subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology, and is Senior Advisor for Science and Engineering, including Nanotechnology, at the National Science Foundation. He is also the editor in chief of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research.
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Constantin Nicolescu
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- politician
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Constantin Nicolescu was a Romanian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he served in the Senate from 2000 to 2004.
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Martin Bercovici
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- university teacherengineer
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Martin Bercovici was a Romanian electrical engineer who contributed to the development of energy engineering education in Romania and to the plan of electric networks building of Romania. He served as a dean to the then newly founded Faculty of Energy Engineering within the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.
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Emilian Bratu
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- chemistengineer
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Emilian Bratu was a Romanian chemical engineer, founder of chemical engineering education in Romania. With the Austrian physical chemist Otto Redlich he studied the dissociation constant of heavy water.
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Costin Borc
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- politicianengineereconomist
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Costin Borc is a Romanian engineer and economist who was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Trade and Tourism in the Cioloș Cabinet. He took office on 17 November 2015.
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Florin-Teodor Tănăsescu
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- engineer
- Biography
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Florin-Teodor Tănăsescu is a Romanian electrical engineer, professor at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.
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Camil Baciu
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- writerjournalist
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Camil Baciu was a Romanian journalist and science fiction writer. He was a friend of, among others, Iordan Chimet (with whom he was part of an anti-Nazi group) and Gheorghe Ursu. In 1969 he left Romania, settling in Paris.
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Dan Roman
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- businessperson
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Dan Roman is an entrepreneur, investor and IT professional with focus on emerging markets. In 1990, after the termination of the communist era in Romania, he was a pioneer in establishing one of the first private companies in the country, RBS Ltd., that became the local market leader. Roman managed RBS as CEO and owner until 1995, when he sold the company to IBM.
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Roxana Geambașu
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- computer scientist
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Roxana Geambașu is a Romanian-American computer scientist who is an associate professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. The topics of her research include cloud computing, security and privacy, and operating systems.
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Sorin Draghici
- Enrolled in the Politehnica University of Bucharest
- Graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- researchercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Sorin Drăghici is a Romanian-American computer scientist and a program director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Previous positions include: Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of Wayne State University's College of Engineering, the Director of the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core at Karmanos Cancer Institute, and the Director of the James and Patricia Anderson Engineering Ventures Institute. Draghici was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2022, for contributions to the analysis of high-throughput genomics and proteomics data
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Christian Mititelu
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- historianbiographertranslatorhuman rights activistjournalist
- Biography
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Christian Gheorghe Mititelu is a Romanian journalist. He was the director of Romanian department of the BBC.
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Diana Marculescu
- Occupations
- researcherengineer
- Biography
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Diana Marculescu is the Department Chair and Motorola Regents Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering #2 at the University of Texas at Austin. She was formerly the David Edward Schramm Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the first female chair in the department's history.
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Sabin Cutaș
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George Sabin Cutaş is a Romanian politician. A member of the Conservative Party (PC), he sat in the Romanian Senate from 2004 to 2008 representing Teleorman County, and represented Romania in the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014.
