I graduated in 1992 from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, with a major in Aerospace Engineering. My Master-equivalent thesis was done under the supervision of Prof. Sorin Mitran. I received my Mechanical Engineering PhD in 1998 from the University of Iowa, under the supervision of Prof. Edward J. Haug. I worked until the end of 2004 for MSC.Software (among others, with Rajiv Rampalli, Gisli Ottarsson, Todd McDevitt), in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where, on the side, in 2004 I was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department, thanks to Prof. Robert Kransy's support. In 2005 I became a Visiting Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, working with Dr. Mihai Anitescu on numerical methods for electronic structure computation. Since November of 2005 I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. My research interests are in Modeling, Simulation and Visualization in Multibody Dynamics. In 2006 I established the Simulation-Based Engineering Lab. In late 2010 I also started together with several colleagues the Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Classes Taught at UW-Madison:
ME964: High Performance Computing for Engineering Applications [2008-F][2011-S]
ME751: Advanced Computational Multibody Dynamics [2010-S]
ME451: Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines Systems [2007-F][2009-S][2010-F]
ME440: Intermediate Vibrations [2009-S]
ME340: Introduction to Dynamic Systems [2006-S][2006-F][2007-S][2007-F]
Outreach Coordinator: PROmoting the Computational Science Initiative (ProCSI).
Editorial Board:
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.
Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics.