Ioan Dzițac

Ioan Dzițac (born February 14, 1953 in Poienile de sub Munte, Maramureş County) is a Romanian professor of mathematics and computer science, M.Sc. in Mathematics (1977) and PhD in computer science (2002) from Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, currently a professor at the Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad and rector of Agora University in Oradea.

Education and career

Ioan Dzițac graduated from primary and general Repedea village school (1960–1968), Maramureș County, “Dragoș Vodă” High School in Sighetu Marmației (1968–1972) and then the Faculty of Mathematics, “Babeș-Bolyai” University (1972–1977).^[1]

In 2002 obtained his PhD in computer science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Babeș -Bolyai University with the thesis “Methods for parallel and distributed computing in solving operational equations” under the scientific supervision of prof. PhD Grigor Moldovan.^[2]

Between 1977 and 1991, he taught mathematics in the pre-university education, obtaining the permanent teacher certification on all levels (1980), second grade teacher certification (1985) and first grade teacher certification (1990). In 1986 he received the title of “Distinguished Professor” given by Minister's Order no. 7610/08.06.1988.

Since 1991, Ioan Dzițac access through competition in the higher education system: Lecturer (1991–2003) and associate professor (2003–2005) at the University of Oradea, associate professor (2005–2009) at the Agora University and then Professor (2009–present) at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. At Agora University he founded, with acad. Florin Gheorghe Filip and prof. PhD Misu-Jan Manolescu, the International conference on Computers, Communications & Control (ICCCC) and the International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control (IJCCC) which, in less than two years, has been covered in ISI. Since 2006 he is the associate editor-in-chief of the IJCCC journal.^[3]

Management positions

On 17.08.1996, Dzițac was elected Vice President of the Romanian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (ROMAI), a position he occupies until 2011 (he was re-elected in 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009).^[4] In April 2004, assoc. PhD Ioan Dzițac is elected as Director of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Oradea,^[5] a position he occupied for a year and in October 2005 was elected Head of Department at Agora University. Since 2006 he is the associate editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control.^[3]

Since October 2009 he is the Director of the Centre “Agora Research & Development”.^[6]

As of 02.06.2012, Dzițac is Rector of Agora University.

Awards

In recognitions of his merits, Ioan Dzițac was awarded with the following degrees and titles (see [1])

Title of “Distinguished Professor” accorded by the Romanian Ministry of Education (1988)
The Award for Young Researcher accorded by the Romanian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (2003)
“SIVECO” Popularity Award accorded for an informatics product for E-Learning (2006)
“Excellence Diploma” accorded by the Associations of the Economics Faculties from Romania (2007)
“Excellence Diploma” EWNLC 2008 (2008)
Title of “Teacher of the Year 2008” accorded by the Agora University Senate
“Excellence Diploma” accorded by the “Aurel Vlaicu” University from Arad (2010)
Senior Member of IEEE (2011)

Published works

Dzițac is the author / co-author of over 50 scientific papers in mathematics, computer science and didactics, including over 15 in the ISI.^[7] Dzițac is the author / co-author / editor of over 20 books on mathematics, computer science and didactics. May be mentioned:^[8]

Monte Carlo Method: Hazard and Determinism (in collaboration, University of Oradea Publishing House, 2000)
Parallel Computing (University of Oradea Publishing House, 2001)
Didactics of Informatics (in collaboration, University of Oradea Publishing House, 2003)
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on applied and industrial mathematics (CAIM 2003), Vol. 1-2 (in collaboration, University of Oradea Publishing House, 2003)
Proceedings of International Conference on Computers and Communications-ICCC 2004 (in collaboration, University of Oradea Publishing House, 2004)
Economic Mathematics ( Agora University Publishing House, 2005)
Distributed Systems: Information Models (in collaboration, Agora University Publishing House, 2006)
Distributed Systems: Mathematical Models (in collaboration, Agora University Publishing House, 2006)
Parallel and Distributed Methods for Algebraic Systems Resolution ( Agora University Publishing House, 2006)
Proceedings of International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control-ICCCC 2006 (in collaboration, Agora University Publishing House, 2006),
Proceedings of International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control-ICCCC 2008 (in collaboration, Agora University Publishing House, 2008),
From Natural Language to Soft Computing: New Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence (in collaboration, Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2008) etc.

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