Marius M.Balas

Marius M. Balas, IEEE Senior Member, is a Habilitated Professor at The Engineering Faculty of Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. His research topics are in Systems Engineering, Electronic Circuits, Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Adaptive Control, Modeling and Simulation. He is the author of 16 books and book chapters, 120 indexed papers and 7 invention patents. His main scientific contributions are the fuzzy-interpolative systems, the passive greenhouses, the intelligent rooftop greenhouses, the constant time to collision traffic optimization, the imposed distance braking, PWM inverter for railway coaches in tropical environments, the rejection of the switching controllers’ instability by phase trajectory analysis and the Fermat neuron. Coordinator for several research projects and student competitions, co-organizing the Control Engineering and Industrial Software Branch of the Engineering Faculty of Aurel Vlaicu University.