Qualifications and Professional Body membership

PhD Electronic/Electrical Engineering
PGCE Learning & Teaching
MEng Electrical Engineering
Chartered Engineer, Engineer Council UK (CEng)
European Engineer of the European Federation of National Engineering Associations (EurIng)
Fellow of the Institute of Engineering & Technology (FIET)
Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE)
Vice-President for Membership Activities, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics / Informatics

Teaching

• Digital Systems and Power Control
• Power Converter Systems
• Microelectronic Systems Design

Research interests

• Digital Control of Power Electronic Converters
• FPGA / System-on-chip Design
• Holistic Modelling of Electronic Systems
• Renewable energy

Selected recent publications

Barote, L., Marinescu, C., Cirstea, M.N. (2013). Control structure for Single Phase Stand-Alone Wind Based Energy Sources, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.60, Issue 2, February 2013, ISSN: 0278-0046, DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2206346.

Tisan, A., Cirstea, M.N. (2012). SOM Neural Network Design ? A New Simulink Library Based Approach Targeting FPGA Implementation, Journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Elsevier. ISSN: 0378-4754.

Alecsa, B., Cirstea, M.N., Onea, A. (2012). Simulink Modeling and Design of an Efficient Hardware-constrained FPGA-based PMSM Speed Controller, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 8, Issue 3. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2012.2193891.

Monmasson, E., Idkhajine, L., Cirstea, M.N., Bahri, I., Tisan, A., Naouar, W. (2011). FPGAs in Industrial Control Applications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 7., no. 2, pp. 224-244, May 2011, ISSN 1551-3203, DOI: 10.1109/TII.2011.2123908.

Dinu, A., Cirstea, M.N., Cirstea, S.E. (2010). Direct Neural Networks Hardware Implementation Algorithm, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, vol. 57, no. 5, May 2010, pp.1845-1848, ISSN: 0278-0046. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2033097.

Cirstea M. N. (2010). Sustainable Renewable Energy for Europe, Projects magazine, British Publishers Ltd., April 2010, pp. 78-80, ISSN 2040-7335.

Monmasson, E., Cirstea, M.N. (2007). FPGA design methodology for industrial control systems - A review, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 54(4): 1824-1842. ISSN 0278-0046. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2007.898281. 748 downloads in 2008 alone, second placed in its year (2007) with 49 citations since then.

Cirstea M. N. (2006). Electronic SOCs. An Integrated modelling and design approach, EuroAsia semiconductor, November, pp. 45-48.

Esteem / Selected grants

Certificate from Editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics for the "outstanding contributions" as Associate Editor to the journal's highest citation index in IEEE. November 2012.

Professional tutorial delivered (3 hours): "Electronic Design Methodologies targeting FPGAs. Software engineering for hardware design?", Annual International Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2011, Melbourne, Australia, November 2011.

Framework 6 European Programme: Control of Renewable Integrated Systems Targeting Advanced Landmarks (CRISTAL) - Coordination Action, including 11 institutions from seven EU countries. Prof M. Cirstea was Consortium Coordinator and author of the project proposal. Completed 2010.

Anglia Ruskin University Vice Chancellor's award: Our University in the International Arena. 2008.

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Transmitton Ltd.: Redesign fastflex range of products using hardware description languages (HDLs) and FPGA implementation. Completed 2005.

Best Presentation Award (in its section) for presenting the paper (on collaborative work with NEC Electronics Europe GMBH): Cirstea, M.N., Dinu, A., Redpath, S.: "Modelling a New Sensorless Control Strategy for Brushless DC Motors", Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Industrial Technology ICIT'04, Hammamet, Tunisia. December 2004.