Liviu Goras

Liviu Goras (M'92–SM'05) was born in Iasi, Romania, in 1948. He received the Diploma Engineer and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the “Gh. Asachi” Technical University (TU) Iasi, Iasi, Romania, in 1971 and 1978, respectively. Since 1973, he was successively Assistant, Lecturer, Associate Professor and, since 1994, he has been a Professor with the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, TU Iasi. From September 1994 to May 1995, he was on leave, as a senior Fulbright Scholar, with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley. His main research interests include nonlinear circuit and system theory, cellular neural networks, and signal processing. He is the main organizer of the International Symposium on Signal, Circuits and Systems, ISSCS, held in Iasi every two years since 1993. Dr. Goras was the recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.