Different Perspectives of a Digital Innovator

Innovation is the only way the EU can maintain a strong, sustainable and competitive economy. However, at present, there are large imbalances between the degrees of innovation of EU countries. One solution to mitigate this drawback consists of the development of collaborative networks that replicate the best models of innovation from advanced countries and adapt them to underdeveloped countries in Europe. Such a collaboration exists between Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, OMiLAB community, and local industrial partners. This lecture emphasizes both the importance of innovation, challenges involved, especially in modest innovator countries of EU, and different perspectives of a Digital Innovator, starting from environment, target domains and specific activities, human resources, and education curricula. Finally, there are presented some practical examples from ULBS, pilot projects targeting industry or agriculture cases aiming to boost the regional innovation.

Speaker

Adrian FLOREA obtained his MSE (1998) at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (ULBS) and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania (2005). At present he is Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. Adrian is an active researcher in the fields of High Performance Processor Design and Simulation, Dynamic Branch and Value Prediction. He has worked over 20 years in interdisciplinary national and international research projects dealing with issues such as optimization problems in different engineering domains (microprocessors systems, suspension design and reliability, energy efficiency in buildings, smart electricity), embedded systems with applicability in Smart City (smart parking, urban mobility, smart traffic), creating digital tools for supporting communities of practice, mobile computing. He has published over 9 (didactic and scientific) books and 89 scientific papers in some prestigious journals (ISI Web of Science) and international top conferences in Romania, USA, UK, Italy, Germany, China, Slovenia, Korea, Latvia, Spain, India, Poland etc. He received Tudor Tanasescu Romanian Academy Award 2005, for the book entitled Microarchitectures simulation and optimization (in Romanian) and Ad Augusta Per Angusta Award for young researcher, received from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu in June 2007, for special results obtained in scientific research. Since 2012 he is HiPEAC affiliate member and, since 2020 he is ACM Professional senior member. He is researcher in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 innovation programme under grant agreement No 731724, Infrastructure and integrated tools for personalized learning of reading skill – iRead and is the technical coordinator of the Erasmus+ KA2 strategic project The FoF-Designer: Digital Design Skills for Factories of the Future. Since 2019 professor Florea is leading the HPI Knowledge Transfer Centre at ULBS.

Become a Digital Leader!

The 10th Edition of the NEMO Summer School will take place at the University of Vienna between July 15th and 26th, 2024, from 09:00 to 17:30 CEST and explores the Digital Innovation Environment (https://www.omilab.org/brochure) of OMiLAB. Learn Conceptual Modelling to innovate, design, and engineer digital ecosystems!
More information about the program at: NEMO2024 Program Overview