Voicu Z. Groza

Biography

Dr. Voicu Groza received the Dipl. Eng. in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara, Romania in 1972. He received the Dr. Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the same institution in 1985. His faculty career began in 1979 at the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara where he became Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Dean of the Faculty of Automation and Computers. After brief assignments as visiting and part-time faculty at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Zürich, Switzerland) and Sheridan College, (Toronto, Canada), Dr. Groza joined the faculty of the University of Ottawa where he is presently Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Computer Engineering Program in the School of Information Technology and Engineering. He is author or co-author of more than 200 refereed articles in journals and conference proceedings, author of two books, and holds two patents. His publications reflect his two dominant research interests, which are high-speed data acquisition and dynamically reconfigurable embedded systems.

Dr. Groza is active in the IEEE in a number of different capacities and societies. Within in the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, he has been General Chair and Technical Program Co-Chair of several workshops and symposia. He is a member of the I&M Society’s AdCom and Chair of the AdCom’s Conferences Finance Committee, and is a member of the I&M Magazine’s editorial board. He is also a member of the IEEE’s Computational Intelligence Society, the IEEE Standards Association, and the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.