Silviu-Iulian Niculescu

**Silviu-Iulian NICULESCU** was born in Petrosani, Romania in 1968. He received the B.S. degree from the Polytechnical Institute of Bucharest, Romania, the M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees, both in Automatic Control, from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, and the “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” (HDR) in Automatic Control from Université de Technologie de Compiègne, in 1992, 1993, 1996, and 2003, respectively. From 1992 to 1997, he was with the Department of Automatic Control and Computers, University "Politehnica" Bucharest, Romania. From 1997 to 2006, he was with HEUDIASYC (“Heuristics and diagnosis of complex systems”) laboratory, Compiègne, France as a Researcher at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research). He also held a PostDoctoral position in the Department of Applied Mathematics, ENSTA, Paris, France, from 1996 to 1997. In September 2006, he joined L2S (Laboratory of Signals and Systems), Gif-sur-Yvette, where he is currently ***Research Director*** (“Senior Researcher”) ***at CNRS.*** He was the ***head of the laboratory*** for 10 years (2010-2019). Co-founder of the ***Inria team "DISCO"*** (common team of Inria with CNRS and CentraleSupélec, located at L2S) in 2010, he is also an active member of the team. Dr. Niculescu is author or co-author of ***eleven books*** (Diderot: 1997; Birkhauser, Briefs: 2015; SIAM: 2007, 2014 and 2021; Springer: LNCIS - 2001, CES - 2014, AIC - 2015, SpringerBriefs - 2 in 2015 1 in 2016, and 1 in 2021) and ***co-editor*** of ***six volumes*** (SIAM, 1999; Pergamon Press, 2001; Springer 2004; Springer 2007; Springer 2009). He is *author or co-author* of more than ***600 book chapters or scientific papers***. He was the ***General Co-Chair*** of the ***European Control Conference*** (ECC), Bucharest (Romania) in June 2023. Dr. Niculescu has been the *IPC Chair* of the *3rd IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems* (Santa Fe, NM, USA, December 2001), of the *8th* *IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems* (Sinaia, Romania, September 2009), *13th European Control Conference* (Strasoburg, France, June 2014), and the main organizer or co-organizer of the *1st CNRS-NSF Workshop on Time-Delay Systems* (Paris: La Défense, January 2003), and of the *two European Summer School in Automatic Control* (Grenoble, September 2000; Grenoble, July 2013) devoted to time-delay systems. He was the *guest co-editor of seven issues* devoted to the analysis and control of dynamical systems (*International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control* in 2024 and 2022, *Journal of Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena* (MMNP) in 2009, *Asian Journal of Control* in 2005, *IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information* in 2002 and 2010, and *Kybernetika* in 2001). Dr. Niculescu has been *scientific responsible* of *15 international cooperation programs and projects* (with Belgium, Mexico, Romania and Eastern European countries, South Korea, Hong Kong, Turkey and United States). He is member of the IPC of more than *50 International Conferences. H*e was an *Associate Editor* of the *IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control* (2003-2005) and of *European Journal of Control* (2011-2016). He is an *Associate Editor* of *IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information* (since 2011), *IFAC-PapersOnLine* (since 2020) and *Frontiers in Control Engineering* (area Networked Control, since 2020). ***IEEE Fellow*** since 2018, Dr Niculescu is the ***chair*** of the ***IFAC Technical Committee "Linear Control Systems" (TC 2.2)*** since 2017 and he was the *chair* of the *IFAC Research Group on "Time-delay systems"* (2007-2017) and *vice-chair* of the *IFAC Technical Committee on Linear Control Systems (TC 2.2)* for the period 2011-2017. Since 2012, he is the *founding editor* and the *scientific responsible* of the Springer (book) series: ***Advances in Delays in Dynamics ([ADD@S](mailto:ADD@S))***. Dr. Niculescu was awarded the *CNRS Silver* and *Bronze Medals* for scientific research, the *Best Paper Presentation Award* at American Control Conference, Chicago, IL and the *Ph.D. Thesis Award* from INPG, Grenoble (France) in 2011, 2001, 2000, and 1996, respectively. He was also awarded the title of *"Doctor Honoris Causa"* of University of Craiova (Romania) in 2016 and University Dunarea de Jos, Galati (Romania) in 2023. His research interests include delay systems, robust control, operator theory, and numerical methods in optimization, and their applications to the design of engineering systems.