Date biografice: născut la 22 martie 1963, Lugoj, judeţul Timiş. Diplomă de doctor, Facultatea de Automatică şi Calculatoare din cadrul Universităţii “Politehnica” din Timişoara – 1996. Diplomă de licenţă, Facultatea de Matematică din cadrul Universităţii din Timişoara – 1993. Diplomă de merit, Facultatea de Electrotehnică din cadrul Institutului Politehnic “Traian Vuia” din Timişoara, specializarea Automatică şi calculatoare – 1987. Profesor universitar titular la Departamentul de Automatică şi Informatică Aplicată din cadrul Universităţii Politehnica Timişoara (UPT). Cercetător ştiinţific gradul I (CS I) şi şef al Laboratorului de Ştiinţa şi Ingineria Datelor din cadrul Centrului de Cercetări Tehnice Fundamentale şi Avansate, Academia Română-Filiala Timişoara. Director al Consiliului pentru Studii Universitare de Doctorat din cadrul Instituţiei Organizatoare de Doctorat UPT. Pagina web personală: http://www.aut.upt.ro/~rprecup/.

Titluri şi distincţii: membru corespondent al Academiei Române – 2018. Fellow, IEEE – 2025. Doctor Honoris Causa al Óbuda University, Budapesta, Ungaria – 2019. Doctor Honoris Causa al Széchenyi István University, Győr, Ungaria – 2019.

Premii: Elsevier Scopus Award for Excellence in Global Contribution (2017), “for research in area of Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering”. Numit printre liderii mondiali în ştiinţa datelor în 2022 de revista Chief Data Officer (CDO) Magazine, conform 2022 List of Leading Academic Data Leaders publicată de CDO Magazine în februarie 2022. Inclus în jumătatea superioară a clasamentului aferent 1% Best Electronics and Electrical Engineering Scientists list şi prima poziţie în România conform Research.com. Inclus în 3% best Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering rankings conform AD Scientific Index. Inclus în listă din 2020, se află actualmente în top 0.5% (poziţia 1752 din totalul de 399064 de cercetători în Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing pe plan mondial în 2024, World’s Top Scientists Profile) conform listei “Top 2% Scientists” de la Stanford University şi are 15 lucrări cu statut de highly cited papers. Premiul „Henri Coandă” în categoria Ştiinţe inginereşti, acordat la Gala Cercetării Româneşti 2024 (team leader). Diploma Meritul Academic a Academiei Române, acordată în 2023 revistei Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology (ROMJIST), al cărui Editor-in-Chief este Radu-Emil Precup din 2022, pentru poziţia fruntaşă în evaluarea Clarivate şi pe primul loc între revistele din ţară, din punct de vedere al factorului de impact. Premiul Tudor Tănăsescu al Academiei Române, 2018, acordat în 2020, pentru Tehnici data-driven de acordare a parametrilor regulatoarelor. Premiul Grigore Moisil al Academiei Române, 2014, acordat în 2016, pentru Contribuţii la optimizarea sistemelor fuzzy. Premiul Grigore Moisil al Academiei Române, 2003, acordat în 2005, pentru Contribuţii la dezvoltarea conducerii FUZZY a proceselor. Premiul Spiru Haret al Marii Loji Naţionale din România, acordat în 2016 în parteneriat cu Academia Română, pentru Educaţie, mediu, IT. Inclus în lista Top 10 researchers in Artificial Intelligence and Automation (conform listei publicate de IIoT World în iulie 2017). Marele Premiu la Gala Premiilor Lugojene, ediţia a VIII-a, 2018. Certificate of Commendation from IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems for the contribution to the journal by serving as an Associate Editor dealing with a high volume of papers efficiently (2022). Certificate of Outstanding Reviewer from IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the journal (2017). Profesor onorific al Óbuda University (cu denumirea veche Budapest Tech Polytechnical Institution), Budapesta, Ungaria (din 2007). Profesor Bologna (2017) din partea Alianţei Naţionale a Organizaţiilor Studenţeşti din România (ANOSR). Premiul Traian Vuia pentru Ştiinţe Inginereşti la Gala Excelenţei Bănăţene, Ediţia-II 2015. Best Paper Award la 8^th International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management ITQM 2020 & 2021 (Chengu, China). Best Paper Award la 7^th International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management ITQM 2019 (Granada, Spania). Nominalizare la Best Paper Award la 12^th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics ICINCO 2015 (Colmar, Franţa). Certificate of Appreciation for the Best Paper in the Session TT07 1 Control Theory la 39^th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IECON 2013 (Viena, Austria). Best Paper Award la 16^th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications WSC16 (Loughborough University, Anglia, 2011). Best Paper Award in the Area of Intelligent Control (două lucrări) la 2008 Conference on Human System Interaction HSI 2008, Krakow (Polonia). Excellency Diploma la International Conference on Automation, Quality & Testing, Robotics AQTR 2004 (THETA 14, Cluj-Napoca). Fostul student doctorand Raul-Cristian Roman a fost premiat cu Honorary Mention in the 2020 IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Romania Chapter Best PhD Thesis Competition.

Membru în societăţi şi organizaţii profesionale: fondator şi preşedinte al Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Romania Chapter – 2015. Membru al Comitetului Tehnic “Computational Intelligence in Control” (cu denumirea veche “Cognition and Control”) al International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) – 2002. Membru al Comitetului Tehnic “Linear Control Systems” al IFAC – 2020. Membru al Control Systems Society din cadrul IEEE – 2003. Membru al Intelligent Transportation Systems Society – 2003. Membru al Computational Intelligence Society – 2010. Membru al Industrial Electronics Society – 2011. Membru al Task Force on Autonomous Learning Systems within the Neural Networks Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society – 2013. Membru al Technical Committee on Computational Cybernetics of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society – 2014. Membru al Technical Committee on Cyber-Medical Systems of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society – 2016. Membru al Task Force on Adaptive and Evolving Fuzzy Systems within the Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society – 2020. Membru al Technical Committee on Data-Driven Control and Monitoring of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society – 2020. Membru al Technical Committee on Control, Robotics and Mechatronics of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society – 2021. Membru al IEEE Taskforce on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society – 2022. Membru al Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) – 2017. Membru al The Working Group WG 12.9 on Computational Intelligence of the Technical Committee TC12 on Artificial Intelligence of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) – 2011. Membru al European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) – 2010. Membru onorific al Hungarian Fuzzy Association – 2005. Preşedintele Filialei Timişoara a Societăţii de Robotică din România (SRR) – 2020. Membru al Societăţii Române de Automatică şi Informatică Tehnică (SRAIT) – 1993. Membru al Societăţii de Instalaţii Electrice şi Automatizări din România (SIEAR) – 1996. Mentor la WCCI 2020 în cadrul IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Mentoring Program. Executive Co-Editor-in-Chief al revistei Information Sciences, Elsevier – 2024, Associate editor – 2020. Associate editor al revistei IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. Associate editor al revistei IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics – 2018. Membru al Editorial Board al revistei Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier – 2021. Membru al Editorial Board al revistei Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier – 2014. Membru al Editorial Board al revistei Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier – 2021. Membru al Editorial Board al revistei Evolving Systems, Springer – 2014. Associate editor al revistei Applied Artificial Intelligence, Taylor & Francis – 2022. Associate editor al revistei CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Wiley – 2019. Membru al Editorial Board al revistei Communications in Transportation Research, Elsevier – 2021. Membru al Editorial Board al revistei Healthcare Analytics, Elsevier – 2021. Associate editor al revistei Industrial Artificial Intelligence, Springer – 2022. Advisory board member al revistei Science Talks, Elsevier – 2024. Editor-in-Chief al revistei Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, Academia Română – 2022, membru al Editorial Board – 2018; revista a fost premiată în 2023 cu Diploma Meritul Academic a Academiei Române, pentru poziţia fruntaşă în evaluarea Clarivate şi pe primul loc între revistele din ţară, din punct de vedere al factorului de impact. Topical Editor al revistei Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Technical Sciences, Information Science, Academia Română – 2022, membru al Editorial Board – 2018. Membru al Senior Editorial Board al revistei Studies in Informatics and Control, ICI Bucureşti – 2020. Associate Editor al revistei Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, Societatea Română de Automatică şi Informatică Tehnică – 2016. Track Chair al revistei Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, Óbuda University, Ungaria – 2014, Associate Editor – 2012. Membru al Editorial Board al revistei International Journal of Computers Communications & Control, Universitatea Agora – 2017. Membru al Editorial Board al revistei Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universitatea “Ştefan cel Mare” din Suceava – 2007.

Lista cu cele mai reprezentative lucrări ştiinţifice, cărţi şi realizări tehnice:

1. -C. Roman, R.-E. Precup, E. M. Petriu, Hybrid Data-Driven Fuzzy Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Tower Crane Systems, European Journal of Control (Elsevier), vol. 58, pp. 373-387, 2021, Highly Cited Paper according to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (CA WoS) as of September/October 2024, Hot Paper according to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science as of July/August 2022.
2. Pozna, R.-E. Precup, E. Horvath, E. M. Petriu, Hybrid Particle Filter-Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm and Application to Fuzzy Controlled Servo Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 4286-4297, 2022, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of September/October 2024, Hot Paper according to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science as of May/June 2023.
   2022. Zamfirache, R.-E. Precup, R.-C. Roman, E. M. Petriu, Reinforcement learning-based control using Q-learning and gravitational search algorithm with experimental validation on a nonlinear servo system, Information Sciences (Elsevier), vol. 583, pp. 99-120, 2022, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of September/October 2024, Hot Paper according to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science as of November/December 2022.
3. Zamfirache, R.-E. Precup, R.-C. Roman, E. M. Petriu, Policy iteration reinforcement learning-based control using a grey wolf optimizer algorithm, Information Sciences (Elsevier), vol. 585, pp. 162-175, 2022, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of September/October 2024.
4. Zamfirache, R.-E. Precup, R.-C. Roman, E. M. Petriu, Neural Network-based Control Using Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning and Grey Wolf Optimizer with Experimental Servo System Validation, Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier), vol. 225, paper 120112, pp. 1-15, 2023, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of September/October 2024.
5. -C. Roman, R.-E. Precup, E. M. Petriu, A.-I. Borlea, Hybrid Data-Driven Active Disturbance Rejection Sliding Mode Control with Tower Crane Systems Validation, Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 50-64, 2024, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of September/October 2024.
6. -E. Precup, G. Duca, S. Travin, I. Zinicovscaia, Processing, neural network-based modeling of biomonitoring studies data and validation on Republic of Moldova data, Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Technical Sciences, Information Science, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 403-410, 2022, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of September/October 2024.
7. -D. Borlea, R.-E. Precup, A.-B. Borlea, D. Iercan, A Unified Form of Fuzzy C-Means and K-Means algorithms and its Partitional Implementation, Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier), vol. 214, paper 106731, pp. 1-16, 2021, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of January/February 2024.
8. -E. Precup, T.-A. Teban, A. Albu, A.-B. Borlea, I. A. Zamfirache, E. M. Petriu, Evolving fuzzy models for prosthetic hand myoelectric-based control, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 4625-4636, 2020, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of January/February 2024.
9. -E. Precup, R.-C. David, R.-C. Roman, A.-I. Szedlak-Stînean, E. M. Petriu, Optimal tuning of interval type-2 fuzzy controllers for nonlinear servo systems using slime mould algorithm, International Journal of Systems Science (Taylor and Francis), vol. 54, no. 15, pp. 2941-2956, 2023, Highly Cited Paper according to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science as of September/October 2023, Hot Paper according to CA WoS as of March/April 2022.
10. -E. Precup, R.-C. David, E. M. Petriu, Grey Wolf Optimizer Algorithm-Based Tuning of Fuzzy Control Systems with Reduced Parametric Sensitivity, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 527-534, 2017, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of November/December 2022.
11. -E. Precup, R.-C. David, R.-C. Roman, E. M. Petriu, A.-I. Szedlak-Stînean, Slime mould algorithm-based tuning of cost-effective fuzzy controllers for servo systems, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (Atlantis Press), vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 1042-1052, 2021, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of September/October 2023.
12. -E. Precup, H. Hellendoorn, A survey on industrial applications of fuzzy control, Computers in Industry (Elsevier), vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 213-226, 2011, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of September/October 2021.
13. -E. Precup, M.-B. Rădac, R.-C. Roman, E. M. Petriu, Model-Free Sliding Mode Control of Nonlinear Systems: Algorithms and Experiments, Information Sciences (Elsevier), vol. 381, pp. 176-192, 2017, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of May/June 2018.
14. -E. Precup, R.-C. David, E. M. Petriu, M.-B. Rădac, St. Preitl, J. Fodor, Evolutionary optimization-based tuning of low-cost fuzzy controllers for servo systems, Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier), vol. 38, pp. 74-84, 2013, Highly Cited Paper according to CA WoS as of November/December 2015.
15. -E. Precup, P. Angelov, B. S. J. Costa, M. Sayed-Mouchaweh, An overview on fault diagnosis and nature-inspired optimal control of industrial process applications, Computers in Industry (Elsevier), vol. 74, pp. 75-94, 2015, Hot Paper according to CA WoS as of November/December 2015.
16. -L. Hedrea, R.-E. Precup, R.-C. Roman, E. M. Petriu, Tensor product-based model transformation approach to tower crane systems modeling, Asian Journal of Control (Wiley), vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1313-1323, 2021, Top Cited Article in 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 according to Wiley.
17. -E. Precup, R.-C. Roman, E.-L. Hedrea, A.-I. Szedlak-Stinean, I. A. Zamfirache, Classical and Modern Optimization Techniques Applied to Control and Modeling, 1^st Ed., CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, Abingdon, 354 pp., 2025.
18. -E. Precup, R.-C. Roman, A. Safaei, Data-Driven Model-Free Controllers, 1^st Ed., CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 389 pp., 2021, voted by the Editorial Board of CRC Press as 2021 Outstanding Title in STEM.
19. -E. Precup, R.-C. David, Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms for Fuzzy Controlled Servo Systems, Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, Oxford, 148 pp., 2019.