Ionut Gabriel GHIONEA is an associate professor, member of the Manufacturing Engineering Department, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Robotics, University Politehnica of Bucharest since 2000. In 2003 he completed an internship to prepare his doctoral thesis at Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers in Aix-en-Provence, France and has a PhD in engineering since 2010.

Ionut Gabriel Ghionea published, as first author or co-author, 11 books in the field of Computer Aided Design for mechanical engineering and more than 120 articles in technical journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of the editorial board and review panel of several international and national journals and conferences.

Mr. Ghionea participated in research and educational projects for industry. He is one of the most known and appreciated CAD trainers in Romania, carrying out this activity since 2002.

He is, also, considered to be one of the main and first didactic promoters of the CATIA program in the Romanian academic environment, he made numerous CAD applications, video tutorials, practical works for students and CAD courses for companies in Romania and abroad.

In December 2020 he became a CATIA Champion, recognition issued by the Dassault Systemes (Paris, France) for his long-term commitment in promoting and using PLM System CATIA.

CATIA Champion

CATIA Certified Professional Part Design Specialist

Contact: ionut76@hotmail.com, http://www.fiir.pub.ro, http://www.tcm.pub.ro, http://www.catia.ro

Cristian Ioan TARBA, PhD, is a lecturer at the University Politehnica of Bucharest. He became a member of the Manufacturing Engineering Department in 2009, after seven years working as a CAD and CAM engineer, using different software packages. He uses CATIA as the main tool for research and teaching activities for 13 years. He uses Part Design, Assembly Design, Generative Shape Design and Digital Mock-Up Kinematics workbenches in his lectures for both Romanian and foreign students.

In the research activities, he also uses VBScripting and Python integrated with CATIA to complete his scientific work.

In December 2020 he became a CATIA Champion, recognition issued by the Dassault Systemes (Paris, France) for his long-term commitment in promoting and using PLM System CATIA.

CATIA Champion

Contact: ticris@gmail.com

Sasa CUKOVIC, is a postdoc and Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow at the Institute for Biomechanics (IfB/LMB, Prof. Dr William Taylor), ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He played a leading role in a spinal 3D modeling under the research project III41007 financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia.

Sasa Cukovic was a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship holder at ETH Zurich, DAAD grant holder at Technical University of Munich (Germany), and OeAD grant holder at TU Graz and MedUni Vienna (Austria) working on non-invasive diagnosis of spinal deformities. His main research interests include CAD/CAM systems, reverse engineering and non-invasive 3D reconstruction and modeling in engineering and medicine, computational biomechanics, augmented reality and computer vision. He has valuable teaching experience and few books in domain of CAD/CAM published within University of Kragujevac. He also disseminated his knowledge in various projects and in teaching abroad.

He authored/co-authored five books and more than 80 papers. Since 2019 he is a senior scientific associate of the Institute for Information Technologies (IIT) Kragujevac, Serbia. He is a group leader at ETH/IfB/LMB for computational 3D biomechanics of the spine and senior member of IEEE.

In December 2020 he became a CATIA Champion, recognition issued by the Dassault Systemes (Paris, France) for his long-term commitment in promoting and using PLM System CATIA.

CATIA Champion

Contact: cukovic@kg.ac.rs, https://scukovic.com