Responsible Automation and Applied Informatics
Summer School: 23.06 – 5.09.2025
Organized by Systems for Intelligent Management of information (SIMfo) Laboratory, PRECIS Centre, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Apply here for RAAI Summer School 23.06 – 11.07 – Workshops and lectures in English /Romanian.
Apply on https://connect.upb.ro/ for the period 23.06 – 5.09.2025 – Responsible Automation and Applied Informatics in the category „Scoala de vara” (cu echivalarea practicii).
Description
Automation and informatics are present in our daily life without even realizing it most of the time; they change our lives for better or for worse. Our students aim at becoming excellent programmers, professionals able to integrate software, hardware, and control aspects in reliable applications and systems. However, is it enough in today’s world? Our concern is that they also become responsible and aware of the impact produced on end users, society, climate, and available resources. The topics to be discussed include but are not limited to:
– Sustainable Computing and Energy Consumption
– Artificial Intelligence and System Self-adaptation
– Cloud Computing and Shared Responsibility
– Risk Assessment in Automation and Intelligent Systems
– Cybersecurity and Socio-Technical Systems
This summer school brings together students interested in automation, applied informatics, and intelligent systems, with specialists from academia and industry, within a series of hybrid lectures and workshops, optionally followed by individual projects. We wish to tackle the problems and the technical solutions that are also responsible from multiple points of view.
Invited Speakers
Prof. Marin Litoiu, York University, Toronto, Canada
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Viorel Mihai, Asti Automation
Viorel Mihai is an automation engineer and technical manager of Asti Automation with an extensive experience in coordinating automation projects in multiple industry verticals (oil and gas, food industry, utilities, energy).
Dr. Alexandru Olteanu, SAP Romania
Alexandru Olteanu a obținut titlul de doctor în Știința Calculatoarelor in 2013, cu o temă axată pe Cloud Computing. De atunci, și-a consolidat expertiza ca software engineer și data engineer, atât în industrie, cât și în mediul academic. Alex a activat ca cercetător într-o serie de proiecte de cercetare naționale si internaționale, axate pe rețele de comunicație ale viitorului (Sensei, EUWB, TwisNet), pe biometrie (SISEB, ATHOS) si pe echilibrarea fluxurilor de energie dintre tari la nivel regional (FutureFlow). La Facultatea de Automatica si Calculatoare, Departamentul Calculatoare, preda cursurile de Structuri de Date si Algoritmi, Programare Orientata pe Obiecte, si Analiza Aplicata a Datelor. În calitate de consultant pentru SAP, a aplicat metode avansate de analiză a datelor în diverse sectoare, inclusiv utilități, telecomunicații, finanțe și sectorul public. Acum Alexandru contribuie la dezvoltarea soluțiilor SAP pentru Agentic AI, soluții care isi propun rezolvarea provocărilor complexe de business prin intermediul agenților autonomi.
Prof. Grigore Stamatescu, POLITEHNICA University, Bucharest, Romania
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Prof. Michael Weyrich, University of Stuttgart, Germany
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Akshay Kumar Venkatesha Narla, University of Stuttgart, Germany
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Dr. Olivier Gehan, National Graduate School of Engineering of Caen ENSICAEN, Caen, France
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General Program
23.06 – 11.07 – Workshops and lectures
Lectures of academic invited speakers
TBD
Industry Workshops
SAP – GenAI Quality Assessment: Foundations & Practice (2 days)
This two-day workshop is designed to equip participants with both the theoretical foundations and practical skills needed to evaluate the quality of Generative AI output. Through interactive lectures, hands-on exercises, and real-world case studies, attendees will explore key evaluation dimensions such as coherence, relevance, factual accuracy, and completeness. They will learn how to apply human and automated assessment methods, including widely used metrics such as BLEU, ROUGE, BERTScore and GPTScore. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of the state-of-the-art methods for assessing Generative AI results, raising their awareness on high-quality, reliable and ethically sound GenAI outputs.
Speaker: Dr. Alexandru Olteanu
Asti Automation – Development of modern PLC Applications using Siemens TIA Portal (1/2 days)
The workshop will present modern programmable logic controller applications in a comparative approach based on technologies from reputable manufacturers (Siemens, Allen Bradley, Beckhoff, Phoenix Contact, Bosch Rexroth). The IEC 61131-3 standard for PLC software development will be discussed together with key principles in building Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) for industrial process monitoring and control. Integration and interoperability aspects for industrial communication using open-source tools will be investigated. Case studies include modelling of a typical industry application using state diagrams and the development of an end-to-end automation project using Siemens TIA Portal technologies.
Speaker: Viorel Mihai
IBM – Explore the power of GenAI with IBM Watson (1/2 day)
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Microsoft – Azure Fundamentals (1 day)
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Stefanini (TBC)
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SYSTEMATIC – DevOps: the good the bad and the ugly (1/2 day)
– Functional Programming in Javascript (1/2 day)
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12.07 – 5.09 – Individual projects
Individual projects as a continuation of the workshop and lectures period (Optional)
Apply on https://connect.upb.ro/ for the period 23.06 – 5.09.2025 – Responsible Automation and Applied Informatics in the category „Scoala de vara„.
Organizers
SIMfo Laboratory
Contact
Anca Daniela IONIŢĂ, POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Iulia STAMATESCU, POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Web Chair
Iulia IACOB, POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Location
National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Automation and Computer Science Faculty / PRECIS Research Centre