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
The period of applications has ended. More details will be available on Moodle and MS Teams for the enrolled students.
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.
General Program
23.06 – 11.07 – Workshops and lectures
Lectures of academic invited speakers
Prof. Marin Litoiu, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Engineering Self-Adaptive Systems and the Role of AI: Case Studies, Research Challenges and Results
- Facts and Trends in Research and Education at York University
Prof. Michael Weyrich, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Towards Autonomous Systems: Flexible modular production system enhanced with large language model agents
Akshay Kumar Venkatesha Narla, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Intelligent Solutions for Manufacturing through IoT
Prof. Grigore Stamatescu, POLITEHNICA University, Bucharest, Romania
- Cybersecurity of Industrial Control Systems
Dr. Olivier Gehan, National Graduate School of Engineering of Caen ENSICAEN, Caen, France
- Tracking Control of Docking Maneuvers for a Fully Actuated Surface Vessel
Industry Workshops
SAP – GenAI Quality Assessment: Foundations & Practice
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
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 and Quantum Computing
Leveraging Capabilities of GenAI with IBM Watsonx technology, Speakers: Andra Bichea, Mihai Neagu, Alex Ionescu
IBM Quantum technology – Overview and updates 2025, Speaker: Dr. Daniel Mitroi – IBM Quantum Ambassador
Quantum Gates, Speaker: Dr. Valeriu Grossu, Laurentiu Carata
QuantumSafe and CyberSecurity, Speaker: Paul Boboc
Microsoft – Azure Fundamentals
More details to follow
eSolutions – The integration of generative AI models in software development workflows
Speaker: Emil Calofir
SYSTEMATIC – DevOps and Functional Programming
DevOps: the good the bad and the ugly, Speaker: Alexandru Dejanu
Functional Programming in Javascript, Speaker: Alexandru Macavei
12.07 – 5.09 – Individual projects
Individual projects as a continuation of the workshop and lectures period (Optional)
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