Dr. Adrian Stoica, PI

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Phone:(818) 354-2190

Email: Adrian.Stoica@jpl.nasa.gov

CV , Publications

Adrian Stoica (Dipl Ing. TUI Iasi, Romania, PhD VUT Melbourne, Australia) is a Principal in the Biologically Inspired Technology and Systems Group in the Autonomous Systems Division at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

He leads JPL research in the areas of Evolvable Systems, Humanoids Robotics and Integrated Circuits Security. He has over 20 years of management of advanced R&D and leadership in innovation and development of new technology in electronics and information systems, robotics and automation, learning and adaptive systems.

His research  interests and expertise are in the areas of advanced electronics (extreme environment electronics, self-reconfigurable, adaptive and evolvable hardware, adaptive computing devices, sensor fusion hardware), secure electronics (obfuscation techniques for protection from reverse engineering, trusted integrated circuits and biometrics protected ICs), biometrics (embedded and multi-modal), artificial intelligence algorithms (automated circuit design, search/optimization techniques, learning techniques, genetic algorithms, neural networks, fuzzy systems), and robotics (robot learning, humanoid robots, autonomous systems).

He has over 100 papers and 4 patents in these areas, is serving in the editorial board of several journals in the field, gave invited keynote addresses and tutorials at conferences.

He taught the first Evolvable Hardware short course (UCLA Extension, 2003) and started two annual conferences: the NASA/DOD Conference in Evolvable Hardware in 1999, and the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems in 2006.

He received the Lew Allen Award for Excellence (highest NASA/JPL award for excellence in research) in 1999, and the Tudor Tanasescu Prize of the Romanian Academy in 2001.