01 January 1901

Teaching: 7 years
(Assistant, Lecturer – Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti)
Research & Development: 6 years

Major: Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity
Minor: Computer Networks

• Computer Networks
• Industrial communication protocols
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Human-Machine Interfaces

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10 nationally funded research projects in the fields of security (surveillance, person identification, computer networks security) and data communications.

• 2 patents granted by Romanian Office for Inventions and Trademarks: 1) Biometric RFID card structure and method for personal data storage on the RFID Card, OSIM Patent RO 123364, authors: Melinte T., Pricop E., Lorentz A., Andron L. 2) Method and security system for civil airports protection against terrorist attacks with portable ground-to-air missiles, OSIM Patent RO 129740, authors: Ionescu O., Pricop E., Ionescu C. • 2 patent requests are under evaluation by Romanian Office for Inventions and Trademarks: 1) Automated system for monitoring the wearing of mandatory safety equipment in potentially hazardous areas, OSIM Patent Application A 2014 00299, authors: Ionescu O., Craciun D., Pricop E. 2) System based on wireless-connected sensors for monitoring the damage attempts on the electrical power transport infrastructure OSIM Patent Application A 2014 00297, authors: Ionescu C., Ionescu O., Pricop E.

• Publons Peer Review Award 2018 for placing in top 1% of reviewers in Assorted for peer-review activity in 2017-2018;
• Succesfully defended PhD thesis in 2017 and received Summa cum laude distinction;
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World 2016, 33rd edition, USA.

• Gold Medal of International Exhibition of Inventics – INVENTICA 2018, Iasi, Romania for patent RO 129740 (Method and security system for civil airports protection against terrorist attacks with portable ground-to-air missiles);
• Gold Medal of International Exhibition of Inventics – INVENTICA 2018, Iasi, Romania for RO A 2014 00299 patent application (Automated system for monitoring the wearing of mandatory safety equipment in potentially hazardous areas);
• Silver Medal of EuroInvent 2018 – European Exhibition of Innovation and Creativity, Iasi, Romania for the PhD thesis (Research regarding security of control systems).

1 book edited in Springer (Recent Advances in Systems, Safety & Security, 2016);
2 book chapters published in Springer books

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IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society
IEEE Young Professionals Romanian Section (Vice-chair)

1. E. Pricop, G. Stamatescu (co-editors) Recent Advances in Systems Safety and Security, Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-32523-1;
2. E. Pricop, S.F. Mihalache, J. Fattahi – Innovative Fuzzy Approach on Analyzing Industrial Control Systems Security chapter in Recent Advances in Systems Safety and Security, Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-32523-1, pp. 223-240;
3. E. Pricop, S.F. Mihalache – Fuzzy approach on modelling cyber-attacks patterns on data transfer in industrial control systems, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Electronics, Computers & Artificial Intelligence – ECAI 2015, vol. 7, pp. SSS-23 - SSS-28, no. 2/2015, ISBN: 978-1-4673-6646-5,
4. E. Pricop, J. Fattahi, N. Paraschiv, F. Zamfir, E. Ghayoula - Method for authentication of sensors connected on Modbus TCP, Proceedings of the 2017 4th International on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT'17), Barcelona, 2017, pp. 0679-0683, ISBN: 978-1-5090-6465-6

Initiator and chairman of International Workshop on Systems Safety & Security – IWSSS, an annual international workshop organized since 2013.