## BIO
**Mihai Zilahi-Stoiculescu
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**<u>Education & Certifications</u>**
**2005 - 2006:** MSc degree in Advanced Computing Systems at the *Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania*
**2000 - 2005: **BSc degree in Computer Sciences at the *Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania,
*specialisation:<font size= "1">*Hardware
***2003:** Cisco CCNA semester 2, grade 94.7%
**2003:** Cisco CCNA semester 1, grade 89.3%
**1998:** Unifersity of Cambridge *First Certificate in English*, grade A
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**<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color= "#000066">Work Experience</font>**
</u>**June 2004 - today:** embedded systems software developper (C language) at</font> *SiemensVDO Automotive, Timisoara.
***October 2005 - June 2006:** teaching assistant at the *Polytechnic University of Timisoara*
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color= "#000066">Publications</font>
**</u>**1.** M. Marcu, H. Moldovan, **M. Zilahi**, V. Tomescu, M. Ionas, *"Windows XP Issues for Real-Time Temperature Monitoring"*, 22nd IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC2005, Ottawa, Canada, May 2005;
**2.** M. Marcu, V. Tomescu, **M. Zilahi**, M. Ionas, *"Using Windows NT Based Operating Systems for Real-Time Temperature Monitoring"*, Third IEEE International Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices SSD'05, Sousse, Tunisia, March 2005;
**3.** M. Marcu, S. Fuicu, V. Tomescu, **M. Zilahi**, A. Szasz, Sz. Covasa, C. Ilea, *"Smart Mobile Distributed Solution for Traffic Flow Optimization"*, 7th International Conference On Technical Informatics "CONTI 06", Timisoara, Romania, June 2006.
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<u><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color= "#000066">Projects done</font></u>
2005:</font>** Digital Audio Effects on a Motorola StarCore DSP Platform (diploma thesis);
**2005:** "Intelligent Elevator Controller" project (hardware scale-down model based on PIC18F4320; Visual C simulation of algorithm) - won First Prize at "Hard & Soft" International Contest, May 2005, Suceava, Romania;
**2004:** Windows driver for interfacing Dallas OneWire temperature sensors to the PC; Visual C test application for reading temperature from the sensors.
**2004:** MP3 decoder on a Motorola StarCore DSP platform.
**2004:** Analog signal acquisition and visualization on a PC, using an A/D Converter (involved interface design, C application)
**2003:** Tamagotchi style game in Java;
**2003:** Electronic schematic for interfacing Dallas OneWire temperature sensors to the PC via RS-232; DOS ASM application to read temperature from the sensors.
**2003:** LED matrix display controlled by a Xilinx XC95 CPLD evaluation board (involved VHDL designing, ASM programming, keyboard interfacing).
**2002:** Remote control of PC via IR (Electronic schematic).
**2002:** C Library implementing the List Data Type (Linked, Double-Linked etc); Visual C program to test the functionality.
**2002:** C program implementing a personal algorithm to control the movement of a robot in a space with obstacles.
## Area of Expertise
**High Level Programming**
C/C++, Visual C++;
Pascal, Delphi;
Prolog;
Java.
**Assembly**
Intel 80x86
Microchip PIC 8 bit MCUs
Motorola M68HC11
Philips 80C51
Zilog Z80
**Hardware Design**
VHDL
**Web Design**
PHP
**Database Design**
MS SQL Server
