Institute of Technology Carlow

Dr Dorel Picovici

BSc(Eng), MEng, PhD, MIEEE

 

Lecturer at the Department of Electronic Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Institute of Technology Carlow.

 

Research Experience

 

In 2006, monthly statistics from Expertise Ireland demonstrate that Dr Picovici’s research/academic profile was among the top ten experts from academic institutions in Ireland. Dorel’s research interests are in the area of non-intrusive objective games/speech quality assessment and end-user behaviour modelling. From 2004 to 2007 he was a research officer with the National Communications Network Research Centre (NCNRC) based in University of Limerick. The NCNRC was founded in November 2003 for a duration of 4 years, with seed funding of EUR 5.6M awarded by Science Foundation Ireland. The research work carried with NCNRC consisted in Adapting QoS for VoIP in B3G/4G Wireless Networks using Non-Intrusive evaluation.

 

Dr. Picovici has two patent applications, authored and co-authored more than 40 book chapters, refereed journals and international conference articles. In 2003 & 2004, he was a jury member during International Annual Students’ Contest “Hard & Soft”, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Suceava, Romania. He is a regular reviewer and member of the Steering Committees for a number of national, European and international conferences, and has acted as a reviewer for a number of journals, books and research funding bodies.

 

RESEARCH FUNDINGS:

 

2007: Commercialisation Fund: Proof of Concept Phase 2007 (78,154 €)

 

2007: Stage 1 Patent Funding, Enterprise Ireland: IP281-I (7000 €)

 

2006: Microsoft Research: Wireless Networking Research Program (3000 €)

 

2004-2009: University Grant from Wind River System Inc. (44,250 €)

 

2002-2004 Plassey Campus Postgraduate Scholarship (6,058 €)

 

2003 International Speech Communication Association Travel Grant (500 €)

 

2002 Enterprise Ireland(Ref:IC/2002/040: International Collaboration Program “Speech training system for the hearing impaired” (3,650 €)

 

SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS:

 

•  D. Picovici, R. Skehill, I. J. Rice and M. Barry “Location-based Services” Patent application, Irish Patents Office (UNI039/P/IE)

•  D. Picovici, D. Denieffe and B. Carrig “The Impact of Network-Based Parameters on Gamer Experience”, Book Chapter published in the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition (8 Volumes), Publisher: Information Science Reference, September 2008, pp: 1830-1837, ISBN: 978-1-60566-026-4.

•  D. Picovici and J. Nelson “Perceptual Voice Quality Measurements for Wireless Networks”, Chapter XI in the “Wireless Multimedia: Quality of Service and Solutions”, Publisher: Information Science Reference, July 2008, pp: 274-295, ISBN: 978-1-59904-820-8.

•  D. Denieffe, B. Carrig, D. Marshall and D. Picovici, “A Game Assessment Metric for the Online Gamer”, Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering” Journal, Vol. 7(14) pp: 3-7, December 2007, ISSN 1582-7445.

 

•  D. Picovici, M. Berglund and J. Nelson, “Voice Controlled Wireless Sensor Networks”, Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering” Journal, Vol. 7(14) pp: 3-9, July 2007, ISSN 1582-7445.

•  D. Picovici, A. Raja and C. Flanagan, “Real-Time Non-Intrusive VoIP Evaluation Using Second Generation Network Processor”, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), May 2006, Proceedings published on DVD, IEEE Cat No.:06CH37812C, ISBN: 1-4244-0469-X.

•  D. Picovici, A. E. Mahdi “Perceptually Motivated Output-Based Speech Quality Assessment Using Neural Networks” IEE Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC-2004), Belfast, N. Ireland, July 2004, ISBN 0-86341-440-0.

 

•  D. Picovici, A. E. Mahdi “New Output-Based Perceptual Measure for Predicting Subjective Quality of Speech” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2004), Vol V, pp. 633-636, Montreal May 2004, ISBN: 0-7803-8485-7.