mocanu@bu.edu

Research Interests: Computational modeling of electrical defibrillation, bioelectromagnetic inverse problems, image reconstruction and restoration, nonlinear wave propagation in excitable media.

Currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Boston University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Fields and Tissues Lab. Advisor: Dr. Solomon Eisenberg

1996 - M.S. in CAD/CAE of Electromagnetic Devices, Numerical Methods Laboratory, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania

1995 - B.S. in Electrotechnics, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

AWARDS:
College of Engineering Award, Science and Technology Day, Boston University, March 2002. Poster: A patient-specific computational study of transvenous defibrillation

Open Finalist, IEEE Student Paper Competition, the 24th Ann. Int. Conf. IEEE EMBS, Houston, October 2002. Paper: Biventricular defibrillation with sequential shocks using patient-derived computational models

1st Place Winner, Annual Student Paper Competition, AISTEDA University, Bucharest, May 1998. Paper: The Inverse Problem of Electrocardiography. Reconstruction of Epicardial Potentials.

1st Place Winner, Annual Student Paper Competition, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, May 1996. Paper: A Dynamic Model for Cardiac Defibrillation.

PUBLICATIONS:
D. Mocanu, J. Kettenbach, S.R. Eisenberg, M. Morega, Al.M. Morega (2002): Nonsmooth regularization in electrocardiographic imaging, Simulation Practice and Theory, Elsevier Science (in press).

A. Moraru, A. Panaitescu, D. Mocanu, Al.M. Morega, I. Panaitescu, A. Soci (2002): Computational models for phenomena in aluminum electrolysis cells, Rev. Roum. Sci. Tech. - Electrotech. Energ. (in press).

A. Moraru, I. Panaitescu, A. Panaitescu, D. Mocanu, Al.M. Morega (1998): On the current field in the aluminum reduction cell, Rev. Roum. Sci. Tech. - Electrotech. Energ., vol. 43(4), pp. 473-484.

Al.M. Morega, D. Mocanu, M. Morega (1996): The eigenvalue cardiography, Rev. Roum. Sci. Tech. - Electrotech. Energ., vol. 41(2): 169-178.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
D. Mocanu, J. Kettenbach, M.O. Sweeney, B.H. KenKnight, R. Kikinis, S.R. Eisenberg (2002): Biventricular defibrillation with sequential shocks using patient-derived computational models, 2nd Joint EMBS/BMES Meeting,
Houston, U.S.A.

D. Mocanu, J. Kettenbach, M.O. Sweeney, B.H. KenKnight, R. Kikinis, S.R. Eisenberg (2002): A patient-specific computational study of transvenous defibrillation, 2nd Joint EMBS/BMES Meeting, Houston, U.S.A.

D. Mocanu, J. Kettenbach, S.R. Eisenberg, Al.M. Morega (2002): A total variation approach to inverse electrocardiography, 2nd European Medical & Biological Engineering Conf., Vienna, Austria.

D. Mocanu, J. Kettenbach, M.O. Sweeney, B.H. KenKnight, R. Kikinis, S.R. Eisenberg (2001): Patient-specific simulation of internal defibrillation, Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer-Verlag), 2208:983-990, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

D. Mocanu, Al.M. Morega, A. Panaitescu, I. Panaitescu, A. Moraru. (1998), Current flow and heat transfer processes in aluminum electrolysis cells, Proc. 8th IGTE Symposium on Numerical Field Calculation in Electrical Engineering, pp. 462-467, Graz, Austria.

Al.M. Morega, D. Mocanu, M. Morega, A. Stefan (1996), A dynamic model for cardiac defibrillation, Proc. 18th Ann. Int. Conf. IEEE-EMBS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Al.M. Morega, D. Mocanu, M. Morega (1996): A spectral approach to the cardiography, Proc. 12th Applied Computational Electromagnetics, Monterey, CA, U.S.A.