Notable Alumni of Politehnica University of Bucharest [Sorted List]

1. Diana Marculescu

engineer researcher

Diana Marculescu is the Department Chair and Motorola Regents Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She was formerly the David Edward Schramm Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the first female chair in the department's history.

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2. Christian Mititelu

1944-. (aged 82)

biographer historian journalist human rights defender translator

Christian Gheorghe Mititelu is a Romanian journalist. He was the director of the Romanian department of the BBC.

3. Sabin Cutaș

1968-. (aged 58)

politician

George Sabin Cutaş is a Romanian politician. A member of the Conservative Party (PC), he sat in the Romanian Senate from 2004 to 2008 representing Teleorman County, and represented Romania in the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014.

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4. Martin Bercovici

1902-1971 (aged 69)

engineer university teacher

Martin Bercovici was a Romanian electrical engineer who contributed to the development of energy engineering education in Romania and to the plan of electric networks building of Romania. He served as a dean to the then newly founded Faculty of Energy Engineering within the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.

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5. Costin Borc

1965-. (aged 61)

economist engineer politician

Costin Borc is a Romanian engineer and economist who was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Trade and Tourism in the Cioloș Cabinet. He took office on 17 November 2015.

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6. Emilian Bratu

1904-1991 (aged 87)

engineer chemist

Emilian Bratu was a Romanian chemical engineer, founder of chemical engineering education in Romania. With the Austrian physical chemist Otto Redlich, he studied the dissociation constant of heavy water.

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7. Roxana Geambașu

computer scientist

Roxana Geambașu is a Romanian-American computer scientist who is an associate professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. The topics of her research include cloud computing, security and privacy, and operating systems.

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8. Camil Baciu

1926-2005 (aged 79)

journalist writer

Camil Baciu was a Romanian journalist and science fiction writer.

9. Sorin Draghici

1965-. (aged 61)

computer scientist researcher

Sorin Drăghici is a Romanian-American computer scientist and a program director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Previous positions include: Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of Wayne State University's College of Engineering, the Director of the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core...

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10. Dan Roman

businessperson

Dan Nicolae Roman is a Romanian information technology professional, entrepreneur, executive and investor, known for his work in Central European markets, the Western Balkans, and the Black Sea Region. He has held prominent roles in both public and private sectors, contributing to the advancement of software engineering, IT services, and business development in Romania and internationally.

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11. Constantin Budeanu

1886-1959 (aged 73)

engineer

Constantin Budeanu was a Romanian electrical engineer who contributed to the analysis of electric networks states and the SI system of units.

12. Mihail Roco

scientist

Mihail C. Roco is the founding chair of the US National Science and Technology Council subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology, and is Senior Advisor for Science and Engineering, including Nanotechnology, at the National Science Foundation. He is also the editor in chief of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research.

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13. Elie Carafoli

1901-1983 (aged 82)

engineer military flight engineer

Elie Carafoli was an accomplished Romanian engineer and aircraft designer. He is considered a pioneering contributor to the field of aerodynamics.

14. Radu Filipescu

1955-. (aged 71)

dissident engineer

Radu Filipescu is a former Romanian anti-Communist dissident. During Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime, Filipescu was imprisoned for several years for "propaganda against the socialist order".

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15. Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu

1921-2000 (aged 79)

science fiction writer philologist literary critic

Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu was a Romanian literary critic and science fiction writer.

16. Marian-Jean Marinescu

1952-. (aged 74)

engineer politician

Marian-Jean Marinescu is a Romanian politician and member of PNL, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Dolj County, he became a Member of the European Parliament in January 2007, with the accession of Romania to the European Union. He is a Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania. Marian-Jean...

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17. George Ciamba

1966-2021 (aged 55)

diplomat

George Ciamba was a Romanian diplomat who served, from November 2018 to November 2019, as the Romanian Minister for European Affairs, including during Romania's 2019 first presidency of the Council of the European Union.

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18. George Necula

computer scientist engineer

George Ciprian Necula is a Romanian computer scientist, engineer at Google, and former professor at the University of California, Berkeley who does research in the area of programming languages and software engineering, with a particular focus on software verification and formal methods. He is best known for his Ph.D. thesis work first describing proof-carrying code, a work that received the...

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19. Corneliu Chisu

1949-. (aged 77)

professional engineer engineer project manager politician

Corneliu Emil Eugen Chișu is a Romanian-born Canadian politician, who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election. He represented the riding of Pickering—Scarborough East as a member of the Conservative Party before being defeated by Jennifer O'Connell in the 2015 Canadian federal election in the redistributed riding of Pickering—Uxbridge.

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20. Andrei Chiliman

1947-. (aged 79)

politician

Andrei Chiliman is a Romanian sailor, engineer, and politician. He competed in the Tornado event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

21. Peter Stoica

1949-. (aged 77)

engineer

Peter Stoica (born 23 July 1949) is a researcher and educator in the field of signal processing and its applications to radar/sonar, communications and bio-medicine. He is a professor of Signals and Systems Modeling at Uppsala University in Sweden, and a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the United States National Academy of Engineering (International Member), the...

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22. Mihai Drăgănescu

1929-2010 (aged 81)

engineer

Mihai Corneliu Drăgănescu was a Romanian engineer who served as President of the Romanian Academy from 1990 to 1994.

23. Alexandru Balaban

1931-. (aged 95)

university teacher chemist

Alexandru T. Balaban is a Romanian chemist who made significant contributions to the fields of organic chemistry, theoretical chemistry, mathematical chemistry, and chemical graph theory.

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24. Attila Verestóy

1954-2018 (aged 64)

engineer politician

Attila Verestóy was a Romanian chemical engineer and politician. A member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he was also an elected member of the Romanian Senate for Harghita County from 1990 until 2018.

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25. Virgil Popescu

1968-. (aged 58)

university teacher software engineer politician

Virgil-Daniel Popescu is a Romanian politician who served as Minister of Energy in the Ciucă Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă, from 4 November 2019 to 15 June 2023. He previously served in the first and second cabinets led by Ludovic Orban, as well as in the cabinet led by Florin Cîțu.

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26. Mircea Florian

1949-. (aged 77)

composer jazz musician songwriter mandolinist engineer

Mircea Florian, also known as Florian din Transilvania, M. A. N. Florian, and FloriMAN, is a Romanian multi-instrumentalist musician, multimedia artist and computer scientist, based in Germany. Having started his musical career as a folk rock singer, in the late 1960s, he developed a fusion between Romanian folklore and Eastern music, especially Indian sound, moving into psychedelic music. He founded...

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27. Lia Manoliu

1932-1998 (aged 66)

politician athletics competitor

Lia Manoliu was a Romanian discus thrower who won one gold and two bronze Olympic medals. She was the first track and field athlete to compete at six Olympics (1952–1972).

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28. Adriean Videanu

1962-. (aged 64)

engineer businessperson politician

Adriean Marian Videanu is a businessman and former mayor of Bucharest, Romania. He is also a vice president of the Democratic Liberal Party of Romania, which was led by Emil Boc and the Minister of Economy in the Boc Cabinet, since 22 December 2008.

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29. Dinu Brătianu

1866-1950 (aged 84)

engineer politician

Dinu Brătianu, born Constantin I. C. Brătianu, was a Romanian engineer and politician who led the National Liberal Party (PNL) starting in 1934.

30. Ion Diaconescu

1917-2011 (aged 94)

engineer politician

Ion Diaconescu was a Romanian anti-communist activist and politician. He was imprisoned as a political prisoner for seventeen years from 1947 to 1964 during Romania's Communist era. Diaconescu later became a leader of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD).

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31. Ștefan Voitec

1900-1984 (aged 84)

diplomat politician journalist

Ștefan Voitec was a Romanian Marxist journalist and politician who held important positions in the state apparatus of Communist Romania. Debuting as a member of the Socialist Party of Romania in his late teens, he formed the Socialist Workers Party of Romania, then the United Socialist Party, while also engaging in human rights activism and advocating prison reform. The mid-1930s...

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32. Sorin Frunzăverde

1960-2019 (aged 59)

politician

Sorin Frunzăverde was a Romanian politician. He served as the Minister of National Defense of Romania on two occasions as well as the Minister of Tourism and Ministry of Water, Forestry and Environmental Protection. He was also the President of the Caraș-Severin County Council a member of the Parliament of Romania and a Member of the European Parliament from 2007...

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33. Sergiu Nicolaescu

1930-2013 (aged 83)

politician director film director screenwriter film actor

Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu was a Romanian film director, actor and politician.

34. Dumitru Prunariu

1952-. (aged 74)

military flight engineer diplomat aircraft pilot engineer astronaut

Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu is a Romanian cosmonaut. He flew in space aboard Soyuz 40 spacecraft and Salyut 6 space laboratory. He teamed with the Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Popov. The backup crew was made of Romanian candidate cosmonaut Dumitru Dediu and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko.

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35. Dan Barna

1975-. (aged 51)

formateur lawyer politician

Dan Barna is a Romanian politician and lawyer. He served as the president of the Save Romania Union (USR), and as co-president of USR-PLUS until 1 October 2021. He was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 2016.

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36. Andrei Alexandrescu

1969-. (aged 57)

computer scientist programmer engineer

Tudor Andrei Cristian Alexandrescu is a Romanian-American programmer and author specializing in the programming languages C++ and D. He is especially known for his pioneering work on policy-based design implemented via template metaprogramming. These ideas are articulated in his book Modern C++ Design and were first implemented in his programming library, Loki. He also implemented the move constructors concept in...

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37. Dan Diaconescu

1967-. (aged 59)

journalist politician

Dan Cristian Diaconescu is a Romanian journalist, politician, presenter, the founder and owner of the former DDTV and OTV television channels. In 2010, together with OTV show presenters, he formed the People's Party – Dan Diaconescu (PP-DD).

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38. Ion Stoica

1965-. (aged 61)

computer scientist

Ion Stoica is a Romanian–American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking. He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and co-director of AMPLab. He co-founded Conviva and Databricks with other original developers of Apache Spark and Anyscale with other original developers of Ray.

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39. Ecaterina Andronescu

1948-. (aged 78)

researcher engineer chemist politician

Ecaterina Andronescu KSR is a Romanian engineer, professor, and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), she sat in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 2008, representing Bucharest, and was a Senator from 2008 until 2020, for the same city. In the Adrian Năstase cabinet, she was Education Minister from 2000 until June 2003. She held...

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40. Grigore Moisil

1906-1973 (aged 67)

computer scientist diplomat university teacher mathematician

Grigore Constantin Moisil was a Romanian mathematician, computer pioneer, and titular member of the Romanian Academy. His research was mainly in the fields of mathematical logic (Łukasiewicz–Moisil algebra), algebraic logic, MV-algebra, and differential equations. He is viewed as the father of computer science in Romania.

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41. Jafar Towfighi

1956-. (aged 70)

university teacher engineer politician

Jafar Towfighi Darian is an Iranian chemical engineer, academic, politician and senior consultant of the ministry of science, research and technology who served as minister of science, research and technology for two terms. First in the cabinet headed by President Mohammad Khatami from 2003 till 2005, and second in 2013 as acting minister.

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42. Petre Roman

1946-. (aged 80)

engineer professor diplomat politician

Petre Roman is a Romanian engineer and politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 1989 to 1991, when his government was overthrown by the intervention of the miners led by Miron Cozma in the September 1991 Mineriad. Although regarded as the first Romanian prime minister since 1945 who was not a communist or communist sympathiser, he was a socialist....

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43. Ion Iliescu

1930-2025 (aged 95)

design engineer non-fiction writer revolutionary writer engineer

Ion Iliescu was a Romanian politician and engineer who served as the first and the third President of Romania since the country's transition to democracy. He occupied the office from 1990 until 1996 and again from 2000 until 2004. Iliescu was also a senator for the Social Democratic Party (PSD), which he founded and where he became the honorary president...

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44. Ion Mihai Pacepa

1928-2021 (aged 93)

opinion journalist intelligence officer journalist

Ion Mihai Pacepa was a Romanian lieutenant general in the Securitate, the secret police of the Socialist Republic of Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 following President Jimmy Carter's approval of his request for political asylum. He was the highest-ranking defector from the former Eastern Bloc, and wrote books and articles on the inner workings of...

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45. Alexandru Bârlădeanu

1911-1997 (aged 86)

politician economist

Alexandru Bârlădeanu was a Romanian Marxian economist and statesman who was prominent during the communist regime until being sidelined in 1968. In his later years, following the collapse of the regime, he served as Senate President.

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46. Gheorghe Nichita

1956-. (aged 70)

diplomat engineer politician

Gheorghe Nichita is a Romanian politician, who served as the mayor of Iași from 2003 to 2015, when he was suspended over allegations of corruption. A member of the Social Democratic Party, Nichita was the national vice-president of the party, and the leader of the party's county organization.

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47. Constantin Nicolescu

1945-2023 (aged 78)

politician

Constantin Nicolescu was a Romanian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he served in the Senate from 2000 to 2004.

48. Rovana Plumb

1960-. (aged 66)

politician

Rovana Plumb is a Romanian politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). She was appointed Minister of Environment and Forests (now Minister of Environment and Climate Change) on 7 May 2012. From 5 March 2014 to 9 November 2015, she was the Minister of Labor, Family, Social Protection and Elderly in the Government of Romania. In March 2015, Rovana Plumb...

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49. Liviu Dragnea

1962-. (aged 64)

TikToker drummer YouTuber cook influencer

Liviu Nicolae Dragnea is a Romanian engineer and former politician. Starting his career in the Democratic Party (PD), he joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD), eventually becoming its leader. After holding several positions as Minister, he resigned from the cabinet in May 2015, following a conviction in a case involving electoral fraud, for which he received a two-year suspended sentence...

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50. Mircea Gheorghe Drăghici

1966-. (aged 60)

engineer politician

Mircea Gheorghe Drăghici, treasurer of the Social Democratic Party has been Deputy in the Parliament of Romania in the 2008-2012, and 2012-2016 mandates; he continues to hold this position today, having been re-elected for the 2016-2020 mandate on behalf of PSD Argeș.

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51. Florin-Teodor Tănăsescu

1932-. (aged 94)

engineer

Florin-Teodor Tănăsescu is a Romanian electrical engineer, professor at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.

52. Karl Maramorosch

1915-2016 (aged 101)

virologist botanist entomologist

Karl Maramorosch was an Austrian-born American virologist, entomologist, and plant pathologist. A centenarian and polyglot, he conducted research on viruses, mycoplasmas, rickettsiae, and other micro-organisms; and their transmission to plants through insect vectors in many parts of the world. He is the co-author of a textbook on techniques in virology and is the author of numerous papers on the biology...

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53. Henri Coandă

1886-1972 (aged 86)

physicist military flight engineer aircraft pilot engineer inventor

Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.

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54. Traian Lalescu

1882-1929 (aged 47)

mathematician university teacher

Traian Lalescu was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics.

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55. Mircea Geoană

1958-. (aged 68)

diplomat politician

Dan Mircea Geoană is a Romanian politician and diplomat who served as the deputy secretary general of NATO between 2019 and 2024. He previously served as president of the Senate of Romania from December 2008 until he was revoked in November 2011. From April 2005 until February 2010, he was the head of the Social Democratic Party (PSD, Romanian: Partidul...

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1. Diana Marculescu

2. Christian Mititelu

3. Sabin Cutaș

4. Martin Bercovici

5. Costin Borc

6. Emilian Bratu

7. Roxana Geambașu

8. Camil Baciu

9. Sorin Draghici

10. Dan Roman

11. Constantin Budeanu

12. Mihail Roco

13. Elie Carafoli

14. Radu Filipescu

15. Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu

16. Marian-Jean Marinescu

17. George Ciamba

18. George Necula

19. Corneliu Chisu

20. Andrei Chiliman

21. Peter Stoica

22. Mihai Drăgănescu

23. Alexandru Balaban

24. Attila Verestóy

25. Virgil Popescu

26. Mircea Florian

27. Lia Manoliu

28. Adriean Videanu

29. Dinu Brătianu

30. Ion Diaconescu

31. Ștefan Voitec

32. Sorin Frunzăverde

33. Sergiu Nicolaescu

34. Dumitru Prunariu

35. Dan Barna

36. Andrei Alexandrescu

37. Dan Diaconescu

38. Ion Stoica

39. Ecaterina Andronescu

40. Grigore Moisil

41. Jafar Towfighi

42. Petre Roman

43. Ion Iliescu

44. Ion Mihai Pacepa

45. Alexandru Bârlădeanu

46. Gheorghe Nichita

47. Constantin Nicolescu

48. Rovana Plumb

49. Liviu Dragnea

50. Mircea Gheorghe Drăghici

51. Florin-Teodor Tănăsescu

52. Karl Maramorosch

53. Henri Coandă

54. Traian Lalescu

55. Mircea Geoană

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