Ioan Dzițac

After attending elementary school in Repedea (1960–1968), he studied at the "Dragoș Vodă" High School in Sighetu Marmației (1968–1972) and then at the Faculty of Mathematics, Babeș-Bolyai University (1972–1977).[2] In 2002 he obtained his PhD in computer science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Babeș-Bolyai University with thesis "Methods for parallel and distributed computing in solving operational equations" under the supervision of Grigor Moldovan.[3][4]

Between 1977 and 1991, Prof. Dzițac taught mathematics in pre-university education, obtaining a permanent teacher certification on all levels (1980), second grade teacher certification (1985), and first grade teacher certification (1990). In 1986 he received the title of Distinguished Professor.

Since 1991, he accessed through competition in the higher education system the position of Lecturer (1991–2003) and associate professor (2003–2005) at the University of Oradea, associate professor (2005–2009) at Agora University, and then Professor (2009–present) at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. At Agora University he founded, together with Florin Gheorghe Filip and Mișu-Jan Manolescu, the International conference on Computers, Communications & Control (ICCCC) and the International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control (IJCCC) journals which, in less than two years, have been covered by Thomson ISI. Since 2006 he was the associate editor-in-chief of the IJCCC journal until his sudden death in 2021.[5]

Ioan Dzitac was a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science (2013-2016), as well as a consulting member of the Hoseo University in South Korea.

In 1996, Dzițac was elected Vice President of the Romanian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (ROMAI), a position he occupies until 2011 (he was re-elected in 1999–2009).[6] In April 2004, he was elected as Director of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Oradea,[7] a position he occupied for a year, and in October 2005 he was elected Head of Department at Agora University. Since October 2009 he was the Director of the Centre "Agora Research & Development".[8]

As of 2012, Prof. Dzițac was Rector of Agora University.

In recognitions of his merits, Prof. Dzițac was awarded the following degrees and titles (see [1])

• Title of “Distinguished Professor” accorded by the Romanian Ministry of Education (1988)
• The Award for Young Researcher accorded by the Romanian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (2003)
• “SIVECO” Popularity Award accorded for an informatics product for E-Learning (2006)
• “Excellence Diploma” accorded by the Associations of the Economics Faculties from Romania (2007)
• “Excellence Diploma” EWNLC 2008 (2008)
• Title of “Teacher of the Year 2008” accorded by the Agora University Senate
• “Excellence Diploma” accorded by the “Aurel Vlaicu” University from Arad (2010)
• Senior Member of IEEE (2011)

Prof. Dzițac was the author / co-author of over 50 scientific papers in mathematics, computer science and didactics, including over 15 in the ISI.[9] Dzițac was the author / co-author / editor of over 20 books on mathematics, computer science and didactics. May be mentioned:[10]

• Monte Carlo Method: Hazard and Determinism (in collaboration, University of Oradea Publishing House, 2000)
• Parallel Computing (University of Oradea Publishing House, 2001)
• Didactics of Informatics (in collaboration, University of Oradea Publishing House, 2003)
• Proceedings of the 11th Conference on applied and industrial mathematics (CAIM 2003), Vol. 1-2 (in collaboration, University of Oradea Publishing House, 2003)
• Proceedings of International Conference on Computers and Communications-ICCC 2004 (in collaboration, University of Oradea Publishing House, 2004)
• Economic Mathematics ( Agora University Publishing House, 2005)
• Distributed Systems: Information Models (in collaboration, Agora University Publishing House, 2006)
• Distributed Systems: Mathematical Models (in collaboration, Agora University Publishing House, 2006)
• Parallel and Distributed Methods for Algebraic Systems Resolution ( Agora University Publishing House, 2006)
• Proceedings of International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control-ICCCC 2006 (in collaboration, Agora University Publishing House, 2006),
• Proceedings of International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control-ICCCC 2008 (in collaboration, Agora University Publishing House, 2008),
• From Natural Language to Soft Computing: New Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence (in collaboration, Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2008) etc.

Ioan Dzitac was married to Karla Dzitac, marriage that resulted in two children: Renata Moca and Cristian Dzitac. Renata is a commodity specialist at Plexus in Oradea and Cristian is an engineer. Prof. Dzitac divorced his first wife in the 90s'. In 1996, on 14th of February, he married Simona Dzitac (an Assistant Professor of Engineering at University of Oradea) with whom he had another daughter, Domnica Ioana Dzitac (born January 30, 1999). He considered his youngest daughter, Domnica, his heir to his academic and professional work. She attended the International Baccalaureate Diploma in Denmark and then continued on her father's steps with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from New York University Abu Dhabi (September 2017 - May 2021).

Professor Dzitac passed away on February 6, 2021 due to a heart attack in Oradea, Romania. He was greatly regretted by family, friends, collaborators, mentees and students. His work will remain as legacy.

• Adelina GEORGESCU, Cătălin-Liviu BICHIR, George CÂRLIG, Romanian Mathematicians from everywhere, Ed. Power Flower, 2004
• Personal website of Ioan Dzițac
• Romanian National Library
• Ioan Dzițac profile at Ad Astra
• ROMAI website
• Agora University
• ISI Web of Science RID
• "Aurel Vlaicu" University of Arad
• Prof.univ.Phd. Ioan Dzițac
• Ioan Dzițac in Google Scholar Citations

• Website International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control
• Website International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control