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Curriculum vitae

Valer Bocan, PhD, CSSLP. Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Politehnica University of Timișoara, and an IEEE Senior Member.

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Identifiers

Credentials

Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional
ISC2 · member 822155 · awarded 18 September 2020

Roughly 3,000 holders worldwide — about 50× rarer than the CISSP.

IEEE Senior Member
IEEE · member 99307438 · awarded 18 April 2026

Service

IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society
Reviewer · Q1, fully open access, IEEE Computer Society
International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering
Reviewer · Inderscience Publishers
COST CA22168 — Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems
National Management Committee member · European Cooperation in Science and Technology

Funded research

6G-PHYSEC — Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems
2023 · Member, National Management Committee · European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) · COST Action CA22168
Covert audio-video systems for authorised national-security measures
2024–2026 · Project director · PNCDI IV — Economic RDI activities · PN-IV-P6-6.3-SOL-2024-2-0265 · ~370,000 EUR
Mobile System for Drone Identification and Localization
2025 · Project member — software development and implementation · EUREKA, with national funding via UEFISCDI · UEFISCDI no. 14/09.07.2025 · 298,900 EUR
Low-power processors and semiconductor chips
2024 · Project member · Cross-border and multinational projects

Teaching

6 courses in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Full list on theteaching page.

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Publications

148
Citations
7
h-index
5
i10-index
23
Works
Journals · 5Conferences · 12Preprints · 1Book chapter · 1Thesis · 1Reports · 3

Full list with abstracts, DOIs and full texts on the publications page. Metrics from Google Scholar, 2026-08.