Petrică C. Pop
Prof. Dr. Habil. Petrică C. Pop is a Full Professor at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, North University Center of Baia Mare. His research lies at the intersection of combinatorial optimization, metaheuristics, and operations research, with a particular focus on generalized network design problems, including the generalized traveling salesman problem, clustered routing and minimum spanning tree problems, and vehicle routing variants. He has a long-standing record of leading and contributing to national and international research projects, and of supervising doctoral students whose work translates these methods into practical applications.
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Full Professor at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Research in combinatorial optimization and operations research
PhD supervisor and leader of national and international research projects
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Prof. Pop is the author of an extensive body of peer-reviewed publications, including in top-tier journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Research, Expert Systems with Applications, and Carpathian Journal of Mathematics. His monograph, Generalized Network Design Problems: Modeling and Optimization, is a reference work in the field. Within the COSA project, he leads research applying advanced optimization techniques to smart-agriculture logistics, efficient vehicle routing for the collection of agricultural products, the design of clustered routing trees for distributed sensor and irrigation infrastructure, and hybrid genetic algorithms for large-scale combinatorial problems.