Welcome! My name is Lucian Busoniu and I am a professor with the Automation Department of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where I lead the Robotics and Nonlinear Control group. I am also a Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy, in the Information Science and Technology Section. I obtained my PhD degree (cum laude) in 2009 from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and my postgraduate and MSc degrees in Control Engineering, respectively in 2004 and 2003, from TUCluj. In October 2015, I defended my habilitation thesis, conferring the right to independently supervise PhD students; and since October 2018, I am a full professor. My research interests include learning and optimization-based methods for the control of nonlinear systems, in particular planning and reinforcement learning, as well as robotic search, multi-agent systems and networks, and other topics.

The other pages of this website contain information about the research projects I am involved in, a selection of my publications, teaching and course information, my PhD students, as well as a repository containing downloadable material related to my work.

Key updates

February 2026: SeaClear2.0 winter school talk

Held a lecture on Optimization-Based Robotic Search at the SeaClear2.0 Winter School organized at TU Munich.

January 2026: IEEE L-CSS editor

Started my term as an associate editor of the journal IEEE Control Systems Letters.

September 2025: New project SkAIGreen

We are kicking off SkAIGreen, an experimental-demonstrative project funded by UEFISCDI on identification of biodiversity indicator species.

Summer 2025: NeurIPS 2025 Area Chair

Served as Area Chair for the NeurIPS 2025 conference.

May 2025: Accepted in the Romanian Academy

I am honored to have been accepted as a Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy.

Contact information and profiles

Address	Automation Department 71-73 Dorobantilor street, 400609 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, room 111 (map; white building with metal lattice decoration at end of courtyard, 2nd floor, end of hallway)
Phone	+40 (0)264 20 2578
Webpage	http://busoniu.net
E-mail
Profiles	at Google Scholar
	at ResearchGate

Last update: Wednesday, 29 April 2026.