Petru Cașcaval, PhD, is currently a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iași, Romania. He obtained his PhD in automatic systems in 2002 at the same university, where he also defended his habilitation thesis in computers and information technology with the topic "RAM memory testing and reliability engineering in complex systems". His scientific areas of interest include digital system testing and testable design, especially RAM testing, modeling and simulation of discrete event systems, reliability and fault tolerance, and performance evaluation of complex systems. He also addresses optimization problems using different types of evolutionary algorithms. Subjects taught are modelling and simulation, real-time systems, reliability and operational safety, performance and reliability of complex systems, and self-testable digital circuits. He is the author and co-author of five books and over eighty articles in scientific journals, book chapters, and conference papers. He served as an IPC member at over 35 international scientific conferences. He was vice dean of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers at the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iași between 2002 and 2004 and head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering between 2005 and 2020. He is currently the president of the Didactics and Quality Assurance Commission within the Senate of this university.