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Cornel Bunea
Research Scholar George Washington University, School of Engineering and Applied Science,

Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering     

 

Current areas of specialization

  • Statistical and probability analysis for competing risks databases

  • Bayesian models for Safety of Nuclear facilities

  • Reliability and maintenance of Complex Systems

  • Accelerated life testing

  • Bayesian Forecasting and Dynamic Models

Address          7429 Vernon Square Dr, apt 101, Alexandria, VA, 22306

Telephone       571-312-6089; 571-332-1742

email               bunea_cornel@hotmail.com

 

Working experience

  • Energico, Romania: Engineer in training; December 1997 – June 1998

  • TU Delft, The Netherlands: Research Assistant and PhD Candidate; September 1999 – August 2003

  • George Washington University, USA: Research Scholar; November 2003 – November 2006

Publications

  1. C. Bunea & T.J. Bedford: “The Effect of Model Uncertainty on Maintenance Optimization”, IEEE Transaction on Reliability, Volume: 51 Issue: 4, December 2002, Page(s): 486 - 493.

  2. C. Bunea, T. Charitos, R.M. Cooke & G. Becker: “Two-Stage Bayesian Models – Application to ZEDB project”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Volume: 90 Issue: 2-3, November-December 2005, Page(s): 123 - 130.

  3. C. Bunea, T. Charitos, R.M. Cooke & G. Becker: “Reply to J.K. Vaurio concerning: Two-stage Bayesian Models - Application to ZEDB project”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, available online 3 March 2006.

  4. C. Bunea & T.A. Mazzuchi: “Competing Failure Modes in Accelerated Life Testing”, Journal of Statistics and Planning Inference, Volume: 136 Issue: 5, May 2006, Page(s): 1608 - 1620.

  5. C. Bunea, T.A. Mazzuchi, S. Sarkani & H.C. Chang: “Application of Modern Reliability Database Techniques to Military System Data”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, available online December 2007

Book Contributions

 

  1. C. Bunea, R.M. Cooke & Bo Lindqvist; Competing Risk Perspective over Reliability Databases; Special volume MMR 2002, Trondheim, Norway, 17-20 June, Pages: 355-370; Editors: Bo H. Lindquist and Kjell A. Doksum, World Scientific Publishing, 2003.

  2. C. Bunea & T.A. Mazzuchi: Sensitivity Analysis of Accelerated Life Tests with Competing Failure Modes; Special volume MMR 2004, Santa Fe NM, USA, 21-25 June, Pages: 105 - 120; Editors: Alyson Gabbard Wilson, Nicolaos Limnios, World Scientific Publishing, 2005.

 

Proceedings of International Conferences

 

  1. C. Bunea & T.J. Bedford; The Robustness of Maintenance Optimization to Modeling Assumptions; European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2001, Torino, Italy, 16-20 September 2001; In: Safety and Reliability, 3rd volume, Edited by: Enrico Zio, Micaela Demichela, Norbeto Piccinini, ISBN 88-8202-099-1, 2001, pp 1771-1778

  2. C. Bunea, R.M. Cooke & Bo Lindqvist; Maintenance Study for Components under Competing Risks; European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2002, Lyon, France, 18-21 March 2002; In: Safety and Reliability, 1st volume, pp 212-217

  3. C. Bunea, R.M. Cooke & Bo Lindqvist; Competing Risk Perspective over Reliability Databases; Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, MMR 2002, Trondheim, Norway, 17-20 June; pp 131-134

  4. C. Bunea, R.M. Cooke & Bo Lindqvist; Analysis Tools for Competing Risk Failure Data; European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics Conference, ENBIS 2002, Rimini, Italy, 23-24 September;

  5. C. Bunea, T. Charitos, R.M. Cooke & G. Becker; Two-Stage Bayesian Models – Application to ZEDB project; European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 15-18 June 2003; In: Safety and Reliability, 1st volume, Edited by: Bedford and van Gelder, Balkema 2003, pp 321-331

  6. C. Bunea, R.M. Cooke, T.A. Mazzuchi & G. Becker; A Non-Parametric Two-Stage Bayesian model using Dirichlet Distribution; European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 15-18 June 2003; In: Safety and Reliability, 1st volume, Edited by: Bedford and van Gelder, Balkema 2003, pp 331-339

  7. C. McCollin, C. Bunea & M. Ramalhoto; Exploratory Data Analysis Approaches to Reliability: Some New Directions; European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 15-18 June 2003; In: Safety and Reliability, 2st volume, Edited by: Bedford and van Gelder, Balkema 2003, pp

  8. C. Bunea & T.A. Mazzuchi: Bayesian Accelerated Life Testing under Competing Failure Modes, RAMS Conference proceedings, January 2005, Alexandria VA, USA