About on Ligiu Uiorean

Diploma Thesis 2006

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

In 2006 I finished my engineering degree in Automation at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Politehnica). My diploma thesis was a system for monitoring and controlling car fleets with bidirectional communication: a way to track every vehicle in a fleet in real time over the mobile network, and to dispatch work back to the driver over that same channel. My thesis advisor was Assoc. Prof. Eng. Daniel Moga, PhD.

The system had two halves. In each vehicle sat a piece of mobile equipment, a Windows CE PDA with a GPS receiver and a GPRS modem, that reported its position to a command and control center and displayed assignments to the driver. The control center collected positions from the whole fleet, decided which free vehicle was closest to a new job, and sent the assignment out for the driver to accept or decline. I built it end to end: the storage backend on Linux and MySQL, the operator interface on Windows, the communication server in between, and the software on the device itself.

Contact

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The best way to reach me is by email:

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Facebook: largely abandoned. I keep it around so nobody hijacks the handle.

For Investors (why I don't answer)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Let me start with an apology. I cannot keep in touch with each of you individually, and I am sorry for that. It is not for lack of respect. Most of you are far smarter and better educated than I am, and I have no doubt I could learn a great deal from you. That makes the silence worse, not easier.

The plain problem is volume. The number of investors, funds, advisors, and intermediaries who reach out has grown past anything I can answer by hand. So I did what an engineer does and automated it. For a long time most of you received some version of this reply:

Genealogy

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This page is a record of what I have been able to establish about my family, from surviving parish registers, Hungarian state civil registers, official gazettes and old newspapers.

On my father’s side the Uioreans of Feldioara Săcuiască run back five generations from my grandfather, to a couple married in the 1850s and to a man buried in 1813 whom I cannot attach to the rest. My grandmother’s family, the Sanislavs, turn out to be incomers from the next village, and there is a Sanislav woman in my direct line three generations before her. The Liteans and the Triteans come in on my great-grandmother’s side, and the Triteans are a direct line rather than a family that merely married in.

About

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I’m Ligiu Uiorean, the founder and director of AirportLabs, a multi-national software company whose technology now keeps operations running at more than 100 airports worldwide, including some of the busiest on the planet, from Chicago O’Hare to Dubai. My mission is simple: making aviation efficient.

I was born and raised in Cluj. I studied at the city’s German high school before taking a degree in Automation at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Politehnica), where my diploma thesis was a GPS and GPRS system for monitoring and dispatching car fleets. My early career carried me through industry and into aviation in earnest, from Bechtel in London to the Abu Dhabi Airports Company, where I ran IT and development across five airports and helped design the systems for one of the largest airport terminals in the world. It was there, watching tender after tender come back offering vendors’ off-the-shelf products rather than what airports actually needed, that the idea for AirportLabs took shape. I speak Romanian, English, and German.