Voicu Z. Groza received the Dipl. Eng. degree in computer engineering in 1972 and his Doctor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering in 1985, both from the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara, Romania. He was a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania, and in 1997, he joined the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include quantization theory, distributed intelligent instrumentation and reconfigurable computers. Dr. Groza is the author or coauthor of more than 150 technical papers and 2 patents in these areas. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and he is currently serving as a Chair of the Ottawa Chapter of this society.

Dr. Groza is a founding member of the Subcommittee on Standardization of Blood Pressure Measurement, in the frame of the IEEE TC-25 Technical Committee of Medical and Biological Measurements of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. He is also a member of the IEEE Standards Association, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Dr. Groza served as a technical program chair or co-chair of several major international conferences such as IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2006), IARIA International Conference on Systems (ICONS 2006), IEEE International Conference on Instrumentation and Measurement (IMTC 2005), IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Virtual Environments and their Applications (HAVE 2004).