Dan Dragomlr-Daescu is a mechanical engineer in the Mechanical Reliability Lab of the General Electric Corporate Research & Development Center. He received B.S. (1984) in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic Institutue of Timisoara, B.S.(1994) in Mathematics from Western University Timisoara, M.S. (1995) in Mathematics from the Western University Timisoara, and M.S. (1999) in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University. His research interests include Structural Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Applied Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Degradation-based Testing & Reliability, Condition Monitoring, Design for Reliability and Probabilistic Mechanics.