Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu was born in Caracal, Olt, Romania. He received the M.Sc. degree in applied electronics and the PhD degree in automatic control systems from the Politehnica University Timisoara (UPT), Timisoara, Romania, in 1977 and 1999, respectively.

Since 1984, he has been with the Automation and Applied Informatics Department of UPT, where he is currently a Full Professor and PhD advisor in Automation (System engineering). Prof. Andreescu was Director of the UPT Doctoral School of Engineering Studies (2012-2017), and was manager of 4 UPT strategic grants for doctoral scholarships with European structural funds in the POSDRU Romanian program, 2007-2013. He is an Emeritus Professor of UPT in 2022.

His main research areas include: advanced control of ac drives, sensorless control, observers, sliding-mode control, power electronics control, renewable energy, green-house climate control systems, drum-boiler control systems in thermal power plants, control of mechatronic systems, modelling and analyses of hearing with cochlear implants - auralization, real-time implementations.

He is the author or coauthor of 100+ papers published in international journals and conference proceedings; 22 in journals indexed in Web of Science (WoS) with WoS total impact factor/2023 of 74.5.

He has 2300+ citations in indexed journals, conference proceedings and books/book chapters: 1700+ in WoS, with total journal impact factor over 4200, average value of 4.1, and Hirsch WoS factor of 17, citations including authors from 190 universities (38%) from Top 500 World Universities/2024. He is a reviewer of 25+ scientific journals indexed in Web of Science. He was Co-Chair of the Program Committee, Organizing Committee, Publicity and Publications Committee of 50+ indexed international conferences in 10+ countries.

Prof. Andreescu is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2005, member of the International Federation of Automatic Control IFAC Technical Committee TC4.2 Mechatronics Systems since 2003, and of the IFAC Technical Committee TC 8.1 Control in Agriculture (2016-2018). He was a member of the Commission of Computers, Information Technology and System Engineering of the National Council for Attesting University Titles, Diplomas and Certificates (CNATDCU) in 2017-2024, and was member of the Commission of Engineering Sciences of the National University Research Council (CNCSIS), Romania. Prof. Andreescu is a recipient of the "Tudor Tanasescu" Award of the Romanian Academy for Advanced automation in 2016.