Iulian Marinescu
Iulian Marinescu - Innovation & Technology Consultant
Julian.Marinescu@outlook.com

Dr. in Engineering | Innovation management | Product development| 15 years' experience | New Product innovation (NPI)| Capability Aquizition (CA)| Aerospace | Tech |

Start-ups helped
42
↗︎ 6 (last quarter)
Accelerators
10
Innovation calls
Patents
17
2009-2026
Publications
21
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  • Digital Catapult - Programme Manager
    Leading Programme manager for a £4Mil. Open Calls for Digital Supply Chain Hub, working with Microsoft, Rolls-Royce, Zoll, O2 , Vodafone (IoT), Nissan. Providing funding to small companies (Startups /SMEs) to develop digital tech solutions for the industry.
    Impact Monitoring for AI & ML Tecnologies (Deep tech)


  • Rolls-Royce Singapore - Engineering CA
    Managing a portfolio of projects in technology development for the repair Aerospace Market. Working closely with the repair shops in Asia pacific (HAESL, SAESL) Leading A*star Aerospace programme, working with Boeing and Airbus in developing new technologies for aviation industry
    Developing AI for Materials Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace. (Image processing and classification)
    Leading Cold Spray repair programme,


  • Rolls-Royce Hucknall - Manufacturing Engineer
    Leading Innovative Inspection techniques using Image Processing cameras on CMMs for Combustion Chambers for RR Trent 900 (for Airbus A380) and RRTrent XWB (84k and 97k Combustion) leading several R&D projects in innovative inspection. Worked with robotic cameras ( REVO CMM Camera) with Renishaw, programming in Modus for fast inspection of combustor holes and combustor tiles


  • Rolls-Royce UTC Nottingham - Innovation Manager
    Leading a 4.000.000 EU funded project on Robotic Waterjet Cutting with a consortium of 5 Industry leaders and 3 Universities - cutting of aerospace grade alloys like Inconel 718, RR1000, for Rolls-Royce projects


  • University of Nottingham
    PhD. in Data Analysis and Process Monitoring for Milling of Ni-Superalloys and detecting faults
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Project: AiVisualMRO

I am curently working on a concept to develop a product using AI for aiding visual inspection operators for Civil Aerospace and Defence MRO parts. The product will contain an AI for aiding the operator in cataloging and recording of operations and a back-end AI using for identification and segmentation of defects( scratches, dents, ect..)

AI Privacy Preserving Filter

Created an AI filter for Privacy Preserving activities, like monitoring people with Dementia (Alzheimer's disease) without releasing thier private information, keeping thier appearance and detecting movements without giving away the face or any other personal info.

Past Project: Mass Personalization of healthcare - SPHERE


I was involved in the delivery phase zero project on Mass Personalization of healthcare. Working with other catapults in UK like HVMC (CPI), Medical Devices catapult (MD) , and Cell-Gene Therapy (CGT) catapult, to conduct interviews with MedTech stakeholders and validate gaps, challenges and intervention gaps. I was also managing (project managing) the digital technologies strand.

Past Project: SONIC Labs - Cohort /Open Call

I was running / working on the Open Call/ Cohort for Technology access programme for Open RAN 5G - Sonic Labs

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Article: From Aerospace to Tech

My view and experience in moving from Aerospace to Tech. It has been 4 years ago after COVID when moving from Aerospace - Manufacturing Repair Technology and into TECH, working with AI, ML, IoT and other new technologies

Augment for YOLO

A set of Python utilities for augmenting your training dataset for yolo and other models. You can augment pixel level adjustements like brightness, contrast, random HSV and random color jitter making your YOLO models more robust. Geometric Augementations include, flipping, rottating, cropping.

Don't be lazy ! Configure your own VPS today (not a tutorial)

There are many benefits to having your own VPS. One of the most important is privacy: setting up a self-hosted VPN gives you full control over your online activity. OR, You can also create your own private cloud, keeping your photos and files securely stored and protected from being used for AI training.

Posted: 17-07-25