Valentina E. Balas is
currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software
at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania.
She holds a Ph.D. Cum Laude, in Applied Electronics and
Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the
author of more than 400 research papers.
She is the
Editor-in Chief to International
Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to International Journal
of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), member in Editorial Board of
international journals and is evaluator for international projects and PhD
Thesis.
Dr. Balas is the Head of
Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. She served as General Chair of the
International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA) in the interval
2005-2022.
Dr. Balas is a member of the specialized committee
"Computers, Information Technology, and Systems Engineering" of the
National Council for Attestation of University Titles, Diplomas, and
Certificates for the 2024-2028 term.
Dr. Balas participated in many international conferences as Honorary
Chair and Keynote Speaker.
Recently she was working on a project with EU funding support:
BioCell-NanoART = Novel Bio-inspired Cellular Nano-Architectures - For Digital
Integrated Circuits, 3M Euro.
She is a member of European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology
(EUSFLAT), member of SPIE and an IEEE Senior Member,
During the interval 2021-2022 she was a member of IEEE
European Public Policy Committee Working Group on ICT. From May 2023 Dr. Balas
is an associate member of Romanian Academy of Scientists.
She is recipient of the "Tudor Tanasescu" Prize from
the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods
(2019), “Stefan Odobleja” Prize from Romanian Academy of Scientists (2023 and
2024) and Diploma – Section Information Technology from The General Association
of the Engineers in Romania 2023.