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Name : Valentina E. Balas
Speciality : Intelligent Systems, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Systems, Modeling and Simulation.
Email : balas@drbalas.ro
Affilation : Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering , Arad (Romania).

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.