Valentina E. Balas
Full Professor, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania.
Research field: Intelligent Systems, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Control, Modeling and Simulation.
Valentina E. Balas is a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software, Faculty of Engineering, "Aurel Vlaicu" University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. Cum Laude in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timișoara and has authored more than 400 research papers. She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and the International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), and Head of the Intelligent Systems Research Centre at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. She has served as General Chair of the International Workshop on Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA) from 2005 to 2022 and has participated in numerous international conferences as Honorary Chair and Keynote Speaker. Her research includes soft computing, intelligent systems, and bio-inspired architectures. She has contributed to EU-funded research projects, including BioCell-NanoART, with a budget of €3 million. She is an IEEE Senior Member, a member of SPIE and EUSFLAT, and an associate member of the Romanian Academy of Scientists since 2023. Her honors include the "Tudor Tănăsescu" Prize from the Romanian Academy (2019), the "Ștefan Odobleja" Prize from the Romanian Academy of Scientists (2023 and 2024), and the 2023 Diploma in Information Technology from the General Association of Engineers in Romania.
