Keynote Speakers

Prof. Valentina E. Balas

Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania

(H-index: 42)(IEEE Senior Member, IEEE CISMember)(ACM Member)

BIO: Valentina E. Balas (SM’07) received the Ph.D. degree in applied electronics and telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. She is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Automatics and Applied Software, Faculty of Engineering, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. She is the author of more than 190 research papers in refereed journals and International Conferences. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling, and simulation. She was the General Chair of the International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications from 2005 to 2016 held in Romania and Hungary. She is the Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms and the International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering, an Editorial Board member of several national and international journals and is an expert evaluator for national and international projects. She participated in many international conferences as Organizer, Session Chair and a member of the International Program Committee. She is a member of EUSFLAT, the ACM, TC–Fuzzy Systems (IEEE CIS), TC–Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), TC–Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS). She was a recipient of the Vice President (Awards) of the IFSA International Fuzzy Systems Association Council from 2013 to 2015. She is a Joint Secretary of of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics - A Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India.