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About the editors

Valentina Emilia Balas, Brojo Kishore Mishra, Raghvendra Kumar

Valentina E. Balas is currently Full Professor in the Depart-
ment 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 Telecom-
munications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas
is author of more than 350 research papers in refereed journals
and International Conferences. Her research interests are in
Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Soft Computing, Smart Sen-
sors, Information Fusion, Modeling and Simulation. 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
member of several national and international journals and is
evaluator expert for national, international projects and PhD
Thesis. Dr. Balas is the director of Intelligent Systems Research
Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad and Director of the
Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects in
the same university. She served as General Chair of the Inter-
national Workshop Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA) in
nine editions organized in the interval 2005-2020 and held in
Romania and Hungary. Dr. Balas participated in many interna-
tional conferences as Organizer, Honorary Chair, Session Chair,
member in Steering, Advisory or International Program Com-
mittees and Keynote Speaker. Now she is working in a national
project with EU funding support: BioCell-NanoART ¼ Novel Bio-
inspired Cellular Nano-Architectures - For Digital Integrated
Circuits, 3M Euro from National Authority for Scientific Research
and Innovation. She is a member of European Society for Fuzzy
Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), member of Society for In-
dustrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and a Senior Member
IEEE, member in Technical Committee e Fuzzy Systems (IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society), chair of the Task Force 14
in Technical Committee e Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS),
member in Technical Committee e Soft Computing (IEEE
SMCS). Dr. Balas was past Vice-president (responsible with
Awards) of IFSA - International Fuzzy Systems Association
Council (2013-2015), is a Joint Secretary of the Governing
Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), - A
Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India and recipient of the
“Tudor Tanasescu” Prize from the Romanian Academy for con-
tributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019).