Corina Nafornita ( Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications in 2003 and 2004, from the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania and the Ph.D. degree in the same field in 2008, from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In 2003, she joined the Communications Dept., Politehnica University of Timisoara, where she currently holds the position of Professor. In 2015, she successfullydefended her Habilitation thesis. Her research interests include signal and image processing, radar, machine learning, synthetic aperture radiometry, and wavelets.
She is IEEE Senior Member since 2020, an affiliate member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SPTM Technical Committee since 2015, secretary for IEEE Joint Chapter COM/SP/IT Romania since 2019, and from 2021 she is Chair for the Humanitarian Activities at IEEE Romania Section. Dr. Nafornita is Vice-chair of the IEEE P3339 Synthetic Aperture Radiometry Working Group, Chair of the IEEE P3520 Machine Learning for Synthetic Apertures Working Group and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Synthetic Aperture StandardsCommittee. She has published more than 80 papers and was an Invited Professor at IMS-LAPS, Universite Bordeaux, in 2009.