Corina Nafornita, (SM, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications 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 successfully defended her Habilitation thesis. Her research interests include signal and image processing, radar, watermarking 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 Synthetic Aperture Radiometry working group, and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Synthetic Aperture Standards Committee. She has published over 80 papers. Dr. Nafornita is a reviewer for several journals and international conferences. She was Invited Professor at IMS-LAPS, Université Bordeaux I, in 2009 and in 2018, she was Invited speaker at the Workshop in memory of Dr James Nelson, University College London, UCL, Department of Statistical Science. The title of the presentation was "Dr James Nelson: from mathematics to engineering. The Hurst exponent: estimation and applications".