Simona Halunga

Simona Halunga (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in communications from the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest (UNSTPB), Bucharest, Romania, in 1996. From 1997 to 1999, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USA. Since 2006, she has been a Full Professor with the Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, UNSTPB. She has published over 200 papers in different scientific journals or in the proceedings of different scientific conferences and participated in several nationally funded NATO Science for Peace and European research projects. She was the Director of the Scalable Radio Transceiver for Instrumental Wireless Sensor Networks-SaRaT nationally funded research project from 2012 to 2016, and starting from 2020, she is leading the Romanian team of MOTOR5G H2020 MSCA-ITN (2019–2025) project and ICARUS (2023–2027). Her research interests include multiple access systems and techniques, digital communications, communications systems, and digital signal processing for telecommunications.