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Corina Nafornita 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 Department of Communications at "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, where she currently holds the position of Professor. Dr. Nafornita is a member of the Intelligent Signal Processing Research Centre. In March 2015, Dr. Nafornita successfully defended her Habilitation thesis and subsequently was awarded by UEFISCDI for obtaining the Habilitation certificate.

Her research interests include signal and image processing, radar, watermarking and wavelets. 

Dr. Nafornita is IEEE Senior Member since 2020 (IEEE member since 2003), 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 a reviewer for several journals and TPC member for prestigious international conferences. Since 2015, she is an affiliate member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SPTM Technical Committee. 

In April-June 2011 she was invited researcher at IMS-Lab. Intégration du Matériau au Système, ENSEIRB Bordeaux and in Sept-Oct. 2009 she was Invited Professor at IMS-LAPS, Universite Bordeaux I, when she was awarded an EGIDE scholarship for research. 

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".

She served as Scientific Secretary for the Scientific Bulletin of "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Transactions on Electronics and Communications (2006-2019). Dr Nafornita is Publication chair for the IEEE International Symposium of Electronics and Telecommunications, starting with edition 2010 at present and member in the organizing committee for editions 2004, 2006 and 2008.

Awards/affiliations:

• 2021-2025, Humanitarian Activities Chair for IEEE Romania Section

• Since 2020, IEEE Senior Member

• Since July 2022, member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Synthetic Aperture Standards Committee (committee observer January-July) 

• Since March 2023, Vice Chair of the Synthetic Aperture Radiometry Working Group (Chair: Brian Sequiera, Secretary: Ramesh Annavajjala), IEEE P3339 Synthetic Aperture Radiometry Working Group 

• Since July 2022, Vice Chair of the Synthetic Aperture Radiometry PAR Study Group (Chair: Brian Sequeira, Secretary: Aly Artusio-Glimpse)

• Since 2019 Secretary for IEEE Joint Chapter COM/SP/IT Romania (Chair: Col. Conf. Dr. Eng. Petrica Ciotirnae, ATM, Vice-Chair: Prof.Dr. Eng. Constantin Paleologu, UPB)

• 18 Nov 2021  Award for research results PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2021-61167 (paper Hyperanalytic Wavelet-Based Robust Edge Detection)

• 18 Nov 2021  Award for research results PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2021-62052 (paper GNSS Localization in Constraint Environment by Image Fusing Techniques)

• 21 Dec 2018 UEFISCDI Award for research results PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2018-27334 

• 15 Nov. 2016 UEFISCDI Award for research results PN-III-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2016-12640

• Dec. 2015: UEFISCDI Award for obtaining the Habilitation certificate PN-II-RU-ABIL-2015-2-0117

• 2015-present - Affiliate Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society SPTM Technical Committee https://signalprocessingsociety.org/get-involved/signal-processing-theory-and-methods/affiliate-members

• 2012: Nominated for the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee IEEE

• IEEE member since 2003 (Signal Processing Society, Computer Society) 

• AIET member since 2003

• 2006-2019, Scientific Secretary for the Scientific Bulletin of "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Transactions on Electronics and Communications

• member of the Intelligent Signal Processing Research Centre at UPT

• steering committee member of the Intelligent Signal Processing Centre at UPT

• 2017-2020, member of the Board of Communications Department of UPT

Interests:

• statistical signal processing

• signal and image processing

• watermarking

• denoising

• wavelets

• radar

Reviewer for the following journals:

• 2006 IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security,

• 2007-2008, 2011-2012 IEEE Trans. on Multimedia,

• 2017, 2009-2010 IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,

• 2018, 2017, 2013 and 2010-2011 IEEE Trans. Image Processing

• 2007-2008 EURASIP Journal on Information Security,

• 2007-2010 IET Information Security,

• 2008 Research Letters in Electronics, Elsevier

• 2008 Journal of Systems and Software Elsevier,

• 2008-2013 Signal Processing Elsevier,

• 2013 IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation,

• 2013 Physical Communication,

• 2010, 2009 Acta Technica Napocensis,

• 2016 Imaging Science Journal

• 2019 Geosciences

• 2020 Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV )

• 2020 Information

• 2021 Journal of Imaging

• 2022-2023 Revue Roumaine des Sciences Techniques Série Électrotechnique et Énergétique

• 2022-2023 Signal Processing: Image Communication

• 2023 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

TPC member and reviewer for the following conferences:

• Co-organizer for the 2nd ESA Training Course on Ocean Multi-Sensor Synergy, 25-26 October 2016, at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania. with OceanDataLab and ESA

• Publication chair for the IEEE International Symposium of Electronics and Telecommunications, starting with edition 2010

• TPC member for 2022 14th International Conference on Communications (COMM) 

• Scientific committee member, IEEE International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering, EHB 2021 - 9-th Edition, 18-19 November 2021, Iasi

• Chair, Section Image Processing 3   14-th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems ISSCS 2021, Iasi, Romania (with Professor Vesna Zeljkovic)

• Chair in the section of Modern satellite image processing methods at the IEEE International Symposium of Electronics and Telecommunications, ISETC 2016 (with Professor Monica Borda)

• Chair in the section of Image Processing 1 at the IEEE International Symposium of Electronics and Telecommunications, ISETC 2014 (with Professor Alexandru Isar)

• Chair in the section of Image Processing 1 at the IEEE International Symposium of Electronics and Telecommunications, ISETC 2012 (with Professor Franz Quint)

• IEEE International Conference on Communications 2016, June 9-11, 2016, Bucharest, Romania, http://comms.ro

• IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS 2015

• 22nd European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2014,September 1-5, 2014,Lisbon, Portugal

• 21st European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2013, Marrakech, Morocco, 9-13 September 2013

• 20th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2012, Bucharest, Romania, 27-31 August 2012

• 18th EUNICE Conference on Information and Communications Technologies EUNICE 2012, 29-31 August 2012, Budapest, Hungary

• 4th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, WIFS 2012, Tenerife, Spain, December 2-5, 2012

Reviewer for the following conferences:

• ISSCS 2023 Int Symp on Signals Circuits and Systems July 13-14 2023, Iasi, Romania

• The 29th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP), Bordeaux, France, October 16-19, 2022 ICIP 2022

• IEEE 14-th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems ISSCS 2021, Iasi, Romania

• IEEE 13-th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems ISSCS 2019, Iasi, Romania

• IEEE 13-th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems ISSCS 2017, Iasi, Romania

• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016) 20-25 March 2016, Shangai, China

• International Conference on Image Processing ICIP 2015, September 27-30, Quebec City, Canada

• ICASSP 2014, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,May 4-9, 2014 - Florence, Italy

• ISCAS 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 1-5 june 2014, Melbourne, Australia

• 21st European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2013, Marrakech, Morocco, 9-13 September 2013,

• 11-th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, July 11-12, 2013, Iasi, Romania.

• 13th International Conference on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment OPTIM 2012, May 24-26, 2012, Brasov, Romania,

• 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST 2012, 23- 25 May 2012, Wuhan, China

• IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications, Timisoara, November 15-16, 2012, ISETC 2012

• Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 28-30 June 2011, Nice, France, SSP 2011

• IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications, November 11-12, 2010, Timisoara, ISETC 2010,

• 8-th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, ISSCS 2007, Iasi, July 12-13,2007

Grants (director):

• 2022-2024 SBAS Adoption on Multi-copter VTOL Aircrafts (SAMVA), Director for Romanian side, financed by EUSPA (European Union Agency for the Space Programme),  valoare UPT 20000 EURO  (Coordonator: Pildo Labs, Parteneri: Ehang Technologies Spain & LATAM S.L. Spain; Airport Regions Council Belgium;  Thales Alenia Space France; Eliance Helicopter Global Services S.L. Spain; Aeroports Públics De Catalunya Spain; Subcontractor: Politehnica University Timisoara –  Romania)

• 2016-2019, Study for a monitoring station for EGNOS to support services in Eastern Europe (contractor UPT) ESA Contract No. 4000 117 527 / 16/NL/CBi

• 2011-2012 - bilateral program Brancusi EGIDE/ANCS, Romanian Director, "Classification de textures fondée sur la théorie des ondelettes hyper-analytiques et les copules", French Director: Prof. Yannick Berthoumieu grant no. 510/31.03.2011, period 2011-2012, partners UPT, IPB-ENSEIRB MATMECA, funded by ANCS-UEFISCDI and EGIDE

• 2004-2006 – national grant TD, CNCSIS code 47, Digital watermarking for still images in the transform domain funding by CNCSIS

Grants (member):

• 2024-2025 ESA - 073 - TrustwOrthy Pnt for unmAnned aerial SystEms – TOPASE, Thales Alenia France (coordinator), partners ABZero Italy, University Politehnica Timisoara, ESA's NAVISP Programmes, budget UPT 50.000 EUR 

• 2014- 2018, Quality of Services Improvement for GNSS Localisation in Constraint Environment by Image Fusing Techniques (IMFUSING), Contract with European Space Agency, ESA, nr. 4000111852/14/NL/Cbi, contractor UPT, subcontractor Thales Alenia

• 2014-2016, SEOM SY4Sci Synergy - Ocean Virtual Laboratory (OVL), Contract with European Space Agency, ESA, nr. 4000112389/14/I-NB, contractor OceanDataLab, subcontractor UPT

• 2011-2014 – FP7 EU program, Advanced Radar Tracking and Classification for Enhanced Road Safety ARTRAC

• 2013-2014 – PC7 EU program, Advanced Radar Tracking and Classification for Enhanced Road Safety ARTRAC, funded by UEFISCDI

• 2009-2011 – national grant – The use of wavelet theory for decision making, funded by CNCSIS, ID 930, 2009-2011

• 2007-2009 – national grant, Improvement of research & development basis in the field of communications at the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politehnica Univ. of Timisoara, funded by ANCS, CAPACITATI PN II, 2007-2009, 77/CP/II/13.09.2007

• 2005-2007 – national grant, Performance increase of digital receptors using wavelet theory, funded by CNCSIS, code 637/A/CNCSIS

• 2004-2006 – national grant, Modern methods for image analysis and image processing, 2004-2006, funded by CNCSIS

• 2011-2012 – member of target group Doctoral School in support of research in the European context ("Scoala doctorala in sprijinul cercetarii in context european"), POSDRU program 21/1.5/G/13798 2010-2012

Scholarships:

• Oct. 2009 -EGIDE scholarship for research, LAPS, Bordeaux, France

• Sep. 2005-ECRYPT scholarship, Summer School for Multimedia Security, University of Salzburg, Austria, 21-24 Sept. 2005

Talks:

• IEEE Signal Processing Society SPS SASC WEBINAR, Dr. H. Brian Sequeira, Prof. Corina Nafornita, Mr. Peter Vouras, Imaging Outer Space or the Earth’s Surface Using Synthetic Aperture Radiometry,  31 October 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (ET), SPS SASC Webinar: Imaging Outer Space or the Earth’s Surface Using Synthetic Aperture Radiometry | IEEE Signal Processing Society 

• Invited talk SAR Image Enhancement at the Miniworkshop on synthetic apertures, IEEE Signal Processing Society Synthetic Aperture Standards Committee, 19 October 2022 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kg7j9mVkQGBrVo72L8y-FjbE37rtkY9x/view?usp=sharing 

• Invited speaker at the Workshop in memory of Dr James Nelson, UCL Department of Statistical Science, "Dr James Nelson: from mathematics to engineering. The Hurst exponent: estimation and applications", Sep. 12, 2018 zhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/news/2018/jul/workshop-memory-dr-james-nelson-wednesday-12-september-2018

• Course/Training module on SAR Image despeckling at the 2nd ESA Training Course on Ocean Multi-Sensor Synergy, 25-26 October 2016, at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania. October 2016, Timisoara

• Invited talk Complex wavelet transforms, Univ Bordeaux 1, 2009

PhD graduates:

• Corneliu-Alexandru Bobaru, PhD supervisor Corina-Alda NAFORNIȚĂ, thesis title Contributions to improving the radar sensor systems in automotive (Contributii la imbunatatirea adaptivitatii sistemelor de senzori radar in domeniul automotive), thesis defended on 11.09.2024, confirmed by OME 7722/12.12.2024 https://rei.gov.ro/teza-doctorat/F-CA-62455-28-10-2024 

• Teodor-Cosmin DEHELEAN, PhD supervisor Corina-Alda NAFORNIȚĂ, thesis title Contribuții la concepția unui sistem îmbarcat pe automobile pentru protecția pietonilor (Contributions to the design of an automotive embedded system for pedestrian protection), thesis defended on 10.09.2021, confirmed by OME 5999/30.12.2021 https://rei.gov.ro/teza-doctorat/F-CA-40982-15-10-2021

• Vlad-Cosmin VASILE,  PhD supervisors: Monica Borda (UTCN), Corina Naforniță (UPT), thesis title „Îmbunătățirea navigației utilizând sistemul EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service)” thesis defended on 12.02.2020 confirmed by OMEC 5748/13.10.2020 https://rei.gov.ro/teza-doctorat/F-CA-28697-18-02-2020

PhD students:

• Atila-Gabriel Ham, Thesis in preparation: Elements of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Enhancing Automotive Safety ("Elemente de inteligență artificială (AI) pentru creșterea siguranței în automotive"), supervised by Prof. Corina Nafornita

• Voislava-Denisa DAVIDOVICI , Thesis in preparation: Contribuții la dezvoltarea algoritmilor de urmărire a țintelor în sisteme radar automotive

• Daniel VARCIU, Thesis in preparation: Contribuții la dezvoltarea algoritmilor de urmărire a țintelor extinse în sisteme radar automotive

• Maria-Mădălina PARPALĂ, Thesis in preparation: Contribuții la dezvoltarea algoritmilor de segmentare si denoising pentru imaginile SAR

Thesis Vasile Vlad, 12.02.2020

Thesis Vlad Vasile, 12.02.2020

Thesis Teodor Dehelean, 10.09.2022.