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