Dobre (M’05-SM’07) is a professor and Research Chair at Memorial University, Canada. She was a visiting pro- fessor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a Royal Society and a Fulbright Scholar. Her research interests include technologies for 5G and beyond, as well as optical and underwater communications. She has published over 250 refereed papers in these areas. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. She was the EiC of IEEE Communications Letters, a
senior editor and an editor with prestigious journals, as well as General Chair and Technical Co-Chair of flagship conferences in her area of expertise. She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society and a fellow of the Engineering Institute of