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Octavia Adina Dobre is a Romanian-Canadian engineer. She is a professor and Tier 1
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in ubiquitous connectivity at
Memorial University of Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland, or MUN (), is a Public university, public research university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook ...
. After serving as interim dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science since May 2022, Dobre was named the permanent dean of the faculty in 2024. As of 2024, she is a fellow of the
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,
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,
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, and
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. Outside of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dobre is also the
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of the '' IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society'' and former editor-in-chief of ''
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''. She is also a member of the
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of the
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.


Early life and education

Dobre was born and raised in Crajova, Romania. After earning her
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and PhD in electrical engineering at the
Politehnica University of Bucharest Politehnica University of Bucharest () is a technical university in Bucharest, Romania founded in 1818. Dobre then accepted a one-year Royal Society Scholarship at the
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and held a
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with the
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in the US state of New Jersey.


Career

Following her fellowship, Dobre worked at the Politehnica University of Bucharest and
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from 2002 until 2005. She then left and accepted a professorship at the
Memorial University of Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland, or MUN (), is a Public university, public research university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook ...
in Canada. As an associate professor, Dobre spearheaded the development of Memorial's wireless communications laboratory and was elected to serve on the
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Administrative Committee. In 2015, she received the President's Outstanding Research Award for her research accomplishments in wireless communication. In January 2016, Dobre was appointed
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of the ''
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''.


References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Craiova Romanian women engineers Fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada Fellows of the IEEE Canadian engineers Canadian women engineers Canada Research Chairs Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering Canadian academic journal editors Academic staff of the Memorial University of Newfoundland {{Canada-engineer-stub