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Name and Academic Rank:
Dr. Otilia Popescu, Assistant Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University
214 Kaufman Hall, Norfolk, VA 23529
Phone: 757-683-6718
E-mail: opopescu@odu.edu
Education:
• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 2004.
• Doctoral courses in Systems and Control, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest,
Romania, 1994 – 1996.
• Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering and MS with specialization in Control
Engineering and Computers, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, 1991.
Academic Appointment at Old Dominion University:
Assistant Professor, 2013 – present.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2007 – 2013.
Other Related Experience:
• January 2006 – August 2006: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Texas at Dallas.
• September 2005 – January 2006: Adjunct Professor, two course/semester, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio.
• January 1998 – May 2004: Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant, ECE Department and
WINLAB, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
• March 1992 – December 1997: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Control Engineering and
Computers, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania.
Journal Publications:
• Dimitrie C. Popescu, Danda Rawat, Otilia Popescu, and Mohammad Saquib, “Game-
Theoretic Approach to Joint Transmitter Adaptation and Power Control in Wireless
Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B, vol. 40, no. 3, pp.
675-682, June 2010.
• Dimitrie C. Popescu, Otilia Popescu, and Octavia A. Dobre, “Interference Avoidance and
Multiaccess Vector Channels”, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 106-108,
February 2010.
• Komate Jitvanichphaibool, Mohammad Saquib, and Otilia Popescu, “Optimum Pilot-to-Data
Power Ratio for Partial Rake Receiver in Nakagami-m Fading Channels”, IEEE Transactions
on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 136-147, January 2009.
• Otilia Popescu, Mohammad Saquib, Dimitrie C. Popescu, and Michael D. Rice, “Interference
Mitigation and Channel Equalization in Aeronautical Telemetry Using Kalman Filter”, IEEE
Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 1624-1630, October
2007.

• Dimitrie C. Popescu, Otilia Popescu, and Christopher Rose, “Interference Avoidance and
Multiaccess Vector Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 55, no. 8, pp.
1466-1471, August 2007.
• Otilia Popescu, Dimitrie C. Popescu, and Christopher Rose, “Simultaneous Water Filling in
Mutually Interfering Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no.
3, pp. 1101-1113, March 2007.
• Otilia Popescu and Christopher Rose, “Greedy SINR Maximization in Collaborative Multi-
Base Wireless Systems”, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking,
vol. 2004, no. 2, pp. 201-209, December 2004.
• Otilia Popescu and Christopher Rose, “Sum Capacity and TSC Bounds in Collaborative
Multi-Base Wireless Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 50, no. 10,
pp. 2433-2438, October 2004.
• Otilia Popescu, Christopher Rose, and Dimitrie C. Popescu, “Maximizing he Determinant for
a Special Class of Block-Partitioned Matrices”, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol.
2004, no. 1, pp. 49-61, May 2004.
Scientific and Professional Societies
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE – Women in Engineering Society.
Honors and Awards
• Exemplary reviewer award, IEEE Communications Letters Editorial Board, November 2011.
• Elevated to Senior Member of IEEE, October 2010.
• Third prize in the Student Scientific Session, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, for the paper
“Principles and Methods for the Evaluation of Thermoelectric Emissions’ Parameters”,
April 1987, Bucharest, Romania (joint with Dimitrie C. Popescu).
• Merit scholarship awarded by the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest 1988-1991.
Institutional Service
• Courses taught at ODU: EET 300, EET 355, ECE 202, ECE 451/551, ECE 452/552,
ECE 483/583, ECE 642, ECE 795/895.
• Prepared ABET course portfolios for: ECE 202, ECE 451, and ECE 483 courses.
• Attended curriculum review and outcome assessment meetings.
Professional Service
• Technical program committee member
o IEEE Vehicular Technologies Conference (VTC)
o IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference – GLOBECOM
o IEEE International Conference on Communications – ICC.
• Reviewer for IEEE journals and conferences.