Adela BÂRA (b. October 11, 1978) is Professor at the Economic Informatics and Cybernetics Department at the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.

She has graduated the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics in 2002, holds a PhD diploma in Economic Informatics from 2007.

Domains of competence: Database systems, Big data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Energy Management Systems, IoT, Digital Twins.
Current position:
PhD. Professor, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE), Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics (DICE)

Activity:

• 2025 – present: Expert for the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
• 2023 – present: Member of the Scientific Council of the Doctoral School in Economic Informatics, ASE
• 2022 – present: Expert for ESF Science Connect: https://www.esf.org/community-of-experts/
• 2023 – present: Member of the Editorial Board of the Oeconomia Copernicana Journal https://journals.economic-research.pl/oc/about/editorialTeam
• 2024 – present: Member of the Editorial Board of the Humanities and Social Sciences Communications https://www.nature.com/palcomms/journal-information/editorialboard
• 2023 – present: Member in the Technical Committee 6.3. Power and Energy Systems of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC): https://tc.ifac-control.org/6/3/members/overview
• 2021 – present: Guest Editor for the following journals: Sensors, Electronics, Sustainability
• 2010 – present: Editor in Chief – Database Systems Journal, http://dbjournal.ro
• 2010 – present: Director of the Center of Excellence in Data Science, ASE Bucharest, https://eertis.eu/ersv-2200-000m-8590
• 2014 – 2016: Reviewer expert at UEFISCDI, Romania

Awards:

• 2024: “Mattei Dogan” Award in Social Science and Economy, Gala Cercetarii Romanesti (Romanian Research Gala), MINISTRY OF RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND DIGITALIZATION, https://www.mcid.gov.ro/gala-cercetarii-romanesti/
• 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024: Opera Omnia Awards for scientific publications in Q1, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
• 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024: Georgescu-Roegen Awards for scientific publications in Q2, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
• 2017–2023: Awarding of research results for scientific publications in Q1, Q2 – Web of Science articles PRECISI-2017, PRECISI-2018, PRECISI-2019, PRECISI-2020, PRECISI-2021, PRECISI-2023, The Executive Unit for the Financing of Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI)
• 2017: “Research of the Year” Award, Excellence Gala, Bucharest University of Economic Studies