Education:
Sc.D., National/Information Security (Higher Attestation Commission – Council of Ministers, Republic of Bulgaria).
Ph.D., Computer Science (Technical Cybernetics: Systems with Artificial Intelligence), Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria (Higher Attestation Commission – Council of Ministers, Republic of Bulgaria).
M.S., System Engineer, National University of Ukraine ‘KPI’, Kiev, Ukraine
Teaching interests:
Industrial Cyber Security
Mobile Cyber Security
Machine Learning in Programming Education
Intelligent Foundations of Virtual Reality Education
Intelligent Cyber Security Systems
Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality
Knowledge Management Systems
Network Security
Multi-agent Systems
Data Science Applications in Cyber Security
Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science
Research, Educational and Scientific Experience:
40+ years. Author of 6 monograph books, and of 160+ book chapters/scientific papers. Out of them 20+ in sources with IMPACT factor and 30+ in sources with high Scopus rank. Computer scientist/knowledge engineer, chair or coordinator of big scientific or international professional or work groups, Professor with broad scientific knowledge in the fields of: Intelligent Cyber Security, Network Security, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Applications to Security Systems, Data Science, Evolutionary Computation, Evolution in Mathematical Proofs including Cryptography/Steganography applications, Evolving Ontologies, Automation of Creative Processes, Inference by Analogy, Computational Discovery, Human-Machine Interaction, Cognitive Systems, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Fuzzy Systems, Decision Support Systems, Knowledge Management Systems, etc. Extensive teaching experience: advisor of 100+ undergraduate and graduate students. Built a reputation as someone that people want to work with, that can be counted on to build effective teams, clearly present scientific data, etc.
Member of International Program Committees in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Cyprus, Hungary, Germany, India, Rep. Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, Ukraine, Greece, Singapore, USA.