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Associate Prof. Dr. Boriana Vatchova

Place of Birth: Sofia, Bulgaria
Scope of interests: Modelling of Complex Processes, Logical and Probabilistic Functions, Fuzzy Logic.

Academic qualifications:

  • 01/11/2019 – present: Associate Professor in Informatics, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies-BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • 22/04/2009 –PhD in Intelligent Systems, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies-BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria. (Diploma)
  • 08/07/1992- M.Sc in Electronics and Automatics, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

 

  • https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2073-7670

    • Research experience:

    • 01/11/2019 – present: Associate Professor, Specialty 01.01.12 “Informatics”, Research field “Informatics and Computer Sciences” at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies-BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria.
    • 01/07/2010-30/10/2019- Research Fellow in Intelligent Systems at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies-BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria.
    • 01/06/1995-30/06/2010 Research Assistant in Computer Sciences, Institute of Computer and Communication Systems, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
    • 01/01/ 2004 – 30/10/2008 Part-time PhD Student at the Institute of Control and System Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( Institute of Robotics ), Sofia, Bulgaria.
    • 01/10/1994 – 31/05/1995 Software Programmer at the Institute of Computer and Communication Systems – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
    • 01/06/1993-01/02/1994 Data Base Programmer at the German Company – NOAC GmbH, Sofia, Bulgaria.

    Teaching activities:

    • 10/06/2019-17/06/2019 Visiting Erasmus Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
    • 25/10/2018-10/11/2018 Lecturer in Software Engineering Masters Course at the University of Telecommunications and Posts, Sofia, Bulgaria
    • 20/06/2018-27/06/2018 Visiting Erasmus Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
    • 01/11/2017-25/11/2017 Lecturer in Software Engineering Masters Course at the University of Telecommunications and Posts, Sofia, Bulgaria
    • 01/02/2016-27/02/2017 Lecturer in Software Engineering Masters Course at the University of Telecommunications and Posts, Sofia, Bulgaria
    • 21/06/2017-26/06/2017 Visiting Erasmus Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
    • 01/10/2016-01/02/2017 Teaching Assistant in Informatics, at the University of Telecommunications and Posts, Sofia, Bulgaria
    • 01/10/2016-25/10/2016 Lecturer in Software Engineering Masters Course at the University of Telecommunications and Posts, Sofia, Bulgaria
    • 20/05/2016-30/05/2016 Visiting Erasmus Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
    • 20/05/2015-30/05/2015 Visiting Erasmus Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
    • 01/05/2014-11/05/2014 Visiting Erasmus Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
    • 11/03/2013-26/03/2013 Visiting Erasmus Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
    • 14/03/2012-26/03/2012 Visiting Erasmus Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK
    • 11/05/2012-11/08/2012 Visiting Lecturer of the German Academic Exchange Service at the Technical University Dresden, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Institute of Control Theory, Dresden, Germany
    • 12/04/2010- 26/04/2010 Visiting Erasmus Lecturer at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK.

    Participation in training courses and individual projects:

    • From 2011/2012 to 2019/2020 Academic Coordinator for an Erasmus Exchange Agreement between the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK.
    • 23/07/2018-27/07/2018 – Participant in training course “ICT skills for Educators” organized by ShipCon, Barcelona, Spain, under Erasmus grant for training.
    • 12/05/2012-12/08/2012 DAAD Visiting Researcher of individual research project on Adaptive Methods of Complex Processes Characterized with Uncertainty, Non-Linearity and Non-Stationarity, Technical University Dresden, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Institute of Control Theory.
    • 29/08/2008 -09/09/2008 Participant in the International summer school organized by schools of Computer Science and Mathematics of the Manchester university on: “Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Large – Scale Complex Systems”, Ambleside, UK.
    • 09/07/2007-17/07/2007 Participant in the International Summer School in Complexity Science, Wye College, Kent, UK.
    • 16/05/2005-27/-05/2005 Participant in NATO International School on “Multisensor Data and Information Processing for Rapid and Robust Situation and Threat Assessment”, NATO International School, Albena, Bulgaria.
    • 12/09/2004-18/09/2004 Participant in the International LASER Summer School on Software Engineering 2004-“Practical Techniques of Software Quality”, Elba, Italy.
    • 29/07/2003 -10/08/Participant in NATO International Summer School 2003 on “Proof Technology and Computation”, International School, at Marktoberdorf, Germany.

    Other Activities:

    • Invited Chair on Classification Session at the IADIS European Conference on Data Mining held in Rome, Italy, 24-26 July, 2011 (certificate).
    • 3 years on maternity leave from 2000 to 2003.

    Memberships

    • 1/10/1995-present – Union of Automatics and Informatics
    • 1/09/2009-present – Member of the European Complex System Society

    Computer Skills:

    • MS Windows, UNIX
    • MS Office
    • MS Access, MS DOS
    • Data Base programming
    • INFORMIX, 4GL
    • SQL, Eclipse
    • MATLAB programming
    • JAVA applications
    • Eclipse

    Languages: English, German, Russian
    Contacts: 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria, Acad. G. Bonchev str. Bl. 2
    Phone: (+359) 2 979 27 74
    Fax:
    Email: boriana.vatchova@iict.bas.bg