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CURRICULUM VITAE

Full Name:

Prof. Petia Koprinkova-Hristova

Nationality:

Bulgarian

Office Address:

Acad. G.Bonchev Str., bl.25A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

EDUCATION

University Degree: MSc in Biotechnics, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1989.

PhD: Process Automation (Training and Stability of the Intelligent Control Systems with Application to Biotechnological Processes), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2001.

Languages: English, Russian.

Computer Skills: NEST Simulator, Python, C++, Fortran, Basic, Matlab.

PROFILES

  • Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petia-Koprinkova-Hristova.
  • Loop profile: http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/174924/overview.
  • ResearcherID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/A-6042-2009.
  • Scopus Author ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603652159.
  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0447-9667.

    • PROFESSIONAL RECORDS

  • Professor in Informatics at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2019 - present.
  • Associate Professor in Process Automation at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2012 - 2019.
  • Associate Professor in Process Automation at the Institute of System Engineering and Robotics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2010 - 2011.
  • Associate Professor in Process Automation at the Institute of Control and System Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2003 - 2010.
  • Research Fellow in Process Automation at the Institute of Control and System Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1995 - 2003.
  • Engineer in Biotechnics at the Institute of Control and System Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1994 - 1995.
  • Engineer in Biotechnics at the Central Laboratory of Bioinstrumentation and Automation, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1989 - 1994.

    • FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Neural Networks
  • Fuzzy Sets
  • Intelligent Control and Optimization
  • Automatic Control Theory
  • Nonlinear Processes Control (Biotechnological Processes Control)

    • Editorial Boards

  • Automatica and Informatics, Official publication of the Bulgarian John Atanasoff Society of Automatic and Informatics
  • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Cybernetics and Information Technologies
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • Evolving Systems

    • Membership in Scientific Organizations

  • European Neural Network Society (ENNS), executive committee elected member for 2011-2019.
  • IFAC CC 3 - Computers, Cognition and Communication, TC 3.2. Computational Intelligence in Control.
  • IFIP TC 13 Human-Computer interaction.
  • EUCA - European Control Association.
  • Union of Matematitians in Bulgaria.
  • Bulgarian Union of Automatic and Informatics.

    • Teaching

  • Invitated lecturer on Process control and industrial autometion, in English, TU - Sofia, branch Plovdiv, 2012 - 2016.
  • Invitated lecturer on Mathematical foundations of neurobiology, FMI SU, 2021 - until now.
  • Invitated lecturer on Reinforcement learning, FMI SU, 2021 - until now.

    • RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • "Auto-adaptive Neuromorphic Brain Machine Interface: toward fully embedded neuroprosthetics (NEMO-BMI)", funded by HORIZON-EIC, No 101070891, 2022-2025 - leader of IICT team.
  • COST action CA18106 "The neural architecture of consciousness (NeuralArchCon)", 2019-2023 - member of manegement committee.
  • "Modelling post-perceptual stages of cognitive processing and conscious representations of visual information", project No FNI KP-06-N52/6 from 2021 - project leader.
  • "Supercomputer simulation investigation of a neural model of brain structures involved in conscious visual perception", Bulgarian Science Fund grant No KP-06-COST/9 from 2021 by a co-funding scheme of COST action CA18106 "The neural architectures of consciousness" - project leader.
  • "Modelling Of Voluntary Saccadic Eye Movements During Decision Making, contract No DFNI – DN02/3 with Bulgarian Science Fund, 2016-2020 - project leader".
  • AComIn: Advanced Computing for Innovation, FP7 Capacity Programme, Research Potential of Convergence Regions, 2012-2015
  • Algorithms for preliminary processing of spectral data and images obtained via distance measurements, joint research project with partners IICT-BAS and Inst. of Space Research-BAS, Bulgarian Science Fund, grant No DFNI-I01/8, 2012-2014.
  • Predictive support of technological equipment aimed at diagnostics and risk analysis, joint research project with partners IICT-BAS and UCMT, Bulgarian Science Fund, grant No DVU-10-0267/10, 2010 - 2014.
  • Characteristics Modelling and Composition Optimization of Iron-based Alloys used in Machine-Building Industry, Bulgarian Science Fund, grant No DDVU 02/11, 2011 - work package leader.
  • Advanced Intelligent Control in Chemical and Bio-chemical Industries, joint research project with partners ISER-BAS and Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, 2010-2012 - project leader.
  • Increasing the Efficiency of Bio-fuel Purpose Ethanol Production, Bulgarian Science Fund, grant No DVU 02/27 from 2009.
  • Biologically Inspired Reinforcement Learning in Artificial Neural Networks for the Control of Complex Systems, project funded by DFG No PA 268/24-1, 2009 - project leader.
  • Control of Mixed Culture Fermentations in Biochemical and Food Industries, Bulgarian Science Fund, grant No TN 1509/2005 - project co-leader.
  • Modelling and Control of Fermentation Processes Taking the Memory Effect into Account, Bulgarian Science Fund, grant No SRTS 428/1994.
  • Modelling and Optimization of Biotechnological Processes in Food Industry, Bulgarian Science Fund, grant No CC338/1993.
  • Control Theory Development aimed at Microbial Synthesis Control, Bulgarian Science Fund, grant No TN149/1991.
  • New Methods for Control of Fermentation Processes, Bulgarian Science Fund, grant No 512/1987.