Stoicho Dimitrov Stoichev
(Curriculum vitae)
1. Citizenship: Bulgarian
2. Marital status : Married, two children
3. Languages (proficiency) : Bulgarian(native), English(good), Russian (very good), French (fair), Esperanto (very good)
4. Education (universities attended, degrees held):
· Electrical Engineer, Radioengineering, 1958, Technical University of Sofia ;
· PhD (Candidate of Technical Sciences), Computer Science, 1965, S. Petersburg University of Electrical Engineering, S. Petersburg;
· Assoc. Professor, Computer Science, Technical University of Sofia, 1971;
· Dr.Sc. (Doctor of Technical Sciences), Computer Science, 1991, Technical University of Sofia;
· Professor, Computer Science, Technical University of Sofia, 1992 ;
5. Positions held:
· Engineer, Kl. Voroshilov electric appliances plant, Sofia, 1958-59;
· Teacher and vice-director, Technical School, Haskovo, 1959-61;
· PhD student, Department of Computer Engineering, S. Petersburg University of Electrical Engineering, S. Petersburg, 1961-65;
· Researcher and head of Department of Computing, Power Research Institute at “Energoproject”, 1965-67;
· Lecturer in Computers and Programming, Department of Electronics, Technical University of Sofia, 1967-69;
· Director of Computer Centre of TU-Sofia, Technical University of Sofia, 1969-72;
· Assoc. Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Technical University of Sofia, 1972-92;
· Dean of Faculty of Computer Systems and Control, Technical University of Sofia (1992-95);
· Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Technical University of Sofia, 1992.
6. Courses taught and other services to the students at the home institution:
Design and Analysis of Algorithms and Programs, Combinatorial Algorithms, Numerical Algorithms, Computer Diagnostics, Computers and Programming, Programming, Foundations of Computer Science, Algorithms in Bioinformatics
8. Publications (in Appendix, divided into two parts: part I - articles, part II - text books and tutorial books);
9. Other professional activities such as workshops, seminars, consultations: Participation with talks on national and international conferences, workshops and seminars: First Pitagorian Conference (Greece), International Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing and Networking (Member of Advisory Board, 1994-96), International Conference on Digital Signal Processing DSP95 (Cypprus), delegate of IEEE Section Congress(Minneapolis, USA, 1999), lecture on seminar in Michigan Technological University(1999), lectures to MSc students in Vaxjo University (Sweden, 2004) etc.
10. Membership and activities in professional associations:
· Senior Member of IEEE ;
· Chairman of Bulgaria IEEE Computer Society Chapter;
· Member of Academy International of Sciences - San Marino;
· Member of Scientific Council of Mathematics, Mechanics and Informatics;
· Member of Scientific Council of Electronics and Computer Science;
· Member of Higher Certifying Commission of Electrical Engineering and Automation;
· Member of Advisory Board of High-Performance Computing and Networking Conferences (Europe);
· Member and Chairman of Editorial Board of Publishing House “Tehnika”;
· Member of Editorial Board of : Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Mathematics (JARAM),Journal of Advanced Research in Bioinformatics (JARB), Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science (JARCS), Journal of Advanced Research in Scientific Computing (JARSC)
11. Professional honors, awards, and fellowships:
· Badge for Contribution in Technical Advance from State Committee for Technical Progress and Science;
· Medal on Occasion of 10th Anniversary of Computer Centre of TU - Sofia, from TU - Sofia;
· Medal on Occasion of 50th Anniversary of TU - Sofia, from TU - Sofia;
12. Research (main research):
· Algorithms and software for determining graph isomorphisms and automorphisms (generators, orbits and order of graph automorphism group);
· Algorithms and software for solution of subgraph problem and maximum common subgraph problem;
· Algorithms and software for determining unital designs and maximal arcs in projective planes;
· Algorithms and software for determining hamiltonian paths and circuits of graphs;
· Algorithms and software for modeling and analyзing electrical and electronic circuits;
· Design of digital circuits;
· Algorithms and software for automatic generation of algorithms for problems in some fields of mathematics and computer science;
· Algorithms and software for syntactic analysis of sentences in the Bulgarian language.