Valentin Bakoev is an associate professor at the University "St. Cyril and St. Methodius” in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. He has a Ph.D. in Computer science. His research interests and publications are in the field of Discrete mathematics, Programming, Algorithms and data structures, Cryptography, Competitive programming, teaching in these fields, etc. Some publications of V. Bakoev you can find in:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valentin-Bakoev-2

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6507391591

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2503-5325

https://www.uni-vt.bg/bul/staffinfo.aspx?u=32&zid=43&ppage=242 (in Bulgarian)