First
International BioInfo'2005 Workshop
Participants
Professor
Nikola Kasabov is the
Founding Director and the Chief Scientist of the Knowledge Engineering and
Discovery Research Institute KEDRI,
More information of Prof.
Kasabov can be found on the web site: http://www.kedri.info/.
He can be contacted on: nkasabov@aut.ac.nz
Professor Doctor of Technical Sciences Stoicho D. Stoichev teachs Synthesis and analysis of algorithms,
Combinatorial algorithms and Algorithms in bioinformatics to Bachelor and
Master of Science students in Computer Systems and Technologies, Dept. of
Computer Systems, Technical University of Sofia (http://www.tu-sofia.bg/)
and its branch in Plovdiv. He can be
emailed at: stoi@tu-sofia.bg. More information of prof.
Stoichev can be found on the Web site:http://www.tu-sofia.bg/Bul/faculties/fksu/freepage/stoichev. He is a Senior Member of IEEE (former chair
of Computer Society chapter at Bulgaria IEEE Section) and a member of Academy International of Sciences
in San Marino, Member of Scientific Council of Electronics and Computer Science; Member of Advisory Board of High
Performance Computing and Networking Conferences (Europe); He participated with
talks in 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, Munich, Milano, Brussels),
International Conference on Digital Signal Processing DSP95 (Cyprus), delegate
of IEEE Section Congress(Minneapolis, USA,1999), lecture on seminar in MTU (USA,
1999), lectures in University of Vaxjo (Sweden) etc. He has published more than
140 publications that include 14 textbooks. His research interests are in: 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 problems in bioinformatics, algorithms and software for determining
hamiltonian paths and circuits of graphs; algorithms and software for automatic
generation of algorithms for problems in
some fields of mathematics and computer science (Artificial Intelligence);
algorithms and software for syntactic analysis of sentences in Bulgarian
language (Artificial Intelligence); algorithms and software for modeling
and analysis of electrical and electronic circuits. Some of the Software developed
by S. D. Stoichev: Programs
for determining generators, orbits and order of the graph automorphism group
and graph isomorphism (new efficient exact and approximate algorithms); Programs
for determining subgraph and maximum
common subgraph (new efficient exact and approximate algorithms);
Programs for determining unitals in projective planes, etc.
Dr. Elena Tsiporkova is currently a Senior Scientist in the
Computational Biology Division of the Department of Plant Systems Biology - Flanders Institute for Biotechnology /
Her scientific interests and
working experience vary from purely theoretical research to applied, product
driven, technological R&D. Her main research expertise is in Uncertainty
Modelling (Fuzzy Systems, Dempster-Shafer Theory, Modal Logic) and Speech
Recognition (Hidden Markov Models, Dynamic Programming and Confidence
Measures). She has 39 publications in refereed journals and conference
proceedings.
She can be contacted on: elena_tsiporkova@hotmail.com
Dr. Veselka Boeva is an Associate
Professor in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Systems of the
Technical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
She has been working
there since 1990. Boeva
holds an MSc degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of
Plovdiv, Bulgaria and a PhD degree in Computer Science from the Technical
University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She has visited on different research
fellowships the Slovak Technical University, Slovakia, the
Her research activities are centered around Dempster-Shafer
theory and modelling uncertainty with Kripke's semantics. She is currently performing
research in decision making, formal methods in
software systems
and aggregation operators. She has 30 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings.
She can be contacted on: vboeva@tu-plovdiv.bg
Assoc. Prof. Kiril Ivanov Tenekedjiev, DSc has majored in Ship Machines
and Equipment from the
Krasimir Kolev,
MD, PhD is an adjunct professor at the Semmelweis University, Budapest,
Hungary, Department of Medical Biochemistry. He has obtained his MD from the Semmelweis
University in 1988. The PhD degree in medical sciences from the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, was received on the basis of a thesis in regulation of the
fibrinolytic activity of plasmin, miniplasmin and neutrophil leukocyte
proteases, defended in 1996. The main fields of research of Krasimir Kolev are
enzymology, thrombolysis, and pathomechanism of cardiovascular and
cerebrovascular diseases. He is a member of the Hungarian Society for
Thrombosis and Haemostasis, and of the American Society for Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology. Among his publications are 28 original papers with a total
impact factor of 95, 30 congress presentaitons, and 3 books. He holds several
academc awards, among which are the Semmelweis University award for excellence,
the Sanofi-Aventis award for atherothrombosis research, and the Huzella Tivadar
research award.
Balazs Varadi is a PhD fellow and
research assistant at the Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medical
Biochemistry, Budapest, Hungary. He is with the Haemostasis workgroup of Prof.
Raymund Machovich. He holds a MA degree in Pharmacy from the Semmelweis
University, Faculty of Pharmacy, obtained in 2001.
He has several publications in the fields of enzymology and
thrombolysis, in peer review international medical journals, like the Journal
of Biological Chemistry, Blood, etc.
Dr. Albena Taneva is a PhD fellow and
research assistant in Control Systems Department at the Electronic and
Automation Faculty of the Technical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Taneva
holds an MSc degree in Automation from the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria,
1998 and a PhD degree in Automation from the Technical University of Plovdiv,
Bulgaria, 2005. She has been on research fellowships in FESB, University of
Split, Croatia, in Department of Control Engineering, in Automation Department,
FERI, and University of Maribor, Slovenia.
Her research interests are focused on algorithms for process control,
hybrid models and systems, optimization methods and real applications in
Industrial Automation. She has 15
publications in the fields of intelligent control systems. She can be contacted on: altaneva@tu-plovdiv.bg