Summary

Hi and Welcome to my webpage! Below, and through the links on this page, you can find some info about me and what I do.

I was born on 8th of January, 1974 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. In 1993, I obtained the qualification of a ''Technician in Microprocessor Technology'' at The High Technical School of Microprocessor Technology in Pravetz, Bulgaria. After the military service I did in the Bulgarian army between 1993 and 1996, I started a study in computer engineering at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2001, I successfully defended my M.Sc. thesis entitled "IP core for real-time edge detection applications" and received Dipl.Ing. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Sofia. I started my engineering career in a great and enthusiastic atmosphere, working for Innovative MicroSystems, Ltd. and Fabless, Ltd., both companies located in Sofia. In particular, during the M.Sc. study, I worked at Innovative MicroSystems on designing application specific microprocessor IP cores targeting the FPGA technology. After obtaining the M.Sc. degree, up until 2004, I worked as a Research and Development Engineer at Fabless, where I has been involved in the development of a reconfigurable MicroSystems-on-Silicon In-Circuit Emulator based on FPGAs.

In 2004, I joined the Leiden Embedded Research Center (LERC) which is part of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) at Leiden University as a research assistant (PhD student). I was involved in the STW/Progress-funded ARTEMISIA project which deals with Architecture, Programming, and Exploration of Network-on-Chip based Embedded System Platforms. As a member of the ARTEMISIA project, I conducted research in the context of modeling of stream-oriented media applications and mapping them onto parallel architectures. In particular, I worked on defining a multiprocessor platform for efficient execution of applications specified as Kahn process networks and on devising methods and techniques for systematic and automated multiprocessor system design, programming, and implementation. The research work culminated in the writing of my dissertation and obtaining PhD in April 2009.

The same year, I received the (2009) Donald O. Pederson best paper award of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design. In 2010, I was among the top 10 young researchers selected by STW as candidates for the Simon Stevin Gezel Prize. Currently, I am a member of IEEE and HiPEAC network of excellence.