Prof. Dr. Valeri M. Mladenov
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Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Valeri Mladenov received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria in 1993. Since 1986 he has been a Lecturer in the Department of Theory of Electrical Engineering. In 1999 he became an Associate Professor. In 2004 he became a Head of the Department of Theory of Electrical Engineering. Since June, 2011 he was a Dean of the Faculty of Automation and since Dec. 2011 he is Vice Rector of the Technical University Sofia. In 2014 he has been a Deputy Minister of Education and Science in the Caretaker Government in Bulgaria. He is a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, in the Netherlands. He has been invited lecturer in the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, National Technical University of Athens, Greece and many others. Dr. Mladenov's research interests are in the field of nonlinear circuits and systems, neural networks, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics and signal processing. He has received many international research fellowships. He has more than 250 scientific papers in professional journals and conferences. He is a co-author of ten books and manuals for students. He has received many research grants from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, DAAD - Germany, NWO - Netherlands, Royal Society - UK, NATO, TEMPUS and others and also with his team he participated in many national and international projects - FP7, DFG, and others. As a member of several editorial boards Dr. Mladenov serves as a reviewer for a number of professional journals and conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of the IEEE CASS Technical Committee on Cellular Nonlinear Networks & Array Computing and Chair of the Bulgarian IEEE CASS/SSCS joint chapter. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Theoretical Electrical Engineering (ISTET) and a member of the Board of Directors of WSEAS.